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Hyperbolus by suffering did traduce
The ostracism, and shamed it out of use.
———when the Scots decease,
Hell like their nation feeds on barnacles.
A Scot when from the gallow-tree got loose,
Drops into Styx, and turns a Soland goose[1]
The ostracism, and shamed it out of use.
———when the Scots decease,
Hell like their nation feeds on barnacles.
A Scot when from the gallow-tree got loose,
Drops into Styx, and turns a Soland goose[1]
Derrick abuses the Irish in a similar strain: "They are a people sprung from Macke-Swine, a barbarous offspring, which maie be perceived by their hoggishe fashion;"
No pies to plucke the thatch from house,
Are bred in Irishe ground;
But worse than pies the same to burne
A thousand maie be found[2].
Are bred in Irishe ground;
But worse than pies the same to burne
A thousand maie be found[2].
The comparisons of England and Scotland by foreigners were generally much to the disadvantage of the latter. Perlin, a French author, who wrote a Description of England and Scotland in 1588, describes Scotland as a wilderness, and greatly prefers England; as in the following passages:
"Prenons le cas que l'Angleterre soit Paris, l'Escoffe soit le faulx-bourgz Sainct Marceau: la ville vault trop mieulx que les faulx-bourgz, aussi vault trop mieulx l'Angleterre que l'Escosse, et n'y a poinct de proportion[3]."
