Capt. Keep your ranks, my comrades, and fight valiantly.
2d Tre. What else, captain? We cheated before for nothing, and now, having nothing, we mean to fight for something.
3d Tre. 'Slid, bullies, I think the duke has done us a pleasure.
1st Tre. Pray thee, how, boy?
3d Tre. I'll tell thee the short and long on't. Before, if any of us had been so valiant (as few of us were) as to borrow money on the highway, we were sometimes forced to repay it at the gibbet: but the world is turned upside down; if we get it, we may keep it, and never answer for it.
1st Tre. Hey, boy, art thou in that lock?[148] But, noble lance-presado,[149] let us have a sea-sonnet, before we launch forth in our adventure-frigate. They say the syrens love singing.
Capt. Agreed, wags. But which shall we have?
1st Tre. That old catch of Tunis and Argiers; good captain, it suits best with our voyage.
Capt. To't then, my Hectors; and keep your elas[150] as you do your march. The syrens will not relish you, if you sing out o' tune.[151]