[Falconer and others spell it _Orlop_, from the Dutch _overloop_,
a running over, or overflowing. Dr. Ogilvie says, "In a ship of
war it is a platform of planks laid over the beams in the hold, on
which the cables are usually coiled. It contains also sail-rooms,
carpenters' cabins, and other apartments. Also, a tier of beams
below the lower deck for a like purpose. In three-decked ships the
second and lowest decks are sometimes called _orlops_."]
"_A Captain bold of Halifax._"--Byron says, in a note somewhere, that
many of the modern Greek poems are in the metre of the English ballad:
"A captain bold of Halifax, that lived in country quarters."
The same may be said of a metre much used Terence and Plautus.
Where is this ballad to be found?