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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 Holyday. 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 altari, 



Ausi loco ejus dare 



* Mensam, quae 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 coetus Angelorum 



Colunt. Pro his oro quoque, 

 Qui Calvino, Lutheroque 

 Credunt, Joan-Southcotoque. 



Habeant hi claram lucem, 

 Ut amissam cernant crucera, 

 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 tablet and not an altar. 



