For the sea's worth."

The Moor has not travelled far to find the following simile:

"Like to the Pontick sea,

Whose icy current and compulsive course

Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on

To the Propontick and the Hellespont."

Petruchio asserts in respect to Catherine:

"—— Were she as rough

As are the swelling Adriatic waves,

I come to wive it wealthily in Padua."