OF THE PLANTATIONS IN IRELAND. 



but all the rest. And so we see in armour, if any 

 part be left naked, it puts in hazard the whole 

 person. And in the natural body of man, if there 

 be any weak or affected part, it is enough to draw 

 rheums or malign humours unto it, to the interrup 

 tion of the health of the whole body. 



And for the particular, the example is too fresh, 

 that the indisposition of that kingdom hath been 

 a continual attractive of troubles and infestations 

 upon this estate ; and though your majesty s great 

 ness doth in some sort discharge this fear, yet with 

 your increase of power it cannot be, but envy is 

 likewise increased. 



The fourth and last consequence is the great 

 profit and strength which is like to redound to 

 your crown, by the working upon this unpolished 

 part thereof: whereof your majesty, being in the 

 strength of your years, is like, by the good 

 pleasures of almighty God, to receive more than 

 the first-fruits ; and your posterity a growing and 

 springing vein of riches and power. For this island 

 being another Britain, as Britain was said to be 

 another world, is endowed with so many dowries of 

 nature, considering the fruitfulness of the soil, the 

 ports, the rivers, the fishings, the quarries, the 

 woods, and other materials ; and especially the race 

 and generation of men, valiant, hard, and active, as 

 it is not easy, no not upon the continent, to find 

 such confluence of commodities, if the hand of man 

 did join with the hand of nature. So then for the 



