Volpone, in a desperate attempt to undo his own overreaching, to unprovoke his lawyer Voltore — When I provoked him, then I lost myself [5.11.22] — must falsify the brief and uncharacteristically true pleading of Voltore on the grounds he is possessed:

The figure of this asterism [Cetus], a veritable monstrum marinum, with its long legs, ears, proboscis, missile tongue, and carnivorous jaws, ought rather to have retained the name Ὀρφὸς, Pistrix, as given by [Gaius Julius] Hyginus, than Κῆτος, Cetus, whose un-whale-like appendages did not escape the lash of [Samuel] Butler: […] Stanislaus Lubienietzki, in his Theatrum Cometicum, 1667, attempted to lop off some of these redundancies; but in fishifying the animal he has given him so capacious a mouth and throat, that a Munchausen's ship might well have sailed in. Indeed, the distinctions of a whale seem to have been overlooked by all the celestial delineators.

What the liquor was I do not know, but it was not so strong but that I could swallow it in great gulps and found it less burning than my burning throat.

The set-netter or beach fisherman is one who, by preference or because of lack of financial backing, does his fishing from the beach, and, strangely enough, the preponderance of set-netters are women.