A Character of the Province of Maryland / Described in four distinct parts; also a small Treatise on the Wild and Naked Indians (or Susquehanokes) of Maryland, their customs, manners, absurdities, and religion; together with a collection of historical letters.

by George Alsop

In a dis-dain to honour such a crown

With three-pile Velvet? tell me, hadst thou thy fall

From the high top of that Cathedral?

None of the Heroes of the Roman stem,

Wore ever such a fashion’d Diadem,

Didst thou speak Turkish in thy unknown dress,

Thou’dst cover Great Mogull, and no man less;

But in thy make methinks thou’rt too too scant,

To be so great a Monarch’s Turberant.

The Jews by Moses swear, they never knew