Question

Directions: Paraphrase the following important lines from “John Rolfe to Sir Thomas Dale”, a letter meant to persuade a royal official of the necessity of marrying into an Indigenous Peoples.

(2) “And did not my ease proceede from an unspotted conscience, I should not dare to offer to your view and approved judgement, these passions of my troubled soule, so fulle of feare and trembling is hypocrisie and dissimulation.”

Answer 1

If it weren't for my clear conscience, I wouldn't have the courage to share with you my troubled feelings. Hypocrisy and deceit fill me with fear and anxiety.