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  • French truth,Dutch prowess,British policy, Hibernian learning, Scotch civility, Spaniards'dispatch,Danes' wit, are mainly seen in thee.

    -JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
    c.1673  'Upon Nothing', stanza16 (published1679).

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