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• Once Law was sitting on the bench And Mercy knelt a-weeping.
  "Clear out!" he cried, "disordered wench! Nor come before me creeping....
• LAW, n. Once Law was sitting on the bench, And Mercy knelt a-weeping.
  "Clear out!" he cried, "disordered wench! Nor come before me creeping....
• Once Law was sitting on the bench And Mercy knelt a-weeping.
  "Clear out!" he cried, "disordered wench! Nor come before me creeping....
• INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity.
  "All men are ingrates," sneered the cynic. "Nay," The good philanthropist replied...
• FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person -- a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case.
  When Adam long ago in Cupid's awful court (For Cupid ruled ere Adam was invented) Sued for Eve's favor, says an ancient law report, He stood and pleaded unhabilimented....
• DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.
  Hearst kept a diary wherein were writ All that he had of wisdom and of wit....
• The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door He said, "I am not fighting for you anymore" The queen knew she had seen his face someplace before And slowly she let him inside.
  He said, "I see you now, and you're so very young But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won And I have this intuition that it's all for your fun And now will you tell me why?...
• REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of i
  Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it) At work upon a book, and so read out of it The qualities that you have first read into it....
• CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.
  A busy man complained one day: "I get no time!...