Poems &c. written by Mr. Ed. Waller ... ; and printed by a copy of his own hand-writing ; all the lyrick poems in this booke were set by Mr. Henry Lawes ...

Of the taking of Sally.

OF Jason, Theseus, and such Worthies old Light seem the tales Antiquity has told, Such Beasts and Monsters as their force opprest, Some places only, and some times infest; Sally, that scorn'd all power and lawes of Men, Goods with their owners hurrying to their Den. And future ages threatning with a crude And salvage race successively renew'd,

Their Kings despising with rebellious pride, And foes profess'd to all the world beside, This pest of mankind gives our Hero fame, And through th'obliged world dilates his name.

The Prophet once to cruell Agag said, As thy fierce sword has Mothers childless made, So shall the sword make thine; and with that word Hee hew'd the man in pieces with his sword: Just Charles like measure has return'd to these Whose Pagan hands had stain'd the troubled Seas; With ships they made the spoiled Merchants mourn, With ships their City and themselves are torn; One squadron of our winged Castles sent O'rthrew their Fort, and all their Navy rent.

For not content the dangers to increase, And act the part of tempests in the Seas, Like hungry Wolves these Pirats from our shore Whole flocks of sheep and ravish'd cattell bore.

Safely they did on other Nations prey: Fooles, to provoke the Soveraign of the Sea! Mad Cacus so, whom like ill Fate perswades, The Herd of fair Alcmena's seed invades, Who for revenge, and mortalls glad reliefe Sack'd the dark Cave, and crush'd that horrid thiefe.

Morocco's Monarch wond'ring at this fact, Save that his presence his affaires exact, Had come in person to have seen and known The injur'd worlds revenger and his own; Hither he sends the chiefe among his Peeres, Who in his Barke well-chosen presents bears To the renown'd for piety and force, Poore Captives manumis'd, and matchless horse.