Possible Clues:

• Reluctant to swear in front of small people in the end
• Reluctant to present some poetry
• Hostile element in poetry?
• Not favouring American poetry
• A bit of carol making one hostile
• Hardly inclined (to)
• Hostile, a part of poem?
• Disinclined to declare with Essex's two openers returning
• Not at all agreeable
• Strongly disliking