Act 1: “Oh I have suffered with those I saw suffer! A brave vessel, who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her, dash’d all to pieces. O, the cry did knock against my heart!” [1.2.5-8]; “My brave spirit!” [1.2.206] (Prospero to Ariel); “It carries a brave form” [1.2.414] (Miranda of Ferdinand); the Duke of Milan and his brave son/ the Duke of Milan and his more braver daughter [1.2.439-443] (Ferdinand with Prospero).
Act 2: “You are gentlemen of brave mettle; you would lift the moon out of her sphere, if she would continue in it five weeks without changing.”[2.2.183-185] (Gonzalo of Antonio and Sebastian); “That’s a brave god and bears celestial liquor” [2.2.117] (Caliban of Stephano); “O brave monster! Lead the way” [2.186] (Stephano of Caliban).
Act 3: “Brave monster” to have eyes set in a tail [3.2.11] (Trinculo); “he has brave utensils –for so he calls them– which, whehn he has a house, he’ll deck withal” [3.2.96] (Caliban of Prospero); “Is it so brave a lass?” [3.2.104] (Stephano to Caliban of Miranda); “Ay, lord; she will become thy bed, I warrant, and bring thee forth brave brood” [3.2.106]; “This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing” [3.2.146]; “Bravely the figure of this harpy has thou performed, my Ariel; a grace it had devouring” [3.3.83-84];
Act 4:
Act 5: “O, wonder! how many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world that has such people in ‘t!” [5.1.183-186] (Miranda); “Our ship– which, but three glasses since, we gave out split– Is tight and yare and bravely rigg’d as when we first put out to see” [5.1.226] (Boatswain); “Bravely, my diligence. Thou shalt be free” [5.1.243] (Prospero to Ariel); “O Setebos, these be brave spirits indeed!” [5.1.263] (Caliban).