DEFIANCE TO THE DUTCH.
ROb'd of our Rights? and, By such
Water-Rats?
Wee'l doff their Heads, if they won't doff their Hats.
Affront too
Hogan-Mogan to endure!
Tis time to BOX these
Butterboxes sure.
If they the Flagg's, undoubted Right, deny us;
Who won't Strike to us, must be stricken by us.
A Crew of
Bores and
Sooterkins, that know
Themselves, they to Our Blood and Valour owe!
Did We for this knock off their
Spanish-Fetters,
To make 'um able to abuse their Betters?
If at this rate they Rave, I think 'tis good
Not to omit the
Spring, but Let 'um Blood.
Rouse then Heroick
Britains; 'tis not Words,
But Wounds, must Work with
Leather-Apron-Lords.
They'r Deaf, and must be Talkt withall; alass!
With Words of Iron spoke by Mouths of Brass.
I hope we shall to purpose the next Bout
Cure 'um, as we did
Opdam, of the
Gout.
And, when i'th' bottome of the Sea they come,
They'l have enough of
Mare Liberum.
Our Brandisht steel, though now they seem so Tall,
Shall make 'um
Lower than
Low-Countries Fall.
But they'l ere long come to themselves you'l see,
When we in earnest are at
Snick a Snee:
When once the
Bores perceive our Swords are drawn.
And we Converting are those
Bores to
Brawn.
Methinks the Ruine of their
Belgick-Banners
(Last Fight, almost as Ragged as their Manners)
Might have Perswaded 'um to better things,
Than be so Sawcy with the best of Kings.
Is it of Wealth they are so Proud become?
CHARLES has a Waine I hope to fetch it home;
And with it Pay Himself His Just Arrears
Of
Fishing-Tribute for this Hundred years.
That we may say, as all the Store comes in,
The
Dutch, alass, have but our Factors been:
They Fathom
Sea and
Land; We, when we please,
Have both the
Indies brought to our Own Seas.
For Rich and Proud they bring in Ships by Shoules;
And then we Humble them to save their Souls.
'Pox of their Pictures; if we had 'um here
Wee'd find 'um Frames at
Tyburne, or elsewhere.
The next they
DRAW, be it their
Admiralls
Transpeciated, into
Fynnes, and
Scales:
Or, which should do as well,
DRAW, if they please,
Opdam, with the
Seven Sinking Provinces;
Or
DRAW their
Captains from the Conqu'ring Maine,
First Beaten Home, then beaten Back again.
Lastly, Remember, to prevent all Laughter,
Drawing goes First, but
Hanging Follows after:
And after this so JUST, though FATAL Strife,
Draw their dead Bores again unto the
LIFE.
If then, Lampooning thus be their Undoing,
Who pities them that Purchase their own Ruine?
Who will hereafter trust their
Treacheries,
Unless they leave their Heads for Hostages?
For, as before of
Women has been said,
Believe 'um not, nay, though ye think 'um dead.
The
Dutch are Stubborn, and will yield no FRUIT,
Till, like the
Wallnut-Tree, ye Beat 'um to't.
L. Orat.
Injurias & non redditas Causam hujusce
Esse belli audisse videor.
With Allowance.
LONDON, Printed for T. W. 1672.