He really wowed the audience.

He could lay down almost as good a weld as Ev, who had been a real hummer in his day.

Enormance, to a monstrous head is grown ; But City Wisdom will not have it shewn By any other Method— but their own.

By 1400, however, Western Europeans had developed their own versions of oceangoing ships, and these transformed the much narrower Atlantic Ocean from a barrier into a superhighway.