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<P>A MONUMENTAL MEMORIAL OF <HI>MARINE</HI> MERCY BEING An Acknowledgment of an High Hand of <HI>Divine Deliverance</HI> on the <HI>Deep</HI> in the Time of di&s;tre&s;s, <HI>IN</HI> A Late Voyage from <HI>Bo&s;ton</HI> in <HI>New-England</HI> To <HI>LONDON,</HI> Anno 1683.</P>
<P>In a Poem. By <HI>Richard Steere.</HI></P>
<P>To which is added <HI>Another</HI> Occa&s;ioned by Several <HI>Remarkable Pa&s;&s;ages</HI> happening at the <HI>Birth</HI> of a <HI>Male Child</HI> on Board the <HI>&s;ame Ship</HI> in <HI>her</HI> Voyage <HI>Returning</HI> 1684.</P>
<P>By the &s;ame <HI>Author</HI> then a <HI>Pa&s;&s;enger.</HI></P>
<P>Printed at <HI>BOSTON</HI> in <HI>New-England</HI> by <HI>Richard Pierce</HI> for <HI>James Cow&s;e</HI> Stationer Anno 1684.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="to the reader">
<PB REF="2">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>To the Reader.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Reader</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>I</HI> Here pre&s;ent thee with an Impartial Narrative, Collected from a <HI>Diurnall,</HI> and other Credible Informations of &s;ome Per&s;ons who had a &s;hare in this &s;o <HI>never to be forgotten</HI> a Deliverance, and at who&s;e Importunity it was Reduced into this &s;mall <HI>Tract,</HI> and &s;hrouded in the modern Attire of <HI>Mea&s;ure</HI> and <HI>Cadency,</HI> who&s;e even and ea&s;ie Pace being more Alluring and Captivating (E&s;pecially with youth, or the Crittically Ingenious of this Age) than the Elaborate <HI>Volumns</HI> of <HI>Pro&s;e</HI> left to us by our Worthy Ance&s;tors, may probably the &s;ooner <HI>Decoy</HI> or Invite thy Peru&s;al.</P>
<P>I could not Conveniently avoyd the u&s;e of &s;ome <HI>Sea phra&s;es</HI> The Subject being a <HI>Sea Deliverable,</HI> tho they may &s;eem improper and unintelligible to a <HI>Land Capacity.</HI> And if I have erred in mi&s;&s;ap|plying
<PB REF="3">tho&s;e <HI>Termes</HI> of <HI>Art,</HI> I hope the In|genious <HI>Mariner</HI> will attribute it to the want of Ex|perience in the <HI>Tarpolin</HI> Tongue:</P>
<P>But to put a period to this <HI>Epi&s;tle,</HI>
<Q><L><HI>Read and Admire the Mercy,</HI>&mdash;Tho' the Stile</L>
<L>May make thee think it hardly worth the while.</L></Q></P>
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<FIGDESC>angel</FIGDESC>
<P>&Merc; <GAP DESC="symbol" EXTENT="1 letter"> &Mars;</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB N="1" REF="3">
<HEAD>A <HI>MON&V;MENTAL MEMORIAL OF</HI> MARINE MERCY &amp;c.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>SInce Every <HI>Quill</HI> is &s;ilent to Relate</L>
<L>What being known mu&s;t needs be wonder'd at</L>
<L>I take the boldne&s;s to pre&s;ent your <HI>Eye</HI></L>
<L>With Safty's <HI>Pro&s;pect</HI> in Extremity,</L>
<L>Which tho not Cloath'd with <HI>Academick</HI> Skill,</L>
<L>Or lofty Raptures of a <HI>Poet</HI>'s Quill;</L>
