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 Are there men on the wreck? THE LOOK-OUT
 * I can just see three!

PEER
 * Quick! lower the stern boat-

THE CAPTAIN
 * She'd fill ere she floated.
 * [Goes forward.]

PEER
 * Who can think of that now?
 * [To some of the crew.]
 * If you're men, to the rescue!
 * What the devil, if you should get a bit of a ducking!

THE BOATSWAIN
 * It's out of the question in such a sea.

PEER
 * They are screaming again! There's a lull in the wind.-
 * Cook, will you risk it? Quick! I will pay-

THE COOK
 * No, not if you offered me twenty pounds-sterling-

PEER
 * You hounds! You chicken-hearts! Can you forget
 * these are men that have goodwives and children at home?
 * There they're sitting and waiting-

THE BOATSWA