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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.
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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his shade did shrowde Great Neptune to his Court descended deepe And layd his head in Thetis lap to sleepe We presently let no aduantage slip But nimbly we rerig'd our vnrig'd shippe Our Courses Bonnets Drablers Malts and all With speede we merily to mending fall And by Heau'ns fauour and our willing paine Into the wished hau'n we gaine a chaine Wheare at an Anker we in safetie ride Secur'd from stormes and tempests winde and tide An Apologie for Sea-men or the Description of a Marriners paines and aduentures VP sluggard Muse from Leathe's lazy Lake And in plaine tearmes a true Description make Of toyles of dangers and excessiue paines That Sea-men suffer for the Land mens gaines The one doth liue Shore in wealth and ease The other surrowes through th' vncertaine Seas The one in pleasure liues and lyes at home The other cuts the raging salt-Sea fome The one aduentures onely but his goods The other hazards all both goods and bloods Mongst Pirates tempests rocks fogs gulfes and shelues The Sea-men ventures all and that 's themselues The Land-man dangerlesse doth-eate and sleepe The Sea-man slems and plowes the Ocean deepe The one fares hard and harder he doth lye The other lyes and faires soft sweete and dry The one with dauntlesse vnrebated courage Through greatest perils valliently doth forrage And brings home Iewels Siluer Gold and Pearles Tadorne both Court and Citie Dames and Girles They set whole Kingdomes both at wars or peace They make wealth flowe and plentie to encrease The Countries farre remote they doe vnite They make vs sharers in the worlds delight And what they get with paine they spend in pleasure They are no Mizers boorders vp of treasure The oldest man aliue did neuer see A Sailer and a Niggards minde agree No if their paines at Sea were ten times more T is all forgotten when they come a shore And this much I dare publish with my pen They are the best of Seruiceable men The wals of Kingdomes Castles of defence Against Inuasion of each forreigne Prince A torch lights not it selfe yet wastes and burnes So they their liues spend seruing others turnes The Marchant sits at home and casts vp sums And reckons gaines and losse what goes what comes To what his whole aduentures may amount He Ciphers numbers and he casts Account And euery angy boystrous gust he heares Disturbs his sleepe and fils his heart with feares His goods at Sea awakes and startles him For with them his estate doth sinke or swim But yet for all this heart tormenting strife He 's in no daunger of the losse of life By cut throate Sea-theeues or a world of woes Which many a Sailers life and state or'throwes The Mariner abides the desperate shocks Of winde and weather Pirates sands and rocks And what they get they freely spend away A whole months wages in a night or day Their labours on the Sea they leaue a shore And when all 's spent then to 't againe for more And pitty t is there should be such neglect Of such whose seruice merits such respect Whole spawnes of Land-sharks and of guilded Guls Of painted Mammets and ilfauourd truls Will hold their noses and cry sogh and sye When seruiceable Marriners passe by And then their stomacks somewhat more to ease What stinking tarlubbers quoth they are these Then Mistris Fumpe troubled with the stitch She 's poysned with the smell of tarre and pitch Some Frankinsence or Iuniper oh quick Make haste I say the Gentlewoman's sicke And Mounsier Puffepast with the sattin slop That sits in a Tobacco-sellers shop And makes a stinke worse then a brace of Beares When with a whiffe his witlesse worship sweares How Sailers are Rude fellowes and doe smell Of pitch and tarre worse then the smoke of hell But were the case now as I erst haue knowne That vse of men should haue their seruice showne One Marriner would then doe much more good Then twentie of these Sattin Milksop brood Of all men then the Nauigator can For King and Countries cause best play the man And howsoere they smell of tarre and pitch Their painefull toyles doe make great Kingdomes rich I we by soraine Warre should be annoyed Then chiefly Marriners must be imployed They on the Sea must bide the fiercest brunt Grim death and danger they must first affront One fight at Sea with Ships couragious mand Is more then three great battels on the Land There men must stand to 't there 's no way to fly There must they Conqu'rers liue or Conquerd die And if they dye not by some launching wound They are in hazard to be sunke and drownd The murdring bullets and the brinish waues Are many a valliant Sea-mans death and graues And t is a lamentable case to thinke How these mens seruiceable number shrinke Decreasing and consuming euery day Where one doth breede at least sowre doe decay Some the Sea swallowes but that which most grieues Some turne Sea-monsters Pirates roauing theeues Imploying their best skill in Nauigation Gainst their owne Prince and kin and natiue Nation By which meanes many a Marchant is vndone And Pirates nere the better for what 's won For if like Mosse his Mare they be catcht napping They bid the world their last farewell at Wapping Which fatall Hauen hath as many slaine As could disturbe and shake the power of Spaine And want of meanes but chiefly want of grace Hath made so many perish in that place But to conclude my Ryme with heart and speach I doe my God for Iesus sake beseech That he for Sailors will vouchsafe to please To graunt them good imployment on the Seas So honest salt-Sea-watermen adiewe I haue bin am and will be still for you Whilst I liue IOHN TAYLOR FINIS