With kindred Streams, invading Foes,
And every bold Attack oppofe.

*

At Rotterdam, with Reverence due,

Erafmus my Attention drew:

Then Delft, where thy proud + Tomb, Naffau!
Claims equal Reverence, equal Awe.

At Leyden we repos'd that Night;
And, with the next returning Light,
Receiv'd the Welcome of a Pair,
Distinguish'd by Apollo's Care;.
Salmafius, || Heinfius, whom the Nine
Have blefs'd with all their Warmth divine!
The public Library furvey'd,

And Anatomic Hall, we ftray'd

Among the choice exotic Trees,

And faw whate'er could Strangers please.
At Haerlem, our next. Stage, juft Fame
For the first Printing-Prefs they claim,

*The brazen Statue of Erafmus in the Market-place. + The Mausoleum of William I, Prince of Orange, the Founder of the State, and of its Glory.

This famous Critic, well known in England by his Treatife against the Parliament, and his fubfequent Controverfy with our Milton, and whom that Poet styles' a 'chattering Pye,' died at the Spa this Year, on his Return from Stockholm. Milton afferts, that Queen Chriftina fet fuch a value on his Reply, that she even received Salmafius with Contempt; and adds, that fome even ac'cufe him of haltening that Writer's Death, by the too great Keenness of his Sting.' See his Defenfio pro fe. Nicholas Heinfius, the Son of Daniel.

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And

And for the Ships *, with Saw-like Prows,
Fatal to their Pelufian Foes.

To Amfterdam we hafte, and there
With Looks which Heart-felt Joy declare,
Choice Friends our wifh'd Arrival greet;
Bochart and Voffius too we meet,

And (though unmention'd) Numbers more,
All bound to Sweden's diftant Shore.
How pleafant, when abroad we roam,
To find the Friends we lov❜d at home!
Next Morn, a courteous Jew invites
To fee his Sect's myfterious Rites;
Our Friend Manaffeh led us in:
But while his Knife divides the Skin,
Stretch'd with Solemnity divine,
As Circumcifion's Laws enjoin,

My Foot, with heedlefs Touch, profan'd
The Desk whence Mojes is explain'd:

In the 12th Century, when Damietta in Egypt, anciently Felufium, was befieged by the Chriftians, and their Fleet could not approach it by reafon of Chains drawn across the River, and fastened to ftrong Towers on both Sides, the Haerlemers in the Service armed the Keels of their Ships with fharp Saws, failed up the River with a ftrong Gale, and cut the Chains; which made Way for the reft of the Fleet, and occafioned the taking of the Town. + Ifaac Voffius, the Son of Gerard, and, like him, the Author of many learned Works.

Rabbi Manaffeh Ben Ifrael, a few of the first Distinction, the chief Ruler of the Synagogue at Amfterdam, a Man of great Learning and Moderation. Huetiana.

All

All faw, all murmur'd; ftruck with Dread
Of the dire Knife, I fwiftly fled.

To Utrecht then we take our Way,
And there to matchless * Schurman pay
Our due Respects, her Sex's Pride;
With Admiration I defcry'd

The Virgin's Works of every Kind,
Wrought by her Hands and ftudious Mind.
Departing thence, at Night we meet
With paltry Lodgings at Elspeet:
Holm Dishes held our ruftic Cheer,
On Straw we refted, threfh'd this Year.
From thence, next Day, to Zwoll we went,
Where his long Life good † Kempis spent,
And still his pious Fame furvives,
And in his grateful Country lives.

At Hardenberg, which late at Night
We enter'd, of an ancient Rite
We laughing heard, by which they use
Their annual Magiftrate to chufe.
Th' affembled Sires, in Order fit,,
Around a Maple Table fit,

* Anna Maria Schurman, a Lady of extraordinary Ac complishments, being Mistress of most of the Oriental, Learned, and Modern Languages, as well as of all Branches of Philofophy, Divinity, and the fine Arts. She was, in short, the Carter of her Age. See her Article: in Bayle.

†The fuppofed Author of the Book De Imitatione Chrifti. D 5

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And on the Board, in grim Array,
Their bushy Chins fagacious lay;
Juft in the Middle then they place
The filthieft of the Infect Race
And him whose favoury Length of Beard
Is by the fapient Louse preferr'd,
His Townfmen honour and revere,
As Burgo-mafter for the Year*.

Now traverfing Weftphalia's Plains,
We gaz'd with Wonder at the Swains:
Than others by the Head they're higher,
As if fome Cyclops were their Sire.
Here Travellers in Halls must lie,
Spacious, and towering to the Sky:
Juft in the midst a Fire they light;
And all around it, every Night,

Promifcuous fleep their Goats, their Kine,
Their Sheep, and Lambs, and filthy Swine,
The Wife, the Hufband, and the Sons:
If fuch, as old Tradition runs,

In Saturn's Reign was Human Glee,
The Iron is the Age for Me.

The Fields are barren and unfown;
And lowly shrub-like Trees alone

*This Story is more proper for a Poet than an Hiftorian, though there have been fome who have gravely related it. It may, however, be confidered as an Apologue to ridicule the flovenly Manners of the People. The abovementioned Town is in the Province of Overyssel.

Are

Are widely spread o'er every Mead,
And Swine, in Herds unnumber'd, feed;
Whofe Flesh (the Natives ufual Meat)
They neither boil'd, nor roasted, eat,
But in the House-top hung with Care,
Are harden'd by the Smoke and Air;
And then the hofpitable Board
With a whole Hog at once is ftor'd.

Our Pace we quicken at the Sight
Of diftant Bremen's Tower-crown'd Height,
And foon we reach that ancient Town,
Where, well fatigu'd, I ftrait lay down,
Sunk in a foft well-feather'd Bed,
Another o'er my Limbs was spread:
Half ftifled with the heavy Load,
Sweat from each Pore profufely flow'd,
And with th' enormous Weight opprefs'd,
No Sleep that Night my Eye-lids blefs'd.
Next Day more inauspicious prov'd
To a black Spaniel, much belov'd;
For, while our Car with rapid Course
Whirl'd on, the Wheel's impetuous Force
The Loiterer squeez'd; but Oil, the Bruife
Fomenting, foon her Strength renews.
To* Clofter-feven next we came,

Once for its Nuns well known to Fame;

*This Town was rendered famous in the late War by the Convention concluded there Sept. 8, 1757, between his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Cumberland, and the Marshal-Duke de Richlieu.