"--CONGREVE, "_Love
for Love_."
[2] To _balrag_ is to abuse--Mr. Lover makes it _ballyrag_, and
he is high authority: but if I remember rightly, Curran in his national
stories used to employ the word as above.--See Lover's most amusing and
genuinely Irish work, the "Legends and Stories of Ireland."
[3] Larry evidently means the _Regium Donum_;--a sum contributed by
the government annually to the support of the Presbyterian churches in
Ireland.
[4]Correctly, Dens--Larry not being very particular in his nomenclature.
[5] "But she (Popery) is no longer _the tenant of the sepulchre of
inactivity_. She has come from the burial-place, walking forth a monster,
as if the spirit of evil had corrupted _the carcass of her departed
humanity_; noxious and noisome an object of abhorrence and dismay to all
who are not _leagued with her in iniquity_."--Report of the Rev.
Gentleman's Speech, June 20, in the Record Newspaper.
LETTER X.
FROM THE REV. MORTIMER O'MULLIGAN, TO THE REV. ----.
These few brief lines, my reverend friend,
By a safe, private hand I send
(Fearing lest some low Catholic wag
Should pry into the Letter-bag),
To tell you, far as pen can dare
How we, poor errant martyrs, fare;--
Martyrs, not quite to fire and rack,
As Saints were, some few ages back.
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