Question answer of Report of an Adjuged Case

Pk25ng June 21, 2020

Report of an Adjuged case

William Cowper- 1731- 1800

was a poet who qualified as a lawyer is legal career was interrupted by an attack of Madness when he recovered his mental health he retired to the country where he live a quiet life he wrote the Famous hymns my soul it is a lord and God moves in mysterious ways his admirable letter show his gentle and human personality he wrote poetry in a simple and gentle style in this poem Cooper has used the language and background of the courtroom to provide humorous effect. A strange dispute arose between the nose and eyes both claiming their soul rights over the spectacles that tongue act as a lawyer and the ear as the chief baron ( judge) to balance the law.

Between nose and eyes are strange contest arose
the spectacle set them unhappily wrong
the point in dispute was as all the world knows
To which the said spectacles ought to spectacles ought to to belong

So tongue was the lawyer and argued the case
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 bear
which amount to possession time out of mind.

Then holding the spectacles up to the court
your lordship observed they are made with a straddle
as wide as the bridge of the nose is in short
designed to sit close to it just like a saddle.

Again would you lordship a movement 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,?

On the whole it appears and my argument shows
with a reasoning the court will never condemn
that the spectacles plainly were made for the nose
and the nose was plainly intended for them.

Then shifting his side as a lawyer knows how
he pleaded again in Behalf of the eyes
but what were his argument few people know
for the court did not think they were quickly wise

so his lordship decreed with a Grave Solemn tone
decisive and clear without one if or but
that whenever the nose put his spectacles on
by daylight for candle light eyes should be shut......