THE

GERMAN SPY:

OR,

Familiar LETTERS

FROM

A Gentleman on his TRAVELS thro' GERMANY,

то

His Friend in ENGLAND.

Containing

An Exact and Entertaining || An Account of the CUSTOMS
Description of the Principal
CITIES and Towns:

With their feveral RE LIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENTS, and GOVERNMENTS, Civil and Military.

and MANNERS of the People. Remarks on their LANGUAGE, INTERESTS and POLICIES; FORTIFICATIONS, CHURCHES, PUBLICK BUILDINGS and CURIO

SITIES,

Interspersed

With the SECRET HISTORY and CHARAC-
TERS of the feveral PRINCES and PRIN-
CESSES, and other the most confiderable
Perfonages in the Empire of Germany.

Heroes and Gods make other Poems fine,
Plain Satire calls for Senfe in every Line.

Univerfal Paffion, SAT. II.

Wifely the Springs of Action we conceal;
Thus Sordidnefs, is Prudence, Fury, Zeal;
Ambition makes the Publick Good his Care,
And Hypocrites the Mask of Saintship wear.

POPE on Human Life.

The SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed for T. COOPER, in Pater-nofter-Row; and fold by the Bookfellers of London and Westminster.

MDCCXL.

THE

EDITOR

TO THE

READER.

A

S the Letters I here offer to the Public are anonymous, the Reader will probably expect I fhould give fome Account of them: All I can fay myself is, that I have the greatest Reason in the World to believe them genuine; and in this I do not fpeak my own Opinion alone; but that of feveral Gentlemen, who have done me the Favour to peruse them; and who all affure me, it is impoffible they should be mistaken in their Judgment, for many Reafons. I think it, however, unneceffary to enumerate thefe Reafons here, as A 2

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