The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul 39.4

39.4

But it is all Naught; wee must teach them by constraynt and Necessitie, and talke with them of leauing that trade when wee haue possessed it to our gaine and their want; then will they begg the Conditions which they Now will not harken after. In this employment I haue both interested Master Steele and designed him the Cheefe Merchant; for lesse then some Cheefe will not content him, and it cannot bee in this countrie to the Iniurie of any. I hope the Comander, you, and hee will finde some employment of a shipp that way. If it were myne owne busines I would goe spend tyme only for hopes, though I had noe helpe of the Guzeratts; and this I haue often declared.