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As in a voyage, when the ship is at anchor, if you go on shore to get water, you may amuse yourself with picking up a shellfish or a truffle in your way, but your thoughts ought to be bent toward the ship, and perpetually attentive, lest the captain should call, and then you must leave all these things, that you may not have to be carried on board the vessel, bound like a sheep; thus likewise in life, if, instead of a truffle or shellfish, such a thing as a wife or a child be granted you, there is no objection; but if the captain calls, run to the ship, leave all these things, and never look behind.

  1. when the ship is at anchor, if you go on shore to get water, you may amuse yourself with picking up a shellfish or a truffle in your way, but your thoughts ought to be bent toward the ship, and perpetually attentive, lest the captain should call, and then you must leave all these things, that you may not have to be carried on board the vessel

  2. when the ship is anchored, if you go on shore to get water, you may amuse yourself with picking up a shellfish or a truffle in your way, but your thoughts ought to be bent towards the ship, and perpetually attentive, lest the captain should call, and then you must leave all these things, that you may not have to be carried on board the vessel

  3. when the ship is anchored, and you go on shore to get water, you may amuse yourself with picking up a shellfish or a truffle on your way, but your thoughts ought to be bent towards the ship, and perpetually attentive, lest the captain should call, and then you must leave all these things, that you may not have to be carried on board the vessel

  4. when the ship is at anchor, if you go on shore to get water, you may amuse yourself with picking up a shellfish or a truffle on your way, but your thoughts ought to be bent toward the ship, and remain perpetually attentive, lest the captain should call, and then you must leave all these things, so that you may not have to be carried on board the vessel

  5. when the ship is anchored, if you go on shore to get water, you may amuse yourself with picking up a shellfish or a truffle on your way, but your thoughts ought to be bent toward the ship, and perpetually attentive, lest the captain calls, and then you must leave all these things, so that you may not have to be carried on board the vessel
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Explanation

'Ship is at anchor' means ship is being anchored, a construct preferable to ship is anchored in the context of the sentence. 'in your way' means physically in the way while 'on your way' means while you are travelling so the former is the better construct. Thoughts do not need to 'remain attentive' hence 'perpetually attentive' is the better construct.  Lest is never followed by a verb with 's' making 'lest the captain should call' a better construct. Again the presence of lest in the sentence makes 'so' before 'that' redundant. Hence (1).

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