Drake the Pirate (1935)

Amy Veness: Mother Moone

Quotes 

• Mother Moone : That's Drake's Drum, that is. Tom says the days are comin' when it'll be 'eard all over the world!

• Elizabeth Sydenham : I couldn't keep away - I had to see the ships sail!

  Mother Moone : Why, you be more'n a baby now than you were in the days I nursed you! 'Tis time you grew up!

  Elizabeth Sydenham : If only I could grow up to be a sailor!

  Mother Moone : Oh-ho! Better grow up to marry one - like I did.

• Minor role : Bah! It's no use. I've no stomach for bowls today!

  Mother Moone : What be amiss with thee Master Locke?

  Minor role : It's the thought of what's in store for all of us if the Spaniards come a-sneakin' up the Sound. I said how it would be. If Drake weren't put away, I said, the Spaniards would come. An' now they're coning!

  Mother Moone : Aye, and you said it would rain Tuesday and it was fine. Let 'em come. Haven't Drake singed the King of Spain's beard at Cadiz? Bain't 'e a match for the Armada? Do but look at our fleet down along.

  Minor role : Foo! One Spanish galleon would swallow the lot!

  Francis Drake : You're a true British bulldog, Locke. Ever growling over your own bone.