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Updated: September 15, 2025
Jim was not long in making his report to Captain Condell, and with a glance at the Independencia, which was hard upon the Covadonga's heels, firing as she came, he now ran down below to change into dry clothes and equip himself with another sword and revolver; having, of course, lost his own when he jumped into the sea.
We must remember, however, that publishing a play was thought to injure its success on the stage. One manager offered a printer a sum now equal to $100 not to publish a copy of a play that he had secured. The First Folio edition of Shakespeare's works was published in 1623, seven years after his death, by two of his friends, John Heming and Henry Condell. In their dedication of the plays they say:
Condell, and took his leave; but, at the door he hesitated, and then, looking down a little sheepishly, said, "Mr. Wardlaw, may I offer you a piece of advice?" "Certainly." Then, double the insurance on the Shannon, if you can. With these words he slipped out, evidently to avoid questions he did not intend to answer.
"Now," roared Condell to the helmsman, "up with the helm, and we will go about and destroy that fellow completely. Senor Douglas," he continued, to Jim, "kindly go down and superintend the working of that forward 70- pounder gun; I am told that the lieutenant in charge has been killed by the Independencia's last shot."
Carlos Condell, seeing the fate of his consort, and realising that he was hopelessly outmatched, had evidently determined to retreat while his engines were still intact; and the Covadonga was now heading out of the bay at full speed to the southward.
We hear of Shakespeare and his clean manuscript; but in face of the evidence of the style itself and of the various editions of HAMLET, this merely proves that Messrs. Hemming and Condell were unacquainted with the common enough phenomenon called a fair copy. He who would recast a tragedy already given to the world must frequently and earnestly have revised details in the study.
That was "rare Ben Jonson's" way. "There's some one knocking, master," said the boy. A quick tap-tapping rattled on the wicket-gate. "Who is it?" asked the quiet man. "'Tis Edmund with the news," cried one. "I've dished him," said Ben Jonson. "'Tis Condell come to raise our wages," said Robin Armin, with a grin. "Thou'lt raise more hopes than wages, Rob," said Tarlton, mockingly.
Nevertheless, however strong a case may be made out against the Folio of 1623, whatever sins of omission we may lay to the charge of Heminge and Condell, or of commission to that of the printers, it remains the only text we have with any claims whatever to authenticity.
He then ran aft and proceeded to fix the spare staff, under a perfect hail of rifle-bullets from the monitor and corvette, and, having done so, ran up the flag amid cheers from the Covadonga. Then he went forward once more to his place in the conning-tower, which he reached just as Condell gave orders for the battery of 70-pounders to be fired again.
Nothing daunted, however, her captain, Carlos Condell the man who had fought the Covadonga so splendidly, and been promoted through several ships to the Huascar continued to stand on until he had approached to within a mile of the mole, when he dropped his anchor and opened a still more furious and destructive fire upon the Peruvian ships.
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