Even as notch'd prentices whole sermons write[1].

The heavy Hollanders no vices know,

But what they used a hundred years ago;

Like honest plants, where they were stuck, they grow.

They cheat, but still from cheating sires they come;

They drink, but they were christened first in mum.

Their patrimonial sloth the Spaniards keep,

And Philip first taught Philip how to sleep.

The French and we still change; but here's the curse,

They change for better, and we change for worse;