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ANTONIO

Where is the master, boatswain?

BOATSWAIN
Do you not hear him? You mar our
labour: keep your cabins: you do assist the storm.

GONZALO
Nay, good, be patient. [15]

BOATSWAIN
When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers for the name of King? To

cabin: silence! trouble us not.

GONZALO
Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.

BOATSWAIN
None that I more love than myself. You [20] 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 [25] hour, if it so
hap. Cheerly, good hearts! Out of our way, I say.
Exit.

GONZALO

I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he hath no drowning mark
upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, [30] to
his hanging: make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our own doth little
advantage. If he be not born to be hanged, our case is miserable.
Exeunt.

Re-enter Boatswain.

BOATSWAIN
Down with the topmast! yare! lower, lower! Bring her to try with main-