And light this wearie vessell of her lode.
Here she a while may make her safe abode,
Till she repaired have her tackles spent,[°]
And wants supplide. And then againe abroad
On the long voyage whereto she is bent:
Well may she speede and fairely finish her intent.
NOTES
Line [1.] Lo I the man.... An imitation of the opening lines of Vergil's Aeneid:—