“Whoever outsails me under the lee,
shall have a dollar and drink scot-free.”
[484] Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches.
[485] Intelligencer, Jan. 27—Feb. 4, 1652.
[486] Unless it be another version of the Lamb and Anchor, see [p. 300]. Ship and Sheep, however, were formerly used promiscuously. Thus there is a token of William Eye “at the Sheep,” in Rye, 1652, representing a ship, whilst Decker, in Histrio-mastrix, 1602 says, “and this shipskin cap shall be put off.”
[487] Still in existence in Upper Fore Street, Lambeth.
[488] Thomas Allen’s History of Lambeth, 1827, p. 367.
[489] See Louisa Twining’s Symbols of Christian Art.
[491] Hone’s Every Day Book, vol. ii.