I don’t know a people have us’d me so ill.
Go, Wretches ingrate; see my Subjects in France,
With what excellent skill they my Business advance!
Do they stick to Agreements, or such Kind of Things?
Is there Truth in their Courtiers, or Faith in their Kings?
Their Notions of Honour, or keeping of Treaties, 121
Are govern’d by that kind of Body their Fleet is;
While you of a Nation I take such Delight in
Are inferior in Fraud, tho’ you beat them at fighting.
Ye Spirits uncurb’d by the Dictates of Schools,