[366-1] Good was often used in Shakespeare’s time as we use the word well, to introduce a sentence.
[366-2] Fall to’t yarely means get to work briskly.
[366-3] Perhaps the line should read, “Blow till thou burst thee, wind.”
[366-4] If there is sea-room enough. The boatswain is not alarmed if he can have room to handle his ship.
[366-5] We still say “play the man” when we wish to encourage any one to be brave and manly.
[367-6] The word time may be understood after present. The boatswain infers that they cannot make peaceful weather of the present storm.
[367-7] Hap means happen.
[367-8] The word complexion here means bent or inclination. Gonzalo says the boatswain is born to be hung; he cannot be drowned.
[367-9] The boatswain finds he has not sea-room enough so he calls upon the sailors to take down the topmast and to bring the ship as close into the wind as possible and hold her there with the main sail.
[367-10] This sentence means they are noisier than the tempest and the commands of our officers.