"Their brain's so cool, their passion seldom burns; / For all's condens'd before the flame returns; The fermentation's of so weak a matter, / The humid damps the fume, and runs it all to water."
The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr.
At least 56 entries in ESTC (1701, 1702, 1703, 1704, 1708, 1710, 1711, 1713, 1716, 1717, 1721, 1728, 1730, 1731, 1733, 1740, 1743, 1748, 1749, 1750, 1754, 1755, 1765, 1767, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1777, 1778, 1780, 1784, 1786, 1788, 1790, 1795).<br>
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See <u>The True-Born Englishman. A Satyr.</u> ([London?]: [s.n.], 1701). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T226559">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW117141004&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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See also <u>A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of the True Born English-Man. Corrected By Himself</u>. (London: Printed, and are to be sold by most booksellers in London and Westminster, 1703). &lt;<a href="http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xr  i:lion&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:po:Z200625676:2">Link to LION</a>&gt;<br>
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Over 20 editions in Defoe's lifetime. Also issued as part of: <u>A Collection of the Best English Poetry, by Several Hands</u>, London, 1717. See also 1731 printing "Corrected and enlarg'd by the author" &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/N45837">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading Daniel Defoe. <u>The True-Born Englishman and Other Writings</u>. Ed. P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens (New York: Penguin Books, 1997).