John Rolfe, Letter to Sir Thomas Dale, printed at the end of Hamor's True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia 1615

"To whom my hartie and best thoughts are, and have a long time bin so intangled, and inthralled in so intricate a laborinth, that I was even awearied to unwinde my selfe thereout" (Hamor, 63)

"one whose education hath bin rude, her manners barbarous, her generation accursed, and so discrepant in all nutriture from my selfe," (Hamor, 64)

"her great apparance of love to me. . . besides her owne incitements stirring me up hereunto" (Hamor, 65-66).

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