true-bred

The issue of a wife is unlawful seed; And none's legitimate, but mongrel breed. Thou, and thy branches, have quite cross'd the strain, We ne'er shall see a true-bred whelp again.

Well, for two of them, I know them to be as true-bred cowards as ever turn'd back; and for the third, if he fight longer than he sees reason, I 'll forswear arms.

Come all ye true-bred Irishmen, a story I will tell Concerning bold McCarthy who in Liverpool did dwell.

Experience, I grant, he probably lacks ; but he has the true-bred instinct.