[Part I, Sung]
[CHORUS OF PIRATES]
Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry,
Fill, oh fill the pirate glass!
And, to make us more than merry,
Let the pirate bumper pass!
[SAMUEL]
For today our pirate 'prentice
Rises from indenture freed;
Strong his arm, and keen his scent is,
He's a Pirate now indeed!
[CHORUS OF PIRATES]
Here’s good luck to Fredric’s ventures
Fredric’s out of his indentures
[SAMUEL]
Two and twenty, now he’s rising,
And alone he’s fit to fly,
Which we’re bent on signalizing
With unusual revel-ry
[CHORUS OF PIRATES]
Here’s good luck to Fredric’s ventures
Fredric’s out of his indentures.
[CHORUS OF PIRATES & SAMUEL]
Pour, oh pour the pirate sherry,
Fill, oh fill the pirate glass!
And, to make us more than merry,
Let the pirate bumper pass!
[Part II, Dialogue]
[PIRATE KING]
Yes, Frederic, from to-day you rank as a full-blown member of our band.
[CHORUS OF PIRATES]
Hurrah!
[FREDERIC]
My friends, I thank you all, from my heart, for your kindly wishes. Would that I could repay them as they deserve!
[PIRATE KING]
What do you mean?
[FREDERIC]
Today I am out of my indentures, and today I leave you for ever.
[CHORUS OF PIRATES]
What?
[PIRATE KING]
But this is quite unaccountable; a keener hand at scuttling a Cunarder or cutting out a P. & O. never shipped a handspike!
[FREDERIC]
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]
An error? What error?
[FREDERIC]
I may not tell you; it would reflect upon my well-loved Ruth.
[RUTH]
Nay, dear master, my mind has long been gnawed by the cankering tooth of mystery. Better have it out at once.
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