text:  "Taking then a barge which a servant of Lisideius had provided for them they made haste to shoot the bridge and left behind them that great fall of waters which hindered them from hearing what they desired; after which having disengaged themselves from many vessels which rode at anchor in the Thames and almost blocked up the passage towards Greenwich they ordered the watermen to let fall their oars more gently; and then every one favouring his own curiosity with a strict silence it was not long ere they perceived the air to break about them like the noise of distant thunder or of swallows in a chimney--those little undulations of sound though almost vanishing before they reached them yet still seeming to retain somewhat of their first horror which they had betwixt the fleets