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 Old Palace of the kings of France, it is true, is the place where the parliament of Paris and the chief courts of justice were assembled for the decision of causes; but it is just as absurd to make Cicero talk of his haranguing in the Palais, as it would be, of his pleading in Westminster-Hall. In this respect, Eachard is most notoriously faulty: We find in every page of his translations of Terence and Plautus, the most incongruous jumble of ancient and of modern manners. He talks of the "Lord Chief Justice of Athens," Jam tu autem nobis Præturam geris? Pl. Epid. act. 1. sc. 1 and says, "I will send him to Bridewell with his skin stripped over his ears," Hominem irrigatum plagis pistori dabo. Ibid. sc. 3. "I must expect to beat hemp in Bridewell all the days of my life." Molendum mihi est usque