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2 Boats. When the sea is. Hence! What cares

these roarers for the name of king? To cabin:

silence! trouble us not.

Gon. Good, yet remember whom thou hast

aboard.

Boats. None that I more love than myself.

You are a counsellor: if you can command

these elements to silence, and work the peace

of the present, we will not hand a rope more;

use your authority: if you cannot, give thanks

you have lived so long, and make yourself ready

in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if

it so hap.—Cheerly, good hearts!—Out of our

way, I say.

Gon. I have great comfort from this fellow:

methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him;

his complexion is perfect gallows. Stand fast,

good Fate, to his hanging! make the rope of his

destiny our cable, for our own doth little ad-

vantage! If he be not born to be hanged, our

case is miserable.

Boats. Down with the topmast! yare! lower,

lower! Bring her to try with main-course.

A plague upon this howling! they are louder

than the weather, or our office.—

Yet again? what do you here? Shall we give

o'er, and drown? Have you a mind to sink?

 34 complexion: appearance

is perfect: perfectly suggests, or prophesies

40 Bring her to try: bring her close to the wind

main-course: mainsail

