Note 46:B — Chapter III
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Whiter's Specimen of a Commentary, p. 95. note. As Mr. Whiter has not chosen to append these additional examples, I have thought it would be satisfactory to give the few which more immediately occur to my memory.
"Immediately provided in that case."
Midsummer Night's Dream.
"Royally attornied."
Winter's Tale.
"That doth utter all men's ware-a."
Winter's Tale.
"Thy title is affeer'd." (This is a law-term for confirmed.)
"Keep leets, and law-days, and in sessions sit."
Othello.
"Why should calamity be full of words? Windy attorneys to their client woes."
Richard III.
"But when the heart's attorney once is mute, The client breaks, as desperate in his suit."
Venus and Adonis.
"So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I myself am mortgaged to thy Will."
Sonnet 134.
"He learn'd but, surety-like, to write for me, Under that bond that him as fast doth bind. The statute of thy beauty, &c."
Sonnet 134.