By slight of swimming on the waues to rise;

But all in vaine, the billowes breake in sunder

Aboue their heads, and beate their bodies vnder.

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Heere with sustentiue palmes themselues to saue,

Two crawling vp a cliffe, one backe is borne

By the next surge in seas to seeke his graue,

The other by the billow rent and torne

Vpon the ragged rocke, is left forlorne,

Where in his luke-warme blood he sprawling lies,