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<HEAD>THE HOLLAND NIGHTINGALE, OR The Sweet Singers of Am&s;terdam; BEING A Paraphra&s;e upon the Fable of the Frogs fearing that the Sun would Marry.</HEAD>
<BYLINE>By <HI>J. O.</HI></BYLINE>
<LG>
<L>LOw-Countr<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">rovinces, <HI>United Bogs,</HI></L>
<L>Once <HI>Di&s;tre&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters"> States,</HI> now <HI>Hogen Mogen Frogs,</HI></L>
<L>(Royal and Noble Intere&s;t gone) Command,</L>
<L><HI>Grown</HI> formidable <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">oth at Sea and Land:</L>
<L>Who but a Century of Years before</L>
<L>Dabled in Fi&s;hing, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;picably Poor,</L>
<L>In &s;eamle&s;s Ve&s;&s;els, Troughs cut out of Logs,</L>
<L>Catch'd Whiting-Mops; now <HI>Gogs</HI> and <HI>Gogmagogs!</HI></L>
<L>In &s;tately Pines new Con&s;tellations rai&s;e,</L>
<L>Ploughing up Billows two and thirty ways;</L>
<L>Through boyling Brine, and Cakes of cru&s;ted Ice,</L>
<L>For Gold and Silver Ivory, Oyl, and Spice;</L>
<L>What Straights, Gu<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">phs, trending Bays, &s;pare they to pierce,</L>
<L>By Water to take in the Univer&s;e?</L>
<L>Are they with Force not able to Invade?</L>
<L>No matter; They undo the World by Trade:</L>
<L>Four <HI>Frogs,</HI> two <HI>To<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="3+ letters">les,</HI> and one grea&s;ie <HI>Toad,</HI></L>
<L>Deep freighted Ve&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2+ letters">ls bear from Road to Road.</L>
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<L>Whom now a c<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="3 letters">ternating Panick Fear</L>
<L>Dejected much: T<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">e <HI>Sun</HI> will Wed they hear:</L>
<L>The News from <HI>In<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters">a,</HI> wor&s;e than Plague or War,</L>
<L>Brought and atte&s;te<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> by a Blazing Star.</L>
<L>To <HI>Pigmy</HI> Inches th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters">e Gygantick <HI>Frogs,</HI></L>
<L>Pale Terror &s;hru<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Summon'd from all the Bogs,</L>
<L>Hopping or cra<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="4 letters"> they in Clu&s;ters came</L>
<L>Up to their prime <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">orra&s;s,</HI> their greate&s;t <HI>Damm.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>There the new <HI>Stat-hou&s;e</HI> &s;tands, built fair and large</L>
<L>For their own Profi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">, but the Peoples Charge;</L>
<L>Where they on all Emergencies of State,</L>
<L>Or private Bu&s;ine&s;s in Convention &s;ate.</L>
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<LG>
<L>No <HI>Portico</HI> this Modern Building fac'd,</L>
<L>Within no ancient Princes Figures grac'd;</L>
<L>Nor Grand&s;ires with their Nets, &s;uch were too Poor</L>
<L>To &s;tand with Be&s;oms there behind the Door;</L>
<L>Who for their own <HI>Good-Old-Cau&s;e</HI> Martyrs dy'd</L>
<L>By Hemp, or by more zealous Faggots try'd:</L>
<L>But Gods and Godde&s;&s;es in Marble Carv'd,</L>
<L>Or finely Painted, which the <HI>Heathen</HI> &s;erv'd,</L>
<L>In all the <HI>Nieches,</HI> e<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">ch convenient place,</L>
<L>In Stone or Tables the fair Structure grace.</L>
<L>But yet for all their Skill, the&s;e <HI>Belgick Toads</HI></L>
<L>Made <HI>Up&s;ie-Dutch</HI> H<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">roes and <HI>Grecian</HI> Gods.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Early this day a&s;&s;embled Old and Young,</L>
<L>The <HI>Damm</HI> they cover, and the <HI>Stat-hou&s;e</HI> throng:</L>
<L>Silence comanded, not one whi&s;pering Croak,</L>
<L>An old Sag-bellied <HI>Toad</HI> ri&s;ing, thus &s;poke:</L>
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<L>Grave <HI>Hogen Mogen, High and Mighty Frogs!</HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e Care and Prudence fertiliz'd the&s;e Bogs,</L>
<L>And &s;o improv'd the&s;e your <HI>United States,</HI></L>
<L>Princes to <HI>Beard,</HI> and be with Kings <HI>Cope-Mates;</HI></L>
<L>Though we from <HI>Mu&s;hroms</HI> &s;prung, and <HI>Spawn</HI> of <HI>Toads,</HI></L>
<L>Seven petty Provinces our &s;mall Aboads,</L>
<L>Yet the whole World are Tributaries made</L>
<L>To us, by Traffick and the Power of Trade.</L>
<L>Hereafter we by Conque&s;t may prevail;</L>
<L>Our Title <HI>Trea&s;ure, and ten thou&s;and Sail.</HI></L>
