Behold a horrible and hideous blast,

That Boreas from his frozen lips doth send,

Doth backward force the sayle against the mast,

And makes the waues vnto the skies ascend :
Then brake their oares and rudder eke at last,
Now nothing left from tempest to defend,
So that the ship was swaid now quite aside,
And to the waues laid ope her naked side.

Then all aside the staggring ship did reele,
For one side quite beneath the water lay,
And on the tother side the verie keele,
Aboue the water plaine discerne you may.
Then thought they al hope past, & down they
kneele

And vnto God to take their soules they pray,

Worse danger grew than this, when this was past,

By meanes the ship gan after leake so fast.

The wind, the waues, to them no respite gaue,
But readie eu❜rie houre to ouerthrow them,
Oft they wer hoist so high vpon the waue,

They thought the middle region was below them;

Oft times so low the same their vessel draue,

As though that Charon there his boat would show them

Scant had they time and powre to fetch their

breath,

All things did threaten them so present death.

Thus all that night they could haue no release,
But when the morning somewhat nearer drew,
And that by course, the furious wind should

cease,

(A strange mishap) the wind then fiercer grew, their troubles more and

And

while

increase,

more

Behold a rocke stood plainly in their vew,
And right vpon the same the spitefull blast,
Bare them perforce, which made them all agast.

Yet did the master by all meanes assay,
To steare out roomer, or to keepe aloofe,
Or at the least to strike sailes if they may,
As in such danger was for their behoofe.
But now the wind did beare so great a sway,
His enterprises had but little proofe :
At last with striuing yard and all was torne,
And part thereof into the sea was borne.

Then each man saw all hope of safetie past,
No meanes there was the vessell to direct,
No helpe there was, but all away are cast,
Wherefore their common safetie they neglect,
But out they get the ship-boat, and in hast,
Each man therein his life striues to protect,
Of King, nor Prince no man taks heed or note,
But well was he could get him in the bote.

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MONTAIGNE'S

ESSAY ON THE CANIBALLES.
John Florio's Translation.

AT what time King Pirrhus came into Italie, after he had survaid the marshalling of the Armie, which the Romans sent against him: "I wot not," said he, “what barbarous men these are" [for so were the Græcians wont to call all strange nations] "but the disposition of this Armie, which I see, is nothing barbarous." So said the Græcians of that which Flaminius sent into their countrie: And Philip viewing from a Tower the order and distribution of the Romaine camp, in his kingdome under Publius Sulpitius Galba. Loe how a man ought to take heed, lest he over-weeningly follow vulgar opinions, which should be measured by the rule of reason, and not by the common report. I have had long time dwelling with me a man, who for the space of ten or twelve yeares had dwelt in that other world, which in our age was lately discovered in those parts where Villegagnon first landed, and surnamed Antartike France. This