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Shipwrecks: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

The king's son, Ferdinand, With hair up-staring, (then like reeds, not hair,) Was the first man that leap'd; cried, Hell is empty, And all the devils are here. T.LO Not a soul But felt a fever of the mad, and play'd Some tricks of desperation. "— T. i. 2

In few, they hurried us aboard the bark; Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepar'd A rotten carcase of a boat, not rigg'd, Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats Instinctively had quit it: there they hoist us, To cry to the sea that roar'd to us; to sigh To the winds, whose pity, sighing back again, Did us but loving wrong. 2.1.2 To comfort you with chance, Assure yourself, after our ship did split, When you, and that poor number sav'd with you, Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother, Most provident in peril, bind himself (Courage and hope both teaching him the practice) To a strong mast, that liv'd upon the sea, Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back, I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves, So long as I could see.— T. N. i. 2.

And not one vessel 'scape the dreadful touch Of merchant-marring rocks.— M. V. iii. 2.