But as this term has gone out of use, the honest fishermen there will gravely tell you, that when William the Conqueror, after landing in Pevensey-bay, was advancing to Hastings, on coming to this place he took a bull’s hide and cut it into thongs, which he tied together, resolving to halt and give battle at the spot where the line he made of them should terminate. […] for no need Had he to mount the swift-coursed ships, which are For men the horses of the sea, and pass O'er the great deep ; in Plautus439 one of the characters says, “That is to say, you have been carried on a wooden horse along the azure roads ;” and the Arabs call their camel the ship of the desert. […] The goddess, though the most gentle of her race, was roused to indignation : she raised her hand to heaven and cried, “May you live for ever in that pool !” […] There was also a legend of a nymph Arge, who when pursuing a buck cried out to him, «Though you should follow the course of the Sun I will overtake you,» at which the Sun being offended, turned her into a doe697. […] The philosopher smiled and said, “Though it is not strictly right in me to do so, yet I will show you something new.”

Presume not, swains, the ripened grain to reap, Till crowned with oak in antic dance you leap, Invoking Ceres; and in solemn lays, Exalt your rural queen’s immortal praise.