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reversions after lives or years, or sucli as were fit to 

 put out money upon long returns. 



I do not say, but that I think the undertakers 

 themselves will be glad to have some captains, or 

 men of service, intermixed among them for their 

 safety ; but I speak of the generality of under 

 takers, which I wish were men of estate and plenty. 



Now therefore it folio weth well to speak of the 

 aforesaid three motives. For it will appear the 

 more, how necessary it is to allure by all means 

 undertakers : since those men will be least fit, which 

 are like to be most in appetite of themselves ; and 

 those most fit, which are like least to desire it. 



First, therefore, for pleasure : in this region or 

 tract of soil, there are no warm winters, nor orange- 

 trees, nor strange beasts, or birds, or other points of 

 curiosity or pleasure, as there are in the Indies and 

 the like : so as there can be found no foundation 

 made upon matter of pleasure, otherwise than that 

 the very general desire of novelty and experiment 

 in some stirring natures may work somewhat ; and 

 therefore it is the other two points, of honour and 

 profit, whereupon we are wholly to rest. 



For honour or countenance, if I shall mention to 

 your majesty, whether in wisdom you shall think 

 convenient, the better to express your affection to 

 the enterprise, and for a pledge thereof, to add the 

 earldom of Ulster to the prince s titles, I shall but 

 learn it out of the practice of king Edward I. who 

 first used the like course, as a mean the better to 



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