IDENTILIN$$  F110P03|Calm|Heneage ms.|f. 14r-v|T:EWS\o\7-8-83;P:7-9-83\FM:JSC\hwt\10-21-96\P:EWS\hwt\fall'05\C:JSC\12-19-05
110.P03.HE1  The Calme.
110.P03.001  Our storme is past, and that stormes tirranous rage
110.P03.002  a stupide calme, but nothinge it doth swage.
110.P03.003  the fable is inverted, farre more
110.P03.004  a blocke afflicts now, then a Storke before
110.P03.005  Stormes chafe and rage, soone weare out themselues or vs
110.P03.006  in calmes heauens laugh to see vs languish thus.
110.P03.007  as steady as I can wish that my thoughts were
110.P03.008  Smoth as thy M%5rs%6 glasse (or what shines there)
110.P03.009  the sea is now, and those Iles which wee
110.P03.010  Seeke (when we can moue) our shipps rooted bee
110.P03.011  as water did in stormes now pitch runns out
110.P03.012  as lead when a fired steeple becomes a Spout.
110.P03.013  and all our beauty and our trim decayes
110.P03.014  like Courts remoueinge or like ended playes.
110.P03.015  the fighteinge place the sea mans raggs Supply
110.P03.016  and all the tackleinge is a fripperie.
110.P03.017  no vse of lanthorne and in one place laye
110.P03.018  feathers and dust to day and yesterdaye
110.P03.019  earths hollownesses, which the worlds lungs are
110.P03.020  haue no more winde then the vpper vault of ayre
110.P03.021  we can nor lost freinds nor sought foes recouer
110.P03.022  but Meteor like (saue that we moue not) houer
110.P03.023  onely the Calenture together draws
110.P03.024  deere freinds which meet dead in fishes Iawes.
110.P03.025  and one hatches, as one alters lies
110.P03.026  each one his owne preist and one sacrifice
110.P03.027  who liue that miracle to multiply
110.P03.028  where walkers in hott ouens doe not dy
110.P03.029  if in despight of this we swime, that hath
110.P03.030  no more refreshinge then our brimstone bath
110.P03.031  but from the sea into the sea we turne
110.P03.032  like parboy'ld wretches on the coales to burne.
110.P03.033  like Bajaret engag'd[sic] (the sheapheards skoffe)
110.P03.034  and like slacke sinnowed Samson his haire of
110.P03.035  languishinge our shipps and as a Meriad
110.P03.036  of Ants durst the Emperours lou'd Snake invade [CW:om
110.P03.037  the crawleinge Galleis Sea Sayles finny shipps [f.14v
110.P03.038  might braue our Venices, now beddrid shipps.
110.P03.039  whether a rotten state or hope of gaine,
110.P03.040  or to disuse me from the queasie paine
110.P03.041  of beinge beloued, or loueinge, or the thirst
110.P03.042  of honnor, or faire death out pusht me first
110.P03.043  I loose mine end; for there as well as I
110.P03.044  a desperate maye liue and a coward dy.
110.P03.045  Stagg, dogg, and each which from or towards flyes
110.P03.046  is pay'd with life or pray, or with doeinge dyes
110.P03.047  fate grudgeth vs all, and doth subtlely lay
110.P03.048  a scourge againest which we all forgett to pray.
110.P03.049  he that at sea prays for more wind, as well
110.P03.050  vnder the Pole maye begg cold and heat in hell
110.P03.051  what are we then? how little more alas
110.P03.052  is man now, then before he was, he was
110.P03.053  nothinge, for vs we are for nothinge fitt.
110.P03.054  chance or our selues still disproportion itt
110.P03.055  we haue nor will, nor power, nor sence, I ly
110.P03.056  I should not then thus feele this miserie.
110.P03.0SS  %XFinis the Calme.
110.P03.0$$  HE ind 5 sps; otherwise no ind