A poeticall sea-peice: : containing in a spacious table the lively description of a tempest at sea, and shipvvrecks. / Transcribed hither out of an elderly manuscript poem; partly for a lesson of life, and partly for the honorable uses which follow; under the old Greeke, and Roman solemn præfaces of good speed. ... With the fauorable allowance, and concurrence (or not otherwise) of the æquall patrons, and friends of eminent poets, painters, from Cæsar to the private gentleman, and of those poets, and eminent painters themselves. An agonicall challenge, in the name of Apollo, to the art of Apelles, bringing into a comparison the worke of wit, and words, by the penne, under the poeticall figure, Jeon, with the worke of wit, and colours, by the penicill ... The meritorious office of bringing the magnificent designe into act, by the meanes of royall favour, is zealously recommended to the wisedome, and noble forwardnesse of Mr. Endymion Porter.