What ayme you at in your plantation?
Sought you the honour of our nation?
Or did you hope to raise your owne renowne?
Or else to adde a kingdome to a crowne?
Or Christ's true doctrine for to propagate?
Or drawe salvages to a blessed state?
Or our o're peopled kingdome to relieve?
Or shew poore men where they may richly live?
Or poore mens children godly to maintaine?
Or aym'd you at your owne sweete private gaine?

_To some discreet people who thinke anybody good enough for a
plantation._

When you doe see an idle, lewd, young man,
You say hee's fit for our plantation.
Knowing your selfe to be riche, sober, wise
You set your owne worth at an higher price.
I say, such men as you are, were more fit,
And most convenient for first peopling it:
Such men as you would quickly profit here:
Lewd, lazy lubbers, want wit, grace, and care.

_To the famous, wise and learned sisters, the two Universities of
England, Oxford and Cambridge._

Send forth your sons unto our new plantation;
Yet send such as are holy, wise, and able.

The same writer submitted to Charles I. a remarkable "proposition of