And lull’d with sounds of sweetest melody?

O thou dull God! why ly’st thou with the vile

In loathsome beds; and leav’st the kingly couch?

A watch-case, or a common ’larum bell?

Wilt thou, upon the high and giddy mast,

Seal up the ship-boy’s eyes, and rock his brains

In cradle of the rude imperious surge;

And in the visitation of the winds,——

Who take the ruffian billows by the top,

Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them