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 ‘And if Pride was not forbidden,’ aid Thwackum, ‘I might boat of having taught him that Duty which he himelf aigned as his Motive.’

‘So between you both,’ ays the Squire, ‘the young Gentleman hath been taught to rob my Daughter of her Bird. I find I mut take Care of my Partridge Mew. I hall have ome virtuous, religious Man or other et all my Partridges at Liberty.’ Then lapping a Gentleman of the Law, who was preent, on the Back. He, he [sic] cried out, ‘What ay you to this, Mr. Counellor? Is not this againt Law?’

The Lawyer, with great Gravity, delivered himelf as follows:

‘If the Cae be put of a Partridge, there can be no Doubt but an Action would lie: For though this be feræ Naturæ, yet being reclaimed, Property vets; but being the Cae of a Singing Bird, though reclaimed, as it is a Thing of bae Nature, it mut be conidered as nullius in Bonis. In this Cae, therefore, I conceive the Plaintiff mut be nonuited; and