“In breach of the House-Standing-Order you are,

Without introducers thus passing our Bar!”

“I stuck to the Claimant: his claims were denied:

Bench might beard me and Bar; Bar and Bench I defied!

And now I am come, with this lost cause of mine,

Like Cromwell, to bid hence that ‘bauble’ of thine:

Learn how wide-spread my fame, whom the much-wrongèd Gaikwâr

Had retained,[37] had there not been that sinister Bar.”

Dropped by all like hot poker, John Bright took him up—

“Not e’en from such lips should this House dash the cup.