_Mons. Non, de grace!_--you are always turning the nation _Française_ into ridicule, dat nation so accomplie, dat nation which you imitate so, dat in the conclusion, you butte turn yourself into ridicule, _ma foi!_ If you are for de raillery, abuse the Dutch, why not abuse the Dutch? _les gros villains, pendards_, insolents; but here in your England, _ma foi!_--you have more honeur, respecte, and estimation for de Dushe swabber, who come to cheat your nation, den for de Franch footman, who come to oblige your nation. _Mar._ Our nation! then you disown it for yours, it seems. _Mons._ Well! wat of dat? are you the disobligee by dat? _Ger._ No, monsieur, far from it; you could not oblige us, nor your country, any other way than by disowning it. _Mons._ It is de brutal country, which abuse de France, and reverence de Dushe; I will maintain, sustain, and justifie, dat one little Franch footman have more honeur, courage, and generosity, more good blood in his vaines, an mush more good manners an civility den all de State-General together, _jarni!_--Dey are only wise and valiant wen dey are drunkee. _Ger._ That is, always. _Mons._ But dey are never honest wen dey are drunkee; dey are de only rogue in de varlde who are not honeste when dey are drunk--_ma foi!_ _Ger._ I find you are well acquainted with them, monsieur. _Mons._ Ay, ay, I have made the toure of Holland, but it was _en poste_, dere was no staying for me, _tête non!_--for de gentleman can no more live dere den de toad in Ir'land, _ma foi!_ for I did not see on' chevalier in de whole countree: alway, you know, de rebel hate de gens de quality. Besides, I had made sufficient observation of the _canaille barbare_ de first nightee of my arrival at Amsterdamme: I did visit, you must know, one of de principal of de State-General, to whom I had recommendation from England, and did find his excellence weighing soap, _jarni!_--ha! ha! ha! _Ger._ Weighing soap! _Mons._ Weighing soap, _ma foi!_ for he was a wholesale chandeleer; and his lady was taking de tale of chandels wid her own witer hands, _ma foi!_ and de young lady, his excellence daughter, stringing harring, stringing harring, _jarni!_-- _Ger._ So!--and what were his sons doing? _Mons._ Augh--his son (for he had but one) was making the tour of France, Espagne, Italy, and Germany, in a coach and six; or rader, now I tink on't, gone of an embassy hider to dere master Cromwell, whom dey did love and fear, because he was someting de greater rebel. But now I talk of de _rebelle_, none but the rebel can love the _rebelle_. And so much for you and your friend the Dushe; I'll say no more, and pray do you say no more of my friend de Franch, not so mush as of my friend de Franch footman--da--