323 333 hour prior to the customary one. when the band plays & when prayers are said .
That such variance from usage was
authorized by an officer like Captain
Vere, a martinet as some deemed
him, was evidence of the necessity for
for it ^ unusual action implyed in what he deemed
to be temporarily the mood of his
95 men. "With mankind" he would say
"forms , ^ measured forms are everything; and that is
the moral import couched in the story
of Orpheus ^ taming the beasts with his lyre spell-binding the wild denizens of the wood. "^ And this he once applied to the disruption
of forms going on across the Channel
and the consequces thereof.

At this unwonted call to muster
at quarters, all proceeded as at the
regular hour. The band on the
quarter-deck played a sacred air.
After which the Chaplain went thro'
323 333 hour prior to the customary one. when the band plays & when prayers are said .
That such variance from usage was
authorized by an officer like Captain
Vere, a martinet as some deemed
him, was evidence of the necessity for
for it ^ unusual action implyed in what he deemed
to be temporarily the mood of his
95 men. "With mankind" he would say
"forms , ^ measured forms are everything; and that is
the moral import couched in the story
of Orpheus ^ taming the beasts with his lyre spell-binding the wild denizens of the wood. "^ And this he once applied to the disruption
of forms going on across the Channel
and the consequces thereof.

At this unwonted call to muster
at quarters, all proceeded as at the
regular hour. The band on the
quarter-deck played a sacred air.
After which the Chaplain went thro'

Transcribed by: Wyn Kelley