Anonymous


On Scotchmen and Their Country


Indians assert that wheresoe’er they roam,
If slain they reach again their native home.
If every nation held this maxim right,
Not English bread would make a Scotchman fight.
[From ‘A Collection of Epigrams’ (1707). It was in a similar spirit of satire that Cleveland introduced into a poem of his the following couplet: – 

	“Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom;
	Not forced him wander, but compell’d him home.” On Scotland]





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