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(Has anyone see Drebbel?)

I just read the quote of the day on "To our wives and sweethearts, may they never meet". It is attributted to Patrick O'Brian, and must have been in one of his books; but the first of those books was printed in 1970, and the quote comes from several years earlier-Hogan's Heroes, to be exact.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058812/quotes

On the other hand, there is an older reference, and definitely naval in origin: Ernest Shackleton:
http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/...hackleton.html

wives & sweethearts
 

Thw wives & sweethearts quote is a traditional RN toast dating from before Trafalgar:

original link

Our Captain was very good to us...
 

Another traditional RN piece that O'Brien used was a common ditty amongst midshipmen and went thus:

'Our Captain was very good to us,
He dipped his prick in phosphorous
It shed a light, all through the night
And steered us through the Bosphorous!'

Young people haven't changed that mnuch in the last two hundred odd years.