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Then of my tempests felt at sea and land, Which neither ships nor houses could withstand, What wofull wracks I've made may well appear, If nought were known but that before Algere, Where famous Charles the fifth more loss sustained Then in his long hot war which Millain gain'd Again what furious storms and Hurricanoes Know western Isles, as Christophers Barbadoes; Where neither houses, trees nor plants I spare, But some fall down, and some fly up with air.
"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving-thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
That journey through the pouring rain is the happiest day of our wet holiday. How beautiful looms soaking, soppy, smoky London! In that excellent town who cares for rain? 'Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes spout. Pooh! pooh! Call a cab call two!
Surveying the scene around him, he began with all the theatrical action which the ropes that secured him would permit, to quote his favourite author: "`Blow winds, and crack your cheeks rage blow, You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout "`Poor Tom's a-cold'" then, shuddering, he covered up his face, and resumed his former position.
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