The diverse chances of that sea-fight dread, Here to rehearse would take a weary while;
And to discourse to you upon this head, Great son of Hercules, were to Samos' isle To carry earthen vessels, as 'tis said, To Athens owls, and crocodiles the Nile.
In that, my lord, by what is vouched to me, Such things you saw, such things made others see.
