Their price was spent in merriment
And revel at Whitehall,
While we in tattered doublets
From ship to shop must row,
Beseeching friends for odds and ends-
And this the Dutchmen know!
No King will heed our warnings,
No Court will pay our claims—
Our King and Court for their disport
Do sell the very Thames!
For, now De Ruyter's topsails
Off naked Chatham show,
We dare not meet him with our fleet—
And this the Dutchmen know!
Bron: Songs written for C.R.L. Fletcher's "A History of England" by Rudyard Kiplingf 191 1]
