An answer to a late abusive pamphlet, intituled, The true-born Englishman, &c. Together with the true character of A true Englishman. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B08373 of text R224705 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing A3304D). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B08373 Wing A3304D ESTC R224705 64550870 ocm 64550870 184327 2248531735

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 Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. B08373) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 184327) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2858:5) An answer to a late abusive pamphlet, intituled, The true-born Englishman, &c. Together with the true character of A true Englishman. 1 sheet ([2] p.). Printed by and for Benj. Harris, next the Golden Bear's-Head Grace-Church-Street, London : 1700. Caption title. Imprint from colophon. Reproduction of original in: Harvard University. Library. eng William -- III, -- King of England, 1650-1702 -- Poetry. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1689-1702 -- Poetry. eebo An answer to a late abusive pamphlet, intituled, The true-born Englishman, &c. Together with the true character of a true Englishman. [no entry] 1701 2 746 2 0 0 0 0 0 26.81 C The rate of 26.81 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2012-05 Assigned for keying and markup 2012-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2012-08 Sampled and proofread 2012-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2013-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
An ANSWER to a late Abusive Pamphlet , Intituled , The True-Born ENGLISHMAN , &c. Together with the True Character of A True Englishman . A Certain Barber , fraught with much Ill Nature , Having thrust out into the World a Satyr , Which , that he may his Reader best Trapan To Read , he Stiles , The True-Born Englishman : Wherein he goes about , with no small Stir , The Character of Englishmen to Slur ; And all their Faults in Black and White Display : But if himself be One , as he does say , The Work but ill becomes him ; for , at best , T is a foul Bird that thus bewrayes his Nest ; And all the Odium Casts he can devise , With most apparent Falsities and Lies , Upon his Native Country-Men : Sure he , At best , some Bastard-Englishman must be : For none , but such a One , could be so Base , To fly , like him , into his Country's Face : Peers and Plebeians he together mixes , And upon all , his Envious Venom fixes . Then , to Atone for all the Dirt he flings , A Panegyrick on King WILLIAM Sings : But this , alas ! is but a Feint he uses , Whilst he the English Nation thus Abuses : We need not such black Pens as his , to Sing Th' Unsully'd Glories of Great Britain's King : King WILLIAM's Praise by English Bards is Sung ; With Abler Pens , and a Diviner Tongue ; For His Great Actions show His Mighty Soul , Ev'n from the Arctick , to th' Antarctick Pole . And Englishmen , maugre what He can say , King WILLIAM Love , and Honour , and Obey ; And do as much His Royal Title Own , As any Monarch's e'er possess'd the Throne . And therefore , that the World may plainly see How very much unlike the English be , To what he represents them , I have here Set down in Brief their proper Character :
The True-Englishman . THE Free-Born English , Generous and Wise , Hate Chains , yet do not Government Despise : Rights of the Crown , Tribute and Taxes They , When Lawfully Exacted , Freely Pay ; Which cannot be , but by their own Consent , And given in a Free-Chose Parliament : Force they Abhor , and Wrongs they Scorn to Bear ; And to Assert their Rights they always Dare. More guided by their Judgment than their Fear : Justice by them was never held Severe : Their Pow'r by Tyranny was never got : Laws may perhaps inslave them , Force cannot : Nor can their Freedom be by Laws Destroy'd , For Laws 'gainst Magna Charta still are Void : They therefore know ( shou'd they be thus Betray'd ) Laws that are Void , are not to be Obey'd : Kings are less Safe , in their Vnbounded Will , Joyn'd with the Wretched Pow'r of Doing Ill : Forsaken most , when they 're most Absolute : Laws GUARD the Man , and only BIND the Brute . To force that Guard with its worst Foe to Joyn , Can never be a Prudent King's Design : What Prince would change to be a Cataline ? Break his own Laws , shake the Unquestion'd Throne ; Contpire with Vassals to Vsu●p his Own ? Let France grow Proud beneath the Tyrant's Lust , Whilst the Wrac●'d People Crawl , and lick the Dust : The Mighty Genius of this Isle Disdains Both High-shoon Slavery , and Golden Chains . England to Servile Yoke cou'd never Bow : What Conq'rours ne'er Presum'd , who dares do now ? In vain Rome's Bishop then does Wrack his Brain ; No Popish Prince can in this Island Reign . Though Spain be added to the Crown of France , It will their Courage , not their Fear , Enhance . Arm'd with Blest Bibles , and Vndated Law , They 'll guard Themselves , and keep the World in Awe . And 't is their Honour , Europe now must wait , And from their Great Resolves , Receive its Fate .

London , Printedby , and for Benj. Harris , next the Golden Boar's-Head , Grace-Church-Street , 1700.