Meanling

At them at once! and bring them to their senses. What ? recreants, cowards, meanlings, to refuse A fair return to whom you owe your shoes! Downcast, ashamed, they all before me creep, And do my bidding like a flock of sheep.

I was not burned at the stake like a meanling. And I did not, as prelude to my death, say the cute things that are attributed to me.