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Four Late Plays

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 436 pages
...fish, he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of notof-the-newest poor-John: a strange fish. Were I in England now, as once I was,...of silver: there would this monster make a man: any 30 2, 2 375 strange beast there makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar,...
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The Tempest

Jennifer Mulherin, Abigail Frost - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 38 pages
...fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of not of the newest Poor-John. A strange fish! Were I in England now, - as once I...fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give apiece of silver: there would this monster make a man; any strange beast there makes a man. When they...
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Fables of Modernity: Literature and Culture in the English Eighteenth Century

Laura Brown - History - 2001 - 292 pages
...mistakes him for a nonhuman being—z fish: once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday-fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would...make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When diey will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legged...
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The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket

Paul Schneider - History - 2001 - 386 pages
...crowds that Indians inevitably brought. Trinculo complains in Shakespeare's The Tempest that in England, "when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian." And if Epenow himself didn't actually get to the Mermaid, many who knew and remembered his cries of...
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells - Drama - 2001 - 352 pages
...refers to the exhibition of this Eskimo couple in London: Trinculo remarks that even though the English 'will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian' (2.2.30-1). Not all foreigners were helpless captives: London welcomed an embassy from the court of...
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The Shakespearian Tempest: With a Chart of Shakespeare's Dramatic Universe

G. Wilsin Knight - Drama - 2002 - 368 pages
...fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of not of the newest Poor-John. A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was,...beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legged like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm, o1 my troth! I do now let loose my opinion; hold it...
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Merchants and Marvels

Pamela H. Smith, Paula Findlen - Art - 2002 - 450 pages
...he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of, not of the newest, Poor-John. A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was,...piece of silver: there would this monster make a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian...
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Shakespeare's Domestic Economies: Gender and Property in Early Modern England

Natasha Korda - Drama - 2002 - 304 pages
...unmask the hypocrisy of "civilized" society, as when Trinculo observes of his discovery of Caliban, "A strange fish! Were I in England now (as once I...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...
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Music and Theatre in Handel's World: The Family Papers of James Harris, 1732 ...

Donald Burrows, Rosemary Dunhill, James Harris - Music - 2002 - 1268 pages
...standing, and Shakespeare makes Trinculo wish that we had Caliban in England, where any strange beast makes a man, when they will not give a doit to relieve...beggar they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Augusta, the King's (elder) sister, married Charles II, Prince of BrunswickWolfenbiittel, at the Chapel...
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Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA

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...
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