Social Commentaries
Epigram 82. Of the English, Spanish, and French
From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)
Social Commentaries
The Spaniards love the English, they them hate;
The English love the French, and they hate them;
A strange capriciousness of humane Fate,
Nations should affect whom them contemn
Despised Lovers need not to complain,
Seeing tis known whole kingdomes love in vain.
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