Sievers, Julie. “Drowned Pens and Shaking Hands: Sea Providence Narratives in Seventeenth-Century New England.” The William & Mary Quarterly. Third Series, 63:4 (Oct. 2006): 743-76.
Wharton, Donald P. (ed.). In the Trough of the Sea: Selected American Sea-Deliverance Narratives. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1980.
[Anonymous]. “A Description of a Great Sea-Storm, that Happened to Some Ships in the Gulph of Florida, in September Last; Drawn up by one of the Company, and sent to his Friend at London.” London: Printed by Thomas Milbourn, for Dorman Newman, at the King’s Armes in the Poultry, 1671.
To raise in the Verse a kind of Hurrycane.
So full a Cup it over-runs the brinks.
To put the Element of Fire out.
Or the Big Winds with her whole Cards of lungs.
With Fire punisht we with Water here.
We lasht it up, lest it should run away.
Have you a Hedge seen hung with Beggars Fleeces?
So hung our tattered Mainsaile down in pieces.
To string some Fiddle, not the Sea-mans Trade.
The Sea returns with scorne, and more again.
But for its Lightning we had had no Day.
Our Ship a Vessel seemd, and we Mackrell.
Soust up for Lasting Immortality.
Our selves transpeciated into Fish.
His Conscience sure (with his own Ship) had split.
Starboard or Larbord that still cries, No neer?
They whimper out, Good Lord deliver us!
Dear Friend, from being taught to Pray at Sea.
Go in by Land to your VIRGINIA.
 Largest mountain in Greece, home to the muses.
 Aeolus, Greek god of the winds.
 Sea-goddess of waves, wife of Poseidon.
 Range of hills in Gloucestershire.
 Shotten-Herring: poor quality herring; Poor-John: dried and salted hake, poor quality.