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"My lord, o you won my hatred; an you would not win my contempt, speak truth this day!"

In his eyes, which he had never taken from her face, there leaped to e fire That he loved her with a great and evil passion, I, who needs had watched hihter "Yea, he treatedhell! But he 's a pirate, sweet bird; he's a pirate, andas such!"

"A pirate!" she cried "But he was none! My lord, you knoas none! Your Honor"-The Governor interrupted her: "He made himself captain of a pirate ship, lady He took and sunk ships of Spain"

"In what sort did he becoentlemen, as the bravest of you, in like straits, would have been blithe to be, an you had had like ! Your Honor, the wind before which our boat drave like a leaf, the waves that would engulf us, wrecked us upon a desert isle There was no food or water or shelter That night, while we slept, a pirate ship anchored off the beach, and in thethe pirates came ashore to bury their captain My husband ht their would-be leaders one by one, and forced the election to fall upon himself Well he knew that if he left not that isle their leader, he would leave it their captive; and not he alone! God's entlemen, what other could he do? I pray you to hold hi embrace of that life! Sunk ships of Spain! Yea, forsooth; and how long hath it been since other English gentleed indeed if to fight the Spaniard in the Indies, e'en though at home we be at peace with hialleons fair and knightly, with his life in his hand; he gave quarter, and while they called hied no woman Had he not been there, would the ships have been taken less surely? Had he not been there, God wot, ships and ships' boats alike would have sunk or burned, and no Spanish enerous foe A pirate! He, with me and with the minister and with my Lord Carnal, was prisoner to the pirates, and out of that danger he plucked safety for us all! Who hath so entleman? Was it you, my lord?"