[413:1] Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,—disguise them to make 'em pass for their own.—Sheridan: The Critic, act. i. sc. i.

[413:2]

England, with all thy faults I love thee still,

My country!

Cowper: The Task, book ii. The Timepiece, line 206.

[413:3] Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam.—Byron: The Corsair, canto i. stanza 1.


WILLIAM COWPER.  1731-1800.

Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.

Table Talk. Line 28.