| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Drowning |
| | | | O Lord, methought, what pain it was to drown, |
| What dreadful noise of water in mine ears! |
| What sights of ugly death within mine eyes! |
| Methought I saw a thousand fearful wracks; |
| A thousand men that fishes gnawd upon; |
| Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, |
| Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, |
| All scattered in the bottom of the sea; |
| Some lay in dead mens skulls; and in those holes |
| Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, |
| As twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems. |
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