[Footnote 158: See Introductory-note to the preceding poem. G.] _Presented before the late Queenes Maiesty at the Lord Chancelors House, 1602._[159] [Footnote 159: This Lottery was presented to the Queen in the year 1602, at York House, the residence of Thomas Egerton, Lord Keeper, not in 1601, as stated in Nichols' _Progresses_, vol iii. p. 570. See our Memorial-Introduction for authority for this correction, and for the names of the ladies who drew the successive 'lots,' and also other points. COLLIER, as before, in a strangely curious remark, supposes these lottery verses may be Samuel Rowland's "When gossips meet," and as strangely does not connect them with Davies' name at all. He, however, supplies interesting _memorabilia_, relating to these Elizabethan Entertainments. He mis-names the poet-compiler of the 'Rhapsody' throughout, Davidson.] _A Marriner with a Boxe vnder his arme, contayning all the seuerall things following, supposed to come from the Carrick,[160] came into the Presence, singing this Song_: [Footnote 160: Or _Caract_, a large ship. Chaucer speaks of Satan having "a tayle, broder than of a Carrike is the sayl." Sir Walter Raleigh,--a contributor to the _Rhapsody_,--observes "in which river the largest _Carack_ may, &c." Nicolas.] _Cynthia_ Queene of Seas and Lands, That fortune euery where commands, Sent forth fortune to the Sea, To try her fortune euery way. There did I fortune meet, which makes me now to sing, There is no fishing to the Sea, nor seruice to the King. All the Nymphs of _Thetis_ traine Did _Cinthias_ fortunes entertaine: Many a Iewell, many a Iem, Was to her fortune brought by them. Her fortune sped so well, as makes me now to sing, There is no fishing to the Sea, nor seruice to the King. Fortune that it might be seene, That she did serue a royall Queene, A franke and royall hand did beare, And cast her fauors euery where. Some toyes fell to my share, which makes me now to sing, There is no fishing to the Sea, nor seruice to the King.[161] [Footnote 161: Mr. Nichols, in his _Progresses of Queen Elizabeth_, cites the following passage from a speech made at her entertainment at Cowdray, to prove that the line in the text was an "olde saying." "Madame it is an olde saying '_There is no fishing to the sea, nor service to the King_;' but it holds when the sea is calm, and the King virtuous."... Vol. iii., pp. 95-571. Nicolas. The sense is that there is no fishing to be compared (in result) to sea-fishing, nor any service to be compared with the king's. G.] And the Song ended, he vttred this short Speech: