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THE Dutch and Celta in fome kind agree,
Divided only by a narrow Sea :.

But that, detefting a Monarchick Reign,
The Dutch, revolting from the Crown of Spain,
Have tugg'd for Freedom thro a Crimson Flood;
So much more dear their Liberty than Blood!

THEN, if you visit the Germanick Soil,
You'l find it worth your Travel and your Toil:
The Martial People's Arms once kept in Awe
Old Rome, which gave the World Imperial Law:
Of fiery Vifage, and uncommon Size,
They flafh'd in her undaunted Eagle's Eyes.
Their honeft Hearts abhor the leaft degree
Of winding Craft, and tricking Knavery:
They fcorn all Masks of Prudence, all Difguife,
And Politicians ferpentinely wife:
Whether, that born beneath a cold thick Air,
Wit feldom falls to the dull German's Share;
Or frequent Fudling does their Spirits drain,
And Bacchus ftupify their foggy Brain:
For there they gage the Largenefs of your Sou
By Bumpers, and the Bignefs of your Bowl.
With them a fwelling Paunch, and ftudded Face,
Is always reckon❜d a becoming Grace;
And he, who can the twentieth Bottle-ftand,-
Is the best Hero of the Drinking Land.
Nay, Father Bacchus all their Councils guides,
Dictates at Treaties, and at Leagues prefides:
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No mutual Friendship for fincere will pass,

Without the Pleasure of a plenteous Glass :

It then grows ftrongeft, when moft Healths they toaft,
And he's the trueft Heart who drinks the most.
So flush'd, and fwoln with his accuftom❜d Load,
Silenus prais'd of old the jolly God:

His mellow Train would in the Chorus join,
And bless the Riches of the purple Vine:
The live-long Night the merry Satyr's fang,
Evius the Subject of each fault'ring Tongue;
Evius the Hills around and hollow Valleys rung.
Nor, tho the German is fo much inclin'd
To quaff full Bowls, and drown th' ethereal Mind,
Is every part fo fottish and so wild,

As if no Genius o'er the Nation fmil'd:" 3
Some bold bright Spirits have been known to blaze,
For Learning, Wit, and Arts of wondrous Praise :
Who has not heard what Kings their Ruin owe
To the forg❜d Thunder * of Mankind below ?
How from Germanick Skill th’Invention came,fi
Whofe dire Explofion fets the World in flame;
When the loud Cannon miffive fron pours,
Or from the flaught'ring Bomb Gradivus roars?
Nor must we his immortal + Name forget,
To whom we owe the Monuments of Wit;

* Guns first found out by a German, 1280.

+ Printing was first invented by John Gutenbergen of Mentz in Germany, 1450.

Whence

Whence what the Mufe has fung, or Hero fought,
In Characters indelible is wrote.

All Times, all Nations fhall the German know,
While Arts fhall flourish, or the Rhine fhall flow.

HERE muft I tell how a Teutonick Soul
Bred up in ftern Bellona's active School,
Is unacquainted with inglorious Ease,
And fcorns the happy Luxury of Peace:
For if their quiet Prince has no demand
With hostile Arms upon a neighb'ring Land
So much for Fighting is their ruling Luft,
That, left in Sloth and Lethargy they ruft,
In murdering Wars they serve for foreign pay,
And prostitute their yenal Hands to flay.

NOW Northward bend your Travel, nor disdain
To view the Countries nigh the Baltick Main,
The warlike Sweed, the Polander, and Dane.
If nigh the Poles the Mufes like to dwell,
Their heavenly Heat will nipping Colds expel:
They fear no Danger from the freezing Air,
Or horrid Influence of the Greater Bear.

BUT you, perhaps, are not inclin'd to roam
Such diftant Lengths from your dear native Home,
Nor will your Parents, and your Friends forego,
Nor by fatiguing Journeys feek to know
The Men, or Tempers of unequal Skies,
Nor will you at the vast Expence be Wife.

for

For things of this important Ufe and Weight

Require found Bodies, and a large Estate,

To view the various World: the Weak and Poor
Can nor the Labour nor the Cost endure :

'The Rich and Healthy should alone sustain
Hazards by Land, and Dangers on the Main,

BUT when your Blood is to due Temper wrought,
And Time has mellow'd you to riper Thought,
Then fix your Soul, and your Career restrain,
And prudently draw in the flacken'd Rein.
On Civil Life now feriously attend,

To ferve your Country, and oblige your Friend.

FOR this, with nicest Obfervation try
Whatever moves your Mind, or meets your Eye
Whatever from a due Reflection springs,

In wealthy Cities, or the Courts of Kings:
O'er in your Mind their foreign Manners rnn,
Their Virtues follow, and their Vices fhun;
In a juft Mixture of their Arts excel,
In acting worthily, and thinking well:
So thro Sicilian Hybla's pleasing Groves
The Bee, intent on his fweet Labour, roves;
Sav'ry and Thyme the little Drudge devours,
And gleans his Harvest from the fragrant Flow'rs;
Does the blue Violets and Rofes chufe,

And fucks fresh Virtue from the Morning Dews,
To load his waxen Chambers with Nectarean Juice.

ME AN time enure your felf to Thought, and strive To keep the noble inborn Heat alive :

Improve

Improve whate'er your Reafon has acquir'd;
The Soul is active, and can ne'er be tir'd:
In valu'd Books your vacant Hours employ,
And, what your Travels could not give, enjoy:
To read good Authors, of a Tafte refin'd,
Heightens the Stature of a lofty Mind.
If you delight to hear the Actions told,
Of Heroes prudent, refolute, and bold,
And every glorious Thing perform'd of old;
To wife Historians for Inftruction fly,
And read them over with a curious Eye.
Livy will tell you, how the Roman Pile,
Rofe to fuch Grandeur, in as grand a Stile:
And Plutarch mentions with a Master's Stroke,
How Captains battel'd, and how Sages fpoke.
Or if you feek to know, with learned Toil,
The Difpofitions of each Sky and Soil,
The Climes and Regions never feen before;
Roll Strabo, Ptolemy, and Cluver o'er,
And ev'ry Author, whofe prevailing Light
May chafe away the Clouds of Error's Night,
Enrich the Mind, and fet the Judgment right.

BUT, Laftly, let your Converfation turn
On what is good; and from the Wisest learn.
If human Nature you defire to know,
And from what fecret Springs the Passions flow;
When there are chofe and cull'd, for noble Ends,
Some bright Companions, and well-natur'd Friends,

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Know.

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