O Castabella! we depend on you,
On you our better fortunes lay,
Whose eyes and voice the winds and seas obey.
Castabella Going to Sea.] There was a Philip Hart in the next generation who was a composer, and perhaps James was his father; for the less reputed and more professional arts like music, painting, engraving, dancing, &c. tended to be hereditary in those days.
17 Byron might have alleged Flatman's practice, in the same context of sea-piece, for the too-celebrated 'There let him lay'. But the correct use is possible.
On the Death of my worthy friend Mr. John Oldham.
Pindaric Pastoral Ode.
Stanza I.
Undoubtedly 'tis thy peculiar fate,