The Age Reviewed A Satire: In two parts: Second edition, revised and corrected [by Robert Montgomery] |
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What! though they boast their union in those times,
When parricides were bishop's gentler crimes,
Of Leo Medici,—Christ's Vicar Pope
That robb'd Urbino, and deserved the rope,—
Shall we forget the Popedom's pristine deeds,
The swinish incest and the barter'd creeds,
Bandini's murder, and the butcher'd Jew,
The Marian war, or Erin's mangled crew?
The red crusade the Albigenses saw,
The hunted mountain sons of bleak Vaudois?—
Forget the Inquisition's bloody pack,
And all the church-hounds grinning o'er the rack!!
When parricides were bishop's gentler crimes,
Of Leo Medici,—Christ's Vicar Pope
That robb'd Urbino, and deserved the rope,—
Shall we forget the Popedom's pristine deeds,
The swinish incest and the barter'd creeds,
Bandini's murder, and the butcher'd Jew,
The Marian war, or Erin's mangled crew?
The red crusade the Albigenses saw,
The hunted mountain sons of bleak Vaudois?—
Forget the Inquisition's bloody pack,
And all the church-hounds grinning o'er the rack!!
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