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<DATE>2009-03-06</DATE>
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<NAME>Judith Siefring</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch Z090210.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>DEFIANCE TO THE DUTCH.</HEAD>
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<L>ROb'd of our Rights? and, By &s;uch <HI>Water-Rats?</HI></L>
<L>Wee'l doff their Heads, if they won't doff their Hats.</L>
<L>Affront too <HI>Hogan-Mogan</HI> to endure!</L>
<L>Tis time to BOX the&s;e <HI>Butterboxes</HI> &s;ure.</L>
<L>If they the Flagg's, undoubted Right, deny us;</L>
<L>Who won't Strike to us, mu&s;t be &s;tricken by us.</L>
<L>A Crew of <HI>Bores</HI> and <HI>Sooterkins,</HI> that know</L>
<L>Them&s;elves, they to Our Blood and Valour owe!</L>
<L>Did We for this knock off their <HI>Spani&s;h</HI>-Fetters,</L>
<L>To make 'um able to abu&s;e their Betters?</L>
<L>If at this rate they Rave, I think 'tis good</L>
<L>Not to omit the <HI>Spring,</HI> but Let 'um Blood.</L>
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<L>Rou&s;e then Heroick <HI>Britains;</HI> 'tis not Words,</L>
<L>But Wounds, mu&s;t Work with <HI>Leather-Apron-Lords.</HI></L>
<L>They'r Deaf, and mu&s;t be Talkt withall; ala&s;s!</L>
<L>With Words of Iron &s;poke by Mouths of Bra&s;s.</L>
<L>I hope we &s;hall to purpo&s;e the next Bout</L>
<L>Cure 'um, as we did <HI>Opdam,</HI> of the <HI>Gout.</HI></L>
<L>And, when i'th' bottome of the Sea they come,</L>
<L>They'l have enough of <HI>Mare Liberum.</HI></L>
<L>Our Brandi&s;ht &s;teel, though now they &s;eem &s;o Tall,</L>
<L>Shall make 'um <HI>Lower</HI> than <HI>Low-Countries</HI> Fall.</L>
<L>But they'l ere long come to them&s;elves you'l &s;ee,</L>
<L>When we in earne&s;t are at <HI>Snick a Snee:</HI></L>
<L>When once the <HI>Bores</HI> perceive our Swords are drawn.</L>
<L>And we Converting are tho&s;e <HI>Bores</HI> to <HI>Brawn.</HI></L>
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<L>Methinks the Ruine of their <HI>Belgick</HI>-Banners</L>
<L>(La&s;t Fight, almo&s;t as Ragged as their Manners)</L>
<L>Might have Per&s;waded 'um to better things,</L>
<L>Than be &s;o Sawcy with the be&s;t of Kings.</L>
<L>Is it of Wealth they are &s;o Proud become?</L>
<L><HI>CHARLES</HI> has a Waine I hope to fetch it home;</L>
<L>And with it Pay Him&s;elf His Ju&s;t Arrears</L>
<L>Of <HI>Fi&s;hing</HI>-Tribute for this Hundred years.</L>
<L>That we may &s;ay, as all the Store comes in,</L>
<L>The <HI>Dutch,</HI> ala&s;s, have but our Factors been:</L>
<L>They Fathom <HI>Sea</HI> and <HI>Land;</HI> We, when we plea&s;e,</L>
<L>Have both the <HI>Indies</HI> brought to our Own Seas.</L>
<L>For Rich and Proud they bring in Ships by Shoules;</L>
<L>And then we Humble them to &s;ave their Souls.</L>
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<LG>
<L>'Pox of their Pictures; if we had 'um here</L>
<L>Wee'd find 'um Frames at <HI>Tyburne,</HI> or el&s;ewhere.</L>
<L>The next they <HI>DRAW,</HI> be it their <HI>Admiralls</HI></L>
<L>Tran&s;peciated, into <HI>Fynnes,</HI> and <HI>Scales:</HI></L>
<L>Or, which &s;hould do as well, <HI>DRAW,</HI> if they plea&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>Opdam,</HI> with the <HI>Seven Sinking Provinces;</HI></L>
<L>Or <HI>DRAW</HI> their <HI>Captains</HI> from the Conqu'ring Maine,</L>
<L>Fir&s;t Beaten Home, then beaten Back again.</L>
<L>La&s;tly, Remember, to prevent all Laughter,</L>
<L><HI>Drawing</HI> goes Fir&s;t, but <HI>Hanging</HI> Follows after:</L>
<L>And after this &s;o JUST, though FATAL Strife,</L>
<L><HI>Draw</HI> their dead Bores again unto the <HI>LIFE.</HI></L>
<L>If then, Lampooning thus be their Undoing,</L>
<L>Who pities them that Purcha&s;e their own Ruine?</L>
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<L>Who will hereafter tru&s;t their <HI>Treacheries,</HI></L>
<L>Unle&s;s they leave their Heads for Ho&s;tages?</L>
<L>For, as before of <HI>Women</HI> has been &s;aid,</L>
<L>Believe 'um not, nay, though ye think 'um dead.</L>
<L>The <HI>Dutch</HI> are Stubborn, and will yield no FRUIT,</L>
<L>Till, like the <HI>Wallnut-Tree,</HI> ye Beat 'um to't.</L>
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<Q><BIBL>L. Orat. </BIBL><L><HI>Injurias &amp; non redditas Cau&s;am huju&s;ce</HI></L><L><HI> E&s;&s;e belli audi&s;&s;e videor.</HI></L></Q>
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<P><HI>With Allowance.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON, <HI>Printed for</HI> T. W. 1672.</P>
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