A Bonnet.
Is belonging to an other saile, but is commonly used with none but the Missen, maine and fore-sailes, and the sprit-sailes I have seene, but it is very rate, a top-saile bonnet, and hold it very usefull in an easie gale, quarter winds or before a wind, this is commonly as deepe as the saile it belongs to, there is no certaine proportion for some will make the Maine-saile so deepe that with a showele bonnet, they will latch all the mast without a drabler: Others will make the maine-saile-showler, that they may with foule weather beare it safer, and then the bonnet will be the deeper. Lase on the bonnet, or bring to the bonnet, that is, put it to the course: loosing is here very proper, be∣cause it is made fast with latchetts, into the eylot-holes of the sayle: Note that when we doe speake of the saile in any correspondence to the bon∣net, we call it the course, and not the saile: as we say when a ship hath those sailes out; course and bonnet of each: not maine-saile and bonnet, and fore-saile and bonnet. Shake off the bonnet: that is, take it off.