SLSL Intro, Whose Apprentice?

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    ...--might as well mention here that much of what the dossiers call
    Pirate Prentice is a strange talent for--well, for getting inside the
    fantasies of others: being able, actually, to take over the burden of
    managing them,...(GR 11-12).  


                                            For today our pirate 'prentice
                                                    Rises from indentures 
freed;
                                            Strong his arm, and keen his 
scent is
                                                     He's a pirate now indeed!
                                                             
                               ALL:      Here's good luck to Fred'ric's 
ventures!
                                               Fred'ric's out of his 
indentures.
                                                             
                                SAMUEL:   Two and twenty, now he's rising,
                                                      And alone he's fit to 
fly,
                                              Which we're bent on signalizing
                                                        With unusual revelry.
                                                             
                               ALL:      Here's good luck to Fred'ric's 
ventures!
                                                  Fred'ric's out of his 
indentures.
                                               Pour, O pour the pirate sherry;
                                                     Fill, O fill the pirate 
glass;
                                             And, to make us more than merry
                                                    Let the pirate bumper 
pass.
                                
Lest we forget all social decorum, enter the "Anti-pirate," sounding
suspiciously learn'd:


                        I am the very model of a modern Major-General,
                                     I've information vegetable, animal, and 
mineral,
                                   I know the kings of England, and I quote 
the fights
                                                               historical
                                    From Marathon to Waterloo, in order 
categorical;
                                        I'm very well acquainted, too, with 
matters
                                                            mathematical,
                                        I understand equations, both the 
simple and
                                                              quadratical,
                                About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot 
o' news,
                                    With many cheerful facts about the square 
of the
                                                              hypotenuse.

Sing along at:

            http://www.sullivan-forschung.de/pirates.htm