Themselves into the waters head-long throw.
XXIX.
The Stoick felt the deadly stroke,
At first assault their courage was not broke,
They call’d to all the Cobweb aid,
Of rules and precepts, which in store they had,
They bid their hearts stand out,
Bid them be calm and stout;
But all the strength of precepts will not do’t.
They cannot the storms of passions now asswage,