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At the helm A seeming mermaid steers; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

Good: Speake to th' Mariners: fall too't, yarely, or we run our selues a ground, bestirre, bestirre.

From Shakespeare's First Folio by Shakespeare, William

Good, speak to the mariners: fall to 't, yarely, or we run ourselves to ground; bestir, bestir!

From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Twain, Mark

Speak to the mariners: fall to't yarely, or we run ourselves aground.

From True Tilda by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Speak to the mariners: fall to't yarely, or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir.

From The Tempest by Shakespeare, William