"But, _Clio_, wherefore art thou tedious In numbering _Neptune's_ busie burgers thus? If in his works thou wilt admire the worth Of the Sea's Soverain, bring but only forth One little _Fish_, whose admirable story Sufficeth sole to shewe his might and glory. Let all the Windes, in one Winde gather them, And (seconded with _Neptune's_ strongest stream) Let all at once blowe all the stiffest gales Astern a Galley under all her sails; Let her be holpen with a hundred Owers, Each lively handled by five lusty Rowers; The _Remora_, fixing her feeble horn Into the tempest beaten Vessel's Stern, Stayes her stone still, while all her stout Consorts Saile thence, at pleasure, to their wished Ports, Then loose they all the sheats, but to no boot: For the charm'd Vessell bougeth not a foot; No more than if, three fadom under ground, A score of Anchors held her fastly bound: No more than doth the Oak, that in the Wood, Hath thousand Tempests, (thousand times) withstood; Spreading as many massy roots belowe, As mighty arms above the ground do growe."
Olaus Magnus writes of "The cruelty of some Fish, and the kindness of others. There is a fish of the kind of Sea-Dogfish, called _Boloma_, in _Italian_, and in _Norway_, _Haafisck_, that will set upon a man swimming in the Salt-Waters, so greedily, in Troops, unawares, that he will sink a man to the bottome, not only by his biting, but also by his weight; and he will eat his more tender parts, as his nostrils, fingers, &c., until such time as the Ray come to revenge these injuries; which runs thorow the Waters armed with her natural fins, and with some violence drives away these fish that set upon the drown'd man, and doth what he can to urge him to swim out. And he also keeps the man, until such time as his spirit being quite gone; and after some days, as the Sea naturally purgeth itself, he is cast up. This miserable spectacle is seen on the Coasts of _Norway_ when men go to wash themselves, namely, strangers and Marriners that are ignorant of the dangers, leap out of their ships into the sea. For these Dogfish, or _Boloma_, lie hid under the ships riding at Anchor as Water Rams, that they may catch men, their malicious natures stirring them to it."