D'AUBIGNE TO DIANE

Wearied by wind and wave death goes

With gin and snare right near alway

Unto my sight. Behind me bay

As hounds the tempests of my foes.

Ever on ward against such woes,

Pistols my pillow's service pay,

Yet Love makes me the poet play.

Thou know'st the rime demands repose,

So if my line disclose distress,

The soldier and my restlessness

And teen, Pardon, dear Lady mine,

For since mid war I bear love's pain

‘ Tis meet my verse, as I, show sign

Of powder, gun-match and sulphur stain.