To mew me in a Ship, is to inthrall / Mee in a prison, that weare like to fall .
Ne toung did tell, ne hand these handled not, / But safe I haue them kept in secret mew, / From heauens sight, and powre of all which them pursew.
A horse in a stable that never travels, a hawk in a mew that seldom flies, are both subject to diseases; which, left unto themselves, are most free from any such encumbrances.
A daungerous and detestable place, / To which nor fish nor fowle did once approch, / But yelling Meawes, with Seagulles hoarse and bace .
It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people.