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    The True-Born Englishman A Satire
    The True-Born Englishman A Satire
    The True-Born Englishman A Satire
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    The True-Born Englishman A Satire

    By Daniel Defoe

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    Release dateJun 1, 2009
    The True-Born Englishman A Satire
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    Daniel Defoe

    Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), son of a London butcher, James Foe, took the pen name Defoe in 1703, the year he was pilloried and jailed for publishing a notorious attack on the religious hypocrisy and intolerance of the English political class. His imprisonment ruined his lucrative trade as a merchant but made him a popular figure with the public. Freed by the intervention of rising statesman Robert Harley, Defoe became a renowned journalist, but also a government spy. Robinson Crusoe, his first work of fiction, was published in his sixtieth year, but was soon followed by other lasting novels, including The Life and Adventures of Mr Duncan Campbell, Moll Flanders, A Journal of the Plague Year and Roxana.

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      The True-Born Englishman A Satire - Daniel Defoe

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      Title: The True-Born Englishman

      A Satire

      Author: Daniel Defoe

      Release Date: October 2, 2009 [EBook #30159]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN ***

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      Transcriber's Note: This satire in verse by Daniel Defoe (c. 1659-1731) was first published in 1701 under the title, The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr, and went through numerous editions in Defoe's lifetime. This e-book was prepared from The Novels and Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe, Volume 5 (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855), in which the spelling, punctuation, and capitalization have apparently been modernized. Page numbers have been omitted from this e-book, and obvious printer errors have been corrected. A table of contents has been added for the reader's convenience.

      THE

      TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN:

      A

      SATIRE.

      Statuimus pacem, et securitatem et concordiam judicum et justiciam inter Anglos et Normannos, Francos et Britanes, Walliæ, et Cornubiæ, Pictos et Scotos, Albaniæ, similiter inter Francos et insulanos provincias et patrias, quæ pertinent ad coronam nostram, et inter omnes nobis subjectos firmiter et inviolabiliter observare.

      Charta Regis Gullielmi Conquisitoris de Pacis Publica, cap. i.

      CONTENTS

      AN EXPLANATORY PREFACE.

      PREFACE.

      THE INTRODUCTION.

      THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN.

      PART I.

      PART II.

      BRITANNIA.

      HIS FINE SPEECH, &c.

      THE CONCLUSION.

      AN

      EXPLANATORY PREFACE.

      It is not that I see any reason to alter my opinion in any thing I have writ, which occasions this epistle; but I find it necessary for the satisfaction of some persons of honour, as well as wit, to pass a short explication upon it; and tell the world what I mean, or rather, what I do not mean, in some things wherein I find I am liable to be misunderstood.

      I confess myself something surpris'd to hear that I am taxed with bewraying my own nest, and abusing our nation, by discovering the meanness of our original, in order to make the English contemptible abroad and at home; in which, I think, they are mistaken: for why should not our neighbours be as good as we to derive from? And I must add, that had we been an unmix'd nation, I am of opinion it had been to our disadvantage: for to go no farther, we have three nations about us as clear from mixtures of blood as any in the world, and I know not which of them I could wish ourselves to be like; I mean the Scots, the Welsh, and the Irish; and if I were to write a reverse to the Satire, I would examine all the nations of Europe, and prove, that those nations which are most mix'd, are the best, and have least of barbarism and brutality among them; and abundance of reasons might be given for it, too long to bring into a Preface.

      But I give this hint, to let the world know, that I am far from thinking, 'tis a Satire upon the English nation, to tell them, they are derived from all the nations under heaven; that is, from several nations. Nor is it meant to undervalue the original of the English, for we see no reason to like them worse, being the relicts of Romans, Danes, Saxons and Normans, than we should have done if they had remain'd Britons, that is, than if they had been all Welshmen.

      But the intent of the Satire is pointed at the vanity of those who talk of their antiquity, and value themselves upon their pedigree, their ancient families, and being true-born; whereas 'tis impossible we should be true-born: and if we could, should have lost by the bargain.

      These sort of people, who call themselves true-born, and tell long stories of their families, and like a nobleman of Venice, think a foreigner ought not to walk on the same side of the street with them, are own'd to be meant in this Satire. What they would infer from their

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