MINIMUM DE MALIS

(*From the Latin of Buchanan.*) Calenus owed a single pound, which yet With all my dunning I could never get. Tired of fair words, whose falsehood I foresaw, I hied to Aulus, learned in the law. He heard my story, bade me "Never fear, There was no doubt—no case could be more clear:— He'd do the needful in the proper place, And give his best attention to the case." And this he may have done—for it appears To have been his business for the last ten years, Though on his pains ten times ten pounds bestow'd Have not regain'd that one Calenus owed. Now, fearful lest this unproductive strife Consume…