Think of the sea - - -

Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book II, Canto XII, 21-23:

But th' heedful Boateman strongly forth did stretch

His brawnie armes, and all his bodie straine,

That th' utmost sandy breach they shortly fetch,

Whiles the dredd daunger does behind remaine.

Suddeine they see from midst of all the Maine,

The surging waters like a mountaine rise,

And the great sea, puft up with proud disdaine,

To swell above the measure of his guise,

As threatning to devoure all that his powre despise.

The waves come rolling, and the billowes rore

Outragiously, as they enraged were,

Or wrathfull Neptune did them drive before

His whirling charet for exceeding feare;

For not one puffe of winde there did appeare,

That all the three thereat woxe much afrayd,

Unweeting what such horrour straunge did reare.

Eftsoones they saw an hideous hoast arrayd

Of huge Sea monsters, such as living sence dismayd.

Most ugly shapes and horrible aspects,

Such as Dame Nature selfe mote feare to see,

Or shame that ever should so fowle defects

From her most cunning hand escaped bee;

All dreadfull pourtraicts of deformitee:

Spring-headed Hydraes; and sea-shouldring Whales;

Great whirlpooles which all fishes make to flee;

Bright Scolopendraes arm'd with silver scales;

Mighty Monoceros with immeasured tayles.