PROLOGUE TO THE ENGLISHMAN AT BOURDEAUX. Performed since the conclusion of the peace, with universal applause, at PARIS. Anonymous Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T124631 1073 K099398.000 Mendez, Moses. A collection of the most esteemed pieces of poetry: that have appeared for several years. With variety of originals, by the late Moses Mendez, Esq; and other contributors to Dodsley's collection. To which this is intended as a supplement. London printed for Richardson and Urquhart 1767 pp. 131-132. [8],320p. ; 8⁰.

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PROLOGUE TO THE ENGLISHMAN AT BOURDEAUX . Performed since the conclusion of the peace , with universal applause , at PARIS . TOO long by some fatality misled , From pride resulting , or from folly bred ; Each clime to all the virtues lays a claim , And soars , self-flatter'd , to the top of fame ; Confines each merit to itself alone , Or thinks no other equal to its own : E'en the pale Russian shiv'ring as he lies , Beneath the horror of his bitterest skies , While the loud tempest rattles o'er his head , Or bursts all dreadful on his tott'ring shed , Hugs a soft something closely to his soul , That soothes the cutting sharpness of the pole , Elates his bosom with a conscious pride , And smiles contempt on all the world beside . 'Tis your's , O France , the earliest to unbind This more than Gordian manacle of mind ! To-night we bid your justice may be shewn To foreign virtues equal with your own ; Think , nobly think , when nature first was born , And fair creation kindled into morn , The world was but one family , one band , Which glow'd all grateful to the heavenly hand ; Thro' ev'ry breast a social impulse ran , Link'd beast to beast , and fasten'd man to man , And the sole diff'rence which he heard , or had , Dwelt in the simple phrases , " good or bad . " Then scorn to give such partial feelings birth , As claim but one poor competence of earth ; Be more than French ; on ev'ry country call , And rise , exalted , citizens of all .