Joseph Green (1706–1780)

LAW bears the name, but money has the power.

The cause is bad whene’er the client ’s poor.

Those strict-lived men, who seem above our world,

Are oft too modest to resist our gold;

So judgment like our other wares is sold.

And the grave knight, that nods upon the laws,

Waked by a fee, hems and approves the cause.

Extempore on the fourth latin school being taken down to make room for enlarging the chapel church.

A FIG for your learning, I tell you the town,

To make the church larger must pull the school down.

“Unluckily spoken,” replied Master Birch,

“Then learning, I fear, stops the growth of the church.”