“Lastly, they are persecuted by the hakes, who (not long sithence) haunted the coast in great abundance; but now being deprived of their wonted bait, are much diminished, verifying the proverb, ‘What we lose in hake we shall have in herring.’”—Carew, Survey, p. 34.
Annoyed with the hakes, the seiners may, in their ignorance, have actually served one of those fish as indicated.
DEATH SUPERSTITIONS.
“Continually at my bed’s head
A hearse doth hang, which doth me tell
That I ere morning may be dead,
Though now I feel myself full well.”
Robert Southwell.