Possible Clues:

• Supervised
• Directed
• Supervised one at sea securing lines
• Supervised some cricket followed by piece of play, we hear
• Managed love sonnets, perhaps, in French
• Supervised old archdeacon, suppressing language
• Supervised and done in view
• Kept one's watch on this
• Watched one rewriting the poetry in it
• Supervised with the aid of a periscope, perhaps