The Tempest (I) (2010)

Russell Brand: Trinculo

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Quotes 

• Trinculo : Misery acquaints a man with strange bed fellows.

• Trinculo : [tripping over Caliban]  What have we here? A man or a fish? Dead or alive?

  [sniffing] 

  Trinculo : A fish. He smells like a fish. A very ancient fish-like smell. Whew. 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. Where they will not give a penny 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 loose my opinion, hold it no longer. This is no fish, but an islander that hath lately suffered by a thunderbolt.

  [thunder crashes] 

  Trinculo : Alas, the storm is come again! My best way is to creep under his gaberdine. There is no other shelter hereabout.

• Trinculo : Stephano?

  Stephano : Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy, mercy! This is a devil and no monster! I will leave him!

  Trinculo : Stephano? If thou beest Stephano, touch me and speak to me. Be not afeared, for I am Trinculo. Thy good friend Trinculo!

  Stephano : If thou beest Trinculo, come forth. I'll pull thee by the lesser legs. If any be Trinculo's legs, these are they.

  [pulling him out of his hiding place] 

  Stephano : Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How camest thou to be the siege of this mooncalf? Can he vent Trinculos?

  Trinculo : I-I took him to be killed with a thunder-stroke. But art thou not drowned, Stephano? I hid me under the dead mooncalf's gaberdine for fear of the storm. And art thou living, Stephano? O Stephano, two Neapolitans 'scaped!

  [they spin around together, laughing] 

  Stephano : [suddenly feeling sick]  Prithee, do not turn me about. My stomach is not constant.

• Stephano : Have we devils here? Do you put tricks upon us, with savages and men of Indie? Huh? I have not 'scaped drowning to be afeared now of your four legs.

  Caliban : The spirit torments me, oh!

  Stephano : This is some monster of the isle with four legs who hath got, as I take it, an ague. Where the devil should he learn our language? I will give him some relief, if it be but for that. If I can recover him and keep him tame and get to Naples with him, he's a present for any emperor.

  Caliban : Oh, do not torment me, prithee. I'll bring my wood home faster!

  Stephano : He's in his fit now and does not talk after the wisest. He shall taste of my bottle.

  [pouring wine into Caliban's mouth] 

  Stephano : Come on your ways. Open your mouth. This will shake your shaking, I can tell you, and that soundly. You cannot tell who's your friend. Open your chaps again.

  Trinculo : I should know that voice! It should be... but he is drowned, and these are devils. O defend me!

  Stephano : Four legs and two voices. A most delicate monster.