many of the ships, as they could see by the clear moonshine, had weighed anchor, and, profiting by the calm sky, proceeded for more distant parts; answerably to this, the rude alehouses along the beach -lrb- although in defiance of the curfew law, they still shone with fire and candle -rrb- were no longer thronged with customers, and no longer echoed to the chorus of sea-songs.