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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SATIRE ON TUB DUTCH. WEITTEN IN THE YEAR 1662. AS needy gallants, in the fcrivener's hands, Court the rich knaves that gripe their inort- gag'd lands; The firft fat buck of all the feafon's fent, And keeper takes no fee in compliment; The dotage of fome Englimmen is fuch, 5 To fawn on thofe, who ruin them, the Dutch. They fhall have all, rather than make a war With thofe, who of the fame religion are. The Straits, the Guiney-trade, the herrings Nay, to keep friendfhip, they (hall pickle you. Some are refolved not to find out the cheat, 11 But, cuckold-like, love them that do the feat. This poem is no more than a prologue a little altered, prefixed to our author's tragedy of VOL, I. What injuries foe'er upon us fall, Yet (till the fame religion anfwers all. Religion wheedled us to civil war, is Drew Englifh blood, and Dutchmen's now wou'd fpare. Be gull'd no longer; for you'll find it true, They have no more religion, faith than you, Intereft's the god they worfhip in their ftate, And we, I take it, have not much of that. 20 Well monarchies may own religion's name, But dates are atheifts in their very frame. They (hare a fin; and fuch proportions fall, That, likeaftink, 'tis nothing to them all. Think on their rapine, falihood, cruelty, 25 And that what once they were, they fiill would be. To one well-horn th'affront isworfe and more, When he's abus'd and barH'd by a boor. With an ill grace the Dutch their mifchiefs do; They've both ill nature and ill manners too. 30 Well may they boail thernfelves an ancient nar tion; For they were bred ere manners were in fafhion: And their new commonwealth has let them freq Only from honour and civ ility. Venetians do not more uncouihly ride, 35 Than did their lubber ilate mankin...