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Excerpt from Lyrics by a Briton in Gallia
Well mated they, despite the insensate cry That ancient foes must ever foes remain. What reek ye, Britons, though on land and main Erstwhile ye drove the French, nor feared to die When these struck out the harder? Crecy's plain And Patay's quivering field forgotten lie. Hail to thee, great Republic! Forth we '11 bear Our guest with shouts plebeian, not of schools. Milton was ours; 0 France, thou hadst Voltaire, And harbouredst Paine from all our bigot fools! So praise we now thy strenuous sons, who dare. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
