"As the law does think fit No butchers shall on juries sit."
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This quote, sometimes erroneously cited as from Churchill's The Ghost, is from canto II of Butler's Ghost; or, Hudibras. The Fourth Part (1682), a continuation by Thomas d'Urfey of Hudibras by Samuel Butler, the three parts of which were published in 1663, 1664 and 1678. In Butler's Ghost (which appeared two years after Butler's death), the lines are slightly different: "But as the law does think it fit,/No butchers shall in juries sit."
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Charles Churchill (satirist)
Charles Churchill (February 1731 – November 4, 1764) was an English poet and satirist.
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