"To one who marvelled what should be the reason that Acts and Statutes are continually made at every Parliament, without intermission, and without end, a wise man made a good and short answer, both which are well composed in verse: "Quseritur, ut crescunt tot magna volumina legis? In promptu causa est, crescit in orbe dolus.""

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Lord Edward Coke, Twyne's Case (1602), 3 Rep. 80.

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