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The Crowne of All Homers Workes/To Mariners

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4438315The Crowne of All Homers Workes — To MarinersGeorge ChapmanHomer

To Mariners.

Ye waue-trod Watermen; As ill as sheeThat all the Earth in InfelicitieOf Rapine plunges. Who vpon youre FareAs steru'd-like-rauenous, as Cormorants are.The liues ye leade, (but in the worst Degree)Not to be enuied, more then Misery.Take shame, and feare the IndignationOf him that Thunders from the highest Throne(Hospitious Ioue) who, at the Back, preparesPaines of abhord effect, of him that daresThe Pieties breake, of his Hospitious squares.