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The Quarrel of Faith, Mope, and Charity.
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The Quarrel Of Faith, Mope, And Charity.
The Quarrel of Faith , Mope , and Charity .
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" What wreck of my palmy puissance is left ? 44 What bravos and bullies my greatness declare ? « f 'Pf ^ jthejf ][ k € i \ J y r&p $ dea ^ Inquisition ^ ejeft , u iny fieYce fulminatibns are impotent air .
4 No racks and no pincers—no limbs piecemeal torn ;; 44 No screams of the tortured my prowess display ; " And to crown all these slights , I am shamefully shoDJ 44 Of my own proper triumph , an avto daft .
44 Pope , who could once in my terrible name , 44 Spread warfare and liavoc all Christendom round ,, 44 sunk to such pitiful dotage and shame , 44 That the Vatican thunder ' s a ridiculed sound .
" Nay , even in England , my latest strong-hold , 44 And the firmest support of my paramount sway 44 ( In Gath or in Askelon be it not told ) , " All my orthodox bulwarks are crumbling away .
44 Dissenters , untested , may now , nothing loth , 44 municipal officers feast and carouse ; 44 And emancipate Catholics , taking the oath , 44 horror of horrors ! may sit in the house .
44 If Erin no longer my \ altar-flame fann'd , 44 By ceasing to murder for tithe now and then , i 4 It might well be surmised that my paralysed hand 44 lost all control o ' er the actions of men .
44 what though each orthodox candidate swears " To my thirty-nine articles—' tis but a jest , 44 Since a bisnop , ( proh pudor !) , a bishop , declares 44 That such oaths are a form , —never meant as a tes 44 w ) io is the cause that I ' m laid on the shelf , 44 JDfispwiied . and deserted by all but a few ? 44 My downfall and ruin I trace to yourself , 44 To you , I repeat , sister Charity—you !
44 . r loqks and your whining expressions of ruth , u l ? our appeals—ever urged with insidious wiles , " To reason and justice—to love and to truth , " Your , teays of deceit , and your plausible smiles ,
« 4 Have inveigled the bulk of my subjects away , 44 have swelled vour pwn ranks with deserters frr 44 Such conduct is ba ^ , a « d from this very day , 44 Hope , and ^ flniean to leave yon , and tajce a new lii
With theloo | t of , an angel , the voice of a dove , Thus Chariiy an ^ were ^^* , ' Since Concord alone 44 Can P ! ° ^ # T ^ 4 fi !^^ W H ' te **> n j ^ ^ t the attr ^^ ionft tji ^ t each ca ) b her own ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/25/
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