Beached whale near Beverwijk

Translation

To the illustrious and noble Lord, Count of Nassau, etc.
To a most valiant Hero, and most fierce defender of Belgian liberty,
To our most clement Lord, this prodigy of our regions
and this picture is dedicated, donated, and presented by J. Saenredam.

Earthquake
Eclipse of the Moon
Rumor

Constant in its pollution, gathering in a whirlwind, the school
Terrified with gaping maw all the race of swimmers,
And frightening the shallows, roaring with its tail and the surge,
Blocked against this, it came to the Bavarian shores;

Thence from where it lies, it girds itself with a mound of sand;
Which as soon as the fatal soil, and the quicksands and shallows,
Deny it its hoped-for refuge, struggling toward the treacherous straits,
Seeking the deep, and marking its tail with a clumsy effort.

At Amsterdam, Joannes Jansonius published this in the year 1618.

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