The Claimant I defied,

No Tichborne he, and if not—who?

‘Orton,’ the jury cried.

“Ah, well-a-day! what evil looks,

Had I from old and young!

To the convict’s doom, to the living tomb,

The pestilent man I flung!

“And ever since a Shibboleth

The world’s opinion rules;

Fools and fanatics they who doubt—