Rich

The famous 'This England' speech from Shakespeare's Richard II is much beloved by demented flagwavers:

  "This precious stone set in the silver sea,
  Which serves it in the office of a wall,
  Or as a moat defensive to a house,
  Against the envy of less happier lands,
  This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, 
  This England."

How many of them know that the speech continues thus:

  "This dear dear land is now leased out
  Like to a tenement or pelting farm:
  England, bound in with the triumphant sea
  Is now bound in with shame,
  With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds:
  That England, that was wont to conquer others,
  Hath made a shameful conquest of itself."

Shakespeare knew.