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Concordia rara fonorum, or A poem upon the late fight at sea, between the two great fleets of England and Holland. By I.D. Esq;
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I. D.
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1653
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Wing D25; Thomason E689_31; ESTC R206980
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Concordia rara sonorum OR A POEM UPON The late Fight at Sea between the two great Fleets of ENGLAND AND HOLLAND By I. D. Esq LONDON Printed for J. Ridley at the Castle in Fleet-Street neer Ram Alley 1653. A POEM Vpon the late Fight at Sea between the two great Fleets of ENGLAND AND HOLLAND WARS worse then Pitch-feilds on a moving plaine We sing and for it where two States retaine In their owne bowels their victorious shot Vast Wounds and horrid Death yet feele them not And as Romes paire with this point dig'd their grave Caesar no first Pompey no Peere would have Iust so t is here with us Van-trump allowes No State to his Superiour and Blake vowes Ours hath no equall neither thus will vaile â—ut loose a Fleet rather then strike a Saile Thus both march on cutting deep Neptunes Brow Prodigious sight to cal 't I know not how Whether two running Townes or waving Woods Or rather Islands tumbling on the Floods At whose approach the curled Billowes roare And as they come fearefully roll before The oppressed towr-like whales lye bellowing undeâ— That Neptune seem'd t' usurp his Brothers Thunder The silent Fish presaging future blood Against their kind run frighted into th' mud And had they wings would from the Sea have broaken And but for churlish nature would have spoken To manifest their feare yet what they might They fled apace to shun the dreadfull sight The Oceans king feeling such weight on 's backe With leaning on his Trident made it cracke Had it not been immoveable they say The Earth this time would faine have fled away And the amas'd shoare as each Fleet neer sounds Almost forgot to keep 's ordained bounds One might have thought the Battell was begun To see how Neptune first was thorough run How the Sterne brasse his curled forehead toare And trembling waves were strucke by cruell oare Each Fleet the Captaines had divided soon Into the forme of an halfe-circled Moon But as their furious hornes together met These two halfe Moones a full Moon did beget Which like to that in Heaven as it did go Made the fleet waters strangly ebb and flow Now as with proud advance they neerer came Those Beasts which gave the saile-rul'd vessels name With an aspect more grim then is their life As breathing nought but warr and balefull strife Came feircely forward all as if from thence They meant to move their painted residence The Lion Elephant and savage Hog The Lybard Tygre Wolfe and cruell Dog Sternly affront each other one might guesse In midst of Sea a savage Wildernesse Wherein with admiration one might see So many a feirce wilde Beast so many a Tree But now our valiant Generall traversing About the Fleet encouraged them rehersing This speech wherein he bravely did exhort To th' fight which ready cut the Oration short Courage brave English that is all I pray Strength cannot want where courage leads the way But what need I th' undanted hearts excite Of them whose eyes methinks already fight Looke as yee do and you shall never need Weapons or hands to make your foes to bleed Your lookes will strike them dead and war-like sight Shall put your fearefull Enemies to flight VVhat ere you aime at here before you lye Honour Revenge Spoile Riches Victory VVhich if they move not see your native Land Your Nurse your Mother see how she doth stand Afar to marke which of you best shall render Thanks for her nurture who shall best defend her Them will she honour bravely then drive backe This Dutch Sea-monster which is come to racke Your Nurses entrails come't but once to Land The very Earth will be affraid to stand Its cruell brunt whether if reach it can The blood and tears will make an Ocean Deeper then this I see 'em now repaire O let my Omen vanish into Aire Vnto your Land see how the Hogens rage About your Coasts sparing nor Sexe nor Age. See how they pull strong walls of Cities downe Leaving the men as naked as the Towne They raze your sacred Temples and not leave A hallowed place where after yee may heave Your hands for aide to Heaven your Altars frames These wicked wretches with prophaned flames Sacrifice to their anger yea they dare To open ghostly Tombes and thence lay bare Your Ancestors sad Coffins whose dead ashes Instead of tears their Childrens blood be-dashes See how in few houres they act or'e againe Each horrid passage every bloody sceane Of your late sev'n yeares Tragedy and do out do VVhat ere was left done or undone by you These things which Heav'n be thankt I but suppose Vnless you help will once advance your foes Say that your Navie be far lesse then theirs Have not great Ships amidst their swift carreers Been staied by little Remoraes Then on And let not this cold Element whereon VVee are to fight quench those couragious flames VVhich burne in every manly breast which aimes At immortality but strike so sterne That the dumb Fishes may hereafter learne To speake your praises and each wave report Vnto its Neighbour in how valiant sort Ye fought till that the Oceans utmost bound And farthest Thule with your fame shall sound Yea that the Sun When he at night shall presse This way may go and tell th' Antipedes What acts he saw Nor yet of aide despaire The Sea it selfe if need shall aske will spare A thousand of his streaming armes for you All Fish prove Sword-fish to fight for our due Thinke for no refuge here to flye your hand Not feet must bring you backe againe to Land No longer will the time with us dispence What my speech wants my Sword shall recompence Now 'twixt a thousand lives a thousand deaths Of time one little winged minute breaths The loud mouth'd Gun onely expects the fire At touch of which as burnt it should expire Its skreiking voice groaning that so much death Should be accomplisht by th' infectious breath Of its dire mouth Darts readie are to part And hide their heads in some ill fortun'd heart Arrows and Muskets leveld seem to kill Before they can in act in fiery will One might have thought viewing this fearfull fight 'T had been the picture of a navall fight But hark the amazing signes of battell sound Making the land remote and rocks rebound The shril voic't Trumpet and couragious Drum In barbarous language bid the Dutch to come Deaths horrid vizard now begins to appeare In their pale faces terrour and ghastly feare In their amazed hearts doe panting rise And future blood-baths in their fiery eyes Stern cruelty advanceth on their lids With headlong fury stalking in the mids Apelles present here or one so skilld Might have made pictures hence that would have kild The thundring Ordnance now began to rent The amazed aire the flames before it sent Seem lightning and as deadly bullets flie Prodigious hail seemd to poure down the Skie Smoake made a Cloudy mist and all together Seem on the