English Satires

by Unknown

And think French only loyal, Irish wise;

When wooden shoon shall be the English wear

And Magna Charta shall no more appear:

Then the English shall a greater tyrant know,

Than either Greek or Latin story show:

Their wives to 's lust exposed, their wealth to 's spoil,

With groans to fill his treasury they toil;

But like the Bellides must sigh in vain

For that still fill'd flows out as fast again;

Then they with envious eyes shall Belgium see,