Pirate Eloquence
You are a devilish conscious rascal, damn ye! I am a free prince and have as much authority to make war on the whole world as he who has a hundred sail of ships and an army of a hundred thousand men in the field. And this my conscience tells me; that there is no arguing with such sniveling puppies who allow superiors to kick them about the deck at pleasure, and pin their faith upon the pimp of a parson, a squab who neither practices or believes what he puts upon the chuckle-headed fools he preaches to."
The pirate captain Charles Bellamy to the skipper of a just plundered cargo ship who refused his invitation to join his crew, as quoted by Frank Sherry in Raiders and Rebels, a History of the Golden Age of Piracy, a Harper Perennial Book.
