Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable.

Astonishment

As when the mast of some well timbred hulke, Is with the blast of some outragious storme Blowne downe, it shakes the bottome of the bulke, And makes her ribs to cracke as they were torne, Whil'st still she stands astonisht and forlorne: So was he stound with stroake of her huge taile. Ed. Spencer.

—Lying still a while both did forget, The perillous present stownd wherein their liues were set, As when two warlike brigandines at sea, With murdrous weapons armd in cruell fight, Do meete together on the watrie Lea. They stem each other with so fell despight, That with the shocke of their owne heedlesse might, Their woodden ribs are shaken right asunder. They which from shore behold the dreadfull fight Of flashing fier, and here the Ordinance thunder, So greatly stand amaz'd of such vnwonted wonder. Ed. Spencer.