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Boatswain

Boatswain!

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 A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.
 Enter a Shipmaster and a Boatswain.
Master
Boatswain!
Boatswain
Here, master. What cheer?

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea
for an acre of barren ground: long heath, brown
furze, anything.

Master
Good,
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Act 1
Scene 1
Line 1

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What is the news?

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Gonzalo
What is the news?
Boatswain
The best news is that we have safely found
Our king and company. The next: our ship,
Which, but three glasses since, we gave out split,
Is tight and yare and bravely rigged as when
We first put out to sea.

This is as strange a maze as e’er men trod,
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Act 5
Scene 1
Line 265

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