Or when the wandering seas and Kentish coasts doo worke, And Calidons of British bloud, the troubled waues beguile.
Being a thing immortall as it selfe: It waues me forth againe; Ile follow it Hor.
I had a sister, Whom the blinde waues and surges haue deuour'd: Of charity, what kinne are you to me?
In vaine on waues vntride to shunne them go we should To Scythes and Massagetes Who neare the Pole reside: In vaine to boiling sandes Which Phæbus battry beates, For with vs still they would Cut seas and compasse landes.
The boyling tempest still Makes not Sea waters fome: Nor still the Northern blast Disquiets quiet streames: Nor who his chest to fill Sayles to the morning beames, On waues winde tosseth fast Still kepes his Ship from home.
For this few know themselues: for merchants broke View their estate with discontent and paine; And seas are troubled, when they doe reuoke Their flowing waues into themselues againe.
The raging waues and foming surges of the sea came rowling like mountaines one after another, and ouerraked the waste of the shippe like a mightie riuer running ouer it, whereas in faire weather it was neere 20.
For what the wauescould neuer wash away, This proper youth hath wasted in a day.
Hye thee, and by the wild waues and the wind, Seeke Italie and Realmes for thee to raigne, If piteous Gods haue power amidst the mayne, On ragged rocks thy penaunce thou maist find.
And other of them hoping to escape from them that pursued them, lept into the sea, and were swalowed vp in the waues thereof.
The poore people seeing vs goe away againe, came rowing after vs into the Sea, the waues being somewhat loftie.
But the storme so increased, and the waues began to mount aloft, which brought the yce so neere vs, and comming on so fast vpon vs, that we were faine to beare in and out, where we might espie an open place.
The wauesand troubled scum, that mooues the Seas alofte, Which runs and roares against the rocks, and threatneth daungers oft Resembleth lo the fits of loue, That dayly do my fansie moue.
Ah fickle loue, what foole is hee which doth commit hymselfe to the rage and fury of the Waues of thy foming and tempestuous Seas?
The Mayden hardned in hir Opinion, stoode still immoueable mutch like vnto a Rocke in the midst of the Sea, disquieted with a tempest of billowes, and fomy Waues in sutch wise as one word could not be procured from hir mouth.
Howbeit before we had finished foure verses the waues of the sea had stopped the breathes of most of our men.
Thus we went aboord when we thought good our selues, at least without any suspition of the Indians, although the tide of the Sea went so high that it put vs to great trouble, for oftentimes with great waues it beat into our boats.
Wee sayled vp and downe the sea all Thursday, and vntill Friday in the morning being the fourteeneth day of February, and the waues of the sea continually came raking ouer our deckes.
When as the wauesdoe threat our Chrystall world, And Proteus raising hils of flouds on high, Entends ere long to sport him in the skie.
Sidenote g: Halcyons are certaine byrds which building near the shore vpon the waues there will be no storme vntill the young be hatched.
Biritem and Muel likewise are dashed by the wauesof the Sea.
The reason is, as the Mariners said to me, because that there meete all the waues from all places of the Straights of Gibralter, and there breake, and that in most calmes there go greatest seas, whether the winde blow or not.
Do you not knowe that great bulkes and shippes do soner perishe and drowne in maine seas and riuers amiddes the raging waues and surges, than in narrow floudes and brookes, where the water is still and calme?
By his last will, he ordeined himselfe to be interred vpon the sea shore, that the waues and surges might beate and vexe his dead carcas.
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