John Dory

A piratical French captain, conquered by Nicholl, a Cornishman.

John Dory bought him an ambling nag,
To Paris for to ride-a.

Corbett: A Journey to France, p. 129.

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