Question about Shelley's Swellfoot the Tyrant I don't quite understand the following passage from Shelley's "Swellfoot the Tyrant". Could anyone help me interpret or paraphrase it: Radical-butchers, Paper-money-millers, Bishops and deacons, and the entire army Of those fat martyrs to the persecution Of stifling turtle-soup, and brandy-devils Here are my questions: 1. I am not sure what "radical" actually means when it modifies butchers. As for paper-money-millers, I understand it as "some people that issue bank notes". 2. stifling turtle-soup: Why is turtle-soup stifling? What is the connotation? 3. the meaning of brandy-devils... Does it mean someone who drinks lots of brandy? The complete text of this work can be found here. http://books.google.de/books?id=_BvZWIoVrPoC&pg=PT627&lpg=PT627&dq=Radical-butchers&source=bl&ots=Cd5zLtCAl9&sig=S0fgSuAnE0ML7-zLE_gFDMys_oI&hl=zh-TW&sa=X&ei=OYmVUuTpFMekkQX-jYHgDw&ved=0CF4Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Radical-butchers&f=false Thanks a lot!