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A85209	The Dutch-mens pedigree or A relation, shewing how they were first bred, and descended from a horse-turd, which was enclosed in a butter-box. Together with a most exact descripton of that great, huge, large, horrible, terrible, hideous, fearful, ... prodigious, preposterous horse that shit the same turd; who had two faces on one head, the one somwhat resembling the face of a man, the other the face of a horse, the rest of his body was like the body of an horse, saving that on his shoulders he had two great fish finns like the finns of whales, but far more large: he lived somtime on land, but most in water; his dyet was fish, roots, ... A very dreadful accident befel him, the fear hereof set him into such a fit of shiting, that he died thereof: ... Also how the Germans following the directions of a conjurer, made a very great box, and smeared the in-side with butter, and how it was filled with the dung which the said monstrous horse shit: out of which dung within nine days space sprung forth men, women, and children; the off-spring whereof are yet alive to this day, and now commonly known by the name of Dutchmen; as this following relation will plainly manifest.	D. F.	1653 (1653)	Wing F6; Thomason 669.f.16[81]; ESTC R211615	5,974	1

who after they had taken their leave of Neptune retire again to feed the soaking sands with the very substance of their own humid and liquid body This Beast or Monster or rather monstrous Beast perceiving the waters draw nigh couches close to the quaking Quagmires wathing its prey as Spaniels do their game behind a bank of sand that formerly the wanton waters sporting themselves therewith had driven before them planting it there as a fortified Castle to exercise themselves in imitating the Besieging Scaling and Conquering a peaceful enemy against they had occasion to deal with a warlike one And when the Seas according to their frequent custom began in a familiar way to daily with this sandy Bulwark now approching to the skirts of its Frontier and straight withdrawing its self as if the Adversary had given it the repulse and then again with fresh courage astaulting the Defendant and getting ground as if it meant with continual Alarums to weary out the poor besieged out stars this fearful Monster assaulting these innocent waters in such an outragious manner as if it had intended to devour not only that poor Sea but also all the Oceans in the whole world and setting both his monstrous mouths to these weak and feeble waters one would have thought he had drunk a health to the Divel and that Sathan would not pledge him unless he drunk up his cup drinking till he stares and staring while he drinks never giving over so long as he could see one drop follow another pursuing with a revengeful fury so far as he durst for fear of the Brittish Seas which he perceived began to muster up their Forces to oppose his Tyranical doings and very hard it was for him to escape them for he having devoured the waters which should have carryed him nimbly away was compell'd to make a sluggish retreat on foot which was not so quick but that the Brittish Scas were ready to overtake him ere he could get to fast and firm ground and when he turned about and perceiv'd them neer his heels a sudden fear surpriz'd him and set him into such a violent purging condition that he never left shiting till he purged life and all out of his body and no soeuer was he dead but a most fearful tempest arose the winds blew and the waves flew the thunder cra●… and the lightning flasht whole streams of 〈◊〉 came pouring down and 〈…〉 a general darkness possest the whole Hemisphere a sudden crack was given as though the Axle-tree of the earth had snapt in twain the Divels themselves came roaring about his carkass and carryed it away so soon as the breath was out of his body And when this hideous Tempest ceased the Germans perceiv'd the waters had left the borders of their Country which they much admired at and therefore enquired of all the wise men in their land to know if they could tell them the cause of so wonderful and strange an accident Among the rest they at last found out an old wrinckled fac'd Conjurer one of the Divel 's chiefest Councellors who had more skill in prophecying of things to come then any in all Germany besides him they intreated to tell them according to his Art what success would follow upon such seldom seen accidents But he desired them to give him a moneths time to pause upon it and then he would give them his judgement in writing upon condition they would presently cause a great huge Box to be made and smear all the in-side with Butter and carry it to the midst of the drayned Seas and fill it with a sort of dung which he told them they should find there and stop it close up and so leave it They straightway consented and forthwith caused a Box to be made according to his directions and carryed it towards the place that he appointed but they had far sooner the sent of the place in their nostrils then the sight thereof in their eyes for above twenty miles about there was such a filthy noysome stink that many of the men that help'd to carry the said Box thither were choaked with it and others sate down to stop their nose but the rest ran home again and left the Box behinde them But the Divels in the night time coming thither and finding the work undone were very angry with the Conjurer mistrusting that he had been very negligent of Belzebubs business for Belzebub had given him charge that that dung should be carefully closed up in such a Box as was mentioned before thereupon they repair towards the Conjurers house and by the way they found