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realme, and came to good perfection, to the great losse 

 of the French our olde enemies. And it doth mar- 

 vellously import this realme to make naturall in this 

 realme such things as be special in the dying of our 

 clothes. And to speake of such things as colour blew, 

 they are of greatest use, and are grounds of the most 

 excellent colours, and therefore of all other to be brought 

 into this realme, be it Anile or any other materiall of that 

 quality. 



7 And because yellowes and greenes are colours of 

 small prices in this realme, by reason that Olde and 

 Greenweed wherewith they be died be naturall here, and 

 in great plenty, therefore to bring our clothes so died to 

 common sale in Turkic were to the great benefit of the 

 marchant, and other poore subjects of this realme, for in 

 sale of such our owne naturall colours we consume not 

 our treasure in forren colours, and yet we sell our owne 

 trifles dearely perhaps. 



8 The wooUes being naturall, and excellent colours for 

 dying becomming by this meanes here also naturall, in all 

 the arte of Clothing then we want but one onely speciall 

 thing. For in this so temperate a climat our people may 

 labor the yere thorowout, whereas in some regions of the 

 world they cannot worke for extreme heat, as in some 

 other regions they cannot worke for extreme colde a good 

 part of the yere. And the people of this realme by the 

 great and blessed abundance of victuall are cheaply fed, 

 and therefore may afoord their labour cheape. And 

 where the Clothiers in Flanders by the flatnesse of their 

 rivers cannot make Walkmilles for their clothes, but are 

 forced to thicken and dresse all their clothes by the foot 

 and by the labour of men, whereby their clothes are 

 raised to an higher price, we of England have in all Shires 

 store of milles upon falling rivers. And these rivers 

 being in temperate zones are not dried up in Summer 

 with drought and heat as the rivers be in Spaine and in 

 hotter regions, nor frozen up in Winter as all the rivers 

 be in all the North regions of the world : so as our milles 



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