Scene 1 – on a ship at sea, a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.
Enter a shipmaster and a boatswain severally.
Master: boatswain!
Boatswain: here, master, what cheer?
Master: good, speak to the mariners; fall to’t yarely, or we run ourselves aground; bestir, bestir.
(exit)
Enter mariners,
Boatswain: heigh, my hearts! Cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! Yare, yare! Take in the topsail, tend to the master’s whistle. –blow, till thou burst thy wind, if room enough!
Enter alonso, sebastian, antonio, ferdinand, gonzalo, and others.
Alonso: good boatswain, have care, where’s the master? Play the men.
Boatswain: I pray now, keep below.
Antonio: where is the master, boson?
Boatswain: do you not hear him? You mar our labour; keep your cabins; you do assist the storm.
Conzalo: nay, good, be patient.
Boatswain: when the sea is, hence! What cares these roarers for the name of king? To cabin: silence! Trouble us not.