O that you did see daylie and hourelie sighes, grones, and teares, and that the thumpes that I afford mine owne brest, and rue and curse the time of my birth with holy Job. Therefore with weeping teares I beg of you to helpe me. “Then wee shalbe turned up to the land and eate barks of trees or moulds of the ground. Frethorne had just learned that his master might have to let him and his fellow servants go for want of resources to house and feed them: For example, consider the heart-breaking appeal sent by Richard Frethorne to his parents from Virginia in 1623, just months after his hopeful arrival on board the ship Abigail as an indentured servant hoping to work off his passage. In reality, the founding of colonial societies was uncertain, terrifying, and costly almost beyond expression.
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