Swabber, make clean the ship!
"Elizabethan Sea Dogs"
William Wood
I'm afraid the sea is too cold for me this morning, Mr. Swabber.
"Mr. Punch at the Seaside"
Various
A genial sailor-man and an equally ungenial deck Swabber advised him, in totally different styles of address, to stay below if he knew what was good for him, only to be thanked with all the blitheness of a man who jolly well knows what is good for him, or who doesn't care whether it is good for him or not so long as he is doing the thing that he wants to do.
"The Prince of Graustark"
George Barr McCutcheon