Footnote:

  1. During the French invasion of 1672, the Dutch were obliged to adopt the desperate defence of cutting their dykes, and inundating the country.

EPILOGUE

A poet once the Spartans led to fight,

And made them conquer in the muse's right;

So would our poet lead you on this day,

Showing your tortured fathers in his play.

To one well-born the affront is worse, and more,

When he's abused, and baffled by a boor: