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For in over-toyling our weake and unskilfull bodies to satisfie this desire of present profit we can scarce ever recover ourselves from one supply to another.... As yet you must not looke for any profitable returnes." John Smith, Works, Arber ed. This unwelcome advice while daunting all mercenary promoters gave spur to strong-hearted patriots.
Newton to meet you and stay with you till She returnes a gann.
Newton to meet you and stay with you till She returnes a gann.
On June 18, 1684, the lord keeper ordered the defendant to appear and plead on the first day of the next Michaelmas Term. The story, however, is best told by Humphrys himself: "It is matter of astonishment to me, to think of the returnes I haue had from you in the affaire of your charter; that a prudent people should think soe little, in a thing of the greatest moment to them.
The writ was now safely lodged in the house; but the Ambassador had ordered the messenger to take care to call the attention of some one in it to the fact that the writ was there. Unfortunately, says the Ambassador, this part of his instructions had been neglected. "The Courrier returnes to me.
Great receipts call for great returnes; the more that any man is intrusted withall, the larger his accounts stands upon God's score: it therefore behoves every man so to improve his talents, that when his great Master shall call him to reckoning he may receive his owne with advantage. Sin and shame ever goe together.
This enterprise may staye the Spanishe Kinge from flowinge over all the face of that waste firme of America, yf wee seate and plante there in time, in tyme I say, and wee by plantinge shall lett him from makinge more shorte and more safe returnes oute of the noble portes of the purposed places of our plantinge, then by any possibilitie he can from the parte of the firme that nowe his navies by ordinary courses come from, in this that there is no comparison betwene the portes of the coastes that the Kinge of Spaine dothe nowe possesse and use, and the portes of the coastes that our nation is to possesse by plantinge at Norumbega and on that tracte faste by, more to the northe and northeaste, and in that there is from thence a moche shorter course, and a course of more temperature, and a course that possesseth more contynuance of ordinary windes, then the present course of the Spanishe Indian navies nowe dothe.
Bel. Well, we shall see the goodly youth your curiositie has elected, when my brother returnes, I hope. Clar. I hope soe, too; I marvill where this Cub is, He is not roaring here yet. Enter Thorogood. Bon. Tho. Ladies, I must desire your pardon for my friend: I have some busines will a while deprive him Your sweet companies. Clar. Take him away; we are weary of him. Bel. Bon.
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