Not P but Moby-Dick (79)

[Mike Jing]

>From Chapter 99:

Here’s the book. Let’s see now. Signs and wonders; and the sun, he’s always
among ’em. Hem, hem, hem; here they are—here they go—all alive:—Aries, or
the Ram; Taurus, or the Bull;—and Jimini! here’s Gemini himself, or the
Twins. Well; the sun he wheels among ’em. Aye, here on the coin he’s just
crossing the threshold between two of twelve sitting-rooms all in a ring.
Book! you lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You’ll
do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the
thoughts. That’s my small experience, so far as the Massachusetts calendar,
and Bowditch’s navigator, and Daboll’s arithmetic go.

In "Book! you lie there", "lie" is used in the sense "to tell a lie or
lies", is that correct?

If so, where is the lie exactly?