There was a story that I once was told,

Some woman that they used to tease him with.

Bar. 1. He grew too stern for teasing before long;

A man with greater power of what I think

They call, in some new sense of the word, Repulsion,

I think I never saw in all my life.

Bar. 2. A most forbidding man in private life,

I’ve always heard. What’s this new news?

Bar. 4. The Lord Chief Justice has resigned.

Bar. 1, 2, 3. Is it true?