AVENANT. PREFACE TO GONDIBERT.</p>
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<p>“What spermacetti is, men might justly doubt, since the learned Hosmannus in his work of thirty years, saith plainly, Nescio quid sit.”</p>
<p class="source-rw">—SIR T. BROWNE. OF SPERMA CETI AND THE SPERMA CETI WHALE. VIDE HIS V. E.</p>
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<p>“Like Spencer’s Talus with his modern flail</p>
<p>He threatens ruin with his ponderous tail.</p>
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