Given Circumstances

Page	Character	Quote	Fact/Opinion
3	stage direction	Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND, GONZALO, and others.	Fact
3	Gonzalo	Nay, good, be patient.	Opinion
3	Boatswain	When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers for the name of king? To cabin: silence! Trouble us not.	Fact
3	Gonzalo	Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.	Opinion
3	Boatswain	None that I more love than myself. You are a counsellor; if you can command these elements to silence, and work the peace of the present, we will not hand a rope more; use your authority: if you cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so hap. Out of our way, I say.	Opinion
4	Gonzalo	The king and prince at prayers! Let’s assist them, for our case is as theirs.	Fact
4	Stage direction	A confused noise within: ‘Mercy on us!’—‘We split, we split!’—‘Farewell, my wife and children!’—‘Farewell, brother!’—‘We split, we split, we split!’	Fact
8	Prospero	By providence divine. Some food we had and some fresh water that a noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo, out of his charity did give us, with rich garments, linens, stuffs and necessaries, which since have steaded much; so, of his gentleness, knowing I loved my books, he furnish’d me from mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.	Fact
8	Mirander	Would I might but ever see that man!	Opinion
17	Stage direction	Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, GONZALO, and others.	Fact
17	Gonzalo	Beseech you, sir, be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss. Then, wisely, weigh our sorrow with our comfort.	Opinion
17	Stage direction	To the others	Fact
17	Gonzalo	Methinks our garments are now as fresh as when we put them on first in Afric, at the marriage of the kings fair daughter Claribel to the King of Tunis.	Opinion
17	Stage direction	To Alonso	Fact
17	Gonzalo	Sir, we were talking that our garments seem now as fresh as when we were at Tunis at the marriage of your daughter, who is now queen.	Fact
17	Alonso	You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of sense. Would I had never married my daughter there! For, coming thence, my son is lost and, in my rate, she too, who is so far from Italy removed I ne’er again shall see her. O thou mine heir of Naples and of Milan , what strange fish hath made his meal on thee?	Opinion
18	Gonzalo	My lord Sebastain, the truth you speak of doth lack some gentleness and time to speak it in: you rub the sore, when you should bring the plaster.	Fact
18	Stage direction	To ALONSO	Fact
18	Gonzalo	It is foul weather in us all, good sir, when you are cloudy.	Opinion
18	Gonzalo	Had I plantation of this isle, my lord--	Opinion
18	Antonio	He’d sow’t with nettle-seed	Opinion
18	Sebastian	Or docks, or mellows	Opinion
19	Gonzalo	And were the king on’t, what would I do?	Opinion
19	Sebastian	‘Scape being drunk for want of wine.	Opinion
19	Gonzalo	I’ th’ commonwealth I would by contraries execute all things, for no kind of traffic would I admit; no name of magistrate; letters should not be known; riches, poverty, and use of service, none; contact, succession, bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; no use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; no occupation; all mean idle, all, and women too, but innocent and pure; no sovereignty–	Opinion
19	Sebastian	Yet he would be king on ‘t	opinion
19	Gonzalo	All things in common nature should produce without sweat or endeavour; treason, felony, sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine would I not have; but nature should bring forth of its own kind all foison, all abundance, to feed my innocent people.	Opinion
19	Sebastian	No marrying ‘mong his subjects?	Opinion
19	Antonio	None, man, all idle: whores and knaves	Opinion
19	Gonzalo	I would with such perfection govern, sir, t’ excel the Golden Age	Opinion
19	Sebastian	‘save his majesty!	Opinion
19	Antonio	Long live Gonzalo!	Opinion
19	Gonzalo	And do you mark me, sir?	Fact
19	Gonzalo	I do well believe your highness, and did it to minister occasion to these gentlemen, who are of such sensible and nimble lungs that they always use to laugh at nothing.	Fact
19	Antonio	‘twas you we laughed at.	Fact
19	Gonzalo	Then good my lord will you laugh me asleep? For I am very heavy.	Fact
21	Antonio	Draw together; and when I rear my hand, do you the like, to fall it on Gonzalo	Opinion
21	Stage direction	Ariel sings in GONZALO’s ear.	Fact
21	Ariel	While you here do snoring lie, open-eyed conspiracy his time doth take. If of life you keep a care, shake off slumber, and beware: awake, awake!	Opinion
22	Gonzalo	Now, good angels preserve the king.	Opinion
22	Gonzalo	What’s the matter?	Fact
22	Gonzalo	Upon mine honour, sir, I heard a humming, and that a strange on too, which did awake me: I shaked you, sir, and cried: as mine eyes open’d, I saw their weapons drawn; there was a noise, that’s verily. ‘tis best we stand upon our guard, or that we quit this place; let’s draw out weapons.	Fact
22	Gonzalo	Heavens keep him from these beasts! For he is sure, I’ the island	Opinion
34	Gonzalo	By’r lakin, I can go further, sir; my old bones ache: here’s a maze indeed through forth-rights and meanders! By your patience, I needs must rest me.	Fact
34	Alonso	Old, lord, I cannot blame thee, who am myself attach’d with weariness, to the dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest. Even here I will put off my hope and keep it no longer for my flatterer: he is drown’d whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go.	Fact
35	Gonzalo	Marvellous sweet music!	Opinion
36	Gonzalo	I’ the name of something holy, sir, why stand you in this strange stare?	Fact
36	Gonzalo	All three of them are desperate: their great guilt, like poison given to work a great time after, now ‘gins to bite the spirits. I’ll follow them and hinder them from what this ecstasy may now provoke them to.	Fact
45	Stage direction	Re-enter ARIEL before: then ALONSO, with a frantic gesture, attended by GONZALO; SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO in like manner, attended by ADRIAN and charmed; which PROSPERO observing, speaks:.	Fact
48	Gonzalo	Be it so! Amen! Look, sir! here is more of us. Speak boatswain thou no mouth by land? What is the news?	Fact