The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 540, March 31, 1832. Various
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СКАЧАТЬ lived in the reign of Constantine Ducas, published a synopsis of the law, in verse, and in 1701, Gumaro, a civilian of Naples, taught the dry and intricate system of civil law, in a novel. Coke's Reports have been "done into verse" by an anonymous author; and Cowper, the poet, tells us, that a relation of his who had studied the law, "a gentleman of sprightly parts," began to versify Coke's Institutes; he gives the following specimen of the performance:

      "Tenant in fee

      Simple is he,

      And need neither quake nor quiver,

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      Hist. and Antiq. St. Saviour, Southwark, 1795.

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      The first we read of Bear-baiting in England, was in the reign of King John, at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, where "thyss straynge passtyme

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Hist. and Antiq. St. Saviour, Southwark, 1795.

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The first we read of Bear-baiting in England, was in the reign of King John, at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, where "thyss straynge passtyme was introduced by some Italyans for his highness' amusement, wherewith he and his court were highly delighted."

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Reliq. Wotton, p. 425. Edit. 1685

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Winwood's Memorials, vol. iii. p. 469.

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Annals of the Stage. By J.P. Collyer, Esq. F.S.A. Vol. I.

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