know,
  Sees rolling tempests vainly beat below;
  And, like Olympus’ top, the impression wears
  Of love and friendship writ in former years. 
  Yet, unimpair’d with labours, or with time,
  Your age but seems to a new youth to climb. 
  Thus heavenly bodies do our time beget,
  And measure change, but share no part of it. 150
  And still it shall without a weight increase,
  Like this new year, whose motions never cease. 
  For since the glorious course you have begun
  Is led by Charles, as that is by the sun,
  It must both weightless and immortal prove,
  Because the centre of it is above.

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FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 31:  ‘Hyde:’  the far-famed historian Clarendon.]

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SATIRE ON THE DUTCH.[32]

WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1662.

  As needy gallants, in the scrivener’s hands,
  Court the rich knaves that gripe their mortgaged lands;
  The first fat buck of all the season’s sent,
  And keeper takes no fee in compliment;
  The dotage of some Englishmen is such,
  To fawn on those who ruin them—­the Dutch. 
  They shall have all, rather than make a war
  With those, who of the same religion are. 
  The Straits, the Guinea-trade, the herrings too;
  Nay, to keep friendship, they shall pickle you. 10
  Some are resolved not to find out the cheat,
  But, cuckold-like, love them that do the feat. 
  What injuries soe’er upon us fall,
  Yet still the same religion answers all. 
  Religion wheedled us to civil war,
  Drew English blood, and Dutchmen’s now would spare. 
  Be gull’d no longer; for you’ll find it true,
  They have no more religion, faith! than you. 
  Interest’s the god they worship in their state,
  And we, I take it, have not much of that 20
  Well monarchies may own religion’s name,
  But states are atheists in their very frame. 
  They share a sin; and such proportions fall,
  That, like a stink, ’tis nothing to them all. 
  Think on their rapine, falsehood, cruelty,
  And that what once they were, they still would be. 
  To one well-born the affront is worse and more,
  When he’s abused and baffled by a boor. 
  With an ill grace the Dutch their mischiefs do;
  They’ve both ill nature and ill manners too. 30
  Well may they boast themselves an ancient nation;
  For they were bred ere manners were in fashion: 
  And their new commonwealth has set them free
  Only from honour and civility. 
  Venetians do not more uncouthly ride,
  Than did their lubber state mankind bestride. 
  Their sway became them with as ill a mien,
  As their own paunches swell above their