In stately frigates most delight you find.

Charles the Second had a strong mechanical genius, and understood ship-building, in particular, more completely than became a monarch, if it were possible that a king of England could be too intimately acquainted with what concerns the bulwark of his empire. The king's skill in matters of navigation is thus celebrated by the author of a Poem upon his Majesty's Coronation, the 22d April, 1661, being St George's day.

The seaman's art, and his great end commerce,

Through all the corners of the universe,

Are not alone the subject of your care,

But your delight, and you their polar-star;

And even mechanic arts do find from you,

Both entertainment and improvement too.

[Note IV.]

Beyond your court flows in the admitted tide.