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mandeth his servants to carry the Marchants furniture 

 for his house home, and load it on some cart, and carry 

 it into the city, where the Brokers have divers empty 

 houses meet for the lodging of Marchants, furnished 

 onely with bedsteds, tables, chaires, and empty jarres for 

 water : then the Broker sayth to the Marchant, Goe and 

 repose your selfe, and take your rest in the city. The 

 Broker tarrieth at the water side with the cargason, and 

 causeth all his goods to be discharged out of the ship, 

 and payeth the custome, and causeth it to be brought 

 into the house where the marchant lieth, the Marchant 

 not knowing any thing thereof, neither custome, nor 

 charges. These goods being brought to this passe into 

 the house of the Marchant, the Broker demandeth of the 

 Marchant if he have any desire to sell his goods or 

 marchandise, at the prises that such wares are worth at 

 that present time ? And if he hath a desire to sell his 

 goods presently, then at that instant the Broker selleth 

 them away. After this the Broker sayth to the Marchant, 

 you have so much of every sort of marchandise neat and 

 cleare of every charge, and so much ready money. And 

 if the Marchant will imploy his money in other com- 

 modities, then the Broker telleth him that such and such 

 commodities will cost so much, put aboord without any 

 maner of charges. The Marchant understanding the 

 effect, maketh his account ; and if he thinke to buy or 

 sell at the prices currant, he giveth order to make his 

 marchandise away : and if he hath commodity for 20000 

 dukets, all shalbe bartred or solde away in fifteene dayes 

 without any care or trouble : and when as the Marchant 

 thinketh that he cannot sell his goods at the prise 

 currant, he may tary as long as he will, but they cannot 

 be solde by any man but by that Broker that hath taken 

 them on land and payed the custome: and perchance 

 tarying sometimes for sale of their commodity, they make 

 good profit, and sometimes losse : but those marchandise 

 that come not ordinarily every fifteene dayes, in tarying 

 for the sale of them, there is great profit. The barks 



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