Revenons à Nos Moutons
About three sheep, that late I lost,
I had a lawsuit with my neighbor;
And Glibtongue, of our bar the boast,
Pleaded my case with zeal and labor.
He took two minutes first to state
The question that was in debate;
Then show’d, by learn’d and long quotations,
The Law of Nature and of Nations;
What Tully said, and what Justinian,
And what was Puffendorff’s opinion.
Glibtongue! let those old authors sleep,
And come back to our missing sheep!