Britain bended to the servile yoke, Her fire extinguished, and her spirit broke, Beneath the pressure of [a tyrant's] sway, Herself at once the spoiler and the prey, Detest[s] the virtues she can boast no more And envies every right to every shore!

Virgil, Aeneid, iv. 335, 336. So to Eliza dawned that cruel day Which tore Æneas from her sight away, That saw him parting, never to return, Herself in funeral flames decreed to burn. Falconer, The Shipwreck, iii. 4 (1756).

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