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                       146 EARLY ENGLISH ADVENTURERS IN THE
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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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