fitted for the post. Be it
said
added
parenthesized here
that
since the mizzen-top-men having
not to handle such breadths of heavy
canvas as the lower sails on the main-mast
and fore-mast, a young man if of the
right stuff not only seems best adapted
to duty there, but in fact is generally
selected for it the captaincy of that top,
and the company he commands is
often composed under him are light
hands and often but striplings.
In sum, Captain Vere had from
the beginning deemed Billy Budd
to be what in the naval parlance
of the time was called a "King's
bargain" that is to say, for His
since the mizzen-top-men having
not to handle such breadths of heavy
canvas as the lower sails on the main-mast
and fore-mast, a young man if of the
right stuff not only seems best adapted
to duty there, but in fact is generally
selected for it the captaincy of that top,
and the company he commands is
often composed under him are light
hands and often but striplings.
In sum, Captain Vere had from
the beginning deemed Billy Budd
to be what in the naval parlance
of the time was called a "King's
bargain" that is to say, for His
fitted for the post. Be it
said
added
parenthesized here
that
since the mizzen-top-men having
not to handle such breadths of heavy
canvas as the lower sails on the main-mast
and fore-mast, a young man if of the
right stuff not only seems best adapted
to duty there, but in fact is generally
selected for it the captaincy of that top,
and the company he commands is
often composed under him are light
hands and often but striplings.
In sum, Captain Vere had from
the beginning deemed Billy Budd
to be what in the naval parlance
of the time was called a "King's
bargain" that is to say, for His
since the mizzen-top-men having
not to handle such breadths of heavy
canvas as the lower sails on the main-mast
and fore-mast, a young man if of the
right stuff not only seems best adapted
to duty there, but in fact is generally
selected for it the captaincy of that top,
and the company he commands is
often composed under him are light
hands and often but striplings.
In sum, Captain Vere had from
the beginning deemed Billy Budd
to be what in the naval parlance
of the time was called a "King's
bargain" that is to say, for His
Transcribed by: John Bryant