mark ye, be forewarned; ahab’s above the common; ahab’s been in colleges, as well as ’mong the cannibals; been used to deeper wonders than the waves; fixed his fiery lance in mightier, stranger foes than whales. his lance! aye, the keenest and the surest that out of all our isle! oh! he ain’t captain bildad; no, and he ain’t captain peleg; he’s ahab, boy; and ahab of old, thou knowest, was a crowned king!"