(On my coral work.
Placed in my cabinet here, you see made of coral
A baby’s basket, a cradle, a child’s foot-warmer and a warming-basket,
An ornamental clothes cupboard, a bed and bedstead of twisted and cast coral
And of pure glass, of different colours,
Shaped at Amstel’s stream of blue and green and purple.
For such coral-work deserves indeed a verse,
And even Pallas would judge it more than ordinary.)
Op myne thuyn van syde
Hoe seer dat Crassus pronckt en stoft op al sijn fruyten,