[20] “The Sleeve” is a literal translation of the French “La Manche”.
“Along the Celtic sea, called oftentimes ‘the Sleeve’.”
(Drayton, Polyolb., xxiii.)
[21] Lanneret = a hawk.
[22] Probably the dangerous “Pommier Rocks” in the Casquets.
[23] The captain.
[24] Dunkirks. The Dunkirkers were at that time the pirates of the Channel, and their privateers did much damage to English trade.
“This was a rail
Bred by a zealous brother in Amsterdam,
Which being sent unto an English lady,