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SCENE II. -- The parlor of the Three Mariners. Enter KEMPTHORN.
KEMPTHORN. / A dull life this, -- a dull life anyway! / Ready for sea; the cargo all aboard, / Cleared for Barbadoes, and a fair wind blowing / From nor'-nor'-west; and I, an idle lubber, / Laid neck and heels by that confounded bond! / I said to Ralph, says I, "What's to be done? " / Says he: "Just slip your hawser in the night; / Sheer off, and pay it with the topsail, Simon. " / But that won't do; because, you see, the owners / Somehow or other are mixed up with it. / Here are King Charles's Twelve Good Rules, that Cole / Thinks as important as the Rule of Three.