Be not afeard. The aisle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not.

Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about mine ears and sometimes voices,

that if I then had waked after long sleep, will make me sleep again, and then, in dreaming,

the clouds me thought would open, show riches ready to drop upon me

that when I waked, I cried to dream again. The Tempest, Act 3, Scene 2.

Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network.

I'm your host Heather Tesco, and I'm a storyteller who makes history accessible because I believe

it's a pathway to understanding who we are, our place in the universe, and being more deeply in

touch with our own humanity. This is episode 111, and we're talking today about English colonization and the exploration of the Americas, specifically Roanoke Island.

This is something that often gets overlooked in the popular history of this period.

It kind of gets lumped in with American history, and especially as the first permanent colony,

Jamestown, wasn't settled until

1607, we tend to think of this as being separate from our tutor period. But the fact is that

the Elizabethans were very much interested in settling in and exploring the Americas, launching the

equivalent of, I read it was called like the equivalent of their own Apollo program. That's what we're going to talk about this week, specifically Roanoke.

But first, I need to thank my patrons who help to keep this show independent.

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