Note in Ital * It should frem from hence, that moring artithing was Before brought to its present perfection: Some naval Commanders had recourfe to Instruments or Machines, similar in use, the perhaps unlike in Construction, to the heavy Dolphins made of lead iron used by the ancient Greeks: which they suspended from Beams or yards fastened to the masts, and which they precipt precipitately eat fall on the Enemies Ships, in order to sink them by beating hole thro' the bottoms of their undecked Friremes, or otherwise damaging them. These are mentioned by Sincydides, Lib. 4. pag. 246. Ed. 1564. folio. & are more fully 2xplained in Schefferi de Militias Navali, Lib. 2. cap. 5. p. 136. Ed. 1653. 4to. NT3. It is every where in the MS. written Beans. On each fide of my fhipp along, And I will lead you on the fea. And to-morrowe, I fweare, by nine of the clocke 135 TH THE SECOND PART. HE merchant fett my lorde a glaffe And And on the morrowe, by nine of the clocke, Soe deerlye dight it dazzled the ee: Take in your ancyents, ftandards eke, Stoutly they paft Sir Andrew by. Sais Now by the roode, three yeares and more 5 10 15 20 With Ver. 5. hatched with gold.' MS. *i. e. did not falute. |