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sea, wher you are like to gayne as often as to loose. It is
) the beggering of the Portugall, notwithstanding his many
u rich residences and territoryes that hee keepes souldiers
: \ that spendes it: yet his garrisons are meane. Hee never
profited by the Indyes since hee defended them. Observe
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this well. It hath also been the errour of the Dutch,
who seeke plantation here by the sword. They turne a
wonderful stocke, they proule in all places ; they possess
some of the best; yet ther dead Payes consume all the
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gayne. Lett this be received as a rule that if you will
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profitt seek it at sea and in quiett trade for . . . it is
an errour to affect garrisons and land warrs in India.”
. It was advice which was strangely belied by the subse-
quent course of events in India, but at the time at which
it was written it was the soundest counsel that could have
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