Poor Robins character of a Dutch-man as also his predictions on the affairs of the United Provinces of Holland, together with a brief epitomy of the ingratitude of the Dutch, and the English at Amboyna, Polaroon and other islands in the East Indies. Poor Robin. 1672 Approx. 14 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 6 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2006-02 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A55409 Wing P2877 ESTC R30114 11245073 ocm 11245073 47098 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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TOGETHER With a brief Epitomy of the Ingratitude of the Dutch , and their barbarous cruelties committed on the English at Amboyna , Polaroon , and other Islands in the EAST INDIES . Tho Savages to Scythian Rocks confin'd , That know no God nor vertue of the mind , But only sence pursue , who hunger tame , With slaughter'd lives they and their food , the same Are not so cruel as these Men so rude Who do requite Love with Ingratitude . LONDON , Printed for Benjamin Harris at the Sign of the Stationers Arms in Bell-Alley in Cole-man-street . 1672. READER , THou art desired to take notice that , that idle Pamphlet Entituled , POOR ROBINS Collection of Antient Prophesies , was none of his doing nor concern , but done for profit by some other Person , and not POOR ROBIN . POOR ROBINS Predictions on the affairs of the UNITED PROVINCES . OF HOLLAND . EUROPE now being the Stage of Action , whereon Mars seems to keep his Court , and English men like the Athenians having i●ching Ears after News , being more desirous to know what is to come , then to rectifie what has been done amiss formerly ; and I coming under the Notion of an Astrologer or Star-gazer , and foretelli●g as many tru●hs in my Predictions as any of my Brethren A●manack-Makers ; being th●reto perswaded by many of my acquaintance , and yet ( to confess truth ) not without some relish of profit to my self ; have also ( amongst others ) adventured to show you my Ju●gement of affairs , knowing , that ( with the mouse ) I can eat as far into a Holland cheese as another . But some cavilling Spiri●s will be apt enough to say , that these kind of Predictions are but meer cheats , that now a dayes , the surest way of Prophecying is after the thing is come to pas● ; that the Stars are not so legib●e to an Astrologers understanding , that out of them he can read what future events will ensue . This is the opinion of a great many , but to such Nullifidians , hear what the Divine Du-bartas sayes , Senc●less is he who ( wi●hout blush ) denies What to s●u●d ●●●c●● most app●re●●lies : And ' gainst experience he that spits Fallations , Is to be hist from learned disputations , And such is he who doth affirm the Stars To have no force on these Inferiours . Though Heavens effects we most apparent see In number more then Heavenly torches be , But to come more close to our matter , to speak something of these people who are of late transmografied from The Poor distressed States , to the High and Mighty Hogen Mogens , that scorn to eat Fat Bacon with out Bread and Butter ; In whose Bellies ( like Barrels ) lie many pickled Herrings stewed therein with Brandy ; that scorn to drink by Retail , but by whole-Sale ; whose cups are not in Decimo Sexto but in Folio , whose Noses in the cup in Winter saves the labour of a Toast , and is enough to give their drink a second brewing ; blind men with eyes , and Cripples with Legs on , Who will for fourteen hours together sit , Emptying the Bouls of Wine , the Brains of Wit. Those who have seen my Observations and Predictions which I made upon the Blazing Star or Comet that appeared in December , 1662. may there find what direful effects I prefaged would ensue thereupon , especially to Zealand , Holland , and the rest of the United Provinces , whose Tayl tended directly towards them , for such warnings questionless come not in vain ; and though we cannot excuse our selves from many and grievous sins , yet such monstrous ingratitude as the Hollanders have shown to the English , such bloody and inhumane butcheries committed by them against us at Amboyna , Polaroon , and other places in the East Indies , such insolencies at Sea , and ingratitude by Land , must needs cry aloud for vengeance . Ingratitude is a vice so accurst That of all vices we account it worst . I also by the Eclipses which happened in the next Year , told some of my Friends who are now living to justifie it , what sad ●ffects they did portend to that Low-Country , but High-minded people . For when pale faced Cynthia at Noon dayes Doth intercept Sol● most refulgent Rayes , But some great Sta●e Eclipseth and from Hell Alecto looses all these Furies fell , Grim lean fac'd Famine , fou● infectious Plague , Blood thirsty War and Treason hateful Hag : Here pouring down Woes Universal Flood To drown the World in Seas of tears and blood . We read in Aesop of a Man who found a Snake nigh dead with cold , which he kindly took home , warm'd and nourished , when growing lusty , instead of thanks it would have devour'd the man. Such are these Dutch Low Landers , who near expiring in the time of Queen Elizabeth , being ready to give up the Ghost , and turn under Scullars to Charon the Ferry-man , were by the English kindly aided and assisted , by whose valour they retained their Country , and now being warmed without with good cloaths , and within with Brandy , they spurn , kick and molest that Nation , without whose aid they had been at this day no Nation themselves . Call me ungrateful Man ( says the Poet ) and call me any thing ▪ I was a vice detested even amongst the Heathens themselves . The Lyon out of whose Foot Androgeus pulled the Thorn , even that dumb beast could have taught them better manners , for he in requital sav'd his preserver● life ; but for man who should be endued with reason above beasts , to come so far behind beasts in gratitude , what thing can be more unreasonable ? Well may we therefore cry