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the wind and water. Thus sailed they forth along in their course, three days and three nights with prosperous winde and weather, vntill sodainly the whole face of heauen and sea began to change; for the skie looked blacke and the North erne wind arose, and the tempest increased more and more, insomuch that prince Apollonhis and the Tyrians that were with him were much apalled, and began to doubt of their Hues. But, loe, immediatly, the wide blew fiercely from the South-west, and the North came singing on the other side, the rain powred down over their heads, and the sea yeelded forth waues as it had beene mountanes of water, that the ships could no longer wrestle with the tempest, and especially the admirall, wherein the good prince himselfe fared, but needs must they yeeld vnto the present calamitie. There^1 might you haue heard the winds whistling, the raine dashing, the sea roaring, the cables cracking, y^e tacklings breaking, the shippe tearing, the men miserable shouting out for their Hues. There might you haue seene the sea searching the shippe, the bordes fleeting, the goods swimming, the treasure sincking, the men shifting to saue thernselues, where, partly through violence of the tempest, and partly through darcknes of the night which then was come vpon them, they were all drowned, onely Apollonius excepted, who by the grace of God, and the helpe of a simple boord, was driuen vpon the shoare of the Pentapolitanes. And when he had recouered to land, wearie as he was, he stoode vpoivthe shoare, and looked vpon the calme sea, saying : O most false and vntrustie sea ! I will choose rather to fall into the handes of the most cruell kingAntiochus, than venture to returne againe by thee
^1 [It is mentioned in the forewords attached to the "Tempest," that this passage was not improbably seen and used by Shakespeare.]