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A piratical French captain, conquered by Nicholl, a Cornishman.
“John Dory bought him an ambling nag,
To Paris for to ride-a.”
Corbett: A Journey to France, p. 129.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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