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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13440	The Dolphins danger and deliuerance being a ship of 220. tunne hauing in her but 36. men and 2. boyes, who were on the 12. of Ianuary 1616. set vpon by 6. men of warre of the Turkes hauing at the least 1500. men in them : who fought with them 5. houres and a halfe, yet to the glory of God and the honor of our English nation, both shippe and goods safely brought vp the Riuer of Thames and deliuered / truely set forth by the appoyntment of M. Edward Nichols, being Maister of the said ship ; with the names of all those that were slaine on the English part, the maner how, and how many were maymed, and what they are that suruiue.	Nichols, Edward, fl. 1617.; Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1617 (1617)	STC 23748.5; ESTC S1146	8,486	25

The Dolphins danger and Deliuerance Being a Ship of 220. Tunne hauing in her but 36. Men and 2. Boyes who were on the 12. of Ianuary 1616. set vpon by 6. Men of Warre of the Turkes hauing at the least 1500. Men in them who fought with them 5. houres and a halfe yet to the glory of God and the honor of our English Nation both Shippe and goods safely brought vp the Riuer of Thames and deliuered Truely set forth by the appoyntment of M. Edward Nichols being Maister of the said Ship With the names of all those that were slaine on the English part the maner how and how many were maymed and what they are that suruiue LONDON Printed for Henry Gosson and are to be solde in Panier Alley 1617. To the High and mighty Charles Prince of Wales Duke of Cornewall Yorke and Albanie Earle of Chester and Knight of the most noble order of the Garter RIGHT Gracious Prince I your humble Vassall beeing imboldened by your innated generous acceptation of all good indeauours to present your Highnes with this poore piece of a shadow of the substantiall perills that I haue escaped which for my part had neuer beene published but that it was falsly printed without my knowledge which for the regard I haue to the truth and mine owne Credit I could doe no lesse then contradict with a Refutation of falshood I humbly implore your Highnes to bestow your gracious reading of the infallible verity of the truth which if you vouchsafe you shall therein see Gods power manifested when man is at the weakest So wishing your Highnes all earthly and heauenly felicity I remaine Your humble and obedient Seruant EDWARD NICNOLLS A Toothlesse Satire vpon him that made or rather mard the former Booke RIch cloath of gold vnto a Botcher brought It shall be mard not made quite sham'd not fram'd When worser stuffe by a good Worke-man wrought Becomes the owner makes the maker fam'd Rare Phisicke as it is as abus'd or vs'd As is the Doctors ignorance or skill Such operation from it is infus'd That it doth helpe or hurt or cure or kill Vnto the stuffe the fault we cannot put Nor to the Phisicke we the crime apply The Bungling Taylor spoyld when he did cut And want of skill did cause the patient dye Then let a botching patcher botch and mend Let Mountebankes giue Phisicke vnto dogs Let Coopers on their hooples Tubs attend And Millers deale no further then their Cogges For when a witles Rooke shall vndertake Of such exployts as these to make a Booke The ancient Prouethe true he seeme to make God sends good meat the Diuell sends a Cooke Why such a worke as this deserues to haue A Homers or a Virgils skill to grace in And not an ignorant intruding K ---- Whose blindnes did in euery place misplace it Some lies some truthes together cram'd and thrust Quite out of Time like mustard after meat That 't is a wonder such a fellow durst VVith wit so little write of things so great VVhere thirty sixe men and two boyes in fight Gainst fifteene hundred were sixe houres oppos'd Boorded with multitudes with maine and might Round with the foes and fiery flames inclos'd Where death was scorn'd and vallour was belou'd Where victory was that at which they aym'd Where noble Resolution was aproou'd Where Fame adornes the sound dead hurt and maim'd What subiect could a pen more Ample find If all were written in perticular From Thames vnto the farthest shore of Inde Or from the Artick toth ' Antartick starre Why should a fellow beeing there in place Remember not himselfe or any other But bury all their glory in disgrace And each mans Acts in darke obliuion smother O! t is a hell of hells and shame of shames Where men shall iustly dare to fight and dye And writers will not regester their names When noming makes them liue Immortally To shew how valiant men doe spend their blood It doth each worthy heart with courage strike To Imitate the actions that are good And by example to attemp the like But when a man shall for a certaine know That with his life his memory must fall And no Records his worthinesse shall show These meanes will make starke Cowards of vs all Then these poore lines shall make these men suruiue Vnto the vtmost end of time or fate They liu'd and dyed and dead are still aliue In Name in Pame in Earthly Heauenly state And as for him that writ the Booke before Let him write better or else write no more Iohn Taylor The Dolphins danger and Deliuerance Being a Shippe of London of 220. Tunne hauing in her but 36. men and two Boyes THe Almighty Creator who onely worketh wonders confounding strong things by weake meanes as Dauids Sling Samgars Goad Sampsons Iaw-bone Gedeons Pitchers the great Captaine Sisera and Holofernes kil'd by two seely weake Woemen All these and innumerable examples more there are both in diuine and humane Histories which demonstrates that victory doth not consist in the Arme of flesh but in the omnipotent Lord of Hosts and God of Battles The Consideration of which makes vs with thankefulnesse to commemorate this our great Deliuerance from so imminent dangers and sharpe Assaults as few or none hath more cause to be thankfull for the like and not to attribute any thing to my selfe being the Maister of the Ship or with ostentation to puffe vp any of my Company but giuing the glory to whom glory belongs I proceed About the end of this last yeare our affaires beeing accomplisht at Zant our Ship called the Dolphin of London of the burthen of 220. Tunne hauing in her 19. cast Pieces and 5. Murtherers 36. Men and two Boyes the Maisters name Edward Nichols a man whose courage industry knowledge and integrity are manifested by his actions in former times but now more particularly in this last and perilous aduenture we being laden weyed our Anchor and set saile from Zant the first of Ianuary 1616. with a faire gale of winde at North and by East the 8. of Ianuary we had sight of the Iland of Sardaine then the wind beeing come Westerly wee on the ninth day stood for Callery we came close by two litle watch Towers who shot two shot neere vs to giue warning to vs that they would speak with vs which night would not permit for if wee could haue sent a shore to them their intent was to haue informed vs of the Turkes men of war which after we met withall to our cost and perrill and theirs to for these townes were not aboue two Leagues off from the place where wee made our fight At night being calme we sailed towards Cape Pola which small gale brought vs neere to the Cape the 11. day About 2. of the Clock after noone Three Leagues Eastward of the aforesaid Cape we descryed a Satty which is a small coasting Vessell sent at that time for a scout or spye belonging to the Turks men of