Note XXIII‑23 — Chapter XXIII · DRAKE AND OXENHAM'S EXPEDITIONS. 1572-1596.
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The vessel was afterward broken up, and a chair, made from some of the timber, was presented to the university library of Oxford by Charles II. Here the poet Cowley sat enthroned and drank a cup of wine, taking occasion to deliver himself thereupon of some vile verse, concluding with the lines (addressed to the chair):
'The Streights of Time too narrow are for thee, Launch forth into an undiscovered Sea, And steer the endless course of vast Eternity, Take for thy Sail this Verse, and for thy Pilot me.'
One can almost wish that the chair had taken him at his word, for the good ship deserved a better fate.