Recollections of Ralph Randolph WormeleyPriv. print., Nation Press, 1879 - 118 pages |
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Page 38 - For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave : Where Blake and mighty Nelson fell Your manly hearts shall glow, As ye sweep through the deep, While the stormy winds do blow ; While the battle rages loud and long And the stormy winds do blow. Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep ; Her march is o'er the mountain waves, Her home is on the deep.
Page 62 - When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Page 102 - HERE, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling of our crew; No more he'll hear the tempest howling, For Death has broached him to. His form was of the manliest beauty. His heart was kind and soft; Faithful below he did his duty, But now he's gone aloft.
Page 45 - Lear. The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.
Page 110 - ... all still in the same mind, fully bent to put in practice what we had so solemnly agreed upon, our inclinations that way being nothing abated, but were rather quicken'd, by the new changes that we saw in the state of things, and that very much for the worse: For if our spirits were somewhat depress'd in contemplation of a barbarous restraint upon the person of our king in the Isle of Wight; to what horrors and despairs must our minds be reduc'd at the bloody and bitter stroke of his assassination,...
Page 111 - ... his wife, but by many neighbours that were not too remote. About the midst of February, I had an opportunity to cross the bay in a sloop, and with much ado landed in York river, at esquire Ludlow's plantation, a most pleasant situation. I was civilly receiv'd by him, who presently order'd an accommodation for me in a most obliging manner. But it fell out at that time, that captain Warmly (of his majesty's council) had guests in his house (not a furlong distant from Mr.
Page 111 - Warmly (of his majesty's council) had guests in his house (not a furlong distant from Mr. Ludlow's) feasting and carousing, that were lately come from England, and most of them my intimate acquaintance. I took a sudden leave of Mr. Ludlow, thank'd him for his kind intentions to me, and using the common freedom of the country, I thrust myself amongst captain Wormly's guests in crossing the creek, and had a kind reception from them all, which answered (if not exceeded) my expectation. Sir Thomas Lundsford,...
Page 110 - The month of August, Jlnno 1649, being the time I engag'd to meet my two comrades, Major Francis Morrison, and Major Richard Fox, at London, in order to a full accomplishment of our purpose to seek our fortunes in Virginia, (pursuant to our agreement the year before in Holland) all parties very punctually appear'd at the time and place assign'd, and were all still in the same mind, fully bent to put in practice what we had so solemnly agreed upon, our inclinations that way being nothing abated, but...
Page 109 - Jan. 11 in the XIV year of our Reign, for the better maintenance and government of the Colony and Plantation of Virginia, did nominate and appoint the said Sir Francis Wyat, Kt., to be the present Governor thereof, and such other persons as we had then named etc. as Council etc. etc. which said Commission etc. we do by these present Revoke.
Page 110 - The spelling modernized. unto the Crown to continue the same means that was formerly thought fit for the maintenance of the Plantation, until we would find some more convenient means upon mature advice to give more ample directions for the same, and reposing assured trust and confidence in the understanding, care, fidelity, experience, and circumspection of you, the said Sir Yardley [Yeardley], Francis West, John Harvey, George Sandys, John Pott, Roger Smith, Ralph...