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A Wanderer in Holland

CHAPTER X
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Their lining is yet more rich than their outside; not in hangings, but pictures, which even the poorest are there furnisht with.

Not a cobler but has his toyes for ornament.

Were the knacks of all their houses set together, there would not be such another _Bartholmew_-Faire in _Europe_....
Their beds are no other than land-cabines, high enough to need a ladder or stairs.

Up once, you are walled in with Wainscot, and that is good discretion to avoid the trouble of making your will every night; for once falling out else would break your neck perfectly.

But if you die in it, this comfort you shall leave your friends, that you dy'd in clean linnen.
Whatsoever their estates be, their houses must be fair.


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