To Mariners

Ye wave-trod watermen, as ill as she

That all the earth in infelicity

Of rapine plunges; who upon your fare

As sterv’d-like-ravenous as cormorants are;

The lives ye lead, but in the worst degree,

Not to be envied more than misery;

Take shame, and fear the indignation

Of Him that thunders from the highest throne,

Hospitious Jove, who, at the back, prepares

Pains of abhorr’d effect of him that dares

The pieties break of his hospitious squares.

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