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Mynheer
van
Baerle
the
father
had
amassed
in
the
Indian
trade
three
or
four
hundred
thousand
guilders
,
which
Mynheer
van
Baerle
the
son
,
at
the
death
of
his
dear
and
worthy
parents
,
found
still
quite
new
,
although
one
set
of
them
bore
the
date
of
coinage
of
1640
,
and
the
other
that
of
1610
,
a
fact
which
proved
that
they
were
guilders
of
Van
Baerle
the
father
and
of
Van
Baerle
the
grandfather
;
but
we
will
inform
the
reader
at
once
that
these
three
or
four
hundred
thousand
guilders
were
only
the
pocket
money
,
or
sort
of
purse
,
for
Cornelius
van
Baerle
,
the
hero
of
this
story
,
as
his
landed
property
in
the
province
yielded
him
an
income
of
about
ten
thousand
guilders
a
year
.
When
the
worthy
citizen
,
the
father
of
Cornelius
,
passed
from
time
into
eternity
,
three
months
after
having
buried
his
wife
,
who
seemed
to
have
departed
first
to
smooth
for
him
the
path
of
death
as
she
had
smoothed
for
him
the
path
of
life
,
he
said
to
his
son
,
as
he
embraced
him
for
the
last
time
,
--
"
Eat
,
drink
,
and
spend
your
money
,
if
you
wish
to
know
what
life
really
is
,
for
as
to
toiling
from
morn
to
evening
on
a
wooden
stool
,
or
a
leathern
chair
,
in
a
counting-house
or
a
laboratory
,
that
certainly
is
not
living
.
Your
time
to
die
will
also
come
;
and
if
you
are
not
then
so
fortunate
as
to
have
a
son
,
you
will
let
my
name
grow
extinct
,
and
my
guilders
,
which
no
one
has
ever
fingered
but
my
father
,
myself
,
and
the
coiner
,
will
have
the
surprise
of
passing
to
an
unknown
master
.
And
least
of
all
,
imitate
the
example
of
your
godfather
,
Cornelius
de
Witt
,
who
has
plunged
into
politics
,
the
most
ungrateful
of
all
careers
,
and
who
will
certainly
come
to
an
untimely
end
.
"
Having
given
utterance
to
this
paternal
advice
,
the
worthy
Mynheer
van
Baerle
died
,
to
the
intense
grief
of
his
son
Cornelius
,
who
cared
very
little
for
the
guilders
,
and
very
much
for
his
father
.
Cornelius
then
remained
alone
in
his
large
house
.
In
vain
his
godfather
offered
to
him
a
place
in
the
public
service
,
--
in
vain
did
he
try
to
give
him
a
taste
for
glory
,
--
although
Cornelius
,
to
gratify
his
godfather
,
did
embark
with
De
Ruyter
upon
"
The
Seven
Provinces
,
"
the
flagship
of
a
fleet
of
one
hundred
and
thirty-nine
sail
,
with
which
the
famous
admiral
set
out
to
contend
singlehanded
against
the
combined
forces
of
France
and
England
.
When
,
guided
by
the
pilot
Leger
,
he
had
come
within
musket-shot
of
the
"
Prince
,
"
with
the
Duke
of
York
(
the
English
king
's
brother
)
aboard
,
upon
which
De
Ruyter
,
his
mentor
,
made
so
sharp
and
well
directed
an
attack
that
the
Duke
,
perceiving
that
his
vessel
would
soon
have
to
strike
,
made
the
best
of
his
way
aboard
the
"
Saint
Michael
"
;
when
he
had
seen
the
"
Saint
Michael
,
"
riddled
and
shattered
by
the
Dutch
broadside
,
drift
out
of
the
line
;
when
he
had
witnessed
the
sinking
of
the
"
Earl
of
Sandwich
,
"
and
the
death
by
fire
or
drowning
of
four
hundred
sailors
;
when
he
realized
that
the
result
of
all
this
destruction
--
after
twenty
ships
had
been
blown
to
pieces
,
three
thousand
men
killed
and
five
thousand
injured
--
was
that
nothing
was
decided
,
that
both
sides
claimed
the
victory
,
that
the
fighting
would
soon
begin
again
,
and
that
just
one
more
name
,
that
of
Southwold
Bay
,
had
been
added
to
the
list
of
battles
;
when
he
had
estimated
how
much
time
is
lost
simply
in
shutting
his
eyes
and
ears
by
a
man
who
likes
to
use
his
reflective
powers
even
while
his
fellow
creatures
are
cannonading
one
another
;
--
Cornelius
bade
farewell
to
De
Ruyter
,
to
the
Ruart
de
Pulten
,
and
to
glory
,
kissed
the
knees
of
the
Grand
Pensionary
,
for
whom
he
entertained
the
deepest
veneration
,
and
retired
to
his
house
at
Dort
,
rich
in
his
well-earned
repose
,
his
twenty-eight
years
,
an
iron
constitution
and
keen
perceptions
,
and
his
capital
of
more
than
four
hundred
thousands
of
florins
and
income
of
ten
thousand
,
convinced
that
a
man
is
always
endowed
by
Heaven
with
too
much
for
his
own
happiness
,
and
just
enough
to
make
him
miserable
.
Consequently
,
and
to
indulge
his
own
idea
of
happiness
,
Cornelius
began
to
be
interested
in
the
study
of
plants
and
insects
,
collected
and
classified
the
Flora
of
all
the
Dutch
islands
,
arranged
the
whole
entomology
of
the
province
,
on
which
he
wrote
a
treatise
,
with
plates
drawn
by
his
own
hands
;
and
at
last
,
being
at
a
loss
what
to
do
with
his
time
,
and
especially
with
his
money
,
which
went
on
accumulating
at
a
most
alarming
rate
,
he
took
it
into
his
head
to
select
for
himself
,
from
all
the
follies
of
his
country
and
of
his
age
,
one
of
the
most
elegant
and
expensive
,
--
he
became
a
tulip-fancier
.
It
was
the
time
when
the
Dutch
and
the
Portuguese
,
rivalling
each
other
in
this
branch
of
horticulture
,
had
begun
to
worship
that
flower
,
and
to
make
more
of
a
cult
of
it
than
ever
naturalists
dared
to
make
of
the
human
race
for
fear
of
arousing
the
jealousy
of
God
.
Soon
people
from
Dort
to
Mons
began
to
talk
of
Mynheer
van
Baerle
's
tulips
;
and
his
beds
,
pits
,
drying-rooms
,
and
drawers
of
bulbs
were
visited
,
as
the
galleries
and
libraries
of
Alexandria
were
by
illustrious
Roman
travellers
.
