"Oak was his heart, his breast with steel / Thrice mail'd, that first the brittle keel / Committed to the murtherous deep."
Horace, Book I. Ode III. To the Yacht that is to bring over the Marquis of Blandford.
2 hits in ECCO and ESTC (1727, 1787).<br>
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See <u>A Discourse to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole. to Which Is Annex&rsquo;d, Proposals for Translating the Whole Works of Horace, With a Specimen of the Performance. by Leonard Welsted, Esq.</u> (London: Printed and sold by J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, 1727). &t;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T10590">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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Found searching in <u>The Works, in Verse and Prose, of Leonard Welsted, Esq; Some Time Clerk in Ordinary at the Office of Ordnance in the Tower of London. Now First Collected. With Historical Notes, and Biographical Memoirs of the Author, by John Nichols.</u> (London: Printed by and for the Editor, in Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1787). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW112731114&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;