Dick Deadeye comes to give warning to the right good Captain (who is "never ever (well, hardly ever)" sick at sea) that his daughter Josephine will run off with [pronunciation note: "rafe"]
"Shall we stoop to insult? No, no" is the ensemble's response to a request that the "smartest topman"  "refrain...his suit from pressing." A ugly and "three-cornered" chap tells them in turn "You must submit, you are but slaves." The lead sings a song prepared for the lower branches by a man who "served a term as office boy to an attorney's firm", and rejoices that he is an Englishman. A later work references it via a character who can "whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense"; that character is the Major General. Dick Deadeye comes to give warning to the right good Captain (who is "never ever (well, hardly ever)" sick at sea) that his daughter Josephine will run off with [pronunciation note: "rafe"] Ralph Rackstraw instead of marrying the First Lord in, for 10 points, this Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera about a namesake ship and her gallant crew
"Shall we stoop to insult? No, no" is the ensemble's response to a request that the "smartest topman"  "refrain...his suit from pressing.
HMS Pinafore