<L>But wrapt in <HI>raggs,</HI> through which your eyes may &s;ee</L>
<L>The <HI>Naked</HI> Truth in plain &s;implicitee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I without further prologue <HI>Lanch with</HI> Ink</L>
<L>With Captain <HI>Bal&s;ton</HI> in th' <HI>Adventure Pinck;</HI></L>
<L>Who in <HI>December</HI> on the fourteenth day,</L>
<L>His Anchors <HI>weigh'd</HI> in <HI>Ma&s;&s;achu&s;ets BAY,</HI></L>
<L><PB N="2" REF="4">
<HI>New-England's</HI> Chiefe&s;t <HI>Port,</HI> and <HI>&s;ayling</HI> on,</L>
<L>Soon <HI>lay'd the Land</HI> below the <HI>Horizon.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The <HI>Sea</HI> was kind, the Sky &s;erene and clear,</L>
<L>All &s;eem to &s;mile, no threating Frowns appear;</L>
<L>Yet &s;ometimes Clouds of Rain, of Hail, of Snow,</L>
<L>Sometimes the <HI>winds</HI> more lofty, &s;ometimes low,</L>
<L>The <HI>Mariners</HI> and <HI>Pa&s;&s;engers a'board,</HI></L>
<L>Enjoying what the Ve&s;&s;el did afford</L>
<L>With Satisfaction, and in full Content:</L>
<L>This good beginning was Encouragement</L>
<L>Of good &s;ucce&s;s, in hope and expectation</L>
<L>The Ship might prove an <HI>Ark</HI> of pre&s;ervation;</L>
<L>Her <HI>&s;welling &s;ayls</HI> gave her a nimble motion,</L>
<L>Making her <HI>Keel</HI> to <HI>plough</HI> the Yeilding <HI>Ocean,</HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e little <HI>Billows</HI> &s;till her <HI>Bow</HI> out braves,</L>
<L>Glideing Tryumphant o're the <HI>Curled waves.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus for five weeks the gentler winds did play</L>
<L>Upon the <HI>Oceans</HI> Surface to convey</L>
<L>Our little <HI>Pinck,</HI> filling her plyant Sayles</L>
<L>With ea&s;ie <HI>Breezes,</HI> &s;weet <HI>Topgallant Gailes:</HI></L>
<LG>
<L>And now the <HI>Mariners</HI> by Judgment found</L>
<L>We did approach nigh to <HI>Great Brittains</HI> ground</L>
<L>And therefore <HI>heav'd</HI> the <HI>Deep-&s;ea lead</HI> to <HI>&s;ound,</HI></L>
</LG>
<L>Which tho they <HI>Fathom'd</HI> not did Truth afford,</L>
<L>For the &s;ame night a <HI>Land bird</HI> came <HI>a'board,</HI></L>
<L>And the next morning we beheld two more</L>
<L>Which made the Judgment good they gave before.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Had we continu'd <HI>thus</HI> upon the Deep</L>
<L>We had bin Charm'd into a drow&s;ie &s;leep</L>
<L>Of calme Security, nor had we known</L>
<L>The Excellence of <HI>PRESERVATION;</HI></L>
<L><PB N="3" REF="4">
We had been Dumb and &s;ilent to Expre&s;s</L>
<L>Affectedly the Voy'ges good &s;ucce&s;s.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But to awake and Row&s;e our &s;leepy minds,</L>
<L>The <HI>Po'wrs</HI> above let loo&s;e th' unruly winds,</L>
<L>Heav'ns milder <HI>Puffs</HI> with violence at la&s;t</L>
<L>Let fly more fierce, and <HI>blow</HI> a &s;tronger <HI>Bla&s;t:</HI></L>
<L>The dark'ned Sky with gloomy <HI>Clouds</HI> o're &s;pread,</L>
