Ixxx AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF 
I beg to draw the attention of their reverences 
to the following ode, which I composed some few 
years ago, expressly for the 5th of November; 
most appropriately termed Cecil’s Holiday. In it 
their reverences cannot fail to observe that my 
mode of dealing with our adversaries. differs very 
widely from that adopted by their old friend Guy 
the detonator. 
ODE. 
Pro his oro, qui elegerunt 
Falsam fidem, et fregerunt 
Quam Majores docuerunt. , 
Et qui, fracto Dei altare. 
Ausi loco ejus dare 
* Mensam que non potest stare. 
Qui, et oves occidebant, 
Atque collo suspendebant 
Duces gregis qui manebant. 
Caput fidei qui fecerunt 
Regem ; opes et dederunt 
Illis, qui nil meruerunt. 
Animabus, qui suorum 
Preces negant defunctorum ; 
Neque cetus Angelorum 
Colunt. Pro his oro quoque, 
Qui Calvino, Lutheroque 
Credunt, Joan-Southcotoque. 
Habeant hi claram lucem, 
Ut amissam cernant crucem, 
Et agnoscant Papam ducem. 
’ *The creed-reformers had hot disputes amongst themselves, for many 
years, concerning the altar. At last they determined that it should be 
called a ¢able, and not an altar. 
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