The Master Mariner: Running ProudWith an act of cowardice in the midst of Drake's defeat of the Spanish Armada, Matthew Lawe brings on himself a wild witch's curse: that he stay on earth until his guilt be purged, in pursuit of which he serves Britain continually as a mariner, seeking his salvation. |
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