Philomythie or Philomythologie wherein Outlandish Birds, Beasts, and Fishes, are taught to speake true English plainely. By Tho: Scot ... The second edition much inlarged |
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I can remember, long before thou Wert
When wise Alcedo stood where as thou art.
He calm'd all stormes, and pacified the wind
To patient sufferance, bent his humble minde.
He to the fisher, and the Seaman gaue
Directions, how their storme-tost barke to saue.
When by the Lee-shore, when to lanch the Maine,
And when to lie at Hull, when to remaine
In harbour Anchor-fast, and when to saile
With a full winde, and when againe to vaile:
How, where and when, to cast their nets, and lay
Their hidden hookes, where all the skull do play.
Some of each kinde, yet at each corner stand,
Who still loue truth; in spite of thy command:
Their heads look south, because the wind blows there,
Thy taile stands south, thy head the winde doth feare.
Ill might he fare that in Alcedos place,
Set thee, who springest from a bloudy race.
His error, and thy pedigree behold
As it in ancient story is inrould.
When wise Alcedo stood where as thou art.
He calm'd all stormes, and pacified the wind
To patient sufferance, bent his humble minde.
He to the fisher, and the Seaman gaue
Directions, how their storme-tost barke to saue.
When by the Lee-shore, when to lanch the Maine,
And when to lie at Hull, when to remaine
In harbour Anchor-fast, and when to saile
With a full winde, and when againe to vaile:
How, where and when, to cast their nets, and lay
Their hidden hookes, where all the skull do play.
Some of each kinde, yet at each corner stand,
Who still loue truth; in spite of thy command:
Their heads look south, because the wind blows there,
Thy taile stands south, thy head the winde doth feare.
Ill might he fare that in Alcedos place,
Set thee, who springest from a bloudy race.
His error, and thy pedigree behold
As it in ancient story is inrould.
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