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Enter three other Fishermen, as from their boat, on the other side of the stage.

Well met, my friends! I'm glad you're here at last.
How was it that you took that distant track?

THIRD FISHERMAN.

The current bore us wide of what we wist;

And, were it not your honour is impatient
Main-land to make, we had not come so soon.

DE GREY.

What had detain'd you?

THIRD FISHERMAN.

As near yon rock we bore, that o'er the waves

Just shows its jetty point, and will, ere long,
Beneath the tide be hid, we heard the sound
Of feeble lamentation.

DE GREY.

A human voice?

THIRD FISHERMAN.

I cannot think it was;

For on that rock, sea-girt, and at high tide,