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Armament, Sailing: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Thus with imagin'd wing our swift scene flies, In motion of no less celerity Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen The well-appointed King at Hampton pier Embark his royalty, and his brave fleet With silken streamers the young Phœbus fanning, Play with your fancies; and in them behold, Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing: Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give To sounds confus'd; behold the threaden sails, Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea, Breasting the lofty surge: O do but think, You stand upon the rivage, and behold A city on the inconstant billows dancing; For so appears this fleet majestical,— H. V. ii. chorus

Holding due course to Harfleur.