Friday, July 01, 2022
I Pledge My Hate
John Swinnerton Phillimore (1873-1926), "On Taking Leave of Connaught," II, lines 9-14, Things New and Old (Oxford: Humphrey Milford, 1918), p. 90:
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I pledge my hate of the obscene brood that gathered"The gorged apostate Tudor" was Henry VIII. Phillimore was a Roman Catholic.
To eat the gorged apostate Tudor's bounty;
Of the Bible-canting perjurers I pledge
My hate, of the lickerish sons of Zeal, Hell-fathered,
Who ravished hearth and cloister, town and county,
With lust, oppression, usury, sacrilege.
