3 Far from the hoped haven of relief, 4 Why do your cruel billows beat so strong, 5 And your moist mountains each on others throng, 6 Threatening to swallow up my fearful life? 7 O do your cruel wrath and spiteful wrong 8 At length allay, and stint your stormy strife,
stint > cease
9 Which in these troubled bowels reigns, and rages rife.
bowels > {Heart, breast; internal organs generally} rife > abundantly, largely; hence: strongly
304.9
For else my feeble vessell crazd, and crackt
2 Through thy strong buffets and outrageous blowes,
Cannot endure, but needs it must be wrackt
4 On the rough rocks, or on the sandy shallowes,
The whiles that loue it steres, and fortune rowes;
6 Loue my lewd Pilot hath a restlesse mind
And fortune Boteswaine no assuraunce knowes,
8 But saile withouten starres, gainst tide and wind:
How can they other do, sith both are bold and blind?
1 "For else my feeble vessel, crazed and cracked
else > otherwise crazed > damaged [weakened by multiple hairline fissures]
2 Through your strong buffets and outrageous blows,
outrageous > violent; intemperate blows > blows, strokes; blasts of wind