THe Condition to the Hollander is chur­ish, as their Breeder Neptune, and with­out doubt very ancient, for they were bred before Mannors were in fashion, yet what they have not they do account superfinitie, which they fay mendeth some, and marreth others: they should make good Justices, for they respect neither Person nor Apparell, a Boare in his liquid sloppe shall have a [...] much respect and good usage, as a Gentlman in all his Brave­rie, for he that is Courtly or Gentile, it amongst them like a Merline after Michaelmas amongst the Crowes; they won­der at and envie, but worship no such Images, marry with a silver Hooke you may take these Gudgeons presently; the love of Money being as naturall to them as Water to a Goose, or Carren to a Crow; but our English State Cor­morants goe beyond them in cursed coveting of mens E­states, for they devide the wealth of the whole Kingdome into three parts, and they have gotten two parts to them­selves, the Crowne and the Church-Lands, and of the third part, what in Excise, Composition Money, and other Taxes, they have two parts of that, so they have left the whole Kingdome but a third of a third part to live on; and yet they are not satisfied but cry like Hell and the Grave, cry [Page 2] more. The Dutch are generally boreish, yet none but may be bred to a States-man; so out English Saints at Westmin­ster, do intend to follow them, for as much as in them lies, they go about to beggar and banish the Gentrie, that Dick and Tom, Will and Iock, Ralph and Harry, may be all in all. They have one gift, not to be nice conscientious, and so are our States, and can as well as they turne out Religion to let in Policie; their Countrey is their God they worship; so England is the Idoll of our States; War is their Heaven, so spilling of blood is ours; Custom is their Law, and the sword it ours. They are seldom deceived, for they trust none, and so by consequence are better able to keepe a Fort then wit it; yet they can doe both as well as we: they shall abuse a Stranger for nothing, and we one another as little; nothing can quiet them but Money and Liberty, and (then like us) when they have them both, they abuse them; but if you tell them or us so, you awak our fury, and you may sooner calm the Sea, then convince that into a compasse againe; They are like us, they love none but those that do for them, & when those leave off, they neglect them; all that helpe them not they hold Popish, and take it for an Argument of much ho­nesty to raile bitterly against the King of Spaine: so our west­minster masters account every one Malignant that doth not adhere to their Faction, and not onely villifie our late K▪ they murthered, but also raile against his Son our King, that is or ought to be. But certainly, this is the badge of an ill Nature, that when they have once cast off the yoake of O­bedience to be most-violent against those to whom of right they owe all respect & service; gratefull dispositions (though by their Lords they be exempted from service) will yet bee paying reverance and affection: I am confident, had not the Dutch been once the Subject of Spaine, they would have loved that Nation better then any other; and it is a suffici­ent ground to continue their eternall hate, to know the world remembers, that they were once the lawfull Subjects to the Catholick King: so there is nothing vexes and an­gers our Westminster Rebels, then that the World takes no­tice [Page 3]of their Rebellion against their lawfull King of blessed memory, and that his Son lives to scourge them for it. Their Shipping is their Babell which they boast on, for the glory of their Nation: 'tis indeed a wonder, and they will have it so, but we may hope, they will never be so mighty by Land, least they shew us how doggedly they can tyrannize where they get the Victory, witnesse at Amboyna and Leyden; 'tis their own Chronicle buisines that tells you, that at the siege of Leydons a Fort being held by the Spaniard, was after by the Dutch taken by assault; where one of the Dutch in the fury of the slaughter, ript up the Captaines Body, and with a barbarous hand, toare out the yet living heart (panting a­mong the reeking Bowells) and then with his Teeth rent it (still warm with blood) into gobets, flung it over the battle­ments indefience of the rest of the Armie. Yet our barbar­ous Blood-suckers of England, have our gone them in cruel­ties, witnesse the butchering and unhumane useing of that ever to be praised noble Lord, my Lord of Northampton at Hopton-Heath: the barbarous massacring in cold blood of Col. Stanhope in Shelford Garrison, and Sir Ch [...]rls Lucas, and Sir Geo: Lisle at Colchester, cum multis aljis, O bloody Ty­gers! the Scithian Beare could not have been more savage. To be necessitated unto cruelty, is a detraction to be strong­ly tempted to it; but to spleen, rage, and mad it selfe in cold blood upon a resistles enemy, shewes nature slept in the li­quid gall of Passion, and beyond all brutishnesse, and dis­playes the unnoble tyranny of a prevailing Coward.

Their Navies are the whip of Spaine, where with they pull away his Indyes, Nature hath not bred them so active for the Land as we, but at the Sea, they are Water-Devills, to attempt things incredible. A Turkish Man of War is as dreadfull to them, as a Falcon to a Mallerd; from whom their best remedy is, run away; for if they come to blowes, they want the valiant stoutnesse of the English, who will rather expire bravely, then in a cold resistance, yeeld to the lasting slavery of becoming Captives to so barbarous a Conqueror.

