"My father fought the Armada," she said.
"Get me a sword from that man who is giving them out." From his coign of vantage the watch now called out: "She's a long ship,--five hundred tons, anyhow! Lord! the metal that she carries! She's rasedecked!" "Then she's Spanish, sure enough!" cried the Governor.
From the crowd of servants, felons, and foreigners rose a great clamor, and presently we made out Sharpless perched on a cask in their midst and wildly gesticulating.
"The Tiger, the Truelove, and the Due Return have swung across channel!" announced the watch.

"They 've trained their guns on the Spaniard!" The Englishmen cheered, but the bastard crew about Sharpless groaned.
Extreme fear had made the lawyer shameless.

"What guns have those boats ?" he screamed.

"Two falcons apiece and a handful of muskets, and they go out against a man-of-war! She'll trample them underfoot! She'll sink them with a shot apiece! The Tiger is forty tons, and the Truelove is sixty.

You 're all mad!" "Sometimes quality beats quantity," said West.
"Didst ever hear of the Content ?" sang out a gunner.
"Or of the Merchant Royal ?" cried another.
"Or of the Revenge ?" quoth Master Jeremy Sparrow.