The most offensive epithets her Viceroy to abuse,
See how I love the Irish! Why, their massacre I plan,
Yet Liberal papers say I’m such an extremely dangerous man!
And I can’t think why!
“I’m so loyally patriotic that I strive with all my might
My Monarch’s chief advisers to humiliate and spite;
I so yearn to see my Ireland free, and Protestant, and great,
That I’d blast its hopes with bloodshed and its people decimate.
No greater stickler for the Law was ever known than I,
So long as it allows me its provisions to defy,