I send to my excellent Subjects above,
And, tho’ ’tis Advice that now dictates my Strain,
I must freely confess I’ve no Cause to complain.
With Pleasure I hear, how the Demon of War
Is hurling his blessed Confusion from far, 10
Has bade the slow Spaniard to Battle advance
And has got a good Footing in England and France.
It delights me to find, the Designs of the Dutch
Are to move for a Peace, but to hinder it much;
For my trusty Disciples of Holland are known