“The workmanship will surpass the material.”—Ovid, Met. B. ii. l. 5.

He alludes to the manufactures of the Low Countries.

Like manure.

Sometimes printed engrossing, great pasturages. By engrossing, is meant the trade of engrossers—men who buy up all that can be got of a particular commodity, then raise the price. By great pasturages is meant turning corn land into pasture. Of this practice great complaints had been made for near a century before Bacon’s time, and a law passed to prevent it.—See Lord Herbert of Cherbury’s History of Henry VIII.