Pain exploded in the center of my back. One of those butt breaths had thrown a rock at me!

[…] he feared no enemies but the Sea and the Earth; the one yeelding no safe harbour for such a Navie; the other not yeelding sufficient sustenance for so multitudinous an Armie.

Decides to remain seized of the matter

Why, thou cowardly knave, no stronger than a duck, Darest thou try masteries with me a-pluck.