Based on the excerpt, readers can conclude that Odysseus (the speaker) keeps detailed records of the changing weather.
credits the singing nymph for the favorable wind.
enjoys the company of the new man aboard his ship.
follows the orders issued by the ship’s steersman.

The play, doctor faustus, opens with a prologue. by describing faustus's beginnings as a child "base of stock" and his end as his "waxen wings" melted when "heaven conspired" to stop him, the chorus subtly calls to audience's minds, as they begin to view the play, the commonly held idea of the great chain of being the pact with the devil the seven deadly sins the renaissance man