Sliding on Skates in very hard Frost. Nahum Tate Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Tate, Nahum, c. 1652-1715. Poems by N. Tate. London Printed by T.M. for Benj. Tooke ... 1677 pp. 73-74. [15],133p.

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Sliding on Skates in very hard Frost . HOw well these frozen Floods now Represent Those Chrystal Waters of the Firmament ! Tho Hurricanes shou'd rage , they cou'd not now So much as curl the solid Water's Brow ; Proud Fleets whose stubborn Cables scarce with-stood Th' impetuous shock of the Unstable Flood , In watry Ligaments are now restrain'd More strict than when in binding O oze detain'd . But tho their Services at present fail , Our selves without the aid of Tide or Gale On Keels of polant Steel securely Sail From ev'ry creek to ev'ry point we Rove , And in our lawless passage swister move Than Fish beneath us , or than Fowl above .