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The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1

Note 187 — THE SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY BY SEA.

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Drake's ship, in which he sailed round the world; she was laid up at Deptford—hence Ben Johnson, in Every Man in his Humour, "O Coz, it cannot be altered, go not about it; Drake's old ship at Deptford may sooner circle the world again."

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