Peopled with those, that like quicke sprites in skie,
By little hold-fast all about could flie.
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Musket shot could not pierce them. Emanuel Van-Metran, in his 15 booke of his historie.
Each barke, whose bulke was proofe against the wound
Of common shot, besides those buls of brasse,
Whose bellowing rore did equall thunders sound,
Of such great thicknesse and high building was,
That like large towers they on the deepe did passe;
For scarce could brazen cannons banefull thunder,