Is straightway calmed and boarded with a pirate.”
Queen Margaret in Richard III. addresses three noble lords as
“Ye wrangling pirates, that fall out
In sharing that which you have pill’d[89] from me.”
In Pericles Shakespeare introduces the not uncommon episode of a birth at sea, which occurs in a terrible gale, the mother apparently dying immediately afterwards, to be later cast into the sea in a chest, and revive when thrown upon the shore.
And for our last Shakespearian quotation, in Cymbeline we have a fine description of our own little island and its impregnability. “Remember,” says the Queen—
“The natural bravery of your isle, which stands
As Neptune’s park, ribbed and paled in
With rocks unscaleable and roaring waters;
With sands that will not bear your enemies’ boats,