Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Colin Clout

A name which Spenser assumes in The Shepherd's Calendar, and in the pastoral entitled Colin Clout's Come Home Again, which represents his return from a visit to Sir Walter Raleigh, “the Shepherd of the Ocean.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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