LAURENCE KEYMIS ad. 



1596. 

 sarie commodities transported out of Spaine : those 

 huge countreys of the Indies having no common linke of 

 affinitie, lawe, language, or religion, and being of them- 

 selves able to maintaine themselves without forreine 

 commerce, are not so simple, as not to knowe their 

 owne strength, and to finde, that they doe rather 

 possesse Spaniardes, then that they are possessed 

 by them. Hee cannot bee ignorant that Spaine it 

 selfe is on all sides environed with many puissant 

 enemies, mightie and great princes, who knowing it to bee 

 rich without men, confident without reason, proud and 

 adventurous without meanes sufficient ; may happily 

 confederate to chastise him, as an insolent intruder, and 

 disturber of all quietnesse; and going no further then 

 Spaine it selfe, may even there shake the foundation 

 of his long contrived devises, and in one acte redeeme 

 the time, controll his aspiring humor, and breake the 

 bandes in sunder that import servitude, and subver- 

 sion to all the dominions of Christendome. Againe, 

 his counsell may well informe him, that to dispeople 

 and disable himselfe at home, in hope to obtaine Guiana, 

 being a countrey strong of it selfe, and defended with 

 infinite multitudes of Indian enemies, being rich, and 

 by the inhabitants offered unto the English: his con- 

 tempt towardes us would seeme so intollerable and 

 despightfull, as might bee sufficient to provoke us, 

 though otherwise wee had no such inclination ; if hee 

 unprovided of able helpes to effect it, should rest 

 himselfe on a carelesse presumption, that wee cannot, 

 wee dare not, wee will not stirre in a matter that pro- 

 miseth us so great benefite, and may so highly offend 

 him. Hee may bee perswaded, that to leave no other 

 succour or safetie to his nakednesse, but the olde stale 

 practise of spreading rumours, and giving out false 

 intelligences of preparations to invade England, thereby 

 to keepe us at home; or els of hyring and suborning 

 some Machavellian under hande by secret conveyance, 

 to stop the course of our proceedings ; or lastly, of 



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