<L>Your <HI>High and Mighty Toad&s;hips</HI> under&s;tand,</L>
<L>We fear no mortal Power by Sea or Land;</L>
<L>Such are our Forts, &s;uch Frontiers we maintain;</L>
<L>And &s;uch our Ca&s;tles floating on the Main.</L>
<L>But from above the dreadful News we hear,</L>
<L>The <HI>Sun</HI> will Marry, a ju&s;t cau&s;e of Fear;</L>
<L>And the fir&s;t Year plea&s;e his fair Spou&s;e at home:</L>
<L>What in his ab&s;ence will of us become,</L>
<L>That live in Water, and grow fat in Bogs?</L>
<L>We &s;hall be &s;til'd once more; <HI>Di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Frogs.</HI></L>
<L>His Ab&s;ence will our Mar&s;hes in a trice</L>
<L>To Cry&s;tal turn, a never-thawing Ice.</L>
<L>Or &s;hould we &s;cape &s;uch a continued Fro&s;t</L>
<L>As girdles up nine Months the <HI>Arctick</HI> Coa&s;t,</L>
<L>His teeming Spou&s;e may yet produce a Son,</L>
<L>Shall quite out of the beaten <HI>Zodiack</HI> run;</L>
<L>So un-experienc'd drive his Father's Chair,</L>
<L>That &s;oon to Fire hee'l rarifie the Air;</L>
<L>Water and Earth to Du&s;t and A&s;hes turn,</L>
<L>And all in one new Conflagration burn.</L>
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<LG>
<L>They tell how <HI>Phaeton</HI> our ample Bogs</L>
<L>To Jelly boil'd; &s;tew'd <HI>Tod-poles, Toads,</HI> and <HI>Frogs</HI></L>
<L>In one <HI>Pottage,</HI> and <HI>Pluto</HI> gave, who &s;wore</L>
<L>He never ta&s;ted Broth &s;o Rich before.</L>
<L>Many &s;uch Yonkers may &s;pring from his Loyns,</L>
<L>And &s;hare his Hou&s;es, twelve Cele&s;tial Signs;</L>
<L>And they may Wed, have Sons, and Daughters too:</L>
<L>What in this Imminent Danger &s;hall we do!</L>
<L>To what <HI>Protector</HI> &s;hall we make addre&s;s?</L>
<L>All know that <HI>Neptune</HI> this concerns no le&s;s;</L>
<L>Such Drinking <HI>Suns</HI> would at one Meeting quaff</L>
<L>(were there &s;o many) twenty Oceans off.</L>
<L>Him to implore lay by next <HI>Sabbath-day,</HI></L>
<L><HI>We 're no &s;uch Jews, nor Chri&s;tians,</HI> but we may:</L>
<L>He heard us lately, when a &s;welling Tide</L>
<L>Imbodied, threatned o'r our Tow'rs to Ride;</L>
<L>And, &s;oon as mov'd, with his great Trident came,</L>
<L>Beat off tho&s;e Waves that Storm'd our yielding <HI>Damm;</HI></L>
<L>Which had they batter'd but nine Inches higher,</L>
<L>We had not liv'd, Ruin to fear by Fire.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This &s;aid, Oh wondrous! the Foundations quake,</L>
<L>And the &s;tiff Idols, fix'd in Marble, &s;hake;</L>
<L>When <HI>Neptune,</HI> where he did in Triumph ride,</L>
<L>On a rich Shell, his Cheeks fre&s;h Sanguine dy'd;</L>
<L>His Trident waving then with Arms di&s;plai'd,</L>
<L>Thus, to the People much admiring, &s;aid:</L>
</LG>
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<L><HI>Batavian Frogs,</HI> Advanc'd by my &s;ole Power,</L>
<L>Whom <HI>Jove</HI> fir&s;t Planted from a Thunder-&s;hower,</L>
<L>Fear not the <HI>Sun,</HI> nor at his Offspring &s;hake:</L>
<L>To the la&s;t Drop I'll Drain my ample Lake,</L>
<L>My Watry Kingdoms Laver into Suds,</L>
<L>To quench their Torches: To the <HI>Stygian</HI> Floods</L>
<L>I'll <HI>Titan</HI> &s;end, and all his fiery <HI>Tits,</HI></L>
<L>To Light their Lamps, and to regain their Wits.</L>
<L>Lay idle Fears a&s;ide, he'll never Wed,</L>
<L>Nor Plant a Female in a Flaming Bed.</L>
<L>Su&s;pect no Conflagrations from the <HI>Ea&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>But a new <HI>Sun</HI> that ri&s;eth in the <HI>We&s;t;</HI></L>
<L>His Flames beware; His kindled Vengeance &s;hall,</L>
<L>Unle&s;s you &s;traight &s;ubmit, con&s;ume you all;</L>
<L>Who&s;e Predece&s;&s;ors rais'd you to this height,</L>
<L>From Him, <HI>Ungrateful Toads!</HI> expect your Fate:</L>
<L>His Royal Brother Leads, upon the Main,</L>
<L>A hundred floating Cities in a Train,</L>
<L>With Fire and forty thou&s;and <HI>Hectors</HI> big.</L>
<L>In vain &s;o many Ve&s;&s;els out you Rig:</L>
<L>In vain your Forts and your Land Force you brag;</L>
<L>Stoop, or be ruin'd, to the <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Flag,</L>
<L>That mu&s;t, and ever &s;hall, give Laws to you;</L>
<L>The World, at Sea, they 're able to &s;ubdue.</L>
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<L>This &s;aid, their God grows Pale, and with a Groan</L>
<L>The Statue leaves, once more, a &s;encle&s;s Stone.</L>
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<HEAD>MORAL.</HEAD>
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<L>Princes beware to Aid a Growing State,</L>
<L>Le&s;t they be fir&s;t that give you the Check-Mate.</L>
<L>Wealth and Succe&s;s turns Humblene&s;s to Pride:</L>
<L>Beggars on Hor&s;eback to the Devil ride.</L>
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