1：Very touching. You can recite it after office hours in your own time.

　　2：Sir Wilfrid, if you don't mind, I'd like to read you a poem to welcome you back.

　　3：Teeny-weeny steps, now. Remember we had a teeny-weeny heart attack.

　　4：for the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court

　　5：draw near and give your attendance. God save the queen.

　　6：What a beautiful day. I've been hoping for a bit of sun for our homecoming.

　　7：It's worth having the fog just to appreciate the sunshine. Is there a draught?

　　8：- Shall I roll up the window? - Roll up your mouth. You talk too much.

　　9：If I'd known how much you talked I'd never have come out of my coma.

　　10：- This thing weighs a ton. - Now, now.

　　11：We've been flat on our back for two months, we'd better be careful.

　　12：Lovely, lovely. It must be perfectly lovely to live and work in the Inns of Court.

　　13：How lucky you lawyers are.

　　14：I almost married a lawyer. I was in attendance for his appendectomy

　　15：and we became engaged as soon as he could sit up.

　　16：And then peritonitis set in and he went like that.

　　17：He certainly was a lucky lawyer.

　　18：All persons who have anything to do before my lords,

　　19：Silence. Be upstanding in court.

　　20：the queen's justices of oyer and terminer and general jail delivery.

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