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Report of an Adjourned Case by William Cowper

  Report of an Adjourned Case   Between Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose, The spectacles set them unhappily wrong; The point in dispute was, as all the world knows, To which the said spectacles ought to belong. So the Tongue was the Lawyer and argued the cause With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning, While chief baron Ear sat to balance the laws, So famed for his talent in nicely discerning. In behalf of the Nose, it will quickly appear, And your lordship, he said, will undoubtedly find, That the Nose has had spectacles always in wear, Which amounts to possession time out of mind. Again, would your lordship a moment suppose ('Tis a case that has happened and may be again), That the visage or countenance had not a Nose, Pray who would or who could wear spectacles then? Then holding the spectacles up to the court, - Your lordship observes they are made with a straddle, As wide as the ridge of the Nose is, in short, Designed to sit close to it, just