The Crowne of All Homers Workes/To Neptune (2)

by Homer

 

To Neptune.

Eare Powreful Neptune, that shak'st Earth in Ire;
King of the great Greene, where dance All the Quire
Of faire-hayr'd Helicon; giue prosperous Gales
And good passe, to these Guiders of our sailes:
Their Voyage rendring happily directed,
And their Returne, with no ill Fate affected.
Grant, likewise, at rough Mimas lowest rootes,
(Whose strength, vp to her Tops, prærupt rocks shootes)
My Passage safe arriuall; and that I
My bashfull disposition may applie
To Pious Men; and wreake my selfe vpon
The Man whose verball circumuention
In Me, did wrong, t'Hospitious Ioues whole state,
And T'Hospitable Table violate.