_Videns ventum magnum timuit, et cum coepisset demergi, clamavit, &c._
Matt. xiv.
Petre, cades, o, si dubitas: o, fide: nec ipsum,
Petre, negat fidis aequor habere fidem.
Pondere pressa suo subsidunt caetera: solum,
Petre, tuae mergit te levitatis onus.[47]
_When he saw the wind boisterous he was afraid; and beginning to sink,
he cried, &c._
Peter! doubt, and thou sinkest! O, believe;
The sea will not thy faith, Peter, deceive.
Things by their weight subside into the wave;
Thy lightness, Peter, threats a wat'ry grave. G.