All the workes of Iohn Taylor the Water-Poet Being Sixty and three in Number. Collected into one Volume by the Author [i.e. John Taylor]: With sundry new Additions, corrected, reuised, and newly Imprinted |
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 55. |
| 56. |
| 57. |
| 58. |
| 59. |
| 60. |
| 61. |
| 62. |
| 63. |
| 64. |
| 65. |
| 66. |
| 67. |
| 68. |
| 69. |
| 70. |
| 71. |
| 72. |
| 73. |
| 74. |
| 75. |
| 76. |
| 77. |
| 78. |
| 79. |
| 120. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 | All the workes of Iohn Taylor the Water-Poet |  |
You braue Neptunians, you salt water crew,
Sea-plowing Marriners; I speake to you:
From Hemp you for your selues and others gaine
Your Sprit-sayle, fore-sayle, top-sayle, & your maine,
Top, and top-gallant, and your mizzen-abast,
Your coursers, bonnets, drablers, fore and aft,
The sheats, tacks, boliens, braces, halliars, tyes,
Shrowds, ratlings, lanyards, tackles, lifts, and guies,
Your martlines, ropeyarnes, gaskets, and your stayes,
These for your vse, small Hemp-seed vp doth raise:
The boirope, boatrope, guestrope, catrope, portrope
The bucket rope, the boat-rope, long or short rope,
The entering-rope, the top-rope (and the rest
Which you that are acquainted with know best:
The lines to sound in what depth you slide,
Cables and hausers, by which ships doe ride:
All these, and many moe then I can name,
From this small seed, good industry doth frame.
Ships, Barks, Hoyes, Drumlers, Craires, Boats, all would sink,
But for the Ocum caulk'd in euery chink.
Th'vnmatched Loadstone, and best figur'd Maps
Might shew where foraine Countries are (perhaps)
Thel Compasse (being rightly toucht) will show
The thirty two points where the winds do blow;
Men with the Iacobs staffe, and Astrolobe
May take the height and circuit of the Globe:
And sundry Art-like instruments looke cleare
In what Horizon, or what Hemisphere
Men sayle in through the raging ruthlesse deepe,
And to what coast, such and such course to keepe;
Guessing by th'Artike, or Antartike starre,
Climates and countries being ne're so farre.
But what can these things be of price or worth
To know degrees, heights, depths, East. W.S. North
What are all these but shadowes, and vaine hopes,
If ships doe eyther want their Sailes or Ropes?
Sea-plowing Marriners; I speake to you:
From Hemp you for your selues and others gaine
Your Sprit-sayle, fore-sayle, top-sayle, & your maine,
Top, and top-gallant, and your mizzen-abast,
Your coursers, bonnets, drablers, fore and aft,
The sheats, tacks, boliens, braces, halliars, tyes,
Shrowds, ratlings, lanyards, tackles, lifts, and guies,
Your martlines, ropeyarnes, gaskets, and your stayes,
These for your vse, small Hemp-seed vp doth raise:
The boirope, boatrope, guestrope, catrope, portrope
The bucket rope, the boat-rope, long or short rope,
The entering-rope, the top-rope (and the rest
Which you that are acquainted with know best:
The lines to sound in what depth you slide,
Cables and hausers, by which ships doe ride:
All these, and many moe then I can name,
From this small seed, good industry doth frame.
Ships, Barks, Hoyes, Drumlers, Craires, Boats, all would sink,
But for the Ocum caulk'd in euery chink.
Th'vnmatched Loadstone, and best figur'd Maps
Might shew where foraine Countries are (perhaps)
67
The thirty two points where the winds do blow;
Men with the Iacobs staffe, and Astrolobe
May take the height and circuit of the Globe:
And sundry Art-like instruments looke cleare
In what Horizon, or what Hemisphere
Men sayle in through the raging ruthlesse deepe,
And to what coast, such and such course to keepe;
Guessing by th'Artike, or Antartike starre,
Climates and countries being ne're so farre.
But what can these things be of price or worth
To know degrees, heights, depths, East. W.S. North
What are all these but shadowes, and vaine hopes,
If ships doe eyther want their Sailes or Ropes?
| All the workes of Iohn Taylor the Water-Poet | |