Author: Reverend William Symonds

Cited by

• William T. Vollmann (1)
  • IN: Argall (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This land was of old time offered to our kings. Our late Sovereign Queen Elizabeth (whose story hath no peer among princes of her sex), being a pure virgin, found it, set foot in it, and called it V i r g i n i a. Such as do manage the expedition are careful to carry thither no traitors, nor Papists that depend on the Great Whore. LORD finish this good work Thou hast begun; and marry this land, a pure virgin, to Thy kingly son CHRIST JESUS; so shall Thy name by magnified; and we shall have a virgin or maiden Britain, a comfortable addition to our Great Britain...
    FROM: sermon, (1609), NULL, UK