Transcriber's note: The Notes at the end of the book, relating to particular stanzas, are hyperlinked from the numeral above the stanza or, in the case of the first stanza, from the first words of the stanza. Similarly, the heading to each Note is backlinked to the relevant stanza.
WHAT CHEER
OR
ROGER WILLIAMS IN BANISHMENT
A POEM
By Job Durfee
“And surely betweene my friends of the Bay and Plimouth, I was sorely tost for fourteen weeks, in a bitter cold winter season, not knowing what bed or bread did meane.”—Roger Williams’s Letter to Mason.
REVISED AND EDITED
BY
Thomas Durfee
Providence
PRESTON & ROUNDS
1896
Copyright, 1896,
By Thomas Durfee.
Snow & Farnham, Printers,
Providence.