While all this cumulative evidence shows that the settlers did better in Virginia than in England, it fails to support the Rebel pretension of to-day.
I have referred to Massinger. Here is a curious bit from a grave comedy of that poet dramatist.
“Luke. It is but to Virginia.
“Lady Frugal. How? Virginia?
High Heaven forbid! Remember, Sir, I beseech you,
What creatures are shipped thither.
“Anne. Condemned wretches,
Forfeited to the law.
“Mary. For the abomination of their life,
Spewed out of their own country.”[402]