‘... some pick out bullets from the side, Some drive old oakum through each seam and rift; Their left hand does the caulking iron guide, The rattling mallet with the right they lift. ‘Some the galled ropes with dauby marling bind Or sear-cloth masts with strong tarpauling coats; To try the shrouds one mounts into the wind, And one below their ease or stiffness notes.’ Two other poets of the day treated the story of the Dutch war, but their verses were written under the influence of the disgrace of 1667, and they wrote satires instead of eulogies. In a series of poems, four in all, generally known as _Directions to a Painter_, Sir John Denham parodied Waller’s _Advice_ and carried the story down to the end of the war. All are printed in the collection of political satires published in 1703 called _Poems on Affairs of State_ (i. 24-54). When the first part appeared ‘abusing the Duke of York and Lord Sandwich and Penn and everybody, and the King himself, in all the matters of the navy and war,’ Pepys was sorry because his patron Lord Sandwich’s reputation was involved. Later still he thought the verses witty and amusing. When the last part came out with its description of De Ruyter’s attack on the Thames in June 1667, the satire made his heart ache, ‘it being too sharp and so true.’ (_Diary_, vi. 101; vii. 1, 116). Another satirist, more vigorous and yet bitterer than Denham, told in indignant verse the story of the same disaster. Andrew Marvell, in _The last Instructions to a Painter about the Dutch Wars_, devoted about three hundred lines to describing the fight in the Medway, the breaking of the chain, the burning of the English ships, and the capture of the Royal Charles. His attack was directed against the Government itself, rather than against the commanders of the navy, and some of his bitterest sarcasms are aimed at the attempt to screen those really responsible for the Chatham disaster, by laying all the blame on the luckless Peter Pett, the commissioner of the navy in charge at Chatham. Marvell’s satire, though probably circulated in manuscript in 1667 or 1668, was too bold to be printed, and was not published till 1689 (Marvell’s _Poems_, ed. Aitken, ii. 20-52, 127-157). He did not confine himself to satire, and in a separate poem entitled _The Loyal Scot_ he commemorated in glowing lines the heroism of Captain Douglas, an officer stationed on the Royal Oak, who, refusing to leave his post without orders, was burnt with the ship on June 12, 1667 (_Poems_, ed. Aitken, i. 126, 212).