Nobles and squires

[Anne Bradstreet]

Squire means harpooner. As in Daggoo, Tashtego, Queequeg. See Melville's
Chapters (two of the same) in M-D.

2008/11/3 János Székely <miksaapja at gmail.com>

> Another cry for help:
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> *While nobles are crying in their nights' chains, the squires sing.*
> (GR 701)
> Quite well-known but: is this a reference to a particular line which is
> bread-and-butter for an Anglophone, or just an imitation?
> If the latter, does "squire" mean 'page" here?
>
> Thanks,
> János
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