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Rev. Samuel kV/ziting. 57
"was far fi'om discouraging him through any
unwillingness in her to forsake her native coun-
try, or expose her own person, first unto the
hazards of the ocean, and then unto the sorrows
of a wilderness ; but though some of her friends
were much against it, yet she rather forwarded
th£n hindered her husband's inclination for
America." They agreed that rather than live
in England a life of humiliating submission to
the bishops, they would turn their backs upon
their native land, with alI its glorious memories,
and seek new fields of labor beyond the seas.*
"What numbers of faithful and free-born
Englishmen, and good Christians," thus wrote
John Milton in I64 I, " have been constrained
to forsake their dearest home, their friends and
kindred, whom nothing but the wide ocean,
and the savage deserts of America, could hide
and shelter from the fury of the bishops I Oh,
if we could but see the shape of our dear
mother England! as poets are wont to give a
personal form to what they please, how would
she appear, think ye, but in a mourning weed,
* Thompson's Boston, 429, 43 ° ; Savage's Gem Dict., ii., p. 468.
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