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 machinery, and, all in all, so complete that a careful examination of the house's contents will give one an accurate idea of how a Dutch burgher lived in centuries gone by.

A pretty conceit, written in Old Dutch, is to be found on the fly-leaf of a Bible preserved in the museum. It runs:

which, translated, reads:

Delft has recently founded a Rijks-Museum, known as Huis Lambert van Meerten, the curator of which is Heer A. Le Comte, who designed the façade Q