THE Low Dutch charactered THEIR BUTTERBOX OPENED, And their JUGGLES Apprehended and Reproved.  
LONDON: Printed for the Author, and are to be sold by Francis Cossinet at the Anchor and Mariner in Tower-street. 1658.   

The Low Dutch Charactered, their Butterbox opened, and their Juggles apprehended and reproved.  

LOw Dutch, that to Religion do pretend, 
A little Religion, and as little Zeal serves their turns.   
Your Wits, your Studies and Endeavours bend  
To cheat, connive, play Bopeep, and defraud, 
Plentifully, readily.   
Yea, for your profit, you will turn a Bawd  
To all the world, 
They keep their fashions, altar not their manners.  but lately to England  
Your Juggles have appeared at command.  
You, you Trunk-breeches, you great Butter-boxes, 
Any thing for gelt.   
We did not think you'd been such crafty Foxes; 
Give him his great belly full & make him sat, he'll feed the worms & manure the earth the better.   
Sometimes you'll strike us, than again you'll struck us,  
And for your gain you'll be like Hocus Pocus.  
You that for earth's great globe do nought but gape,  
Can Proteus like appear in any shape:  
Yourselves you do invelope in each State, 
A welcome gift. Their golden chain and silver engine, reacheth over the seas and worketh strange effects on land.   
And by your tricks fill Europe with debate;  
You'll have a hand in Counsels, you an Oar  
In every boat, you'll have a trick in store,  
Neatly to cousin under specious shows,  
T'enrich your kinders and your Bumkin urows, 
Take a Chamber, and procure one to own a small adventure, and become a Burger, their ship and goods free of the place.   
Your fast and lose, your craft who can abide  
When you appear a Jack of every side?  
Sometimes Hamburgians, sometimes Norwaigens;  
Sometimes Osterlins, Swead, Pruise, Breamingens,  
Sometimes English, French, Flandern and Hollander, 
In these countries they have great trade, and vend their commodities here.   
Thus for your Gelt you will become a Pander.  
The Seas and Coasts you range for your advance,  
To Italy, Spain, to Portugal and France,  
To Norway, Island, Russia, Greenland fly  
For every sort of their Commodity;  
But you, fat Hanses, when you sometimes lurk  
Within the Territories of the Turk,  
You than come home by sad and weeping cross,  
And oft are forced to lament your Loss.  
Your Mennists will not fight, they're so dismayed, 
Their Annaba ptists.   
And all the rest are often much afraid;  
Thus with your Avarice 've increased at length, 
Those Shipping that most annoy most Dutch ships, taken from them for lack of defence or force and resistancee:   
Together with your faintness, their great strength:  
Your Ships, your Men, your Ammunition taken,  
By which so many Christians have been shaken.  
Your Ships, your Guns, your Ammunition serve  
The Turk and Indian Confines to preserve. 
Witness their great Trade and Commerce where aught of worth is to be found.   
The Coasts of afric, and the Indians all,  
And every part within this Earthly Ball  
You'd sail about for your own private gain,  
Though you're not loved where ere you do remain: 
The Indians, Europians, Africans and Turks loves them not.   
Let the whole world declare the truth, you'll find  
That they'll unrip the baseness of your mind:  
You are so greedy, 
They will do any thing to prefer their own inter est: Observe this English men.— Not long since the Poor distressed States, now The High & Mighty Lords, the State's General, etc.  and so avaricious,  
So jealous, so colloguing, so suspicious,  
And generally so nought you still are found,  
I wonder much you live above the ground.  
Learn once to know, & mind from whence you came,  
You late were low, and shortly may the same,  
Although you cannot change your Belgic faces,  
Nor in the least alter your rustic paces, 
Their ships and goods fraudently owned and coloured by others, and their names and places from whence they came, changed.   
Nor put into new form your Giant-breeches,  
And always are betrayed by your Speeches;  
Yet are you pleased to re-baptize your Ships,  
And give them new names with your cheating lips:  
And with a Bribe or Pudding in your sleeve, 
The Dutch Masters & men frequently sail our English ships contrary to Law.   
Sometimes your pleased to make us here believe  
Your Ships are English, or else some other Nation  
That foreign is, to colour with persuasion  
Some Goods prohibited, or do belong  
To some Dutch English Merchant, though't be wrong:  
A thousand slights more which I'll not rehearse, 
This may appear by a thousand witnesses.   
Lest it should mount the score, & wiredraw my verse. 
