This poem describes the origins of the English people as being from a mixture of different races and ethnicities, including Britons, Scots, Saxons, Danes, and others, who interbred promiscuously. It portrays the English as having mixed and "mongrel" bloodlines without a clear national identity or culture as a result of these diverse genetic influences over time.
This poem describes the origins of the English people as being from a mixture of different races and ethnicities, including Britons, Scots, Saxons, Danes, and others, who interbred promiscuously. It portrays the English as having mixed and "mongrel" bloodlines without a clear national identity or culture as a result of these diverse genetic influences over time.
This poem describes the origins of the English people as being from a mixture of different races and ethnicities, including Britons, Scots, Saxons, Danes, and others, who interbred promiscuously. It portrays the English as having mixed and "mongrel" bloodlines without a clear national identity or culture as a result of these diverse genetic influences over time.
That het'rogeneous thing, an Englishman: In eager rapes, and furious lust begot Betwixt a painted Britain and a Scot. hose gend'ring off!spring "uickl# learn'd to bow, $nd #oke their heifers to the %oman plough: &rom whence a mongrel half!bred race there came, ith neither name, nor nation, speech nor fame. In whose hot 'eins new mixtures "uickl# ran, Infus'd betwixt a Saxon and a (ane hile their rank daughters, to their parents )ust, %ecei''d all nations with promiscuous lust. This nauseous brood directl# did contain The well!extracted blood of Englishmen.
Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick: Gleaned from Actual Observation and Experience During a Residence / Of Seven Years in That Interesting Colony