playhouse-booth

Updated: June 6, 2025

"Avast heaving there, ye unmannerly swabs; do you take his Majesty's quarter-deck," lifting his hat "for a playhouse-booth on Southsea common? Belay all, and stand fast, every mother's son of ye, and let me speak to the skipper for ye."

Harry Collingwood - Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War