crooked-pathed

Updated: June 11, 2025

At home are Jesuits plotting; dark, crooked-pathed, going up and down in all manner of disguises, doing the devil's work if men ever did it; trying to sow discord between man and man, class and class; putting out books full of filthy calumnies, declaring the queen illegitimate, excommunicate, a usurper; English law null, and all state appointments void, by virtue of a certain 'Bull'; and calling on the subjects to rebellion and assassination, even on the bedchamber woman to do to her 'as Judith did to Holofernes. She answers by calm contempt.

Charles Kingsley - Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time