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A13446 Faire and fowle vveather: or a sea and land storme betweene two calmes. With an apologie in defense of the painefull life, and needfull vse of sailors. By Iohn Tailor. Taylor, John, 1580-1653. 1615 (1615) STC 23752; ESTC S102629 6,906 17

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FAIRE AND fowle weather OR A SEA AND LAND Storme betweene two Calmes WITH An Apologie in defence of the painefull life and needfull vse of Sailers By Iohn Tailor LONDON Printed for W B. and are to be solde by Edward Wright at Christ-Church gate 1615. To the Iudicious vnderstanding gentleman and my much approued and esteemed good freind Maister ROBERT BRANTHVVAITE Gentleman Taylor of the Kings Maiesties Tower of London Iohn Taylor Dedicates this his Poeticall Weatherworke with his best wishes for your hearts contentment KInde Sir my loue to you's ingag'd so deepe That were I Idle I were much ingratefull Or should my thankes forgetfull euer sleepe In me 't were base vnmannerly and hatefull Then though I cannot pay you halfe my score Vouchsafe to take this trifle as a part As time enables me you shall haue more And therefore now accept my willing heart I know you well doe vnderstand and know The weake defects of my defectiue Muse Yet doe I hope you will this fauour showe That loue may her vnwilling faults excuse And so to your protection I commend This Pamphlet as vnto my deerest freind Yours in my best imployments to be commended IOHN TAYLOR Briefly to you that will Read NOT vnto euery one can Reade I write But onely vnto those that can Reade right And therefore if thou canst not Read it well I pray thee lay it downe and learne to spell But if thou wilt be hewing like a drudge Hewe on and spare not but forbeare to Iudge Thine if thou beest mine Iohn Taylor To his friend and neighbour Maister IOHN TAYLOR FIerce Neptunes wrath and Eol's angry spleene Full many a time I haue both felt and seene In leaking ship and which hath grieu'd me more In a long night a darke Moone and lee shore But such a storme as thou describest h●ere Amazeth mee with wonder and with feare And wert thou not both Water-man and Poet Thou neuer couldest halfe so plainely show it I much reioyce thou safe on shore art come And bid thee very kindly welcome home Thomas Smith To his friend Iohn Tailor I Cannot tell how other men may praise The pleasing Method thy Minerua layes In whatsoe'r it workes on but to me It offers much desir'd varietie To passe dull howres withall with that affords Much vsefull matter which with Phrase and Words And all the aptest ornament of writ Thy pen doth furnish This last birth of wit Is witnesse worth beleeuing Like the Glasse Great Arts-men vse in shewing things that passe In parts farre from vs. This presents a Flawe Or Storme at Sea for what I red I sawe I so may speake Me thought I had in sight A Clowd as blacke as the darke Robe of Night Saw that dissolue and fall in such a showre As mixt with lightning and that voice of power Makes Towres and Castles totter made an howre Full of confounding horrour Then againe Mine eyes sad obiect was the troubled Maine Sweld vp and curl'd with that impetuous breath Makes Land-men quake and Seamen oft see death On this me thought I sawe a vessell tost Higher then ken and in minute lost Betweene the Mountaine-billowes At whose rise I sawe pale lookes and heard the heauie ayes Of those sad men that man'd her After all I sawe this Storme into a Calmenesse fall As plaine and smooth as Christall In thy Booke All this is seene as on thy lynes we looke If where such life is there can want delight Though oft I read I le neuer dare to write Tho B. FAIRE AND FOWLE WEATHER YOV triple-treble thrice three Nimphes Diuine Inspire this weake capacitie of mine Oh let me quaffe of your Pegassian bowle That I may write of Weather Faire and Fowle That to the life my lynes may heere informe Description of a Calme and then a Storme Giue me that power that my vnlearned Verse The Readers apprehension so may peirce That though the Weather be exceeding faire They may suppose a fowle and troublous Ayre And when they come to reade tempestuous lines Then though the winde sleepe and Hiperion shines Yet let them thinke Heauens Axletree doth cracke And Atlas throwes his burden from his backe I wish my Verse should such Impression strike That what men Read off they should thinke the like For apprehension must be quicke and yare Imagination must be heere and there For if a Tempest be but smoothly read It shewes the Readers Iudgement dull and dead Or else to seeme to make the Welkin split In thundring out a Calme shewes want of wit Gainst Heau'n bread Poesie 't is the worst offence To haue it hack'd and read with sencelesse sence THen first I will describe Faire weather chearefull To make Fowle weather after seeme more fearefull Vpon an Euening when Apolloes beames Declinde vnto the occidentall streames As of the day he tooke his kinde adiew The Clowdes vermillion purple red and blewe Put on the radient liueries of the Sunne As quickly lost as they were lightly wonne To th'under world in hast he tooke his flight And left th' Horizon all in darkenesse dight Yet as he stoopt he glaunc'd his glorious eye And staind the Welkin with a Crimson dye Which did betoken as old sawes doe say An Euening red foretels a chearefull day Sweete Philomella gainst a therne did sing Exclaiming gainst the lustfull Thracian King Whilst Progne in the Chimneys top doth keepe And for her selfe-borne selfe slaine sonne doth weepe Madge-how let whooting cuts the empty skyes The light she flees and in the night she flyes Bright Cinthia rises from her watry bed And shewes her pale fac'd siluer horned head Belighted and attended from her porch With many an hundred thousand thousand torch She light doth runne and as she runnes doth light The vniuersall Arch of pitchie night Husht silence mortall foe to women kinde In snoring sleepe did liuing sences binde That but for Rowting and for drawing breath It seem'd that all-deuouring grisly death Without respect of person Sex or Lawes Had grasp'd the world in his insatiate pawes At last the Cocke proclaim'd the daies approach And Titan call'd for his Diurnall Coach He kist Aurora and she blushing red Ashamed hid her shamefac'd Maidenhead Pale Leina is obscur'd her race is runne Her light 's extinguisht by the flaming Sunne The bucksome day roab'd in a silken Calme With Zephers downy breath as sweete as balme Perfum'd the vausty verge of the whole world When golden Sel his glistring beames had hurld And guilded tops of proud Clowd-kissing hils And all the world with radient brightnesse fils Faire Flora had embrodered ore the field Whose various colours various sents did yeild The gentle winde amongst the leaues did whiske The Goats did skip the pretty Lambes did friske The brookes did warble birds did sweetly sing With ioy to entertaine the gladsome Spring Like heards of Kids the Porposes gan leape The Seales and Scollopendraes on a heape Doe vault and caper in such actiue sort That Neptune tooke delight to