To the tune of 'Packington's Pound,'" I find not only that
Lord Mansfield's recollection of the stanza he referred to was
substantially correct, but that the opinion in support of which he cited
it is expressed in another stanza besides that which he quoted. The
first verse of the song is as follows:
"Rejoice, ye good writers, your pens are set free;
Your thoughts and the _press_ are at full liberty;
For your _king_ and your _country_ you safely may write,
You may say _black_ is _black_, and prove _white_ is _white_;
Let no pamphleteers
Be concerned for their ears;
For every man now shall be tried by his _peers_.
_Twelve good honest men_ shall decide in each cause,
And be judges of _fact_, tho' not judges of _laws_."
In the third verse are the lines Lord Mansfield cited from memory:--
"For Sir Philip well knows
That _innuen-does_
Will serve him no longer in verse or in prose;
Since _twelve honest men_ have decided the cause,
And were judges of _fact_, tho' not judges of _laws_.
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