O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw the sword and tell the truth! O race that melts the bones of the people with cowardice and with deceit! ("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast") W.b. Yeats
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In the poem, “The Crucifixion Of The Outcast,” William Shakespeare describes the monks in the time of King John. These monks were a group that believed in love and peace, but they were very suspicious of people in general. They tried to convince the people that they were in a religion of love and peace when in fact they were a group of men who tortured the people because they felt it was their right to do so. They would tell stories about how life was much better when there were no people in the world so they kept the people imprisoned and made them live lives full of fear.

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