Ye gentlemen of England
That live at home at ease,
Ah! little do you think upon
The dangers of the seas.


Ye Gentlemen of England, (c. 1630), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease, Ah! little do you think upon The dangers of the seas.

Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease, Ah! little do you think upon The dangers of the seas.

Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease, Ah! little do you think upon The dangers of the seas.

Ye gentlemen of England That live at home at ease, Ah! little do you think upon The dangers of the seas.