...clothing. Our king, therefore, resolved if possible to reduce the trade to his own country, who as yet were ignorant of the art, as knowing no more what to do with their wool than the sheep that weare it, as to any artificiall and curious drapery, their clothes then being no better...

...came to the throne, as Fuller has quaintly put it, the English were ignorant of the art of weaving, "as knowing no more " what to do with their wool than the sheep that wear it." "Now," however, says he, "was the English wool improved to the highest profit...

...word-spinner, Bishop Fuller, who tells us that our forefathers were " as yet ignorant of that art [clothing], as knowing no more what to do with their wool than the sheep that wear it, as to any artificial and curious drapery." This is far from being the fact, for...

...therefore, resolved, if possible, to reduce the trade of his own country who as yet were ignorant of that art, as knowing no more what to do with their wool than the sheep that wear it, as to any artificial and curious drapery; their best clothes then being no better...