<L>Who&s;e moi&s;t'ned <HI>fleeces</HI> have <HI>Enveloped</HI></L>
<L><HI>Tempe&s;tous Flaws</HI> which I&s;&s;ue more and more</L>
<L>In <HI>Thunder</HI>'s Language, or as <HI>Cannons</HI> roar:</L>
<L>The weighty Seas Roul from the <HI>Deeps</HI> beneath:</L>
<L><HI>Hill</HI> &s;tands on <HI>hill</HI> by force of Heav'n blown breath,</L>
<L>And from the <HI>rocks foundations</HI> do ari&s;e</L>
<L>As tho re&s;olv'd to <HI>&s;torm</HI> th' <HI>Impending</HI> Skyes;</L>
<L><HI>Flaws</HI> from tho&s;e lofty <HI>Battlements</HI> are hurld,</L>
<L>As to <HI>a Chaos</HI> they would &s;hake the world:</L>
<L>Thus as between a warr of <HI>Sea</HI> and <HI>Heaven,</HI></L>
<L>From place to place our little <HI>Ship</HI> is driven;</L>
<L>And by the Seas to&s;t like a ball in &s;port,</L>
<L>From <HI>wave to wave</HI> in <HI>Neptunes Tennis Court.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>While thus the <HI>winds</HI> &amp; <HI>&s;eas</HI> their pow'rs di&s;pute</L>
<L>A neighb'ring object did our Eyes &s;alute,</L>
<L><HI>A Sayle to windward;</HI> (in Di&s;tre&s;s no doubt)</L>
<L>Who <HI>Fir'd a Gun</HI> and <HI>heav'd</HI> their <HI>Colours out;</HI></L>
<L>We <HI>made</HI> her <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> but no help could give,</L>
<L>The Lofty Seas found each enough to <HI>live</HI></L>
<L>But in the morning we <HI>to windward</HI> were</L>
<L>And <HI>Bearing down</HI> re&s;olv'd to <HI>&s;peak with her,</HI></L>
<L>And understood &s;he from <HI>Ea&s;t India</HI> came,</L>
<L>Under Command of Captain <HI>Hide</HI> by Name</L>
<L><PB N="4" REF="5">
Burden <HI>&s;ix hundred Tuns</HI> and <HI>Ninety Men</HI></L>
<L>Having about ten <HI>months</HI> from <HI>India</HI> been,</L>
<L>And had bin <HI>Beating</HI> &s;ix <HI>weeks</HI> on the <HI>Coa&s;t</HI></L>
<L>Wanting <HI>Provi&s;'on,</HI> almo&s;t &s;pent and Lo&s;t:</L>
<L>An Interval of <HI>&s;torms</HI> became their freind,</L>
<L>And gave us leave &s;ome little help to lend:</L>
<L>The <HI>&s;torm</HI> renewing its <HI>Impetuous Force</HI></L>
<L>Did Each from Other further off Divorce,</L>
<L>Yet we might &s;ee them two or three dayes more,</L>
<L>But &s;ince have heard that they were drave <HI>a'&s;hore</HI></L>
<L>Somewhere in <HI>Cornwall,</HI> on the <HI>We&s;tern Coa&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>And ev'ry <HI>Soul</HI> except two <HI>Boyes</HI> were lo&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Still the re&s;i&s;tle&s;s <HI>winds</HI> rebellious grow,</L>
<L>As they the <HI>&V;niver&s;e</HI> would Overthrow,</L>
<L>The pondrous <HI>&s;eas</HI> like Rowling <HI>Mountains</HI> &s;till,</L>
<L>Each <HI>Billow</HI> &s;eeming an <HI>Alpean</HI> hill</L>
<L>By its prodigious Altitude: De&s;pair</L>
<L>And fear of Danger, moves all lips to <HI>pray'r</HI></L>
<L>Mixt with <HI>Indu&s;try,</HI> but <HI>Indu&s;try</HI> failes,</L>
<L>The <HI>Pumps</HI> are now in u&s;e but not the <HI>Sayles,</HI></L>
<L>The Arti&s;t<HI>'s Quadrants</HI> now are u&s;ele&s;s grown,</L>
