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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=360347" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The True Born Englishman (excerpt)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=360347" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">...<br> Thus from a mixture of all kinds began,<br> That het'rogeneous thing, an Englishman:<br> In eager rapes, and furious lust begot,<br> Betwixt a painted Britain and a Scot.<br> Whose gend'ring off-spring quickly learn'd to bow,<br> And yoke their heifers to the Roman plough:<br> From whence a mongrel half-bred race there came,<br> With neither name, nor nation, speech nor fame.<br> In whose hot veins new mixtures quickly ran,<br> Infus'd betwixt a Saxon and a Dane.<br> While their rank daughters, to their parents just,<br> Receiv'd all nations with promiscuous lust.<br> This nauseous brood directly did contain<br> The well-extracted blood of Englishmen.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=360347" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> Which medly canton'd in a heptarchy,<br> A rhapsody of nations to supply,<br> Among themselves maintain'd eternal wars,<br> And still the ladies lov'd the conquerors.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=360347" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> The western Angles all the rest subdu'd;<br> A bloody nation, barbarous and rude:<br> Who by the tenure of the sword possest<br> One part of Britain, and subdu'd the rest<br> And as great things denominate the small,<br> The conqu'ring part gave title to the whole.<br> The Scot, Pict, Britain, Roman, Dane, submit,<br> And with the English-Saxon all unite:<br> And these the mixture have so close pursu'd,<br> The very name and memory's subdu'd:<br> No Roman now, no Britain does remain;<br> Wales strove to separate, but strove in vain:<br> The silent nations undistinguish'd fall,<br> And Englishman's the common name for all.<br> Fate jumbled them together, God knows how;<br> What e'er they were they're true-born English now.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=360347" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> The wonder which remains is at our pride,<br> To value that which all wise men deride.<br> For Englishmen to boast of generation,<br> Cancels their knowledge, and lampoons the nation.<br> A true-born Englishman's a contradiction,<br> In speech an irony, in fact a fiction.<br> A banter made to be a test of fools,<br> Which those that use it justly ridicules.<br> A metaphor invented to express<br> A man a-kin to all the universe.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=360347" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> For as the Scots, as learned men ha' said,<br> Throughout the world their wand'ring seed ha' spread;<br> So open-handed England, 'tis believ'd,<br> Has all the gleanings of the world receiv'd.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=360347" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> Some think of England 'twas our Saviour meant,<br> The Gospel should to all the world be sent:<br> Since, when the blessed sound did hither reach,<br> They to all nations might be said to preach.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=360347" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> 'Tis well that virtue gives nobility,<br> How shall we else the want of birth and blood supply?<br> Since scarce one family is left alive,<br> Which does not from some foreigner derive.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=360347" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">...</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Daniel+Defoe">Daniel Defoe</a></strong></div>