Some Pirate, and grimme _Neptune_ thou should'st be
His Executioner, or what is his worse,
The gripple Merchant, borne to be the curse
Of this braue Iland; let them for her sake,
Who to thy safeguard doth her selfe betake, 40
Escape vndrown'd, vnwrackt, nay rather let
Them be at ease in some safe harbour set,
Where with much profit they may vent their wealth
That they haue got by villany and stealth,
Rather great _Neptune_, then when thou dost raue,
Thou once shouldst wet her saile but with a waue.
Or if some proling Rouer shall but dare,
To seize the ship wherein she is to fare,
Let the fell fishes of the Maine appeare,
And tell those Sea-thiefes, that once such they were 50
As they are now, till they assaid to rape
An Ile for Grape-crowned _Bacchus_ in a striplings shape,
the abundance That came aboard them, and would faine haue saild,
of wine To vine-spread *_Naxus_ but that him they faild,
supposed to Which he perceiuing, them so monstrous made,
be the And warnd them how they passengers inuade.
habitation Ye South and Westerne winds now cease to blow
of _Bachus_. Autumne is come, there be no flowers to grow,
Yea from that place respire, to which she goes,
And to her sailes should show your selfe but foes, 60
But _Boreas_ and yee Esterne windes arise,
To send her soon to _Spaine_, but be precise,
That in your aide you seeme not still so sterne,
As we a summer should no more discerne,
For till that here againe, I may her see,
It will be winter all the yeare with mee.
_Castor_ and Ye swanne-begotten lonely brother-stars,
_Polox_ begot So oft auspicious to poore Mariners,
by _Ioue_ on Ye twin-bred lights of louely _Leda's_ brood,
_Leda_ in the _Ioues_ egge-borne issue smile vpon the flood, 70
forme of a And in your mild'st aspect doe ye appeare
Swanne. A To be her warrant from all future feare.
constellation And if thou ship that bear'st her, doe proue good,
ominous to May neuer time by wormes, consume thy wood
Mariners. Nor rust thy iron, may thy tacklings last,
Till they for reliques be in temples plac't;