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nothing certain. They grow exceeding fat, insomuch that an incredible 
quantity of oil will be extracted out of one whale.” 
Ibid., History of Life and Death. 
“The sovereignest thing on earth is parmacetti for an inward bruise.” 
King Henry. 
“Very like a whale.” Hamlet. 
“Which to secure, no skill of leach’s art 
Mote him availle, but to returne againe 
To his wound’s worker, that with lowly dart, 
Dinting his breast, had bred his restless paine. 
Like as the wounded whale to shore flies thro’ the maine.” 
The Faerie Queene. 
“Immense as whales, the motion of whose vast bodies can in a peaceful 
calm trouble the ocean till it boil.” 
Sir William Davenant, Preface to Gondibert. 
“What spermacetti is, men might justly doubt, since the learned Hos- 
mannus in his work of thirty years, saith plainly. Nescio quid sit.” 
Sir T. Browne, Of Sperma Ceti and the 
Sperma Ceti Whale. Vide his V. E . 
“Like Spencer’s Talus with his modern flail 
He threatens ruin with his ponderous tail. 
Their fixed jav’lins in his side he wears, 
And on his back a grove of pikes appears.” 
Waller’s Battle of the Summer Islands. 
“By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth or 
State — (in Latin, Ci vitas) which is but an artificial man.” 
Opening sentence of Hobbes’s Leviathan. 
“Silly Mansoul swallowed it without chewing, as if it had been a sprat 
in the mouth of a whale.” Pilgrim's Progress 
“That sea beast 
Leviathan, which God of all His works 
