• Beat on, proud billows; Boreas, blow;
      Swell, curlèd waves, high as Jove’s roof;
    Your incivility doth show
      That innocence is tempest proof;
    Though surly Nereus frown, my thoughts are calm;
    Then strike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm.

    That which the world miscalls a jail
      A private closet is to me;
    Whilst a good...