Then fearing lest they should have fallen on some Rocke, they cast iiij. anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
which they took up, and used help undergirding the ship, fearing lest we should have fallen into Syrtes, and we let down a vessel and so were carried.
and we must be cast into a certain island.
and they sounded, and found it xx. fathoms. they went a little further and sounded again, and found xv. fathoms.
As the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, and had let down the boat into the sea, under a colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship:
which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast. Which hope also entereth in, into those things which are within the veil,