The Belides or Eulogie and elegie, of that truly honourable John Lord Harrington Baron of Exton, who was elevated hence the 27th of Febr. 1613. vvanting then tvvo moneths of 22. yeares old. By G.T.

A RELATION Of the Tempest dispersing us in the Bay of BISCAY, at our unfortunate Voyage towards Cales Males, An. 1625.

THe generall hemisphere was thick, was all In sullen ash-colour; when straight a shoale Of ominous Pork-pisces, drove through the fleet: And the fierce Ruffin Boreas, swore it meet, Each saile should strike; owning th' Atlantick main Likewife in soveraignty: then issued rain, The wind grew •…•…st'rous, sea began to roare

Like a lug'd monster, to disclose a sowre Outragious surface; and where other nights, The mantling billow shone but Chrysolites; But sole with spangs and gliding lights, enchas'd The gentler wave: now as an army vast, About us quarter'd lay, our generall ken Was full of horrid fire, the fretfull brine, Vpon a thousand mountains, far and neare, Like burning Becons hung; and every where So much combustion, that benevolent a 1.1 Cymodocé, for very angu••sh, rent Her sea-green haire; nor any b 1.2 Phocè wild,* 1.3 No savadgest (b) Amphibium, but impell'd With horror, fled a shore: no boysterous Whale, Incorrigible d 1.4 Orke, or other fell (a) Phiontides; but now they shot for dread Into the bottome owse. O who may read What various bedlamry, what worlds of woe, A storme imposes; to the deep below* 1.5 Our ships were thrown, and then againe, so soon So high, as if the same f 1.6 Birth with the Moon To have, or glorious g 1.7 Argo. But observe In earth-quakes, how the strongest buildings swerve, Totter, cast fire-brands, and all their loose Vtensils, round promiseuously; loe thus Did our poore Fleet so h 1.8 feele on, that throughout The decks all stowage, with our selves to boot, From side to side in medley flew: and even So was the great Anne Royall likewise driven Amid the frantick waves, to roule and reele,

And tosse, and tumble up her mighty keele, That parcell of her i 1.9 brasen bandogs, broke Through all their tyes; and but with mutual shock, Poysing each other; like the Vipers young, (Turn'd into paricids,) had split her strong And massie ribs. Nor could the rest but mourne Like infortunities; our long-boats, torne From their big k 1.10 Hawsers, rudely bandied were By waves, and monsters; for the l 1.11 Catches there, Some could Sea-mewes, make a shift to live In this combustion: othersome, declive And broken wayes not brooking, over-wrought, And fiercely swalowd were. our m 1.12 Prams distraught, Cuff'd up and down, and rack'd with severall seas Both fore n 1.13 and aft'; were driven to lose, and leaze Their lading, with the wilder Hypotams. Nay yet more fatal, opening al her seams, The poor long-Robert founder'd was, gaue o're, Sunk in the weathers stresse: and now what more Can o 1.14 Fisher, Hacket, Gerling, but attend While the sea yeelds her dead? that I transcend Expence of p 1.15 trim, and shipping, lo this storme How grown, yet wrought a further; and the worme

Of conscience startled so, that who while-ere With all his canvase out, could snugly beare Vp an ill-boading course, now springs his q 1.16 luffe; Cries guiliy Lord, and pardon; coats of buffe, H••gh temper'd corslets, are too weake to ward The worme of conscience; and how galliard Luxurio lately was, yet now he lowes His saile close to the board; ▪now humbly throwes Off Liviaes haire, and his Corinna's ring, To leeward over, wisely husbanding Oyle to his lampe; now as the righteous dye, Likewise will he. so horrid was and high, This spiritual r 1.17 Fura-cane; that on his lees, Though fell s 1.18 Basianus for a time may freeze, And seeme to settle; here he turnes againe Thick, and bemudder'd; like the clamorous maine, Casting up stones and dirt: his faeces boyle Vp now for vent, making him perbrake vile Prodigious sins. This was the storme, thus great, Thus ruthlesse, double thus, nor to be beat Out, but in many an houre; thus went we down To sea in ships, had businesse upon Great waters, saw the wonders of the deep; And thus againe, though Baal perhaps may sleep, Or seriously be talking, nor discerne His distant contumacious; yet we learne That God is omni-present, has his way Even in the while-wind, in the furious sea; In even the toughest conscience: and how sure A Jonas in the cradle of secure

Apostacy be lull'd, though even his bed Of the most curious thistle-down be made, Or that of silver Swans; yet if the faire Tindaridè, shall with a civill war Imbroyle the shrouds; and t 1.19 Hellen chasing thence Her brothers of beningner influence, Vnkennels al the winter winds, and billowes; Mauger the softest lullabies, and pillowes, He wakes; and finds his cradle now at last, Far worse then that, upon the topling mast.

Notes

• a 1.1

  A Poeticall Sea-nymph, so named, a pla∣candis fluctihus.
• b 1.2

  Sea-calves.
• * 1.3

  •• Vide fol.
• d 1.4

  A horrible fish, enemy to the Whale, so called, as Mi••∣sheu sayes, ab Orcadibus insu∣lis ubi maxime vivunt.
• * 1.5

  e Such creatures as nature hath made deadly euemies each to other.
• f 1.6

  Sea-men cal the place where a ship rides or sayles, her bitth.
• g 1.7

  Jasons ship, after made a constellation.
• h 1.8

  The Sea-term for reeling and swaying up and down.
• i 1.9

  Two pieces of Ordinance broke loose in her▪ Gun-room, but by inter∣shocking, and so poysing each other, remoun∣ted without further danger.
• k 1.10

  The Rops where with they were towed; perhaps deriv'd from Hauri••, or else rather named Halsers, and isluing from Halen in Dutch to draw.
• l 1.11

  Little vessels which attend as pages upon the greater ••••••p•• ••nd perhap•• so named, because better making use of any wind▪ and catching it to their ad∣vantage
• m 1.12

  VVe borrow this from the Nether ands, where itim orts as much as Scapha, a ship-boat a Canowe; but use it improperly for a Horse-boat
• n 1.13

  The Sea-phrase for before and after the mast.
• o 1.14

  These three Cadtains wreswal∣low'd in her.
• p 1.15

  A ship is then in her trim, when furnished, with al other requisits proportionable to her burthen.
• q 1.16

  ••n the star∣boord láguage, fals from his course.
• r 1.17

  The suddain & furions tem∣pests about the West-Indies are thus na∣med.
• s 1.18

  I was infor∣med of one a∣mongst us, so perplexed wiih the storm, that he voluntarily acknowledged himself guilty of particide.
• t 1.19

  This kind of blaze skipping by night amōg the tackling, is in French Furolè; com∣ming single, i•• was thought to be castor, and a dangerous Omen; when double, castor and Pollux, badge of Saint Pauls ship. Acts 28. 11. and very auspicious▪ if there sallied a third light, this was held to be Hellen, as fatall as ever, and prognosticating extremity of weather; the first two are now named S. Nicholas and S. Hermes.