naked; for hindring succors going recover Brasill; for sending
Scaep into England, against, and without the other Provinces;
for suffering you to take our ships, to an incredible
losse; and binding their hands who could and would have
prevented it by retorsion and reprise, and that which of all
others is most ridiculous, the aforesaid Heeren, (whom hee
calls Loevensteyn Lords. Because there imprisoned by the
Prince for a while) seeke to destroy Religion which the Prince
alone held up, and still is like to do, say these pasquillors. as if
the Princess-Royall with her closer clerk, Brownes [unr]ck devotions,
were like to lay so true a foundation in the Young
Princes Religio, as thereby to become a Reformern and preserver
of Ours, for, this is the conclusion of the ditty, ergo let
the Prince be Stadtholder: That's the Diana of these Craftsmen
that they bawl after; can you blame them? For by that
they had their living.
How unhappy and ponderous is the honour of Statesmen,
who though as Fathers of their Countrey, they break hearts
and heads to preserve their people, yet like foolish and froward
Children, they heat the Breasts that seed them, they
quarrell and grow weary of them that watch for their guard
day and night.
If the Warre continue between the two Commonweales,
there are hundreds of Families would remove to Dunkirke
out of Holland and Zealand, were it out of F[unr]ench hands.
as it is soon like to be, that there under the Spanish Government,
which is at peace with us and you, they may enjoy free
Traffique and commerce, whereas now all is subject to ruine
and rapine.
Men boast here, that Britain being an Island, hath more
need of the sea, then Holland, which is joyned to a Continent;
but indeed wee were a pitifull Bog, without the riches of
the sea: wherein lyes all our interest and employment; and
your advantageous situation, makes you the Keepers of our
best passages.
They talk also, That in our Prayers and Fast-days, all sorts
and sects pray for Hollands welfare, against England. Truly,