The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I,
The gunner and his mate
Loved Mall, Meg and Marian and Margery,
But none of us cared for Kate;
For she had a tongue with a tang,
Would cry to a sailor, Go hang!
– William Shakespeare
The Tempest, Act 2, Scene 2. A drunken Stephano with a bottle in his hand sings a saucy song about sailors and the women they fancied and the one woman no sailor liked. As with his sidekick Trinculo, the comic character of Stephano adds a generous slice of comic relief to the play.