yet have laid the Ladyship aboard, you have entered the Apprenticeship, you are well-known in the Courtship, you have sailed in the Good Fellowship, you love the Friendship, you affect the Fellowship, you know the Footmanship, you are skilled in the Horsemanship, you have surprised and taken the Worship, and you know what belongs to the Woodmanship, the Wardship, and Stewardship; I do for some reasons not meddle with all, and I think you have seldom or never had any dealings with them : the sum of all is, I most humbly desire your worship's pardon, for my abrupt dedication, assuring you that it was only my love and duty that put me on, without any expectance of patronage, protection or reward: and with my best wishes for the perpetuity of your present and ever future felicity,

I rest,

Your Worship's to command

whilst I have being,

JO. TAYLOR.

John Smith of his friend Master

John Taylor and his Amada.

Arm, Arm, Arm, Arm, great Neptune rouse, awake And muster up thy monsters speedily:

Boreas unto thy blustering blasts betake,

Guard, guard yourselves, from Taylor's policy,

Rocks, shoals, Lee-shores, oh help them Goodwin

sands

For this new Fleet runs over Seas and Lands,

And's now so victu'led, Rigged and yarely* plies It threatens all the waters, air and skies

Truth in his Navy such a power doth lead

The Devil, Hell, Vice, and all, the Fleet may dread, And well it may, if well you understand,

So rare a Fleet, was never made nor man'd.

*YARELY.-Quickly, neatly, skilfully.

My love to John Taylor
and his Navy.

If Art and Nature both in one combine,
Upon some serious wits to draw a line
If Virtue trusty Faith with all their might
Give Nature Virtue, Art a nimble sight

Art Nature Virtue, Faith do well agree
To raise this work of thine eternity.
No sooner did thy pen but drop a tear
Upon this milky path, the Gods were there
Willing assistants and did hoist up sail
To make the swifter in the thy naval tale

Eolia a gentle gale Neptune, calm weather
Till all our Ships in harbour moored together
If Lord-Ship, Lady-Ship, or Court-Ship fight
Friend-Ship and Fellow-Ship will do thee right
And Wor-Ship will assist to make a peace
Whilst Surety-ship stands bound the wars should cease,
Thus was that battle ended but thy praise

Hath raised a crew which will outlast thy days

Steer on thy course then, let thy fertile brain
Plough up the deep which will run o'er the main
In such a Fleet of sweet conceited matter,
Which sails by land more swifter than by water
That whilst the ocean doth contain a billow
Thou and thy Book shall never have a fellow.

F. Mason.

The Description how the whole Navy is Victualled with Thirty-two sorts of Ling, besides other Necessaries.

IRST, thirty thousand couple of ChangeLING, appointed only for the diet of such fellows who had honest parents, and are themselves changed into very rascals.

Secondly, Dar-LING, this fish was dearer

than fresh Salmon, (for it was consecrated to the goddess Venus) it was of that high price that some men have consumed their whole lordships, manors and credit, in two or three years only in this kind of diet, therefore, it is not a dish for every man's tooth: for none but brave sparks, rich heirs, Clarissimoes and Magnificoes, would go to the cost of it.

Thirdly, Shave-LING, which was only for the diet of Priests, Monks, and Friars.

Fourthly, Fond-LING, this fish was Cockney's and other pretty youths, over whom their parents were so tender, that a man might perceive by their manners, they had been better fed than taught.

Fifthly, Tip-LING, a dish for all men.

Sixthly, Under-LING, this fish was shipped for witty younger brothers, poor scholars that have neither friends nor money.

Seventhly, Starve-LING, this Ling was only for the bark Beggarly, which was manned with old discharged serving-men, and maimed cashiered soldiers and mariners.

Eighthly, Strip-LING, provided for pages, lackeys, and foot-boys.

Ninthly, Foo-LING, a dish for every man's diet. Tenthly, Swad-LING, against stomach, but yet a dish of good use.

Eleventh, Grumb-LING, a discontented kind of fish for the poorer sort of people to chaw upon : for when they do think themselves wronged by their superiors, and dare not utter their minds openly, then they feed upon Grumb-LING.

Twelfth, Wrang-LING, this Ling was salted by sixteen pettifoggers, in a long troublesome term: it is held to be a lasting dish, and will serve the whole fleet with their posterities, to the second and third generation.

Thirteenth, Troub-LING, was provided by certain double diligent constables, to the molestation of their sleepy watch, and the charge of many a man that would quietly have gone to their lodging.