The Dance of Death

XIX. - The Lawyer

THE ADVOCATE.
THE ADVOCATE.

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Callidus vidit malum, & abscõdit se innocens, pertransijt, & afflictus est damno.

Prover. xxii.

L'homme cault a ueu la malice

Pour l'innocent faire obliger,

Et puis par uoye de iustice

Est uenu le pauure affliger.

Death comes upon the lawyer in the street while he is being paid by a rich client.

Life levels all men; death reveals the eminent. -- George Bernard Shaw

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