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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 j 
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 
* MensajTif 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 
Preees negant defunctorum ; 
Neque coetus Angelorum 
Colunt. Pro his oro quoque, 
Q,ui Calvino, Lutheroque 
Credunt, Joan-Southcotoque. 
Habeant hi claram lucem, 
Ut amissam cernant crucem, 
Et aguoscant 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 table, and not an altar. 
