No, gentle reader, no; that would not do:
You might have done so for a wife or daughter,
But you are one, and you and Andrew, two.
But some one seeing that he was no lover
Of aught save eating, drinking, and his life,
Came close behind the man and pushed him over,
With "Don't you see, you brute, go save your wife."
Just at the time a little vessel passed,
(Andrew had caught his wife)—it was the Percy;
The captain thought it best to put about,