“ Shouted from a thousand housetops that Josephus went too far.
From all quarters of the Nation excellent, well-meaning folk,
Said in letters to the papers that Josephus was a joke.
Poets chuckled (we among them) in all sorts of jibing verse
When Josephus said that seamen might be brave, and still not curse.
Never on the rolling ocean had men navigated ships
Be the weather fine or dirty, without oaths upon their lips. ”