lowly dart, Dinting his breast, had bred his restless paine, Like as the wounded whale to shore flies thro’ the maine.”
“Immense as whales, the motion of whose vast bodies can in a peaceful calm trouble the ocean till it boil.”
“What spermacetti is, men might justly doubt, since the learned Hosmannus in his work of thirty years, saith plainly, Nescio quid sit .”
“Like Spencer’s Talus with his modern flail He threatens ruin with his ponderous tail. … Their fixed jav’lins in his side he wears, And on his back a grove of pikes appears.”
“By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth or State—(in Latin, Civitas ) which is but an artificial man.”
“Silly Mansoul swallowed it without chewing, as if it had been a sprat in the mouth of a whale.”
“That sea beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream.”
“There Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, in the deep Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land; and at his gills Draws in, and at his breath spouts out a sea.”
“The mighty whales which swim in a sea of water, and have a sea of oil swimming in them.”
“So close behind some promontory lie The huge Leviathan to attend their prey, And give no chance, but swallow in the fry, Which through their gaping jaws mistake the way.”