Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,
In Lord Teignmouth, Life of Sir W. Jones (1835), vol. 2. Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, / Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix", Translation of lines quoted by Edward Coke
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