Shakspeare's Play of the Tempest

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...wood in slowly: I'1l fall flat; Perchance he will not mind me. Enter Trinculo. Trin. Here's neither bush nor shrub to bear off anyweather at all, and another storm brewing; I hear it sing i' the wind: yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bumbard that would shed his liquor.1 If it should thunder as it did before, I know not where to hide my head: yond same cloud cannot choose but fall by pailfuls.--What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of, not of the newest, poor-john.a A strange fish 1 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;3 any strange beast there makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame 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 1 A foul bumbard, &c The bumbard or bombard was a large black-jack or flagon made of leather, which when old and foul was apt to burst. Poor-john. This was a name for the fish called hake. 'To feed upon poor-john, when I see pheasants And partridges on the table.' Massinger's Renegado, i. 1. 'I looked this morning in my glass--the river, And there appeared a fish called a poor-john, Cut with a lenten face in my own likeness.' Massinger, The Picture, iii. 1. 'Thames Street stinking of pitch and poor-john.' Beaumont and Fletcher's Scornful Lady, ii. 3. Make a man. Make a man's fortune. A quibble, of course, is intended. loose1 my opinion, hold it no longer; this is no fish, but an islander, that hath lately suffered by a thunder-bolt. Thunder." Alas! the storm is come again: my best way is to ...