The Crowne of All Homers Workes/To Neptune (2)
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To Neptune.
Eare Powreful Neptune, that shak'st Earth in Ire;King of the great Greene, where dance All the QuireOf faire-hayr'd Helicon; giue prosperous GalesAnd 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 IMy bashfull disposition may applieTo Pious Men; and wreake my selfe vponThe Man whose verball circumuentionIn Me, did wrong, t'Hospitious Ioues whole state,And T'Hospitable Table violate.