[ALL]
Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry,
Fill, oh fill the pirate gla**!
And, to make us more than merry,
Let the pirate bumper pa**!
[SAMUEL]
For today our Pirate 'Prentice
Rises from indenture freed;
Strong his arm, and keen his scent is
He's a Pirate now indeed!
[ALL]
Here's good luck to Fred'ric's ventures!
Fred'ric's out of his indentures.
[SAM]
Two and twenty now he's rising,
And alone he's fit to fly,
Which we're bent on signalizing
With unusual revelry.
[ALL]
Here's good luck to Fred'ric's ventures!
Fred'ric's out of his indentures.
Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry,
Fill, oh fill the pirate gla**!
And, to make us more than merry,
Let the pirate bumper pa**!
[KING, spoken]
Yes, Frederic, from to-day you rank as a full-blown member of our band.
[ALL, spoken]
Hurrah!
[FREDERIC, spoken]
My friends, I thank you all, from my heart, for your kindly wishes. Would that I could repay them as they deserve!
[KING, spoken]
What do you mean?
[FREDERIC, spoken]
Today I am out of my indentures, and today I leave you for ever.
[KING, spoken]
But this is quite unaccountable; a keener hand at scuttling a Cunarder or cutting out a P. & O. never shipped a handspike.
[FREDERIC, spoken]
Yes, I have done my best for you. And why? It was my duty under my indentures, and I am the slave of duty. As a child I was regularly apprenticed to your band. It was through an error -- no matter, the mistake was ours, not yours, and I was
in honor bound by it.
[SAMUEL, spoken]
An error? What error?
[FREDERIC, spoken]
I may not tell you; it would reflect upon my well-loved Ruth.
[RUTH, spoken]
Nay, dear master, my mind has long been gnawed by the cankering tooth of mystery. Better have it out at once.