It were surely well, for mere pride's sake, to have due lot and part in the great New World! And wealth like that which Spain had found was a dazzle and a lure.

"Why, man, all their dripping-pans are pure gold, and all the chains with which they chain up their streets are massy gold; all the prisoners they take are fettered in gold; and for rubies and diamonds they go forth on holidays and gather 'em by the seashore!" So the comedy of "Eastward Ho!" seen on the London stage in 1605--"Eastward Ho!" because yet they thought of America as on the road around to China.
In this year Captain George Weymouth sailed across the sea and spent a summer month in North Virginia--later, New England.

Weymouth had powerful backers, and with him sailed old adventurers who had been with Raleigh.

Coming home to England with five Indians in his company, Weymouth and his voyage gave to public interest the needed fillip towards action.

Here was the peace with Spain, and here was the new interest in Virginia.