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

—  Martin Parker

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

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