Vulgar words in Elizabethan Sea Dogs (Page 1)
This book at a glance
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Keep close!_ Our modern sailor in the navy, however, would be hopelessly lost in trying to follow directions like the following: _Make ready your cannons, middle culverins, bastard culverins, falcons, sakers, slings, headsticks, murderers, passevolants, bazzils, dogges, crook arquebusses, calivers, and hail shot!_ Another look at life afloat in the sixteenth century brings us once more into touch with America; for the old sea-dog DIRECTIONS FOR THE TAKYNG OF A PRIZE were admirably summed up in _The Seaman's Grammar_, which was compiled by 'Captaine John Smith, sometime Governour of Virginia and Admiral of New England'--'Pocahontas Smith,' in fact.
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In _The Devil is an Ass_ he is a little more outspoken.
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Besides, Englishmen knew what the rest of Europe knew, that the discovery of Potosi had put out of business nearly all the Old-World silver mines, and that the Burgundian Ass (as Spanish treasure-mules were called, from Charles's love of Burgundy) had enabled Spain to make conquests, impose her will on her neighbors, and keep paid spies in every foreign court, the English court included.