Citation - Boston Evening Post (Fleet): 1737.06.13

BEP(F.737.016
13 Jun 1737:21 (96)
From the Barbados Gazette.  Occasion'd by the news of the
transportation of two lawyers from England, the one for
stealing books out of a publick library in Oxford, and the
other for robbing on the highway.  By a gentleman of St.
Christophers.
  Two limbs of the law (so capricious is fate !)
  With meaner offenders were banish'd of late;
  For pitiful pilf'ring the one had been nickt,
  While t'other, of pranks on the road was convict.
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