out with Rombus the Schoolmaster in Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia . O Temporibus , O Manoribus . But to perswade a Dutch man to thankfulness , is almost as hard a task as to disswade him from his dearest delight Brandy , that Liquor which he accounts of more then the Poets do of Helicon , or the Thespian Spring , and of which if you refuse to pledge him , he will presently be at Snick-a-snee , where though he kill you , they will be so far from stopping him , that with one voice they will cry , Lope sceilum , Lope , which is in English , Run thief , run , a very fit appellation for them ; for hear how the Poet doth enstile drunkenness ▪ Audacious thief , that oft before ones fact , Steals Man away , and leaves a beast in place . And so much are they adicted to that swinish vice of drunken●ess , that not only whole nights are consumed by them ; but in their Cups they will also consult of matters of State ▪ a custome which the o●d Grecians used ; but more temperately , for thus in Homers Il●a●● we find Nestor advising Again●mn●n . Phoebe convivium senibus , deret te , nec inderens est : Plena tibi vimo tentoria , quod names achivorum . Quotidianae ex Thracia per latum po●tum advehunt . Omnis tibi est comm●ditas excipiendi , multisque impe●as , Multis autem congregatis , illi obdies qui op●●mum . Consilium consulerit . Lib. 1. Feast thou the antient , it befits thy place , With Wine by Greek Ships daily brought from Thrace . Thy Tents abound , Provis●on at hand , Of all sorts hast thou , and Men at c●mmand . Many assembled so , am●ngst the ●est , His cou●sel follow that a viseth best . This their so great inebriation caused as I co●ceive our Eng●ish Proverb when they see a Man fudled , to say he is as drunk as a Dutch-man ; well may we therefore conclude of these Men who are so given to stagger , that they are near falling ; and then th●se Water Rats who in adversity creep and fawn like Spaniels , and in prosperity scorn and ●●●lifie their superiors , may be reduced from la●di●g fat b●con when they feed on it with butter , to be fair and mannerly , and eat Bread with their Pudding , It is said of an English Man , that by two things he may be known wheresoever he comes ; The one is , that let the weather be never so hot , he will endeavor to get towards the Chimney at co●ner ; and hi● s●cond Character tells us , that when he hears the Cl●ck strike , upon the first stroke , he asks him that is next him ▪ what is it a Clock ? He has not the patience to tell it himself , whereby he might know , but by his inquisitiveness hinders the other also from telling it , by which means they both remain ignorant ; These are two harmless things which often in Jest I have heard spoken of our Nation . Now there is also two things whereby a D●tch Man may be known , The first is , that tell him of any benefi● received , and he hath the art of forgetfulness at his Fingers ends ; and for the second , that when he rises in a morning , the first word that comes out of his mouth is to ask for brandy ; and I have also heard it ( I suppose Jestingly ) spoken , that when the Women wean their Children , they only take a Sucking bottle and fill it full of brandy , of which when the Child hath once tasted , he never regards his Mothers milk afterwards . A Dutch Man is like an O●●er , that lives partly on the Water , partly on the Land , and gets Preys upon both , all is Fish that comes to Net ; and as when living he commonly feeds upon Fishes , so when dead the Fis●e● commonly feed upon him ; for though ●e may escape St. ●homas a Waterings , yet for the most part he makes his exit at Sea , when for to save the charges of a Grave he is thrown into the Water , where one Shark devours another . Stra●ge thing in Nature ' ●is if you i● heed That one Shark should upon another feed , Hogs will not feed on Hog● , neither yet will The Wolves eat Wolves , nor seek their blood to spill ; But O a Dutch Man he is dainty Mea● , And dress in pickle fit for Sharks to eat . A Dutch Man in his great breeches is like to the picture I have seen of Some body , and such he would feign accounted to be . He keeps a bust●e in the world , drinks , slavers , and when he is a hungry offers up his devotions to a pickled Herring , which he will maintain by nine●een severall arguments , to be the rarest dish in the world , and his chiefest argument is , because it is a Shooing horn to draw down drink . He is very curious to keep his shoes clean , yet had rather foul a Room by vomiting , then to be bated one ace of his beloved Liquor . In sum , when sleep had a little revived him of the Staggers , he looks like a toast drown'd in ale , which is only fit to be thrown away . He is Judged to be very chast , and the reason is , she must be very mercinary indeed that will admit him to her imbraces , yet such trading may be , because those people deal for ready money , and should she do a courtesie for a Dutch Man he would not thank her for it , though perhaps he might have cause to remember her in his bones . But to draw towards a conclusion of the Character of a Dutch Man , least we bestow more cost of the sauce then the Meat is worth . I shall only add a word or two of exhortation to those Sons of Neptune and Bellena , our Gallant Sea-men , and so finish at this tim● . Brave Martial Spirits , whose valour the world admires and dreads ; you are now entring on the Theatre of honour and renown , fighting for your King and Country , then which no cause whatsoever more just and glorious , victorious fame attend● your undertakings , in so just , so laudable , so honourable an enterprize . Dread not those Men whose high ingratitude hath justly made them odious to all sorts of People who have but the least pretensions to honesty . Go on bravely , fight valiantly , and never fear but to come off victoriously . Then shall the Chronicles record your Names , With lasting Honour and your splendid Fames , Shall ever live , who for your Countries good , So bravely and undauntedly have stood . FINIS .