"A scene between decks. Sailors, seated on sea-chests, or a coil of rope, smoke, drink, and talk. One, who holds a punchbowl, says: "When I took Peg Block in tow, Splinter my Mizzen ifI wan't fool enough to swear by my Honor, to stick to her as long as she had a plank left, or I'd given her turnips before now, but if a man forfeits his Honor, de' ye mind me he's not worth a fiddler's D--n." A man beside hirn says: "Why now de' see Jack, as how this heres my way of thinking when a man takes a girl under his protection, she should be all as one of a piece of his self, and she should share his last farthing." A third says: "Why what now de' See 's the use of all this here sort of stuff? about Honor and all that there: if a man's a man he'l allways do whats right, and if he is no Man, my Eyes and limbs throw him overboard, that there's my way o thinking D-ne." The fourth: "Why that there's what I was a saying to that there Yorkshireman, you know who I mean? Tom Starboards messmate, they call him Isaac Scarlet; -the Da-n'd lubber took poor Ann under his protection as he call'd it, and made the poor creature pawn her Necklace, and all them there things to get him grogg and such like D-n such sort of Honor!!" All have loose hair hanging to the shoulders and wear short jackets, wide trousers, and buckled shoes. On the deck lie ballads: 'Ben Buckstay', 'Nancy Dear', and 'Bill [B]obstay'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Nautical notions of honor
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pub. by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford Street
