THE

PIRATE.

BY THE AUTHOR OF "WAVERLEY,”

"KENILWORTH," &c.

Nothing in him

But doth suffer a sea-change.

Tempest.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

SECOND EDITION.

EDINBURGH:

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LONDON.

1822.

BODLEIAN

JUL

LIBRA

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THE PIRATE.

VOL. II.

A

THE PIRATE.

CHAPTER I.

We'll keep our customs-what is law itself,
But old establish'd customs? What religion,
(I mean, with one-half of the men that use it,)
Save the good use and wont that carries them
To worship how and where their fathers worshipp❜d?
All things resolve in custom-we'll keep ours.

Old Play.

We left the company of Magnus Troil engaged in high wassail and revelry. Mordaunt, who, like his father, shunned the festive cup, did not partake in the cheerfulness which the ship diffused among the guests as they unloaded it, and the pinnace, as it circumnavigated the table. But, in low spirits as he seemed, he was the more