<L>For <HI>Darkne&s;s</HI> dwells upon our <HI>Horizon;</HI></L>
<L>Thus we for &s;ev'ral days upon the <HI>Ocean</HI></L>
<L>Did <HI>Ly a Hull,</HI> keeping our <HI>Pumps</HI> in motion;</L>
<L>Till <HI>January twenty &s;ixth</HI> at night,</L>
<L>A mighty <HI>Sea</HI> did <HI>Overwhelm</HI> us quite,</L>
<L>Which falling down with a re&s;i&s;tle&s;s &s;troke</L>
<L>Both our Ships <HI>Wa&s;te</HI> (or well built <HI>Gunwalls</HI>) broke</L>
<L>And carr'd away: now &s;eeming like a <HI>Wreck</HI></L>
<L>From the <HI>Fore-ca&s;tle</HI> to the <HI>Quarter Deck,</HI></L>
<L><PB N="5" REF="5">
The <HI>Long boat, Windle&s;s, Capt&s;tern,</HI> with the blow</L>
<L>Be&s;ides two weighty <HI>Anchors</HI> from the <HI>Bow,</HI></L>
<L>With <HI>Ropes,</HI> &amp; <HI>Ring-bolts</HI> (where <HI>y^e Boat</HI> was fa&s;t,</L>
<L>And we con&s;train'd to cut our <HI>Mizen ma&s;t,</HI>)</L>
<L>All lo&s;t at once: Afflictions now prevail,</L>
<L>And each mans heart and &s;trength begins to fail;</L>
<L>Sometimes we &s;eem to <HI>&s;ink</HI> &s;ometimes to <HI>float,</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Ma&s;ters mate</HI> tear's from his back his Coat</L>
<L>And &s;tuffs between the <HI>Timbers;</HI> then they cry</L>
<L>For <HI>Bedding, Ruggs, and Blankets</HI> eagerly,</L>
<L>Which when obtain'd they Crowd into each place</L>
<L>Where <HI>&s;treames</HI> of <HI>water</HI> I&s;&s;u'd in apace:</L>
<L>But all Indu&s;try &s;eems without &s;ucce&s;s,</L>
<L>The <HI>Rageing &s;torm</HI> grows rather more than Le&s;s;</L>
<L>Over tho&s;e <HI>Ruggs</HI> they added <HI>&s;kins</HI> of <HI>Bears,</HI></L>
<L>And two new <HI>Clothes</HI> which our new <HI>main &s;ail</HI> &s;pares;</L>
<L>Here may the hand of providence be Ey'd,</L>
<L>The <HI>&s;ayl</HI> was made by tho&s;e two <HI>clothes</HI> too wide,</L>
<L>Which by &s;o much, we had made &s;o much le&s;s</L>
<L>But a few dayes before our great Di&s;tre&s;s;</L>
<L>Ropes <HI>Fore and Aft</HI> were <HI>&s;treched</HI> to &s;ecure</L>
<L>The <HI>Mariners,</HI> who &s;carcely could endure</L>
<L>Tho&s;e <HI>Big-&s;wel'd Billows,</HI> (what are feeble men?)</L>
<L>So oft wa&s;h'd in, and out and in agen,</L>
<L>Sometimes upon, &s;ometimes within the Ocean;</L>
<L>The <HI>Pumps</HI> nev'r <HI>&s;ucking</HI> tho in Con&s;tant motion;</L>
<L>Whil&s;t all the men and women then <HI>onboard</HI></L>
<L>With earne&s;t Cryes did call upon the <HI>LORD.</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Seas</HI> did frequently <HI>o'erflow</HI> the <HI>&s;hip,</HI></L>
<L>And we were often buri'd in the <HI>Deep:</HI></L>
<L><PB N="6" REF="6">
The Che&s;ts <HI>between Decks &s;wim</HI> as in a <HI>flood,</HI></L>
<L>Where men up to their <HI>knees</HI> in water &s;tood,</L>
<L>Expelling ev'ry Moment <HI>grim look'd Death</HI></L>
<L>With that cold Element would &s;top their breath.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When &s;uddenly a voice &s;alutes our ears,</L>
