Touching the laws which your lordship sent, I am told that they would not be accepted, and even the governor said to me that they were not fit for this colony. For my own part, seeing no service that I could do your lordship therein, and many inconveniences that I might run into by intermedling, I never so much as read them neither do I yet know what they contained;.... The laws which are now sent to your lordship, I never knew nor saw till even now. I only got a hasty view of them. Yet diverse things, even in that hasty reading, occured to me which I conceived requisite to acquaint your with...
 

reflecting on the infancy of this plantation; the many difficulties that are in concerning it; many things that, hereafter, when it should be fully planted, might be profitable unto it, at this time, seem likelier to keep it back, than to forward it.
 

....Certainly I conceive that your lordship will rather think it fit to nourish and support young sprigs, than to depress them,

... to go about to gather fruit before it be planted, and ripe, is never to have fruit.
 

...indeed the old sayings are true that Rome was not built in a day, and that such as will leap over (fences), before they come at them, shall break their shin, and perhaps not get over the (fence) so quickly, as those who come to them before they go over...