"my trade is simple, too; that is to say, a peasant's trade. if thou art in need of ships, thy learned men of foreign birth build them for thee as well as their wisdom teaches them. but if thou wilt order, i will build them simply one, two! and the ship is ready. my ships will be the result of the quick headwork of a peasant simpleton. but where a foreign ship sails a year, mine will sail an hour, and where others take ten years, mine will take not longer than a week."