A. Mild gales attend that voyage of your life,
And waft you safely through the sea of strife:
Not the dire Libyan, nor Ægean sea,
Where out of thirty ships scarce perish three;
But that, where daring fools most dearly pay,
Where all that sail are surely cast away. —Fawkes.
Alexis. (Book xiii. § 13, p. 899.)
As slowly I return'd from the Piræus,
My mind impress'd with all the various pains,