Thou gavest thine ears like tapsters that bid welcome To knaves and all approachers:

A harp can give out but a certain quantity of sound, however heavily it is smitten.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:garbager.

Finally I saw all our Italian women and my mother, torn in pieces, cut up, massacred by the monsters who contended for them ; the captives, my companions, the Moors who had taken us, the soldiers, the sailors, the blacks, the whites, the swarthies, the mulattoes, and lastly, my captain himself, were all slain