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People are what are scary...people.
Aye, tough mermaids are, the lot of them.
Damn to him who ever lived to wear a Halter!
Let's jump on board, and cut them to pieces.
A good dream, is better than a shitty reality.
A merry life and a short one shall be my motto.
This is a very fickle and faithless generation.
I have been sworn against by perjured and wicked people.
Your words surround you like fog and make you hard to see.
I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.
Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog.
I had no money nor friends to prepare for the trial till last night.
Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters, or take any from you.
It is a blessing for a man to have a hand in determining his own fate.
I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready.
Angelica. My beloved daughter, the one true good thing I have done in this life.
There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power.
I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hanged like a dog.
My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it.
If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again.
For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!
My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons.
I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.
As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve.
This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to it, and this Moore said I always hindered them making their fortunes. Was that not the reason I struck him? Was there a mutiny on board?
My lord, I will tell you what the case was. I was coming up within a league of the Dutchman, and some of my men were making a mutiny about taking her, and my gunner told the people he could put the captain in a way to take the ship, and be safe.
Hark ye, you Cocklyn and la Bouche, I find by strengthening you, I have put a rod into your hands to whip myself, but I am still able to deal with you both; but since we met in love, let us part in love, for I find that three of a trade can never agree.
In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto.
Come, don't be in a fright, but put on your clothes, and I'll let you into a secret. You must know that I am Captain of this ship now, and this is my cabin, therefore you must walk out. I am bound to Madagascar, with a design of making my own fortune, and that of all the brave fellows joined with me...if you have a mind to make one of us, we will receive you, and if you'll turn sober, and mind your business, perhaps in time I may make you one of my Lieutenants, if not, here's a boat alongside and you shall be set ashore.