...once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday-fool there but would give apiece of silver... When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. What do we have here? A man or 3 fish? Dead or alive? A fish? A strange sort of fish! If I were in...

...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...

...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...