<L>With Joy un&s;peakable amid&s;t our Fears,</L>
<L><HI>One of the</HI> PUMPS <HI>does</HI> SUCK! who can believe</L>
<L>What unexpected Comfort a <HI>Repreive</HI></L>
<L>Brings a Condemned <HI>Convict:</HI> So that Voice</L>
<L>Cau&s;ed each Ca&s;t down &s;pirit to Rejoyce.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But on the <HI>Fifth</HI> of <HI>February</HI> we</L>
<L><HI>Ship'd</HI> a prodigious <HI>Mountain of a &s;ea,</HI></L>
<L>Which with a pondrous and re&s;i&s;tle&s;s Stroke</L>
<L>The Fixed <HI>Table</HI> and the Benches broke,</L>
<L>And with its Force Op'ned the <HI>Cabbin</HI> Door.</L>
<L>A weighty <HI>Che&s;t of Tooles</HI> away it bore,</L>
<L>Then with loud Ecchos ev'ry Tongue declares</L>
<L>Our Period come, our Elopes were now De&s;paires,</L>
<L>For we lay <HI>buri'd</HI> in the <HI>Oceans Womb,</HI></L>
<L>And might conclude it was our <HI>wat'ry Tomb;</HI></L>
<L>But an Almighty power became our Freind,</L>
<L>Cau&s;ing our <HI>buri'd Ve&s;&s;el</HI> to A&s;cend,</L>
<L>And by degrees climb up the <HI>Mountain waves,</HI></L>
<L>From whence our <HI>eyes</HI> might view our <HI>fluid Graves;</HI></L>
<L>Thus the Great God did Snatch us from below,</L>
<L>Unto who&s;e pow'r we all our &s;afeties owe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Some few dayes after we a Ship might &s;ee,</L>
<L>Which <HI>Coming up with</HI> under&s;tood to be</L>
<L>For <HI>England bound,</HI> and from <HI>Virginia</HI> came,</L>
<L><HI>Gregory Sugar</HI> was her <HI>Captains</HI> Name;</L>
<L><PB N="7" REF="6">
So <HI>Leaky</HI> (that tho they did what they could)</L>
<L>Sh' had <HI>&s;ix</HI> or <HI>&s;ev'n foot water in the Hould,</HI></L>
<L>The Safety of their <HI>Lives</HI> they only &s;ought,</L>
<L>For to pre&s;erve their <HI>Ve&s;&s;el</HI> they could not,</L>
<L>And <HI>Hoy&s;ting</HI> out their <HI>Boat</HI> to come <HI>a'board</HI></L>
<L>Which could not Safety to them all afford,</L>
<L>Yet <HI>Thirteen</HI> of them &s;oon into it pre&s;t:</L>
<L>And <HI>putting off,</HI> promi&s;'d to fetch the Re&s;t:</L>
<L>When they came nigh our <HI>Side</HI> &s;uch fear was &s;hown,</L>
<L>None &s;ought the good of <HI>others</HI> but his <HI>own,</HI></L>
<L>Each &s;triving to pre&s;erve him&s;elf with ha&s;t,</L>
<L>without regard to <HI>make the Painter fa&s;t;</HI></L>
<L>(Had they Endeavour'd? it had bin in vain)</L>
<L>The <HI>Boat</HI> &s;uch wrong and dammage did &s;u&s;tain;</L>
<L>In <HI>Laying us aboard</HI> her <HI>Bows</HI> were <HI>Stav'd,</HI></L>
<L>That t'was meer <HI>Mercy</HI> any man was &s;av'd:</L>
<L>Soon the Di&s;abled <HI>Boat was gon a drift,</HI></L>
<L>And now no hope of pre&s;ervat'on left</L>
<L>For tho&s;e behind, who were in number five,</L>
<L>For 'twas not po&s;&s;ible the Ship &s;hould <HI>Live,</HI></L>
<L>Nor with our Ve&s;&s;el did we dare come nigh,</L>
<L>For &s;till the troubled Sea <HI>ran mountains high,</HI></L>
<L>Tho their Intreaties, Peircing Cries and Grones,</L>