the foresaid great Box and many shovels lying by it which the men had brought along with them to take up the dung with and as they looked farther about them they found the dead bodies of those men that were killed with the stink and thereby perceived the Conjurer was not in fault but that mortals were too weak instruments to go through such hellish work therefore they took up the Box and shovels themselves and carryed it away to the place where the dung was and filled the Box with it and so closed it up and let it stand leaving only the greatest Divel in all hell to sit brooding upon it for a small one could not cover it But the Divel had not brooded passing nine days space ere living creatures were heard to make a great rumbling in the Box and at the last breaking out of it they were discerned to have the shape and voice and nothing but the shape and voice of men women and children Then fell they to work with the shell of that Egg out of which 〈…〉 hatch'd I mean the Box breaking it to pieces and the Divels furnishing them with Tools they made a Ship of it and set forth to Sea with it to catch fish to feed their gormandizing guts withal and when they came home again they found their drayned Seas or their sea-Sea-land all overgrown with weeds and that they fed upon till such time as they went to Sea again But before this time the moneth was come about that the Conjurer should deliver his judgement in writing to the Germans which was to this effect Know ye O Germans that Belzebub the great King sole Commander and Governour of all the Dominions in Hell and Purgatory thought it not sutable to his Port and Greatness to want one Lordship and Mannor-house at least on earth that he might appropriate peculiar to his own Majesties use and therefore caused he one of the most infernal Divels to ravish a Mermaid and upon her to beget a very large and monstrous Horse with two heads c. the same Horse that hath been seen by many of our Countrymen within these few days and therefore I need not describe the shape of it to you This Horse by my king Belzebubs instrument drained these your Seas and what is a miraculous thing hath drunk up all the waters in them and now left it dry ground but partly because no other Seas should replonish them and partly because Belzebub would from thence raise up a stock of servants not only to manure his lordship but also to do him other offices that his Majesty from time to time shall think convenient to be done he caused this great Horse to purge whole mountains of Dung to ly between the next Seas and the new-drained land as a strong Baracado to keep the water out And also by an Ambassador he gave me strict charge that I should take care to procure such a box as I caused you to make and get it fil'd with the same Dung which being done he caused the greatest Devil in Hell to sit brooding upon it and to hatch creatures like Men Women and Children to inhabite the drained land And moreover I have Commission from my dread Soveraign King Belzebub to consult with those new servants of his about the name that these drained Lands shall be known to the rest of the world by and because I will not hide any thing from you that you may be desirous to know in these matters I shall acquaint you with my intent concerning it which I hope will be no whit offensive to his Majesty who hath commanded me that I be sure to give it such a name as may have the first sylable of his own in it for which cause I think it most proper to be called Bel-regia for if we call Belzebub Bel for shortness it will then signifie Belzebubs Kingdom But if his Majesties servants the Inhabitants shall think this too long a Name to be readily spoken I shall then condescend to call it Belgia leaving out the middlemost sylable in pronounciation since it cannot but be understood by the sense of the word More I have not to say in these matters for I think I have sufficiently answered your curious expectations Farewell by me D. F. Courteous Readers I need not paraphrase much upon this Relation since ye all know that Creatures Hellishly hatcht cannot but in a large measure participate of the qualities of the old Brooder else why should wee desire to set our Game eggs under Kites Crows and such like ravenous Fowls but because wee would have the young ones which they hatch more furious and violent then if they were hatcht by the old ones of their own kind Therefore since it so do not wonder that the Dutch have acted so Hellishly like Devils as they have Do not wonder at their Stratagems Do not wonder at their cologueing dissembling Do not wonder at their wicked traiterous and unjust wringing of all Trade out of other mens hands Nay do not wonder at their barbarous and Inhumane cruelties since from Hell they came and thither without doubt they must return again FINIS LONDONS Printed in the Year 1653. And are to bee sold at St. Michiels Church door in Corn hill

