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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: The second man spoke with a whine. ``I had rather a
Barbary pirate were coming aboard! I had rather be took
slave and row a galley!''
The third, a young man, had a whimsical, dark, fearless
face. ``But we be going to see strange things and serve
the Queen! That's something!''
``The Queen is just a lady. She don't know anything
about deep and fearful seas!''
``Where are you going,'' I asked, ``and with whom?''
The angry man answered, ``The last of that is the easiest,
mate! With an Italian sorcerer who has bewitched the
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