[History of the United Netherlands<br> 1584-1609 by John Lothrop Motley]@TWC D-Link book
History of the United Netherlands
1584-1609

CHAPTER VI
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They cut their hair close on the forehead, letting it hang down on either side.

They are good sailors, and better pirates, cunning, treacherous, thievish.

Three hundred and upwards are hanged annually in London.

Hawking is the favourite sport of the nobility.

The English are more polite in eating than the French, devouring less bread, but more meat, which they roast in perfection.


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