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Admit further our armie be impeached from landing 

 there, yet by keeping the Sea, and possessing his principall 

 roades, are we not in possibilitie to meet with his Indian 

 marchants, and very like to prevent him of his provisions 

 comming out of the East countreys ; without the which, 

 neither the subject of Lisbon is long able to live, nor 

 the king able to maintaine his Navie ? For though the 

 countrey of Portugall doe some yeeres find themselves 

 corne, yet are they never able to victuall the least part 

 of that Citie. And albeit the king of Spaine be the 

 richest prince in Christendome, yet can he neither draw 

 cables, hewe mastes, nor make pouder out of his mettals, 

 but is to be supplied of them all from thence. Of whom 

 (some will hold opinion) it is no reason to make prize, 

 because they bee not our enemies : and that our dis- 

 agreeance with them will impeach the trade of our 

 marchants, and so impoverish our countrey. Of whose 

 mind I can hardly be drawen to be : For if my enemie 

 fighting with me doe breake his sword, so as I thereby 

 have the advantage against him ; what shall I thinke of 

 him that putteth a new sword into his hand to kill me 

 withall ? And may it not bee thought more fitting for 

 us in these times to loose our trades of Cloth, then by 

 suffering these mischiefes, to put in hazard whether we 

 shall have a countrey left to make cloth in or no ? And 

 yet though neither Hamburgh, Embden, nor Stode doe 

 receive our cloth, the necessary use thereof in all places 

 is such, as they will find means to take it from us with 

 our sufficient commoditie. 

 [II. ii. 153.] And admit (which were impossible) that we damnifie him 

 neither at sea nor land (for unlesse it be with a much more 

 mightie armie then ours, he shall never be able to with- 

 stand us) yet shall we by holding him at his home, free 

 our selves from the warre at our owne wals : the benefit 

 whereof let them consider that best can judge, and have 

 observed the difference of invading, and being invaded ; 

 the one giving courage to the souldier, in that it doeth 

 set before him commoditie and reputation ; the other a 



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