gloriaris

Updated: May 18, 2025

The priest had just finished his chant of the seventy-third Psalm, and had betaken himself in his spiritual warfare, as it was then called, to the equally apposite fifty-second, "Quid gloriaris?" "Why boastest thou thyself, thou tyrant, that thou canst do mischief, whereas the goodness of God endureth yet daily?" "Father! father!" cried a soft voice in the doorway, "where are you?"

Charles Kingsley - Hereward, the Last of the English