Holland†lies so low they're only saved by being dammed.

-Honorius of Autun
  Up the Rhine,'Letter from Martha Penny to Rebecca Page'.

The Dutch may havetheir Holland, the Spaniard have his Spain, TheYankee to the south of us must south of us remain; For not a man dare lift a hand against the men who brag That they were born in Canada beneath the British flag.

-Johnson, Pauline
  'Canadian Born', collected in Flint and Feather (1912).