THE EARL OF CUMBERLAND a.d. 



1589. 



recovery, and our other sailes so rent and torne (from 

 side to side some of them) that hardly any of them 

 escaped hole. The raging waves and foming surges of 

 the sea came rowling like mountaines one after another, 

 and overraked the waste of the shippe like a mightie 

 river running over it, whereas in faire weather it was 

 neere 20. foote above the water, that nowe wee might 

 cry out with the princely Prophet Psalme 107. vers. 26. 

 They mount up to heaven, and descend to the deepe, 

 so that their soule melteth away for trouble : they reele 

 too and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and all 

 their cunning is gone. With this extremitie of foule 

 weather the ship was so tossed and shaken, that by the 

 craking noise it made, and by the leaking which was 

 now much more then ordinary, wee were in great 

 feare it would have shaken in sunder, so that now 

 also we had just cause to pray a litle otherwise then 

 the Poet, though marring the verse, yet mending the 

 meaning. 



Deus maris & Cceli, quid enim nisi vota supersunt, 

 Solvere quassatae parcito membra ratis. 



Notwithstanding it pleased God of his great goodnesse 

 to deliver us out of this danger. Then forthwith a 

 new maine saile was made and fastened to the yard, 

 and the rest repaired as time and place would suffer : 

 which we had no sooner done, but yet againe wee were 

 troubled with as great extremitie as before, so that againe 

 we were like to have lost our new maine saile, had not 

 Master William Antony the Master of the ship him- 

 selfe (when none else would or durst) ventured with 

 danger of drowning by creeping along upon the maine 

 yarde (which was let downe close to the railes) to gather 

 it up out of the sea, and to fasten it thereto, being 

 in the meane while oft-times ducked over head and 

 eares into the sea. 



These stormes were so terrible, that there were some 

 in our company, which confessed they had gone to seas 

 for the space of 20. yeeres, and had never seene the 



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