And sundry other strange devices.
Saltpetre, drugs, spice and such trading
Composed the bulk of all their lading:
Bengals and silks of India’s making
Our merchants then refused to take in,
Knowing it would their country ruin
And might prove to their own undoing.
Nor did they carry gold or bullion
To fetch home what supplants our woollen;
Nor were this nation fond to wear