Note 19 — Chapter IV
Reading edition
Virginia is noticed in "The Noble Gentleman" of Fletcher:—
"Clerimont.—Sir, I had rather send her to Virginia, to help to propagate the English nation."—Weber's Edition of the Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, v. VII. p. 442.
Mention is likewise made of it in Massinger's "City Madam":—
——————"How! Virginia! High heaven forbid! Remember, Sir, I beseech you, What creatures are shipp'd thither—— ——————Condemned wretches, Forfeited to the law."
Gifford's Edit. of Massinger, vol. IV. p. 103.