[The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield by Edward Robins]@TWC D-Link bookThe Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield CHAPTER IX 18/34
True, but ours is a way much surer; for we cheat in no language at all, but loll in our own coaches, eloquent in gibberish, and learned in jingle.
Pull out the parchment [_referring to the will of_ LORD BRUMPTON], there's the deed; I made it as long as I could. Well, I hope to see the day when the indenture shall be the exact measure of the land that passes by it; for 'tis a discouragement to the gown, that every ignorant rogue of an heir should in a word or two understand his father's meaning, and hold ten acres of land by half-an-acre of parchment.
Nay, I hope to see the time when that there is indeed some progress made in, shall be wholly affected; and by the improvement of the noble art of tautology, every Inn in Holborn an Inn of Court.
Let others think of logic, rhetoric, and I know not what impertinence, but mind thou tautology.
What's the first excellence in a lawyer? Tautology.
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