This referred to Horace Walpole, Don Carlos, the Queen of Spain, Vernon’s Sea Victory and Lord Scrope.
In the Protestant Tutor for Youth is “A New Litany” in rudely vigorous triplets. The twentieth runs:—
From Arbitrary Power defend us
And let no wooden Shoes attend us,
Still Liberty of Conscience send us.
There is also a parody of the Litany in Political Ballads, edited by W. Walker Wilkins. 2 Vols., 1860, and another, dated 1856, in a pamphlet on Capital Punishment addressed to Sir G. C. Lewis, by Arthur Trevelyan J. P., with “A Litany for the Gallows.” London, 1856.
The following are imitations of what is “commonly called”
THE CREED OF SAINT ATHANASIUS.
The first is taken from an old Collection of poems, called “The Foundling Hospital for Wit”:—