Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer!

List, ye landsmen all, to me;

Messmates, hear a brother sailor

Sing the dangers of the sea.

George A. Stevens (1720-1784): The Storm.

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast,

Ready with every nod to tumble down.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 4.