Of Pisces
Pisces in 15 AD: sailors, shipwrights, and everyone who trusts the sea.
[p. 15] Last double Pisces, from their shining scale,Spread watry influence, and incline to Sail;To trust their Lives to Seas, to plow the Deep,To make fit Rigging, or to build a Ship.In short, what e're can for a Fleet be fram'd,A thousand Arts, too numerous to be nam'd.Beside to steer, observe the Stars, and guideAs they direct, and never lose the Tide;To know the Coasts, the Winds, the Ports, and Shores;To turn the Helm, or ply the bending Oars;To sweep smooth Seas with Nets, to drag the Sand,And draw the leaping Captives to the Land,Lay cheating Wires, or with unfaithful bait,The Hook conceal, and get by the deceit:To fight at Sea, to stain the Waves with blood,Whilst War lies floating on th' unstable flood:Fruitful their Births, of Pleasure fond, engageIn Love, are quick, but changing with their Age,
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The text is Thomas Creech's 1697 verse translation, checked word by word between three scans of the same type (the 1697 printing, the 1700 printing and a third copy). The long s is printed as s; every other spelling is Creech's. Pages are cited as the 1697 printing numbers them. The portrait is William Marshall’s engraving of Lilly from the front of the 1659 printing (Wellcome Library, public domain).