My greedy eyes epicuris'd on thine,

20When thee no more, but thy spread sails I view,

I look'd, and look'd, till I had lost them too;

But when nor thee, nor them I could descry,

And all was sea that came within my eye,

They say (for I have quite forgot), they say

I straight grew pale, and fainted quite away;

Compassionate Iphiclus, and the good old man,

My mother too to my assistance ran;

In haste cold water on my face they threw,