Note 189 — 1838
Reading edition
1838.
{If} failing one strict measure to dispense {When} To all her suitors Equity is lame, And social justice by fit reverence Of natural right unswayed is but a name, MS.
{Law but} the servile dupe of false pretence, {And Law} MS.
{When} guarding grossest things from common claim {If} Now, and for ever, She for work that came MS.
… lame, Justice unswayed, unmoved by reverence For natural right {what is she but a name?} {is but an empty name, } MS.