True patriots we, for, be it understood, We left our country for our country’s good. Barrington.—Prologue written by a celebrated Pickpocket, to a play performed by Convicts at Sidney or Botany Bay.
[The germ of this quotation seems to have been borrowed from Fitzgeffray’s Life of Sir Francis Drake, where we read:— And bold and hard adventures t’ undertake, Leaving his country for his country’s sake. Fitzgeffray.—Life of Drake, A.D. 1600.]
