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Englishmen For My Money (Quarto 1, 1616)
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Enter PISARO.
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Pisaro.
6That driues my laden Shippes from fertile Spaine:
7But come what will, no Winde can come ami
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8For two and thirty Windes that rules the Seas,
9And blowes about this ayerie Region;
10Thirtie two Shippes haue I to equall them:
11Whose wealthy fraughts doe make Pisaro rich:
12Thus euery Soyle to mee is naturall:
13Indeed by birth, I am a Portingale,
15Heere liking of the soyle, I maried,
16And haue Three Daughters: But impartiall Death
20Letting for Intere
st, and on Morgages,
21Doe I waxe rich, though many Gentlemen
22By my extortion comes to miserie:
24Haue pawnde to mee their Liuings and their Lands:
25Each seuerall hoping, though their hopes are vaine,
27Their Patrimonies and their Landes againe:
28But Gold is sweete, and they deceiue them-selues;
29For though I guild my Temples with a smile,
30It is but Iudas-like, to work their endes.
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