The Crowne of All Homers Workes/To Mariners

by Homer

 

To Mariners.

e waue-trod Watermen; As ill as shee
That all the Earth in Infelicitie
Of Rapine plunges. Who vpon youre Fare
As steru'd-like-rauenous, as Cormorants are.
The liues ye leade, (but in the worst Degree)
Not to be enuied, more then Misery.
Take shame, and feare the Indignation
Of him that Thunders from the highest Throne
$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$(Hospitious Ioue) who, at the Back, prepares
Paines of abhord effect, of him that dares
The Pieties breake, of his Hospitious squares.

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