 A strange fish ! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make a man : any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit...  The Plays of William Shakspeare - Page 44by William Shakespeare - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Kathleen Sue Fine-Dare - Social Science - 276 pages
...Parthenon until 1811 (Etienne and Etienne 1992: 68, 74-75). Native Americans in the European Imagination when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.— William Shakespeare, The Tempest The point of discussing the Elgin Marbles is to indicate that the... | |
 | Natasha Korda - Drama - 2002 - 304 pages
...was) and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. . . . When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian" (2. 2. 27-32). The English are here disparagingly characterized by their "delight in novelties," which... | |
 | Susan Sontag - Art - 2004 - 146 pages
...could be put on exhibit in England: "not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver . . . When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian." The exhibition in photographs of cruelties inflicted on those with darker complexions in exotic countries... | |
 | Jonathan Goldberg - Drama - 262 pages
...value whether dead or alive, as Trinculo opines: "Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday-fool there but would...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian" (2.2.27-31; these are, we recall, the only lines from The Tempest cited in Lamming's Water with Berries).... | |
 | Douglas Bruster - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 192 pages
...he exclaims: Were I in England now (as once I was) and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. (2.2.27-33) A prospective exhibitor of the strange fish, Trinculo functions as the agent of English... | |
 | Claudia Swan - Art - 2005 - 288 pages
...fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian" (II, ii). Clusius 1605 mentions that fish and other sea creatures were put on public display in Leiden... | |
 | Barbara Olexer - History - 2005 - 260 pages
...that Shakespeare referred to in 1610 when he wrote The Tempest. Act II, Scene II reads in part, ". . . when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian." Amoret could be the one referred to because he is not mentioned after Weymouth turned them over to... | |
 | Laura Di Michele - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 380 pages
...strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legged like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm, o' my troth! I do now let loose my opinion, - hold... | |
 | Alden T. Vaughan - History - 2006 - 372 pages
...was) and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. . . . When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian" (The Tempest, 2.. 1. 27-32). That brief allusion to an American corpse raised tantalizing questions... | |
 | Michael Saenger - History - 2006 - 196 pages
...Trinculo contemplates the relative valuation of two damaged bodies on the streets of urban England: "When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian" (II, ii, 29-31). two are deeply complementary. I do not mean here to construct a life of particular... | |
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