<L>Might even draw Remor&s;ne&s;s out of Stones;</L>
<LG>
<L>And now becau&s;e of the approaching night,</L>
<L>We did advi&s;e them to <HI>hang out a Light,</HI></L>
<L>Which but till eight a Clock appear'd in Sight;</L>
</LG>
<L>After which time it did no more appear,</L>
<L>And we concluded (as we well might fear)</L>
<L>They then went down: Tho we could not <HI>relieve</HI></L>
<L>Their <HI>wants,</HI> their <HI>lo&s;s</HI> we could not choo&s;e but <HI>grieve.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="8" REF="7">
<L>And now &s;ome Comfort we begin to find,</L>
<L>The <HI>winds</HI> are <HI>Calmer</HI> and the <HI>Seas</HI> more kind,</L>
<L>Now Heav'ns al&s;courging hand its &s;trokes withdrew</L>
<L>And former Con&s;olations did Renew,</L>
<L>By giving us at length the <HI>Sight</HI> of <HI>Land,</HI></L>
<L>By an Or'e ruling providential hand:</L>
<L>Our Cloudy cares appear to fly apace,</L>
<L>And Comforts &s;eemingly &s;upply their place;</L>
<L>The fourteenth day at <HI>Plymouth</HI> we Arrive,</L>
<L>With tho&s;e thirteen we had pre&s;erv'd alive:</L>
<L>The nineteenth day for <HI>London</HI> we <HI>&s;et &s;ayle,</HI></L>
<L>With not too much <HI>wind,</HI> but a mod'rate Gale:</L>
<L>But as if <HI>Heav'n</HI> with anger &s;hould reprove,</L>
<L>That we tho&s;e mercies did not well Improve;</L>
<L>Its <HI>Breath</HI> comes forth with <HI>Fury</HI> as before,</L>
<L>And we tho in the <HI>Downes</HI> and nigh the <HI>Shore,</HI></L>
<L>Mu&s;t feel more <HI>&s;trokes</HI> of the cha&s;ti&s;ing <HI>Rod</HI></L>
<L>Of our offended of our angry GOD.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Two and twentieth day much <HI>wind</HI> did blow,</L>
<L>When in the <HI>Downs</HI> we let our <HI>Anchor</HI> goe,</L>
<L>But it <HI>came home:</HI> we our <HI>Shift Anchor Ca&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>Which <HI>(in&s;ignificant) came home</HI> as fa&s;t,</L>
<L>And we were driven up <HI>along&s;t</HI> the <HI>Side</HI></L>
<L>Of a <HI>Ship</HI> there, which did at <HI>Anchor ride,</HI></L>
<L>Our <HI>Anchor</HI> took her <HI>Cable,</HI> and did pa&s;s</L>
<L>Up with a &s;peedy motion to her <HI>Ha&s;s,</HI></L>
<L>Which at their <HI>Bows</HI> they <HI>Cutting</HI> from the <HI>Cable,</HI></L>
<L>And t'other <HI>Anchor</HI> being too unable</L>
<L>To bring us up, broke in the <HI>&s;hank.</HI> and we</L>
<L>Again (by Violence) <HI>Drove out to Sea;</HI></L>
<L><PB N="9" REF="7">
We thought to <HI>Anchor</HI> then in <HI>I'oul&s;tone Bay,</HI></L>
<L>And let our <HI>&s;mall Bower go</HI> without delay,</L>
<L>Which like a rotten &s;tick was quickly broke</L>
<L>(When once it came to &s;train) both <HI>flewks</HI> &amp; <HI>&s;tock,</HI></L>
<L>Neither <HI>Shift-Anchor, Be&s;t</HI> nor yet <HI>Small Bower</HI></L>
<L>To <HI>Bring us up</HI> had &s;trength enough or power;</L>
<L>And in the Afternoon the <HI>winds</HI> Re&s;train</L>
<L>Their furious <HI>Bla&s;ts,</HI> now only did remain</L>
