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whilft lianniial was juft under their Walls with' his Ariny,' 
and Tome of the Fields whereon -he was Incamped, happening to be 
thenexpofed to Fublick^Sale, were notdeftitute of Purchafers of that 
Magnanimity, who at that very time gave even the Market Price for 
an Eftate then in polTeflion of the .Greateft and moft Deadly Enemy 
that ever threatned that {{e^ublick, from the firft Founding of the 
€ity. 
And this is the more remarkable, becaufe the French Kjng, at the 
breaking out of this War, though his Coders were then full of an 
inexhauftible Treafure, as ’twas thought* and though he had an ’ 
Inclination to Magnificent Buildings beyond all his Predeceflors, yet 
he immediately Ordered a full fiofio be put to all his Publick^Workj : 
Well forefeeing what a terrible Storm he had brought upon his King- 
dom, and with how Great a General he was like to contend. In- . 
fomuch that this Grand Monarchy who was often faid to give Peace 
to Europe, out of a certain peculiar Generofity, when he had on a 
fudden fnatcht away from his Neighbours one Province after ano- ‘ 
ther, and his Slovo Enemies had begun to form their Forces ; this 
Monarch, I fay, was by the late long and Expenfive War, by the 
firmnefs of the Confederate Vnion, and by the profped: of a Peace 
with the Turks, brought to fuch Fears and Apprehenfions, that he 
Purchafed a. Peace with a ftrange and furprizing difmembring his 
Great Monarchy, and by the Surrendring an incredible number of 
large and rich Provinces, and many Forts and Strong Tovpns that were 
thought to be Impregnable. 
And - fince there is fo near a proximity between Loo and Holland, 
1 cannot here omit to fay fomewhat of that Great, and Conjiderable 
People, among whom thefe Gardens are to be feen. -But this Subjeeft 
having been , excellently well performed, if not in a manner ex- 
haufted, by one of the beft of oviv Englifto Pens, who has joined to- 
gether the Scholar and the Gentleman in his Writings, as well as any 
of our Modern Authors ; and particularly in his late EJfays upon 
Ancient and Modern Learning, &c. I (hall therefore refer my Reader 
to Sir William Temple's Curious Obfervations upon the Vnited Pro- 
vinces of iho. Netherlands, for a more diftindb and full* knowledge 
of this Great Subjedt ; and yer however I will not pafs it by alto- 
gether in filence. 
.The Belg.v, or the Lovo Countries, were for their Valour and Courage 
eminent above other People, even in the time of Julius Cafar, who at 
the beginning of his Commentaries^ de Bello Gallico, has thefe Words. 
Horum omnium fortiffimi funt Be'gcC., When Cccfar had divided Gaul 
into three Parrs, he fays the Stouteft and moft Couragious of them all, 
were the Belg^e, or Low Countrymen, then called Gallia Belgica, and 
fince divided into Seventeen Provinces under the Dominion of the Houfe 
oi Aufiria, \xnii\ lWlliam,x\\Q Wife and V.aliant Prince of Orange 
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