The trade with Venice is next detailed in original and explicit terms, and extends to great length.
“The great Galees of Venice and Florence
Be well laden with things of complacence
All spicery and of grossers ware:
With sweete wines all maner of chaffare,
Apes and Japes and marmusets tayled,
Nifles and trifles that little have avayled:”
and so forth.
The author then alludes to the frauds committed by the Italian bankers and factors, all which he strongly and with the deep feelings of patriotic prejudice animadverts upon and condemns. He shows the disadvantages English merchants laboured under in point of trade with foreign markets. He claims at least reciprocal advantages, and after showing how valuable the trade is likely to become, he concludes—
“Keep then the sea, shippes should not bring ne fetch,