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i cannot omit CO take Tome notice of t ie go9d Provlfwt thej^ do mike for 
whereby ch?y are no: peiforM or moleAed in their Streets, in 
their Shops, in their Coaches, with any crowd QfB?g{»irs, which would 
ferveco divert their Cbrnt^ivom proper and good Objeds*, I mean poor 
Labourers, or Houfekeepers, who take much pains, to the getting little, 
towards a forry miincenance of a great many Children ,* or fuch who 
through Infirmities, or Accidents, are difabled from getting any thing 
at all, and are above the Trade q^' If the Poor there cannot 
work, or do wme work, there is provifion nnde for them both. The 
gifirats, ot officers, do not think it zny trouble to them, to go fometimes 
Trom Houfe to lloufe, to enquire privately into their Condition, to obferve 
what Children they have, and to underihnd whit they cm, or cannot do, 
towards their Maintenance. And accordingly, both the known, and 
known Poor, who are adiimed to ask for what they want, are fupplied by 
cne PMc-k from time to time. 
In their Churches they do never alTemble to ferve God, but they minifeft 
their Love to thtir Neighbour. There is always a Bag tranfmitted to eve- 
ry perion, with the notice of a little Bell \ and I am told, that there’s 
hardly one fingle Pe-rfon, though never fo mean, or little, that comes to 
Church, but does drop iome Mite, or Doit , into the Poor's Bag, every 
time he comes. And whitfoever is fo coiledled, or upon other Occafioas, 
for the Poor, does not ferve to fatten , and make merry, the Petty 
Officers, but is faithfully accounted for, and expended duly to its prooer 
Ufes. 
The Apparel of the Dutch is grave and free from levity. The Men do 
put on Black on Sundays, and ocher high days ; and at other times dark 
Colours. And this is the mode of all Citizens, and many others, even 
of the Boors, no: only in the Seven Provinces, hut in Brabant, znd Flan- 
ders. Neverthelefs, their Nobility ani Gentry, both Men and Women, do 
drefsasfine, and modi llily, as we our felves, or others, that cannot for 
all the world help imitating or ^peing the French. 
Indeed I mull fay, we in England are not in fuch mighty hafte for Neva 
Fajhions, but that we cm make a fhift to flay until our Taylors do fup- 
ply us, and make us happy with Modes from France, by their taking a 
Journey on purpofe to Parii in vacation-time. But fome of the Princes of' 
Germany are more careful to be a la mode de France as early as may be i 
for they have the Fajhiom brought to them fome hundred Leagues in Poll- 
hallej and, before the War, did ufe to keep Couriers at Parts ready, to 
bring them quickly matters of fuch great moment, upon the frfl Invention 
of a New jMode. As if Peace and Djar, or a fudden irruption on a 
Neighbour- State, could not be of greater concern, than a new* cue Fea- 
iher in the Cap, or fome furprizing Mailer- piece of Gayety. 
And 
