Note 161 — I. Yet other Twelve Wonders of the World.[138]
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Mr. Nichols, in his Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, cites the following passage from a speech made at her entertainment at Cowdray, to prove that the line in the text was an "olde saying." "Madame it is an olde saying 'There is no fishing to the sea, nor service to the King;' but it holds when the sea is calm, and the King virtuous."... Vol. iii., pp. 95-571. Nicolas. The sense is that there is no fishing to be compared (in result) to sea-fishing, nor any service to be compared with the king's. G.