Their Government is Anarchy, and there had need hee many to rule such a rabble of rude ones, they began that diabollicall Anarchicall Government, and we have followed them, and being good Professors have out-gone them in their Art; for they onely threw off the Yoake of Obedi­ence in crossing the Designes of their King, in bringing in that cruell unjust Court of Inquesition: but we by a more cruell, unjust, and unheard of Court, have crucified our K. Their taking up Armes, was to preserve the lives of their Nobilitie, whose deaths they supposed was intended by the Duke de Alua: but we have taken up Arms to destroy our Nobility out of the Land; they onely banished their King, and abolished His Royall Power out of some part of His Dominions, but wee have most barbarously Butchered our King at his owne Gate; and banisht his Son and Heire, our King that ought to be, out of all his Dominions. Tell them of a King in jest, and they could out your Throat in earnest: but our Westminster Saints have another way (for those that tell them of a King) which is to hang them by a LAW of their owne making; the name of a King being as hatefull to us both, as Images to a Jew, old age to a Woman, or a Sur­plugs to a Noncenfermist: None amongst them have Au­thority by Inheritance; that was to percell out their Coun­trey into Families; but they are chosen (as our King did use to prick Shreiffes for their Countries) not for their fulnesse of Wit, but for their Wealth they have to beare it out with, which they so ever affected, that they will walke the streets (like out Usurers, when they go to a Baudy-house) all alone melancholly, and if they may be had cheape, shall daube his faced Cloake with two penny worth of Pickled Herrings, which himselfe shall carry home in a string. Their Iustice is strickt if it crosse not policie; but (like our Grandees) rathes then hinder Trastick, tollerate any thing; there is not under Heaven such a Den of severall Serpents as Amsterdam is, nor in all Europe such a Nest of Saint-Devills as in London. you may be in either of these what Devill you please, so you [Page 5]push not the States with your Hornes; they are each of them an Universitie of Opinions, which growes here con­fusedly (like as in a Nurserie) without order or prunning: If you be unsetled in your Religion, you may try all, and take at last what you like best, as the Camolion changes into all colours but white, so they admit of all Religions but the true; yet the Papist onely may not excercisi [...] his Religion in publick amongst the Dutch, yet they plead this not for hat­red of it, but Iustice; because the Spaniard will not tollerate the Protestant, and they had rather shew a little spleen, then not cry quit with the Enemy. Their Excise is their Exche­quer, which they so strictly observe and gather, that you cannot eate a Sallet without paying six severall Excises for it, yet one good Commodity they have by it (that without Taxing or Pouling of them) it payes all the Souldrey both by Sea and Land, and defrayes all other Charges of their Common-wealth both at home and abroad; but we English are not so happie, for though our Excise will treble theires, and their Expences treble ours, yet our blessed States makes us pay Tax upon Tax, and like cruell Egyptian Task-masters, makes us make Bricke without Straw; but the reason is, (I give it you in their owns Language) they say, it is sit that every one of this pious lunch, (I meane the Parliament) should have a hundred thousand pounds in ready Money by them, that if the King doe unstate them (which I trust in God he will doe shortly) they may escape away to the Land of Promise beyond Sea, if Prince Rupert catch them not by the way and Hoyle them against their wills: In their Families they are all equalls, and you have no way to know the Master and Mistris, but by taking of them in Bed toge­ther, it may be they be they; otherwise Malkin can prate as much, laugh as lowd, be as bold, and fit as well as her Mistris; Father and Son are there undividialls, for no demonstration of dutie or authoritie can distinguish them, as if they were created together and not borne successively; and for the Mother, the Daughter bedding her good-night, and kissing [Page 6]her, [...]s punctuall blessing; your Man shall be saucie, and you must not strike him, if you doe, hee shall complaine to the Schoole, and have recompence, so in England, they are taking a ready way to bring in a Parity, Like to like saith the Devil to the Collier, and Joane is as goody as my Ladie: and for Children, they asking their Parents, doe you see me? and they answering, yes, I doe see you, and will remember you, is punctu­all Blessing. Marriage is honourable among them (but as it is now with us) Sans Ceremony their Opinion is, that Mar­niage was ordained onely for procreation of Children, and that none ought to marry but those that are fruitfull, which makes them give such Liberty to their Children, that many time they goe to bee married with a Child in their hand, which their Husbands never knew the getting of, and yet it is held no dishonour for her Husband; for then he may be confident she is not barren, and their marriage is lawfull: Bawdy-Houses are as frequent as Taverns are with us, and hang up Bushes as well as they, to let the people that passe by, know what Occupation they are of; to conclude, there is one thing among them very comendable, (which to our shame in England we have not) that is, though they have many poore yet they have few or no Beggers, for they pro­vide for them, be setting those at worke that are able, and maintaining them that are not, in convenient places.