Dum lavat Rubrum Sabriana[1] Castrum
Dumque stat Magni Genus Hereberti,
Te canent Nostro celebrem futuri
Carmine Cambri.
Sic cecinit Gronovius Ovinius Niger,
Ipsis Calendis Decembribus, 1755.
ON CAPTAIN THOMAS FOULKES
Escape in a Great Storm, Sept. 10th, 1741, when he was drove by a hard gale at East from
Alanus Point to the north of Ireland, and had all his rigging and sails demolished.
QUID crepat! Haud intra ripas se continet æquor
Numquid dejectum tecta, feruntur aquæ?
Væ misero nautæ pelago qui credere vitam
Sustinet, insanis jam periturus aquis;
Qualiter! heu quali fremitu furit Eurus in undas
Qualiter oppositam verberat unda ratem?
Vertice jam cœlum tangit, jam fertur in Orcum,
Spreta sibi quondam littora nauta cupit
Iratum numen Pelagi prece vexat inani;
Littus ut attingat millia vota vovet.
Stulte, nimis sero moriundus pectora plangis,
Sero nimis, periens æquore, littus amas.
Si semel attinges littus, ne rursus ad æquor
Vela daturus eas, ne patiaris idem;
- ↑ Sabriana fluvius, vulgo Sabrina, Anglis Severn, Cambris vero Hafren,
