Note 217 — INDEX OF AUTHORS.
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For angling rod he took a sturdy oak; For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke; . . . . . His hook was baited with a dragon's tail,— And then on rock he stood to bob for whale. From The Mock Romance, a rhapsody attached to The Loves of Hero and Leander, published in London in the years 1653 and 1677. Chambers's Book of Days, vol. i. p. 173. Daniel: Rural Sports, Supplement, p. 57.
His angle-rod made of a sturdy oak; His line, a cable which in storms ne'er broke; His hook he baited with a dragon's tail,— And sat upon a rock, and bobb'd for whale. William King (1663-1712): Upon a Giant's Angling (In Chalmers's "British Poets" ascribed to King.)