<L>Our &s;mall <HI>Cedge Anchor,</HI> (unto which we mu&s;t</L>
<L>Our <HI>Lives,</HI> our <HI>Ship,</HI> and all her <HI>Cargo</HI> tru&s;t,)</L>
<L>Which <HI>Letting go,</HI> Heav'ns care did &s;o provide,</L>
<L>That we that <HI>Ebb</HI> &s;ecure in &s;afety <HI>Ride;</HI></L>
<L>From which our apprehen&s;ions may In&s;pect,</L>
<L>How the <HI>Great</HI> God by <HI>Small</HI> meanes doth protect,</L>
<L>Who&s;e &s;trength can make our &s;tronge&s;t <HI>cables</HI> weak,</L>
<L>Our <HI>Cobwebs</HI> &s;trong, no earthly &s;trein can break,</L>
<L>That we might put no Tru&s;t in <HI>Earthen</HI> Powers:</L>
<L>For weak is all the <HI>Fortitude</HI> of Our's.</L>
<L>An <HI>Anchor</HI> we that night from <HI>Shore</HI> obtain.</L>
<L>And &s;o Return into the <HI>Downs</HI> again,</L>
<L>And <HI>weighing</HI> thence, favour'd with <HI>winds</HI> &amp; <HI>floods,</HI></L>
<L>Our <HI>&s;elves</HI> in Safety with our <HI>&s;hip</HI> and <HI>goods,</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Twenty fifth</HI> (a&s;&s;i&s;ted by the Lord)</L>
<L><HI>Arriv'd</HI> at <HI>London</HI> and at <HI>Ratcliff Moor'd.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thou God of this great <HI>Va&s;t,</HI> that do&s;t Command</L>
<L>With thy Almighty Hand,</L>
<L>Water, Earth, Air, and Fire</L>
<L>(The Elements:) the <HI>Sun,</HI> the <HI>Moon,</HI> and <HI>Stars</HI></L>
<L>Act not their own affaires,</L>
<L>But what thou do&s;t require:</L>
<L>O who can view thy <HI>pow'r,</HI> &amp; not thy <HI>pow'r</HI> admire.</L>
<L><PB N="10" REF="8">
Tis thou Alone art our alone &s;upport,</L>
<L>Thy Mercy's our &s;trong fort,</L>
<L>Thou giv'&s;t us length of dayes,</L>
<L>To thee th' <HI>Almighty</HI> and <HI>Tri-une</HI> JEHOVE,</L>
<L>Dwelling in <HI>Heav'en</HI> above;</L>
<L>Be Everla&s;ting Prai&s;e;</L>
<L>O who can ta&s;t thy <HI>Good,</HI> &amp; not <HI>Thank&s;giving</HI> Rai&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>depiction of the ship Adventure Pinck on the high seas</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB N="11" REF="8">
<HEAD>A POEM <HI>OCCASIONALLY WRITTEN</HI> ON <HI>Some</HI> Remarkables <HI>hap'ning at the</HI> Birth <HI>of the</HI> Son <HI>of</HI> Thomas <HI>and</HI> Sarah Wallis <HI>upon the</HI> Atlantick <HI>or We&s;tern</HI> Ocean, <HI>July the</HI> 26 1684.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>VVAllis,</HI> (for yet thou ha&s;t no other <HI>Name</HI>)</L>
<L>This <HI>Poem,</HI> if thou live to read the &s;ame</L>
<L>In thy maturer years, thou may&s;t from thence</L>
<L>Ground Contemplations on God's <HI>Providence.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>At thy <HI>Nativity</HI> the <HI>Southern Gales</HI></L>
<L>With Gentler <HI>Breezes</HI> faintly fill'd our Sailed,</L>
<L>The Curled <HI>Ocean</HI>'s wrinkled Brows were down,</L>
<L>Who&s;e Surface <HI>Smil'd</HI> that &s;eem'd before to <HI>frown,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Neptunes</HI> Attendants from the <HI>Deeps</HI> re&s;ort,</L>
