Sidney Lee

In an instant the gaskets were off and the bunt dropped.

'Sheet home the fore royal! Weather sheets home! Lee sheets home! Hoist away, sir!' is bawled from aloft.

'Overhaul your clew-lines!' shouts the mate.

'Ay, ay, sir! all clear! Taut leech! Belay! Well the lee brace! Haul taut to windward!' and the royals are set.

There is nothing so dangerous, wrote Lord Campbell, as for one not of the craft to tamper with our freemasonry.

A layman is certain to betray himself by using some expression which a lawyer would never employ.

Mr. Sidney Lee himself supplies us with an example of this.

He writes, page 164, On February 15, 1609, Shakespeare obtained judgment from a jury against Adenbroke for the payment of number six and number one, five shillings, zero pence costs.