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Anecdote Dean Swift having preached an Assize Sermon in Ireland, was afterwards invited to dine with the Judges, and having in his discourse considered the use and the abuse of the law, he had borne a little hard upon those counsellors who plead a cause which they know in their conscience to be wrong -- When diner was over, and the glass began to go round, a young Barrister who happened to be present took occasion to retort upon the Dean, and after many altercations upon both sides the Counsellor at last asked him "If the Devil were to die "whether a Parson might not be found for "money to preach his funeral sermon--"? "Yes said Swift, and I could gladly be the "man, for I would then give the Devil his "due, as I have this day, his children --