Perfum'd with epithets of good and just.

He saved—incenséd Heaven may have forgot—

To afford one act of mercy to a Scot:

Unless that Scot deny himself and do

What's easier far—Renounce his nation too.


JOHN DRYDEN.

(1631-1700.)

[XVIII.] SATIRE ON THE DUTCH.

Originally printed in broadside form, being written in the year 1662. It was bitterly resented by the Dutch.