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gan to pray, Lord have mercy upon me. Chrift

"bave mercy upon me, &c. and fo on to the

"Lord's prayer. All the while old Robin was

"near him, and between every petition cried out, Ab you lubberly dog, Ah you coward! Z---ds thou hast not got the heart of a flea. "Poor George being thus disturb'd in his de❝votion, would look over his shoulder, and

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at the end of every petition, would make an"fwer to old Robin with a 1n you you old dog, can't you let me alone, cannot a body pray at quiet for you? — A p-gue rot you, let me alone cannot you, Thus the one kept praying and curfing, and the other railing "for half an hour: when a great log of wood, by the rolling of the fhip, tumbled upon George's legs, and bruised him a little: "which George taking up into his hands, and << thinking that it had been thrown at him by "old Robin, let fly at the old fellow, together "with a whole broadfide of oaths and curfes, "and fo they fell to boxing. (a) I mention "this only to fhew the incorrigible fenfelef"nefs of fuch tarpawling wretches in the ut"moft extremity of danger."

Id. Ib. p. 5. Enter Mariners wet.

Mar. All loft! To prayers! To prayers! All loft. It is obferved already, that mariners in a ftorm,

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(a) A Narrative of the victory obtained by the English and Dutch fleet commanded by Admiral Russel over that of France near La Hogue in the year 1692. was published at Cambridge, from Mr. Allyn's Journal, in the year 1744.

ftorm, where there is no apparent danger, fwear and curfe louder than the winds; but where they apprehend real danger, they commonly fall down upon their knees and pray, though probably they had rarely (if ever) pray'd upon any other occafion. A remarkable inftance of which is given in the Travels of four Englishmen and a preacher, into Africa, Afia, &c. in the year 1603. [See Collection of travels, publifhed by Mr. Ofborn from Lord Oxford's library, vol. 1. p. 771.] of a mariner who in a dangerous ftorm, feeing every man fall to prayers, and prepare themselves to die; fell on his knees, and pray'd in this manner. "O Lord "I am no common beggar, I do not trou"ble thee every day, for I never prayed to "thee before; and if it please thee to deliver me this once, I will never pray to thee again

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fo long as I live." So true is that old saying, Qui nefcit orare, difcat navigare.

"He that knows not how to pray, "Let him go to fea.

See the French proverb, To the fame purpofe, Ray's proverbs, Entire fentences. Id. Ib. p. 6.

A confufed noife within, Mercy on us, we split, we split, farewel my wife and children.]

This feems to be borrowed from Rabelais's account of Panurge's remarkable cowardice in a ftorm. [Works. Book iv. chap. 18.] “ Mur"ther! This wave will fweep us away. Bleff"ed Saviour! O my friends! I sweat again

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"with mere agony! Alas, the mizzen's fail's fplit, the gallery's washed away, the mafts are fprung, the main-top-maft head dives into the fea, the keel is up to the fun, our "fhrouds are almoft all broke, and blown a

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way. Alas! alas! where is our main "courfe? Our top maft is run adrift. Alas! "who fhall have the wreck! Friend, lend me "here behind you one of these whales: your lanthorn is fallen my lads. Alas! don't let go the main tack, nor the bowlin. I hear "the block crack, it is broke. For the Lord's "fake let us fave the bull, and let all the rigg

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ing be damned-Look to the needle of your

compass I beseech you good Sir Aftrophel "and tell us if you can, whence comes this "ftorm? My heart's funk down below my "midriff: by my troth I am in a fad fright, I am loft for ever-I fink, I am drown'd, I am gone good people, I am drown'd." Id. Ib.

Gonz. Now would I give a thousand furlongs of fea for an acre of barren ground; ling, heath, broom, furze, any thing.] This offer was not fo generous as that of a master of a fhip mentioned in a late book of travels (a) though it's plain he never intended to perform it. "At a Port near Corfu called Madonna de Gazope, there is a church dedicated to the

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(a) Travels of four Englishmen and a preacher, into Africa, &c. 1603. Collection of travels publish'd from Lord Oxford's library, vol. 1. p. 771.

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6c Virgin Mary, whereunto there is great re-, "fort of fuch as have escaped dangers by fea, "to offer fomething to Madonna de Gazope for ❝ their deliverance: and amongst many others, "it was told us by our confort, the master "of a Venice ship in our company, that an Ita"lian fhip being in great diftrefs by extremity "of weather in the Gulph of Venice, when all

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hopes of help by worldly means were past, "every man fell to his prayers like the mariners of Jonas's fhip, and every man called કંડ upon his God, fome to Neptune fome to Saint "Nicholas, fome to one faint, and some to an"other. But the mafter of the fhip prayed to “Madonna de Gazope in this manner. O Bleff"ed Virgin, deliver me out of this danger, and "I will offer unto thee, if I come fafely at Ga

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Sopo, a candle as big as the main mast of my fhip. One of his mates hearing him, pluck'd "him by the shoulder, and faid, Ob mafter what "do you mean to dally with our Blessed Lady in this extremity? For it is impoffible that you Should perform. Whereupon he replied, Hold thy peace fool, it concerneth us to speak fair now . we are in danger, and to make large promises, "but if fhe deliver us, I will make her content

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with a candle of feven or eight in the pound (a).

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(a) Erafmus tells a story much to the fame purpose, in his Naufragium. [Vide Colloq. Edit. Varior. 1693. p. 236.] Ad. Erant qui fe promitterent fore Carthufianos, erat unus qui polliceretur fei aditurum Divum Jacobum qui habitat Compoftellæ, nudis pedibus, et capite, corpore

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Miranda. If by your art (my dearest father) you have put the wild waters in this roar, allay them: the sky it seems would pour down stinking pitch, but that the fea mounting to th' welkin cheek, dafbes the fire out.]

⚫ Much more descriptive is Rabelais's account of that ftorm, with which Panurge was so terribly alarmed. [See works, book iv. chap. 17.] "Immediately it blow'd a ftorm, the fea began to roar, and fwell mountain-high: the แ rut of the fea was great, the waves breaking

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upon our fhip's quarter, the north-weft wind "blustered, and over blowed, boisterous gufts; “dreadful clashings, and deadly scuds of wind "whistled through our yards, and made our "Throuds rattle again. The thunder grum"bled fo horridly, that you would have

thought heaven had been tumbling about

our ears; at the fame time it lightened,

tantum loricâ ferreâ tecto, ad hæc cibo emendicato. An. Nemo meminit Chriftophori? Ad. Unum audivi non fine rifu, qui clarâ voce, ne non exaudiretur, polliceretur Chriftophoro, qui eft Lutetiæ in fummo templo, mons verius quam ftatua, Cereum tantum, quantus effet ipfe. Hæc cum vociferans quantum poterat, identidem inculca ret, qui forte proximus affiftebat illi notus, cubito tetigit eum, ac fubmonuit: Vide quid pollicearis, etiamfi rerum omnium tuarum auctionem facias: non fueris folvendo. Tum ille voce jam preffiore ne videlicet exaudiret Chriftophorus. Tace inquit fatue; an credis me ex animi fententia loqui? Si femel conteger terram, non daturus fum illi candelam fse

baceam.

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