Egressi optata Troes potiuntur arena.
Therefore, in the words of Horace,
—hie Finis chartaeque viaeque.
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[ At Lisbon.]
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[ A predecessor of mine
used to boast that he made one thousand pounds a-year in his office; but
how he did this (if indeed he did it) is to me a secret. His clerk, now
mine, told me I had more business than he had ever known there; I am sure
I had as much as any man could do. The truth is, the fees are so very low,
when any are due, and so much is done for nothing, that, if a single
justice of peace had business enough to employ twenty clerks, neither he
nor they would get much by their labor.]