<L>And dance <HI>Levalto<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> in his <HI>wat'ry Court;</HI></L>
<L>When thou wert Born, <HI>July the Twenty &s;ixt,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Grampas</HI> and Sholes of <HI>Porpoi&s;e</HI> (Intermixt)</L>
<L>Attend the Ship, and <HI>Pitterels</HI> take Wing,</L>
<L>Both <HI>Fi&s;h</HI> and <HI>Fowl</HI> Advene the <HI>Go&s;&s;ipping:</HI></L>
<L>And when the <HI>Evening</HI> of the day drew nigh,</L>
<L>The big &s;well'd Clouds darkned the <HI>Azure</HI> Sky</L>
<L>Shaking their dropping <HI>Fleeces</HI> on the <HI>Maine,</HI></L>
<L>And to their Element return again;</L>
<LG>
<L><HI>Lightnings</HI> bright <HI>Fla&s;hes</HI> i&s;&s;u'd from the Skye,</L>
<L>And <HI>Peals</HI> of Thunder Eccho'd from <HI>on high:</HI></L>
<L>The&s;e things attended thy <HI>Nativity.</HI></L>
</LG>
<L><PB N="12" REF="9">
The <HI>Climate</HI> where thou thy fir&s;t <HI>breath</HI> did&s;t draw,</L>
<L>Was between <HI>Europe</HI> and <HI>America:</HI></L>
<L>About the <HI>Latitude</HI> of <HI>Forty four,</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>New-found-Land</HI> was judg'd the <HI>nighe&s;t &s;hore:</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Pinck Adventure</HI> &s;erv'd at once in&s;tead</L>
<L>Of thy <HI>Birth-chamber, Cradle,</HI> and thy <HI>Bed;</HI></L>
<L>Hold not the meane&s;s of the place in Scorn,</L>
<L>For <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> him&s;elf was in a <HI>Stable</HI> born:</L>
<L>When thy reflecting thoughts &s;hall call to mind,</L>
<L>The Hard&s;hips incident to Humane kind,</L>
<L>Then let the <HI>Eye</HI> of <HI>Faith</HI> thy mind Convey</L>
<L>To view the <HI>Manger</HI> where thy <HI>Saviour</HI> lay.</L>
<L>Whom <HI>God</HI> hath &s;ent to bear thy <HI>&s;infull load;</HI></L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t no more to doe but <HI>&s;erve thy GOD.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Now may the <HI>Parents</HI> of the <HI>Child</HI> enjoy,</L>
<L>Succeeding Comforts in their <HI>Sea-born</HI> Boy,</L>
<L>May his maturer years cau&s;e Joy and <HI>mirth,</HI></L>
<L>Sweetning the <HI>Troubles</HI> that attend his <HI>Birth.</HI></L>
<L>May they tho&s;e Con&s;olating Mercies prize,</L>
<L>As from the <HI>God</HI> of <HI>Mercies</HI> they Ari&s;e,</L>
<L>And from his <HI>never-failing Fountains</HI> flow,</L>
<L>To make their minds up to Thank&s;giving grow,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If the <HI>Boy</HI> lives and Capable to <HI>Read,</HI></L>
<L>Tho the mean <HI>Author</HI> of the&s;e Lines be <HI>Dead,</HI></L>
<L>Yet 'tis his will the <HI>Youth</HI> &s;hould have the &s;ame,</L>
<L>And therefore, thereunto Sub&s;cribes his name.</L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>RICHARD STEERE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
<PB REF="9">
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