ftorm, where there is no apparent danger, fwear and curfe louder than the winds; but where they apprehend real danger, they come monly 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 Englifemen and a preacher, into Africa, Afia, &c. in the year 1603. See Collection of travels, publifbed by Mr. Ofborn from Lord Oxford's library, vol. 1. p. 771.] of a mariner who in a dangerQus storm, fecing 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 "fo long as I live." So true is that old faying, 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. Eleff"ed Saviour! O my friends! I fweat again

"with more agony ! Alas, the mizzen's fail's "fplit, the gallery's wafhed away, the maits fare fprung, the main-top-maft head dives "into the fea, the keel is up to the fun, our "Throuds are almost all broke, and blown aSway, Alas! alas where is our main "courfes Our top maft is run adrift. Alas! "who fhall have the wreck! Friend, lend me here behind you one of thefe whales: your lanthornois fallen my lads. Alas! don't let "go the main tack, nor the

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bowlin. I hear “the block crack, it is broke. For the Lord's fake let us fave the bull, and let all the rigg

ng be damned Look to the needle of your "compass I befeech you good Sir Aftrophet, " 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 mafter 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

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Gazope, there is a church dedicated to the

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

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"Virgin Mary, whereunto there is great refort 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 mafter "of a Venice ship in our company, that an Ita"lian fhip being in great distress by extremity "of weather in the Gulpb of Venice, when all hopes of help by worldly means were past, every man fell to his prayers like the mari"ners of Jonas's fhip, and every man called

.upon his Gód, fome to Neptune fome to Saint "Nicholas, fome to one faint, and fome to an"other. But the master of the ship 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 safely at Gåfopo, a candle as big as the main mast of my

hip. One of his mates hearing him, pluck’d "him by the fhoulder, and said, Ob master what "do you mean to dally with our Blessed Lady in

this extremity? For it is impoffible that you fhould 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 he deliver us, I will make ber content "with a candle of feven or eight in the pound (a). Scene

(a) Erafmus tells a ftory much to the fame purpofe, in his Naufragium. [Vide Colloq. Edit. Varior. 1(93. p. 236.] Ad. Erant qui se promitterent fore Cartbufianos, erat unus qui polliceretur fe aditurum Divum Jacobum qui habitat Compoftellæ, nudis pedibus, et capite, corpore

Scene 2d.

P. 6. Miranda. If by your art (my dearest father) you have put the wild waters in this roar, allay them the fky it feems would pour down ftinking pitch, but that the fea mounting to th' welkin cheek, dafbes the fire out.]

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Much more defcriptive is Rabelais's account of that ftorm, with which Panurge was fo terribly alarmed. [See works, book iv. chap. 17.] "Immediately it blow'd a ftorm, the fea began to roar, and fwell mountain-high: the "rut of the fea was great, the waves breaking upon our fhip's quarter, the north-west wind

"blustered, and over blowed, boisterous gufts; "dreadful clafhings, and deadly scuds of wind "whiftled through our yards, and made our "fhrouds 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,

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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. Chriftophora, qui eft Lutetiæ in fummo templo, mons verius quam ftatua, Cereum tantum, quantus effet ipfe. Hæc cum vociferans quantum poterat, identidem inculcaret, qui forte proximus affiftebat illi notus, cubito tetigit eum, ac fubmonuit: Vide quid pollicearis, etiamfi rerum omnium tuarum au&tionem 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 contegero terram, non daturus fum illi candelam febaceam.

"rained, and hailed; the fky loft its tranfpa

rent hue, grew dusky, thick and gloomy, "fo that we had no other light than that of "the flashes of lightning, and rending of the "clouds. The hurricanes, flaws, and fudden "whirlwinds, began to make a flame about

us; by the lightnings, fiery vapours, and "other aerial ejaculations. Oh how our looks

were full of amazement and trouble, while

the faucy winds did rudely lift up above us "the mountainous waves of the main. Be"lieve me it feemed to us a lively image of "the Chaos, where fire, air, fea, land, and all "the elements were in refractory confufion.

.Sc. 2. p. 7:

Than Profpero master of a full-poor cell.} Probably he wrote Profp're a diffyllable. Anon.

Id. Ib. The direful spectacle of the wreck which touch'd-]

The final vowel of spectacle fhould 'tis likely be melted down here before a vowel. So that Spectacle of fhould make together but three fyllables. Anon.

. P. 8. Obey, and be attentive, can'st thou remember]

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Thou makes the verfe too long, and may vewell be left out. Anon.

Ib. p. 9. And Profpero the Prime Duke being fo reputed]

Profp'ro, as before, a diffyllable. monofyllable. Anon.