The world to her, and both at her blest feet
In whom the circles of all empire meet.”[256]
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 fish,
And the fruitfull’st soil,
Without your toil,