Poems on several occasions | ||
104
THE English PROTESTANT.
Inscribed to JOHN LLOYD, Esq;
I am an Englishman, and dare be free;
Tory and Whig are both alike to me:
Such Shifts, such dirty work I see in either,
I fully am determin'd to be neither.
That slavish Task I leave to Knaves and Fools,
The Statesman's easy Gulls, or servile Tools;
Papist or Protestant, or Bond or Free;
Those (Lloyd!) are all Distinctions known to me:
The Pattern Thou of what Mankind should be.
Poems on several occasions | ||