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Crewe MS/36/pp. 232–3
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‘A Character of the English. An Allusion. Tacit. de vita Agric.’, by Robert Wolseley(?), 1679
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First line: ‘The free-born English, generous and Wise’. Subscribed ‘1679.’ The allusion is to Tacitus, Agricola, cap. 13 (‘Britanni delectum … serviant’).
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Printed separately under the title The Genius of True Englishmen (1680) (ESTC No. R10628), with the relevant passage from Tacitus quoted and translated at the head. Collected, with a different ending, in Rome Rhym’d to Death (1683) (ESTC No. R16454), p. 115. Attributed to Wolseley in The First Part of Miscellany Poems (1716), p. 268. See ECS, p. 385.