So spoke, so look’d he, every eye and ear
Were fix’d to view him, or were turn’d to hear.
“My friends, you know me, you can witness all,
How, urged by passion, I restrain my gall;
And every motive to revenge withstand -
Save when I hear abused my native land.
“Is it not known, agreed, confirm’d, confess’d,
That, of all people, we are govern’d best?
We have the force of monarchies; are free,
As the most proud republicans can be;