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I'm sure there's even older stuff, but this is fairly old....

              "It _is_ a long tail, certainly," said Alice, looking
           down with wonder at the Mouse's tail; "but why do you
           call it sad?" And she kept on puzzling about it while the
           Mouse was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was
           something like this:----"Fury said to
                    a mouse, That
                          he met in the
                               house, `Let
                                   us both go
                                      to law: _I_
                                       will prose-
                                        cute _you_.--
                                       Come, I'll
                                      take no de-
                                   nial: We
                                must have
                             the trial;
                          For really
                        this morn-
                      ing I've
                     nothing
                    to do.'
                     Said the
                      mouse to
                        the cur,
                           `Such a
                              trial, dear
                                  sir. With
                                    no jury
                                     or judge,
                                       would
                                      be wast-
                                    ing our
                                  breath.'
                               `I'll be
                            judge,
                         I'll be
                       jury,'
                     said
                    cun-
                    ning
                     old
                       Fury:
                        `I'll
                           try
                             the
                              whole
                               cause,
                                and
                               con-
                             demn
                         you to
                    death'."

-- from _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_ (published 1865)
   by Lewis Carroll (pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), 1832-1898
   (poem is from Chapter III, "A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale")

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