...fear, So absolute the deep. 1 Draytou's Works, London, 1020. Drayton was afterwards poet laureate. " And cheerfully at sea Success you still entice, To get the pearl and gold, And ours to hold VIBOINIA, Karth's only paradise ! " Where nature hath ifl store Fowl, venison, and fish ; And the fruitfull'st...

...West-and-by-South forth keep ! Rocks, lee shores, nor shoals, When ^EOLUS scowls, You need not fear ; So absolute the deep! And cheerfully at sea, Success...get the pearl and gold! And ours to hold, Virginia, Where Nature hath in store, Fowl, venison, and fish! And the fruitfull'st soil, Without your toil,...

...and by South forth keep ; Rocks, lee shores, nor shoals, When ytolus scowls, You need not fear, So absolute the deep. " And cheerfully at sea Success...Without your toil, Three harvests more, All greater than you wish. " And the ambitious vine Crowns with his purple mass The cedar reaching high To kiss the...

...and by South forth keep ; Rocks, lee shores, nor shoals, When jtolus scowls, You need not fear, So absolute the deep, " And cheerfully at sea Success...gold, And ours to hold VIRGINIA, Earth's only paradise ! 1 Drayton's Works, London, 1620. Drayton was afterwards poet laureate. " Where nature hath in store...

...' In similar strain, Drayton, who flourished under James the First, says of Virginia : — • • And ours to hold Virginia, Earth's only paradise. " Where Nature hath in store Fowl, venison, and flsh, And the frnitfull'st soil, Without your toil, Three harvests more, All greater than your wish....

...West and by south forth keep! Rocks, lee-shores, nor shoals When Eolus scowls You need not fear; So absolute the deep. And cheerfully at sea Success you...entice To get the pearl and gold, And ours to hold Ptrginia, Earth's only paradise. Where nature hath in store Fowl, venison, and fish, And the fruitfull'st...

...— " Britons, you stay too long ! Quickly aboard bestow you 1 And with a merry gale Success you will entice ! To get the pearl and gold ! And ours to hold — Virginia ! Earth's only paradise ! " where. The newspapers quoted it, and the ladies of the court recited it; and it made the people all the more...

...West and by South forth keep; Rocks, lee shores, nor shoals, When ^Eolus scowls, You need not fear, So absolute the deep. " And cheerfully at sea Success...And ours to hold VIRGINIA, Earth's only paradise! 1 Drayton's Works, London, i6zo. Drayton was afterwards poet laureate. 91 " Where nature hath in store...

...West-and-by-South forth keep ! Rocks, Lee-shores, nor Shoals, When EOLUS scowls, You need not fear ! So absolute the deep. And cheerfully at sea, Success...Nature hath in store Fowl, venison, and fish : And the fruitful soil ; Without your toil, Three harvests more, All greater than your wish. f\ ~ — UDE S....

...1606, and Michael Dray ton wrote some quaint verses of farewell, of which perhaps one will suffice : "And cheerfully at sea Success you still entice. To...And ours to hold Virginia, Earth's only paradise!" The destination of the colony was Chesapeake Bay, a large gulf opening by a strait fifteen miles wide...