To Mariners
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Homer and Chapman, George
Ye wave-trod watermen, as ill as she That all the earth in infelicity Of rapine plunges; who upon your fare As sterv’d-like-ravenous as cormorants are; The lives ye lead, but in the worst degree, Not to be envied more than misery; Take shame, and fear the indignation Of Him that thunders from the highest throne, Hospitious Jove, who, at the back, prepares Pains of abhorr’d effect of him that dares The pieties break of his hospitious squares.