Get this No Fear to go!
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Enter BOATSWAIN
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The BOATSWAIN
enters. |
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BOATSWAIN
Down with the topmast! Yare, lower, lower! Bring her to try
wi' th' main course.
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BOATSWAIN
Bring down that top sail! Fast! Lower, lower! Let the ship sail
close to the wind.
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A cry within |
A shout offstage. |
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A plague upon this howling! They are louder than the weather or
our office.
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Damn those men shouting down there! They’re louder than
the storm or us sailors.
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Enter SEBASTIAN,
ANTONIO, and GONZALO
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SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO,
and GONZALO enter. |
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Yet again? What do you here? Shall we give o'er and
drown?
Have you a mind to sink?
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Oh, not you again. What do you want? Should we all give up and
drown? Do you want to sink?
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SEBASTIAN
A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous,
incharitable dog!
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SEBASTIAN
Oh, go to hell, you loud-mouthed bastard!
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BOATSWAIN
Work you, then.
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BOATSWAIN
Well, get to work, then.
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ANTONIO
Hang, cur! Hang, you whoreson insolent noisemaker! We are less
afraid to be drowned than thou art.
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ANTONIO
Just die, you lowlife! Go ahead and die, you nasty, rude
bastard!You’re more scared of drowning than we
are.
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GONZALO
I’ll warrant him for drowning though the ship were no
stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an unstanched wench.
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GONZALO
Yes, I guarantee he won’t drown—even if this
ship were as fragile as an eggshell and as leaky as a menstruating
woman.
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BOATSWAIN
Lay her a-hold, a-hold! Set her two courses off to sea again.
Lay her off!
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BOATSWAIN
Turn the ship to the wind! Set the sails and let her go out to sea
again!
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Enter MARINERS, wet |
More SAILORS enter,
wet. |
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MARINERS
All lost! To prayers, to prayers, all lost!
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SAILORS
It’s no use! Pray for your lives! We’re done
for!
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