Des waerelds doen en doolen, is maar een mallemoolen.

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<p>Who will ride?</p> <p>Details and Dutch verses below:</p> <p>The print represents a merry-go-round in which persons ride in cars, on the backs of wooden horses being attached to a frame revolving on a spindle, are set in rapid motion by a horse which gallops below the seats. The frame sustaining this machine is enclosed by railings and situated near the sea-shore; near it are a considerable number of persons who are hurrying forward, and all losers by the share mania; in front, one of these is in the act of cutting his throat; his neighbor rushes to prevent this act; at the feet of the suicide is a paper marked, "op de Zu(yt)" (On the South Sea Company); another man has fallen raving on the ground, with a paper in his hands marked, "10000 op de West&rdquo; (10,000 on the West India Company); a third is close to this one; he is restrained by two children; behind, is one who holds a paper marked "0"; near him is a joyful man, waving a paper marked, "Zuyt 100000 gewon" (100,000 won by the South Sea Company); on one side of the last a man, who seems to be a loser by speculation, clasps him round the body; on the other side of the winner stands one, intended for a Jew, holding a paper marked "90 Percent"; behind the winner a man waves a paper bearing &ldquo;Zuyd 0" (South Sea Company 0); near the last is a man with "Wie f 1000 per Cent" (Who for 1,OOO per cent); another shouts, "0" (zero).</p> <p>Near the show is a small vessel bearing the Dutch flag, and on the ensign of the ship is "Peperlandia" (Pepperland, i.e. the East Indies); the steersman blows a trumpet; many persons are hastening towards this vessel; a larger ship rides at anchor beyond this one; on the flags of the latter appear what looks like a devil riding on a goat(?). A road leads from the mid-distance to the distance, where, among hills, is the city "Viaanen". Several covered carriages are being driven rapidly along the road towards Vianen; these contain lunatics, who are actually bankrupted speculators.</p> <p>In the foreground, on our left, "Bombario" (Humbug), the hump-backed pedlar who often appears in these satires, squats under a tent, together with a lady who wears a crown. On the ground near Bombario is an object which looks like a cribbage-board, and may be a board perforated to hold tobacco-pipes, likewise a coffee-pot, and several coffee-cups; here are also pieces of paper, inscribed,</p> <p>"Actie op de Coffi" (Stock on coffee),<br />"2 Stuyve een kop koffi" (Two pence a cup of coffee),<br />"Op de Tabac" (On tobacco),<br />"2 Stuyvvan een Kamer" (Two pence of a room);<br />"Al weer een" (Already there is another) is written on another piece<br />of paper.</p> <p>On the flag which flies above the tent of Bombario is represented coffee-cup. Not sure what this means.<br />The entrance, opposite Bombario&rsquo;s tent, to the enclosure of the merry-go-round, is approached by a road, "De Weg des verderfs" (The Way to Destruction); this road is strewn with fish hoo