To Two Parties Going to Law about Small Matters
Look how the steel forceth with several knocks
Fire from the flint into the tinder box:
So do you smite each other, till you force
Gold from your own into the lawyer's purse.
O how like foes they brawle on either side
And yet like friends your money they divide,
Leaving you bare as an anatomy:
All that you get you may put in your eye,
And never see the worse; then take from me
This counsel freely, and without a fee;
Agree between yourselves, and make an end:
Do you to him, he to you condescend.
Thus whiles you both unto each other yield.
You'l both o'recome, and losing, with the field.
Fire from the flint into the tinder box:
So do you smite each other, till you force
Gold from your own into the lawyer's purse.
O how like foes they brawle on either side
And yet like friends your money they divide,
Leaving you bare as an anatomy:
All that you get you may put in your eye,
And never see the worse; then take from me
This counsel freely, and without a fee;
Agree between yourselves, and make an end:
Do you to him, he to you condescend.
Thus whiles you both unto each other yield.
You'l both o'recome, and losing, with the field.
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