That th’English merchants then, who did reside
At Antwerpe, me their secretarie chose,
(As though in me to manifest her pride)
Whence to those principalities I rose,
To pluck me downe, whence afterward she fear’d
Beyond her power that almost she had rear’d.
24.
When first the wealthie Netherlands me traind
In wise commerce, most proper to the place,
And from my countrie carefully me wain’d,