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A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1582. 



TSt, you cannot denie but that this Realme yeeldeth 

 the most fine Wooll, the most soft, the most 

 strong Wooll, the most durable in Cloth, and most 

 apte of nature of all other to receive Die, and that 

 no Island or any one kingdome so small doeth 

 yeeld so great abundance of the same : and that 

 no Wooll is lesse subject to mothes, or to fretting 

 in presse, then this, as the old Parliament robes 

 of Kings, & of many noble Peeres to be shewed 

 may plainly testifie. 

 2 There is no commoditie of this Realme that may set 

 so many poore subjects on worke, as this doeth, 

 that doeth bring in so much treasure, and so much 

 enrich the merchant, and so much employ the 

 Navie of this Realme, as this commoditie of our 

 Wooll doeth. 



Ample and full Vent of this noble and rich com- 

 moditie is it that the common weale of this realme doeth 

 require. 



Spaine nowe aboundeth with Wools, and the same 

 are Clothed. Turkie hath Wools, and so have divers 

 provinces of Christendome and of Heathenesse, and 

 cloth is made of the same in divers places. 



I But if England have the most fine, and the most 

 excellent Wools of the world in all respects (as it cannot 

 bee denied, but it hath) 2 If there may bee added to 

 the same, excellent artificiall, and true making, and 

 excellent dying, 3 Then no doubt but that we shall 

 have vent for our Clothes, although the rest of the world 

 did abound much more with Wool then it doeth, and 

 although their workemanship and their dying were in 

 every degree equal with ours of England, unlesse the 

 labour of our people imployed that way, and the mate- 

 rials used in dying should be the cause of the contrary 

 by dearth. 



But if Forren nations turne their Wools, inferiour 

 to ours, into truer and more excellent made cloth, and 



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