CYCLOPS

"- Who tried the case? says Joe.
- Recorder, says Ned.
- Poor old sir Frederick, says Alf, you can cod him up to the two eyes.
- Heart as big as a lion, says Ned. Tell him a tale of woe about arrears of rent and a sick wife and a squad of kids and, faith, he'll dissolve in tears on the bench." (U12.1094)