A brief DESCRIPTION Of the two revolted NATIONS HOLLAND and ENGLAND. Against their true and lawful Kings, Laws, and Statutes, to the dishonour of GOD, and the loss of their own Souls forever. Who are now in open Rebellion, oppressing their Fellow-Subiects by Excises, Taxes, Assessments, and Extortion; exceeding all Turks, Jews, Heathens, Infidels, Pagons, Traitors, and Rebels. Read and Judge: Printed at London in the ninth Year of Tyranny. A brief DESCRIPTION Of the two usurped STATES, ENGLAND and HOLLAND. THe Condition to the Hollander is churish, as their Breeder Neptune, and without doubt very ancient, for they were bred before Manors were in fashion, yet what they have not they do account superfinitie, which they faith mendeth some, and marreth others: they should make good Justices, for they respect neither Person nor Apparel, a Boar in his liquid slop shall have a● much respect and good usage, as a Gentleman in all his Bravery, for he that is Courtly or Gentile, it amongst them like a Merline after Michaelmas amongst the Crows; they wonder at and envy, but worship no such Images, marry with a silver Hooke you may take these Gudgeons presently; the love of Money being as natural to them as Water to a Goose, or Carrion to a Crow; but our English State Cormorants go beyond them in cursed coveting of men's Estates, for they divide the wealth of the whole Kingdom into three parts, and they have gotten two parts to themselves, the Crown 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 Kingdom but a third of a third part to live on; and yet they are not satisfied but cry like Hell and the Grave, cry more. The Dutch are generally boreish, yet none but may be bred to a Statesman; so out English Saints at Westminster, do intent to follow them, for as much as in them lies, they go about to beggar and banish the Gentry, that Dick and Tom, Will and jock, 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 turn out Religion to let in Policy; their Country is their God they worship; so England is the Idol 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 keep a Fort then wit it; yet they can do 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 (than 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 compass again; They are like us, they love none but those that do for them, & when those leave off, they neglect them; all that help them not they hold Popish, and take it for an Argument of much honesty to rail bitterly against the King of Spain: so our westminster masters account every one Malignant that doth not adhere to their Faction, and not only vilify our late K▪ they murdered, but also rail against his Son our King, that is or aught to be. But certainly, this is the badge of an ill Nature, that when they have once cast off the yoke of Obedience to be most-violent against those to whom of right they own all respect & service; grateful dispositions (though by their Lords they be exempted from service) will yet be paying reverence and affection: I am confident, had not the Dutch been once the Subject of Spain, they would have loved that Nation better than any other; and it is a sufficient ground to continue their eternal hate, to know the world remembers, that they were once the lawful Subjects to the Catholic King: so there is nothing vexes and anger's our Westminster Rebels, then that the World takes notice of their Rebellion against their lawful King of blessed memory, and that his Son lives to scourge them for it. Their Shipping is their Babel 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, lest they show us how doggedly they can tyrannize where they get the Victory, witness at Amboyna and Leyden; 'tis their own Chronicle business 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, ripped up the Captain's Body, and with a barbarous hand, toare out the yet living heart (panting among the reeking Bowels) and then with his Teeth rend it (still warm with blood) into gobets, fling it over the battlements indefience of the rest of the Army. Yet our barbarous Bloodsuckers of England, have our go them in cruelties, witness the butchering and unhuman 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 Tigers! the Scythian Bear 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 itself in cold blood upon a resistless enemy, shows nature slept in the liquid gall of Passion, and beyond all brutishness, and displays the unnoble tyranny of a prevailing Coward. Their Navies are the whip of Spain, where with they pull away his Indieses, 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 dreadful to them, as a Falcon to a Mallerd; from whom their best remedy is, run away; for if they come to blows, they want the valiant stoutness of the English, who will rather expire bravely, then in a cold resistance, yield to the lasting slavery of becoming Captives to so barbarous a Conqueror. Their Government is Anarchy, and there had need he many to rule such a rabble of rude ones, they began that diabolical anarchical Government, and we have followed them, and being good Professors have outgone them in their Art; for they only threw off the Yoke of Obedience in crossing the Designs of their King, in bringing in that cruel unjust Court of Inquesition: but we by a more cruel, unjust, and unheard of Court, have crucified our K. Their taking up Arms, was to preserve the lives of their Nobility, whose deaths they supposed was intended by the Duke de Alva: but we have taken up Arms to destroy our Nobility out of the Land; they only banished their King, and abolished His Royal Power out of some part of His Dominions, but we have most barbarously Butchered our King at his own Gate; and banished his Son and Heir, 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 own making; the name of a King being as hateful 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 parcel out their Country into Families; but they are chosen (as our King did use to prick Shreiffes for their Countries) not for their fullness of Wit, but for their Wealth they have to bear it out with, which they so ever affected, that they will walk the streets (like out Usurers, when they go to a Bawdy-house) all alone melancholy, and if they may be had cheap, shall daub his faced Cloak with two penny worth of Pickled Herrings, which himself shall carry home in a string. Their justice is strict if it cross not policy; but (like our Grandees) rathes then hinder Traffic, tolerate any thing; there is not under Heaven such a Den of several 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 Devil you please, so you push not the States with your Horns; they are each of them an University of Opinions, which grows here confusedly (like as in a Nursery) without order or prunning: If you be unsettled 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 only may not excercisi● his Religion in public amongst the Dutch, yet they plead this not for hatred of it, but justice; because the Spaniard will not tolerate the Protestant, and they had rather show a little spleen, than not cry quit with the Enemy. Their Excise is their Exchequer, which they so strictly observe and gather, that you cannot eat a Salad without paying six several Excises for it, yet one good Commodity they have by it (that without Taxing or Pouling of them) it pays all the Souldrey both by Sea and Land, and defrays all other Charges of their Commonwealth both at home and abroad; but we English are not so happy, for though our Excise will triple theirs, and their Expenses triple ours, yet our blessed States makes us pay Tax upon Tax, and like cruel Egyptian Taskmasters, makes us make Brick 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 mean the Parliament) should have a hundred thousand pounds in ready Money by them, that if the King do unstate them (which I trust in God he will do 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 equals, and you have no way to know the Master and Mistress, but by taking of them in Bed together, it may be they be they; otherwise Malkin can prate as much, laugh as loud, be as bold, and fit as well as her Mistress; Father and Son are there undividialls, for no demonstration of duty or authority 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 her, ●s punctual blessing; your Man shall be saucy, and you must not strike him, if you do, he shall complain to the School, and have recompense, so in England, they are taking a ready way to bring in a Parity, Like to like saith the Devil to the Collier, and Joan is as goody as my Lady: and for Children, they ask their Parents, do you see me? and they answering, yes, I do see you, and will remember you, is punctual Blessing. Marriage is honourable among them (but as it is now with us) Sans Ceremony their Opinion is, that Marniage was ordained only for procreation of Children, and that none ought to marry but those that are fruitful, which makes them give such Liberty to their Children, that many time they go to be 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 than he may be confident she is not barren, and their marriage is lawful: Bawdy-Houses are as frequent as Taverns are with us, and hang up Bushes as well as they, to let the people that pass by, know what Occupation they are of; to conclude, there is one thing among them very commendable, (which to our shame in England we have not) that is, though they have many poor yet they have few or no Beggars, for they provide for them, be setting those at work that are able, and maintaining them that are not, in convenient places. FINIS.