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Ye mariners of England,That guard our native seas;Whose flag has braved, a thousand years,The battle and the breeze!
thomas campbell— Stanza 1.
That knuckle-end of England—that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulphur.
sydney smith— Volume I, ch. 2.
Ye gentlemen of Englandthat live at home at ease,Ah! little do you think uponThe dangers of the seas.
martyn (or "martin") parker— Ye Gentlemen of England, (c. 1630), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
That knuckle-end of Englandthat land of Calvin, oat- cakes and sulphur.
Rev Sydney Smith— Quoted in Lady Holland Memoir (1855), vol1, ch. 2.
