Falstaff (to Bardolph).—Thou art our admiral; thou bearest the lantern in the poop—but ’tis the nose of thee; thou art the Knight of the Burning Lamp.—Shakespeare, 1 Henry IV., act iii. sc. 3.
Lincoln spake what was fit for comfort, and did what he was able for redress. He looked like the lanthorn in the admiral, by which the rest of the fleet did steer their course.—Hacket, Life of Archbishop Williams, part ii. p. 143.
His spear—to equal which the tallest pine
Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast
Of some great ammiral, were but a wand—
He walked with, to support uneasy steps
Over the burning marle.
Milton, Paradise Lost, i. 292.
The admiral of the Spanish Armada was a Flemish ship.—Hawkins, Observations, &c., 1622, p. 9.
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