He paces as far, as far he should,
Within the bounds of Holyrood!
William Maginn. 1821.
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The Ancient Story.
[The Lord Chief Justice seems to have “Tichborne on the brain,” and cannot permit even his convivial moments to pass without talking of him, and going in for his own justification. He has become the veritable Ancient Mariner of the judicial bench, who, whenever he gets an audience, is compelled to begin anew the ancient story.—“‘There was a case,’ quoth he.”—South London Press.]
It is an ancient Judge-in-Chief,
And he stoppeth one in three;
“By thy horsehair wig and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp’st thou me?”