Maiden Stakes

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“Then louder cry’d the Clerk Colvill,
O sairer, sairer akes my head;
And sairer, sairer ever will,
The maiden crys, ‘till you be dead.”
—Unknown. Clerk Colvill (l. 33–36)

“Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)