IDENTILIN$$  F110H06|Calm|O'Flahertie ms., Eng. 966.5|pp. 236-38\JSC\mf\7-16-98\P:DF\o\3-23-01\C:JSC\4-23-01
110.H06.HE1  %XThe Calme.
110.H06.001  Our Storme is past, and that Stormes tyranous rage
110.H06.002  A stupid Calme, but nothing it, doth swage.
110.H06.003  The fable is inverted, and far more
110.H06.004  A block afflicts now then a storke before.
110.H06.005  Stormes chafe, and soone weare out themselues or vs
110.H06.006  In Calmes, heauens laugh to see vs languish thus
110.H06.007  As steddy as I could wish my thoughts were
110.H06.008  Smooth as thy Mistresse glasse, or what shines there
110.H06.009  The Sea is now, and as those Isles (w.%5ch%6 wee
110.H06.010  Seeke, when wee can moue) our Ships rooted bee
110.H06.011  As water did in stormes, now pitch runns out
110.H06.012  As Lead when a fyr'd Church becomes a Spout [CW:And___]
110.H06.013  And all our beauty and our trim%M decayes [p.237]
110.H06.014  Like Courts remouing, or like ended playes
110.H06.015  The fighting place the Seamens raggs supply
110.H06.016  And all the Tackling is a frippery
110.H06.017  No vse of Lantherns, and in one place lay
110.H06.018  ffeathers and dust to day and yesterday.
110.H06.019  Earths hollownesses, (w.%5ch%6 the worlds lungs are)
110.H06.020  Haue no more wind then the vpper vault of Ayre
110.H06.021  Wee can nor lost frinds nor sought foes recouer
110.H06.022  But meteor-like (saue that wee moue not) houer.
110.H06.023  Onely the Calenture together drawes
110.H06.024  Deare frinds w.%5ch%6 meete dead in Greate fishes Mawes
110.H06.025  And on the hatches, as on Altars, lyes
110.H06.026  Each one his owne Priest and owne sacrifice
110.H06.027  Who liue, that Miracle do multiply
110.H06.028  Where walkers in hot Ovens doe not dye.
110.H06.029  If in despight of this wee swim%M, that hath
110.H06.030  No more refreshing then a Brimstone bath.
110.H06.031  Out of the Sea into the shipp wee turne
110.H06.032  Like parboyld wretches on the coales to burne.
110.H06.033  Like Baiazet en>r%>c<ag'd (the shepheards scoff)
110.H06.034  Or like slack-sinnewd Samson his hayre off
110.H06.035  Languish our shipps. Now, as a Myriad
110.H06.036  Of Ants durst th' Empero.%5rs%6 lov'd snake envade
110.H06.037  The crawling Gallyes, sea-gulls, finny chipps
110.H06.038  Might braue our Pinaces, now bed-ridd ships.
110.H06.039  Whether a rotten state or hopd%>>hope< of gayne
110.H06.040  Or to disuse mee, from the queasy payne
110.H06.041  Of beeing belou'd, or louing, or the thirst
110.H06.042  Of honour or fayre death out pusht mee first
110.H06.043  I loose my end. [lc]for heere as well as I
110.H06.044  A desperate may liue and Coward dye. [CW:Stagg]
110.H06.045  Stagg Dogg, and each w%5ch%6 from or towards >%Yvs%Z< flyes [p.238]
110.H06.046  Is payd with life, or pray, or doing dyes
110.H06.047  ffate grudges vs all#>%Ythese%Z<, and doth subtilly lay
110.H06.048  A Scourge 'gaynst w.%5ch%6 wee had forgot to pray.
110.H06.049  Hee that at sea prayes for more wind, as well
110.H06.050  Vnder the Pole may begg cold, heate in hell.
110.H06.051  What are wee then,?[see_notes] how little more |alas|
110.H06.052  Is man now then, before hee was, hee was?
110.H06.053  Nothing for vs wee are for nothing fitt
110.H06.054  Chance or our selues still disproportion it
110.H06.055  Wee haue no will nor power, no>%Vr< sence, I lye
110.H06.056  I should not then thus feele this misery.
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