Excerpt from Poems of the Law The Lease, it is true, was renewed, term by term, And rent duly paid, in the name of the firm, But, save as thus viewed in the eye of the Law, The mythical brother no eye ever saw. The truth was that Moses so relished a lie, 'twas fraud in a purchase induced him to buy; He scarce made a sale unless this he could do At once sell his goods and his customer too; So he made his firm name one continuous cheat, And hung out the fraud in face Of the street. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.