And Nicholl was then a Cornish man,

A little beside Bohide-a,

And he mande forth a good blacke barke,

With fiftie good oares on a side-a.

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‘Run vp, my boy, vnto the maine top,

And looke what thou canst spie-a:’

‘Who ho! who ho! a goodly ship I do see,

I trow it be John Dory[-a.’]

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