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Appendix I - ‘Rariteiten te koop’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2020

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‘Rariteiten te koop’

Alle stoffe heeft een maakler,

Andersins een vryen kaakler,

Die des Koopmans wille peilt.

Alle stoffe heeft heur venter,

Tot den almanakken prenter,

Tot die swaavelstokken veilt.

Maar nu is, op Hollands stroomen,

In myn handen, stof gekoomen,

Ongehoort, en ongesien:

Niet als quam se, uit verre landen,

Van de west, of oosterstranden,

Uit een landschap sonder liên.

Als een gomboom afgedroopen,

Als een beekjen fyn ontloopen,

Als een duuren bergh ontschaakt,

Als van boomen, of van planten,

Neevens soete waaterkanten,

Of van seldsaam kruid gemaakt.

Neen, se komt, van ‘t ryk der Britten,

Die niet verder van ons sitten,

Zoo de wind dient, dan een dagh,

Daar men die, om niet, kan haalen,

Of, met weinigh, hier betaalen,

Schoon de son niet duurders sach.

S’is van ‘t bloed van Kooningh Karel,

Schynende een robyne paarel,

Gloênden ink, en purpre verf,

Steen, en hout, en roode roosen,

Rooder dan het wroegend bloosen,

Om het kooninghlyk verderf.

Wie zal ‘t maakelampt bekleeden?

Die volght nu geen Judas schreeden:

Want dit bloedgeld dient de wraak,

Om wat houts, en touw te koopen,

Om syn moorders op te knoopen,

‘Rarities for Sale’

All commodities have a broker,

Or an independent hawker,

Who represents the interests of the Merchant.

All commodities have their street-trader,

From the printer of almanacs,

To the one peddling matchsticks.

But now there has come a commodity

On Dutch waters, and in my hands,

Which no one has heard of or seen before.

It did not come from distant countries,

Of the shores of the West or the East [Indies],

From a territory without people.

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Dangerous Drugs
The Self-Presentation of the Merchant-Poet Joannes Six van Chandelier (1620–1695)
, pp. 357 - 370
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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