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DESCRIPTION OF HOLLAND
A cuntry that Draw[s] fifty foot of Water,In which Men live, as in the Hold of Nature;
And when the Sea dos in upon them break
And Drown a Province, dos but Spring a Leak;
That always Ply the Pump, and never think
They can be Safe, but at the Rate they stink;
That Live as if they had been Run on Ground,
And when they dy, are cast away, and Drownd;
That dwel in Ships, like Swarms of Rats, and Prey
Upon the Goods all Nations Fleets Convey,
And, when their Merchants are Blown up and Crackt,
Whole Towns are cast away in Storms, and wrackt;
That feed like Canibals on other Fishes
And serve their Coussen Germans up in Dishes:
A Land that Rides at Anchor, and is moord,
In which they do not live, but go abourd.
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