Plenty of English Gold in Holland, etc.   
From us you do receive our richest Gold,  
And in your arms the same you do enfold;  
Our Wool, Cloth, Stuff, Fulling, Earth, 
They have more privileges here, than ourselves can obtain.  Led & Tin  
From us t'enrich yourselves, you daily win.  
These and an hundred Advantages more,  
Arrives with you from our most fertile Shore. 
Our own faults and neglects.   
It's known so to you all, without all doubt, 
Their Agents here get great Estates, drive great Trades, and by their purses & favours do what they please.   
Who comes to dwell here, they will hardly out:  
But in exchange, what have you to command?  
Not th' tenth of that which groweth in our Land:  
For our rich Goods you bring us Cickshaws, Toys,  
Cheese, Butter, Phrigmiticks, they're all your joys, 
What consideralbe doth the United Provinces of their own growth yield us: Quere.   
Your wealth, your treasure, nought else doth appear  
But what you forced are to fetch elsewhere:  
You're sensible we lately made you stoop,  
And brought your Button to our English Loop, 
The late Wars testimony.   
Your men, your ships, your strength could not prevail, 
The men of War then fired, sunk, and run for it, the Merchant, men & Fishers to a great number taken, as by the List appeareth.   
Though you did answer us with tooth and nail;  
And at the last it was the Lords good pleasure  
That you for rashness should repent at leisure:  
We brought you to our lock, now be not proud,  
Lest that our Canons roar again more loud. 
They seek Peace, and sign Articles in haste, the Articles well drawn, but not so well kept, and since have recovered their Losses upon us, to the ruin of our Nation and Trade, many know to their cost with a witness.   
Neptune hath worsted you, 
The many great wrongs and injuries offered formerly contain too large here to particularise, and is left to the judgement of them that know.  if Mars appear  
Upon your land, he'll give you cause to fear  
Your horrid murders and outrageous acts,  
Innumerable Juggles and Contracts,  
To root out Nations, and their Rights destroy,  
India's and Europe speaks to their annoy,  
And Neptune's witness on record still stands  
And speaks the cruel actings of your hands;  
Ambyona, and twice more, England remember,  
And keep in mind as fifth day of November.  
Know, 
This we are confident, and they are fearful of, otherwise they would not so frequently compound for their offences and breach of, etc.  know that English hearts were ne'er so low,  
But able were to give a fatal blow  
To upstart Holland, therefore don't provoke  
Our English Nation, lest we do you choke  
With such a Pear you never well shall relish,  
Which shall our English Nation much embellish.  
Tremble and fear, 
We are compelled to conform, if not willing, much more should they. Let them go on or stop their sail, ere they have left us empty and bare of shipping, trade, and all.  we'll make you stand in awe,  
And be afraid to break our Britain Law,  
And if you will to final ruin run,  
And act like Jugglers as you have begun,  
And go about to spoil our whole Commerce,  
You soon may feel that Steel that shall you pierce.  
And as you have appeared to Spain a friend, 
'Tis known how their ships and men assisted Flanders and Spain against us, besides they are the carriers of all between, etc.   
And covert in this Contest aid them lend;  
So for a certain, treacherous Dutchman, know,  
Our greatest strength upon you we will show.  
If humane justice reach you not, be sure  
That Divine Justice struck you must endure.  
Let this for aye remain within your breast,  
That to eternity you may be blest. 
If all their faults provoke not our patience to requite them, they will be met with—   
Deal justly, candidly, let honesty appear,  
That so you may be freed from Panic fear.  
Look on Religion, Conscience play good parts, 
Their gross feeding and clownish breeding, bath quite spoiled them from being nobly minded.   
And though not noble, show yourselves true hearts;  
Do not equivocate, do righteous things,  
Give due respect to Nations, Laws and Kings;  
Leave of your former juggles, upright be, 
If they minded this as well as they do their copehandle, they were admirable men. We must all appear.   
And for the future all base actions flee:  
Remember that a dreadful day doth come,  
A day of Judgement, day of saddest doom,  
Wherein you'll stand to render an account  
Before a Judge, whose justice doth surmount  
The Scripture, heavens, seasons, 
Be ready.  changes show  
The time is near that we to Judgement go.   Compiled and published in the year of Expectation of the amendment of their Manners and Lives, by T.P. a true friend of the English interest, dwelling in Plain-dealing-street within two doors of the sign of the Dutch Juggling-box, being in the year of our Lord God, 1658.  
FINIS.