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NOTES.

179

Hyperbolus by suffering did traduce
The ostracism, and shamed it out of use.
⁠———when the Scots decease,
Hell like their nation feeds on barnacles.
A Scot when from the gallow-tree got loose,
Drops into Styx, and turns a Soland goose[1]

Derrick abuses the Irish in a similar strain: "They are a people sprung from Macke-Swine, a barbarous offspring, which maie be perceived by their hoggishe fashion;"

No pies to plucke the thatch from house,
 Are bred in Irishe ground;
But worse than pies the same to burne
 A thousand maie be found[2].

The comparisons of England and Scotland by foreigners were generally much to the disadvantage of the latter. Perlin, a French author, who wrote a Description of England and Scotland in 1588, describes Scotland as a wilderness, and greatly prefers England; as in the following passages:

"Prenons le cas que l'Angleterre soit Paris, l'Escoffe soit le faulx-bourgz Sainct Marceau: la ville vault trop mieulx que les faulx-bourgz, aussi vault trop mieulx l'Angleterre que l'Escosse, et n'y a poinct de proportion[3]."

  1. ↑ Cleveland's Poems, London, 1677, p. 47–57.
  2. ↑ Derrick's Image of Ireland, 1581.
  3. ↑ Perlin Description des Royaulmes d'Angleterre et d'Escoffe. Paris, 1558. (London, 1775, reprinted). P.13.
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