The Dutch-mens PEDIGREE OR A Relation Shewing how they were first Bred and Descended from a HORSE-TVRD which was enclosed in a BUTTER-BOX Together with a most exact Description of that great huge large horrible terrible hideous fearful filthy ugly monstrous mishapen prodigious preposterous Horse that shit the same Turd who had two Faces on one head the one somwhat resembling the face of a man the other the face of a horse the rest of his body was like the body of an Horse saving that on his shoulders he had two great Fish finns like the finns of Whales but far more large He lived somtime on land but most in water His Dyet was Fish Roots Herbs c. A very dreadful Accident befel him the fear whereof set him into such a fit of shiting that he died thereof His body was immediately carried with multitudes of Divels into Hell where it remains to this day Also how the Germans following the directions of a Conjurer made a very great Box and smeared the In-side with Butter and how it was filled with the dung which the said monstrous horse shit Out of which dung within nine days space sprung forth men women and children the Off-spring whereof are yet alive to this day and now commonly known by the name of DUTCH MEN As this following Relation will plainly manifest IF I should only treat upon the shape of a monstrous Creature my Relation would be accounted strange and only strange and so pass by as a common strange thing But seeing Nature thought it not enough to create a Monster and so make an end but also with it or by it to produce monstrous effects I think this not a thing worthy to be looked on slightly or to be pass'd by with saying only It is very strange For never did any prodigious shape terminate in such wonderful and miraculous events as this did Van Trumy De Witte The great Butter Box. Now because I will go methodically along with this History I will first describe unto you the fashion of this Monster and then the course of his life and afterwards the events that hapned upon his latter end and death The length of his Body was of a very large size for from head to tayl was seven hundred fifty four yards and every member about him proportionable to the bigness of his Body He had a double head or to speak more properly a single head with two faces one like a Mans the other like an Horses face his man-ish face was of a dark red fleshy colour like raw tann'd Leather he had two great gray eyes and a couple of long Whiskers or Mustachoes that reach'd up to his very ears which stood stradling from his head as if they fear'd to touch it his chin was bald and without hair under his chin he had a wallup of fat hung half way down his throat he had a wide mouth and two tongues in it with either of which he could speak though he was much impedited with the wallup of fat that hung under his chin which made his words sound as if he spoke in the throat he had two rows of teeth with which he chewed the food he fed his unsatiable and ravenous paunch his other face was shaped altogether like an Horse's and the rest of his body like the body of an horse only to his shoulders were fastned two great Fish-finns which served him as Oars to transport his body from place to place when he journeyed by water For manner of his life he delighted most in water swimming from Sea to Sea and in shew held amity with all the Fish in the Ocean but his friendship lasted no longer then till he saw a fit opportunity to make a disagreement more advantagious unto him then his feigned familiarity was and then he would fall to devouring the smaller sort of fishes by whole Cart-loads and preying on the greater where ever he found them insomuch that all fish either through a natural instinct or accustomed to his ravenous practise dreaded him as their greatest terror and shunned him as much as they would death it self On land he was not so active as in the water for the weight of his fat and corpulent body was a burden too great for him to bear without sweating nor could he so easily rub away his sweat on land as he could wash it away in water His Land-dyet was altogether on Roots Herbs c. and that not in small quantity neither for though an Acre of ground were burd'ned with never so plentiful a crop yet would this Monster make but one single mouthful of it so that where-ever he came he ruin'd all but himself by eating the victuals out of their mouths And thus behaved he himself now spending his time on land and then in water At last he hapned in his travels by Sea to light upon the coast of Germany which having somwhat more shallow waters then other Seas though the Tide were at highest his feet touch'd the ground when his back was above the water and the Tide retyring into Neptune's Treasury left this monstrous Monster wallowing in the midst of this muddy Sea who seeing himself so dis-respected by those surly and clownish waters began to swell with anger and look big with scornful indignation muttering to himself these and such like scornful and threatning expressions What said he have I hitherto been Commander and Ruler of all the Seas that ere I came in and must I now be slighted of these petty and unsavory waters Have not all the Fishes nay the Whale himself when he hath seen me approach made way for my Mightiness to pass freely Hath not the greatest Ocean in the world been proud of its burden when it hath born me How ready hath its waters been to open to the right and left when I have approched and how nimble were they to close again after I had once passed by How hath its tops danced to delight me and the waves iustled one another to make me pastime How smooth hath its face been when I have come to the top to Sun my self and how rugged when I have gone down to take a Nap the winds and it conspiring together to make melody to lull me to sleep What shall I say How ready and willing have other Seas been to wait upon me and how negligent and backward are these dropping ditches to perform the duty they ow me But they shall buy it dearly for I swear and now revenge and therefore let them come when they will my fury shall destroy them and my swallow shall consume and devour them all This Monster being in this pelting rage was very unable to brook such unkind curtesies and hardly knew he how to spend his time unless he first had spent his revenge upon these unmannerly waters one while he turns to the East then again to the West by and by to the North and anon to the South every way watching the coming of the Seas