...and every soldier was a denizen." The folly of indulging this pride of ancestry, he finely exposes in the following lines : " These are the heroes who...foreigners so much ; Forgetting that themselves are all deriv'd From the most scoundrel race that ever liv'd. A horrid crowd of rambling thieves and drones,...

...and every soldier was a denizen." The folly of indulging this pride of ancestry, he finely exposes in the following lines: " These are the heroes who...foreigners so much; Forgetting that themselves are all deriv'd From the most scoundrel race that ever liv'd. A horrid crowd of rambling thieves and drones,...

...possess'd ; But that the longest sword should be so civil, To make a Frenchman English, that's the devil ! Forgetting that themselves are all derived From the...A horrid crowd of rambling thieves and drones, Who ransack'd kingdoms, and dispeopled towns. The Pict and painted Britons, treach'rous Scot, By hunger,...

...so civil To make a Frenchman English, that's the Devil. These are the heroes who despise the Scotch, And rail at new-come foreigners so much ! Forgetting...A horrid crowd of rambling thieves and drones, Who ransack'd kingdoms, and dispeopled towns. The Pict and painted Briton, treach'rous Scot, By hunger,...

...and base origin. He thinks the British nobility have not much to boast of in the way of ancestry : " These are the heroes who despise the Dutch, And rail...and dispeopled towns. The Pict and painted Briton, treacherous Scot, By hunger, theft, and rapine, hither brought : Norwegian pirates, buccaneering Danes,...

...and base origin. He thinks the British nobility have not much to boast of in the way of ancestry : " These are the heroes who despise the Dutch, And rail...and dispeopled towns. The Pict and painted Briton, treacherous Scot, By hunger, theft, and rapine, hither brought ; Norwegian pirates, buccaneering Danes,...

...boast of in the way of ancestry : " These are the heroes who despise the Dutch, And rail at new-cotne foreigners so much ; Forgetting that themselves are...and dispeopled towns. The Pict and painted Briton, treacherous Scot, By hunger, theft, and rapine, hither brought ; Norwegian pirates, buccaneering Danes,...

...boast of in the way of ancestry : " These are the heroes who despise the Dutch, And rail at new-coine foreigners so much ; Forgetting that themselves are...and dispeopled towns. The Pict and painted Briton, treacherous Scot, Bj hunger, theft, and rapine, hither brought ; Norwegian pirates, buccaneering Danes,...

...sword should be so civil, To make a Frenchman English, that's the devil. THESE are the heroes that despise the Dutch, And rail at new-come foreigners...A horrid crowd of rambling thieves and drones Who ransack'd kingdoms, and dispeopled towns ; The Pict and painted Briton, teeach'rons Scot, By hunger,...

...sword should be so civil, To make a Frenchman English, that's the deviL f THESE are the heroes that despise the Dutch, And rail at new-come foreigners...A horrid crowd of rambling thieves and drones Who ransack'd kingdoms, and dispeopled towns ; A SATIRE. 439 • The Pict and painted Briton, treach'rons...