“如果英国人把所有东西都留给自己 ， ” 他写道 ， “ 那么比利时人现在仍在为英国人做衣服 ， （ 而）英国现在仍是（汉萨同盟）的大羊圈。 ”
“Had the English left everything to itself,” he wrote, “the Belgians would be still manufacturing cloth for the English, [and] England would still have been the sheepyard for the [Hanseatic League].”