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The English are serious.... They are good sailors and better pirates, cunning, treacherous and thievish; above three hundred are said to be hanged annually at London.... Hawking is the general sport of the gentry; they are more polite in eating than the French, devouring less bread, but more meat, which they roast to perfection.... They are powerful in the field, successful against their enemies, impatient of anything like slavery; vastly fond of great noises that fill the ear, such as the firing of cannon, drums, and the ringing of bells, so that it is common for a number of them, that have got a glass in their heads, to go up into some belfry, and ring the bells for hours together for the sake of exercise. If they see a foreigner very well made, or particularly handsome, they will say: ‘It is a pity he is not an Englishman!’
A GERMAN VISITOR
