182 HISTORY OF THE 



" There are but two things required in this work j 

 that is to fay, a will to undertake it, and money to 

 go through with it, which being found we will place 

 charity to begin at home with ourfelves, before we 

 yield it to our neighbours ; and then this bufmefs 

 will appear to be effected with more benefit, more 

 ftrength> more renown, more happinefs, and lefs ex- 

 pence, than Hollanders have or can go through withal. 

 Time is the moft precious experience; and you Ihall 

 find that time will cure our careleffhefs paft, that rea- 

 fon could not hitherto do* 



cc The inftruments by which the Hollanders work, 

 are their veflels of leveral kinds, as 1 have declared, 

 not produced out of their own country ; for it yields 

 nothing to further it, but their own pains and labour. 



cc Their wood, timber, and planks to build fhips, 

 they fetch out of divers other places 5 and yet are 

 thefe no more available to undertake their fifhing and 

 navigation, than weapons are without hands to fight. 

 Their iron, hemp, cordage, barrel-boards, bread and 

 malt, they are beholding for to feveral countries j 

 and if at any time out of difpleafure they be prohi- 

 bited the tranfportation, they are to feek a new oc- 

 cupation, for the ftate fails. 



<c Comparing their cafualties and inconvenien'cies 

 with ours, you {hall difcern the advantage and benefit 

 God has given us, in refpecl of them ; for all the 

 materials formerly repeated, that go to their fhipping, 

 England yields moft of them, or in little time the 

 earth will be made to produce them in abundance ; 

 fo that we Ihall not need to ft and upon the courtefy of 

 our neighbours, or to venture the hazard of the fea 

 in fetching them. 



cc Whereas all manner of people, of what degree 

 foever in Holland, have commonly a fhare, accord- 

 ing to their abilities, in this fifhing; and that the 

 only exception amongft ourfelves, is the want of mo-r 

 ney to undertake it, you Ihall underftand how God 

 and nature have provided for us ; for I will appa- 

 rently 



