We Privateers are not as "innocent", "honest" nor as "tame" as we seem.
Just because I am "loosely" loyal to the King (depending on who is wearing the crown I suppose, or at least til...), does NOT in ANY way shape or form, mean that I am also loyal to his Kingship's Navy or his Governorship. THAT bunch of yellow-bellied, lily-livered, scurvy-ridden swine? Among them of the upper ranks of the ill-be-ridden, aristocratic, spoiled-rotten-to-the-core mamby-pambies, there is no guarantee of their loyalty to his Kingship! Those greedy, power-hungry cads, are just as likely to cook up their books and steal from the King as any pirate would and keep most or all of the "taxes" to themselves! What the King does not know, wont hurt him. Right? So from THEM will I lie to and steal from as I would any Spanish Gallion or other prey. For though I am a Privateer, I am STILL a Pirate through and through!
(and yes I know that my written English is atrocious!)
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Aye, I'm both privateer and pirate and it's sometimes difficult walking that fine line of Pirateer. Gunny |
...... I just think we're smarter than ordinary pirates. Nothing like a license to give a slight tinge of "respectability."
Irish HarpyAt least we wouldn't be hanged on sight!
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