I was not born to be a governor or protect islands or cities from the enemies that choose to attack them.

Ploughing and digging, vinedressing and pruning, are more in my way than defending provinces or kingdoms.

'Saint Peter is very well at Rome; I mean each of us is best following the trade he was born to.

A reaping-hook fits my hand better than a governor's sceptre; I'd rather have my fill of gazpacho' than be subject to the misery of a meddling doctor who me with hunger, and I'd rather lie in summer under the shade of an oak, and in winter wrap myself in a double sheepskin jacket in freedom, than go to bed between holland sheets and dress in sables under the restraint of a government.

God be with your worships, and tell my lord the duke that 'naked I was born, naked I find myself, I neither lose nor gain;' I mean that without a farthing I came into this government, and without a farthing I go out of it, very different from the way governors commonly leave other islands.