Classic Poem

Inscrib'd to John Lloyd, Esq.

I am an Englishman, and dare be free;
Tory and Whig are both alike to me:
Such shifts, such dirty work I see in either,
I fully am determin'd to be neither.
That slavish trick I leave to knaves and fools,
The statesmen's easy gulls, or servile tools.
Papist or Protestant, or bond or free,
Those, Lloyd, are all distinctions known to me:
The pattern thou of what mankind should be.