Therefore the captain resolved to woo her. But,
“Being a coward in this, though valiant enough for the most part,”
he decided to do it by proxy; so he selected John Alden, his secretary—
“Fair-haired, azure-eyed, with delicate Saxon complexion,
Having the dew of youth, and the beauty thereof, as the captives
Whom St. Gregory saw, and exclaimed, ‘Not Angles, but angels.’
Youngest of all was he of the men who came in the Mayflower.”
“John,” said he,
“‘Go to the damsel Priscilla, the loveliest maiden of Plymouth;
Say that the blunt old captain, a man not of words, but of actions,