Northern Europe - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques And Discoveries Of The English Nation - Volume 1 - Collected By Richard Hakluyt
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Hee That
Mocketh The Poore, Reprocheth Him That Made Him.
And in very deede, because this our nation is nowe, and heretofore hath
been poore and needie, and as it were a begger amongest many rich men, it
hath susteined so many taunts and scoffes of strangers.
But let them take
heede whom they vpbraide. Verely if there were nothing else common vnto vs
with them, yet we both consist of the same elements, and haue all one
father and God.
SECTIO QUARTA.
[Sidenote: Krantzius Munster] In simplicitate sancta vitam agunt, cum nihil
amplius quarant quam natura concedit. Beata gens, cuius paupertati nullus
inuidet. Sed mercatores Anglici et Dani quiescere gentem non sinunt, qui
ob piscaturam vehendam terram illam frequentantes cum mercibus omnigenis
vitia quoque nostra inuexerunt. Nam et fruges aqua miscere in potum
didicerunt, et simplicis aqua haustus oderunt. Nunc aurum et argentum cum
nostris admirantur.
Simplicitate. Equidem sancta simphcitatis laudem nobis attribui, merito
gaudemus: Sed id dolemus, quod reperiatur etiam apud nos iustitia ac legum
ingens deprauatio, ac magna anarchia, quam multorum scelerum myriades
consequuntur, quod pij et boni omnes quotidie deplorant. Id mali autem
nequaquam supremi Magistratus, hoc est, Regis nostri clementissimi, sed
verius nostra culpa accidit: qui hac qua clam ipso prapostere geruntur et
qua in inferiore magistratu desiderantur, ad maiestatem ipsius non
deferimus.
Mercatores. Mercatores porro, non solum Angli et Dani, sed maxime Germani,
vt nunc, ita olim terram nostram, non ob piscaturam sed pisces euehendos
frequentantes, nequaquam artem illam, miscendarum frugum aqua, Islandos
docuerunt.
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