(210:15)
"hold the bailey ... pour the ounts of judgd men"
Old Bailey (the central criminal court of London); pronounce judgement.
"Ounce of judgement" is also an expression in itself. Samuel Butler's "Erewhon Revisited" has the epigram "An ounce of judgement is worth a pound of discovery", which is very relevant to the disastrous rediscovery that takes place in RW. [RG]