Dark, hollow, teeming, large and deep;

Or wild, or dead, or fast asleep;

And stubborn as a wall.

Or like a mart, high vending place;

Open for every age and face,

Who loiter, steal, or range:

Or, like the common road or street,

Where knaves, as honest, walk or meet;

As Albion’s grand Exchange.

In short, thou’rt like a common shore,