The International Prester John Project: How A Global Legend Was Created Across Six Centuries

The Jacobite Conventicle

In English Richard Ames' political poem, the poet invokes the name of Prester John as part of his warning against allowing the expansion of French power: 

If they go on, 'tis plain and clear,
The French, which we so idly fear,
As soon will make Descent on Finland,
As e're Attempt to Land in England.
Within three years we shall become
The Poorest State in Christendom;
All Nations will on us be Pissing,
And we become the Scorn and Hissing,
Of all the Kingdoms which are known,
'Twixt us and Land of Prester John.

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