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Tempest (version 2)

<div class = "title"> <h3 class = "extended">THE WORKS</h3> <h6>OF</h6> <h1>WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE</h1> <h6>EDITED BY</h6> <h4>WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A.</h4> <h6 class = "close"> FELLOW AND TUTOR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND PUBLIC ORATOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE;</h6> <h4 class = "smallcaps">and JOHN GLOVER, M.A.</h4> <h6 class = "close"> LIBRARIAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.</h6> <h5>  VOLUME I.  </h5> <h5>Cambridge and London: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1863.</h5></div> <hr class = "small page"> <table class = "contents" summary = "list of scenes"> <tr> <td></td> <td colspan = "2"> Dramatis Personæ  </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Act I</td> <td>Scene 1</td> <td>On a ship at sea.</td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td>Scene 2</td> <td>The island. Before Prospero’s cell.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Act II</td> <td>Scene 1</td> <td>Another part of the island.</td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td>Scene 2</td> <td>Another part of the island.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Act III</td> <td>Scene 1</td> <td>Before Prospero’s cell.</td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td>Scene 2</td> <td>Another part of the island.</td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td>Scene 3</td> <td>Another part of the island.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Act IV</td> <td>Scene 1</td> <td>Before Prospero’s cell.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Act V</td> <td>Scene 1</td> <td>Before the cell of Prospero.</td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td colspan = "2">   Endnotes</td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td colspan = "2"> Critical Apparatus (“Linenotes”)</td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td colspan = "2"> Texts Used (from general preface)</td> </tr> </table> <hr class = "small page"> 1 <h1 class = "extended">THE TEMPEST.</h1> <hr class = "small page"> 2 <h3> DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.1</h3> <div class = "center"> <table summary = "list of characters"> <tr><td> Alonso, King of Naples. Sebastian, his brother. Prospero, the right Duke of Milan. Antonio, his brother, the usurping Duke of Milan. Ferdinand, son to the King of Naples. Gonzalo, an honest old Counsellor. <table class = "bracket" summary = "bracketed names"> <tr> <td class = "charname">Adrian,</td> <td class = "bracket l2" rowspan = "2">Lords.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class = "charname">Francisco,</td> </tr> </table> Caliban, a savage and deformed Slave. Trinculo, a Jester. Stephano, a drunken Butler. Master of a Ship. Boatswain. Mariners.   Miranda, daughter to Prospero.   Ariel, an airy Spirit. <table class = "bracket" summary = "bracketed names"> <tr> <td class = "charname">Iris,</td> <td class = "bracket l5" rowspan = "5"> presented by2 Spirits.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class = "charname">Ceres,</td> </tr> <tr> <td class = "charname">Juno,</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Nymphs,</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Reapers,</td> </tr> </table>   Other Spirits attending on Prospero3. </td></tr> </table></div> <h5 class = "scenedesc"> Scene—A ship at sea4: an uninhabited island.</h5> <div class = "apparatus"> 1. Dramatis Personæ] Names of the actors F1 at the end of the Play. 2. presented by] Edd. 3. Other ... Prospero] Theobald. 4. A ship at sea:] At sea: Capell. </div> <hr class = "mid page"> 3 <h2>THE TEMPEST.</h2> <hr class = "mid page"> <h3 class = "act">ACT I.</h3> <h4 class = "scene"> I. 1 Scene I. On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.</h4> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter a Ship-Master and a Boatswain.</h5> Mast. Boatswain! Boats. Here, master: what cheer? Mast. Good, speak to the mariners: fall to’t, yarely, or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir. Exit. <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter Mariners.</h5> 5 Boats. Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to the master’s whistle. Blow, till thou burst thy wind, if room enough! <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, Ferdinand, Gonzalo, and others.</h5> Alon. Good boatswain, have care. Where’s the master? Play the men. 10 Boats. I pray now, keep below. Ant. Where is the master, boatswain? 4 Boats. Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: keep your cabins: you do assist the storm. Gon. Nay, good, be patient. 15 Boats. When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers for the name of king? To cabin: silence! trouble us not. Gon. Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard. Boats. None that I more love than myself. You are a 20 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. Cheerly, good I. 1. 25 hearts! Out of our way, I say. Exit. Gon. I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, to his hanging: make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our own doth 30 little advantage. If he be not born to be hanged, our case is miserable. Exeunt. <h5 class = "stagedir"> Re-enter <ins class = "correction" title = "printed in small capitals (as if a name)">Boatswain</ins>.</h5> Boats. Down with the topmast! yare! lower, lower! Bring her to try with main-course. [A cry within.] A plague upon this howling! they are louder than the weather 35 or our office. <h5 class = "stagedir"> Re-enter Sebastian, Antonio, and Gonzalo.</h5> Yet again! what do you here? Shall we give o’er, and drown? Have you a mind to sink? Seb. A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog! 40 Boats. Work you, then. Ant. Hang, cur! hang, you whoreson, insolent noise-maker. We are less afraid to be drowned than thou art. 5 Gon. I’ll warrant him for drowning; though the ship were no stronger than a nutshell, and as leaky as an unstanched 45 wench. Boats. Lay her a-hold, a-hold! set her two courses off to sea again; lay her off. <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter Mariners wet.</h5> Mariners. All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost! Boats. What, must our mouths be cold? <div class = "verse"> I. 1. 50 Gon. The king and prince at prayers! let’s assist them, For our case is as theirs. </div> Seb. I’m out of patience. <div class = "verse"> Ant. We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards: This wide-chapp’d rascal,—would thou mightst lie drowning The washing of ten tides! </div> <div class = "verse"> Gon. He’ll be hang’d yet, 55 Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at widest to glut him. </div> <h5 class = "stagedir long"> A confused noise within: “Mercy on us!”—“We split, we split!”—“Farewell my wife and children!”—“Farewell, brother!”—“We split, we split, we split!”</h5> 60 Ant. Let’s all sink with the king. Seb. Let’s take leave of him. Exeunt Ant. and Seb. Gon. Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, any thing. The wills above be done! but I would fain die a 65 dry death. Exeunt. 6 <h4 class = "scene"> I. 2 Scene II. The island. Before Prospero’s cell.</h4> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter Prospero and Miranda.</h5> <div class = "verse"> Mir. If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them. The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin’s cheek, 5 Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffer’d With those that 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 very heart! Poor souls, they perish’d! 10 Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth, or ere It should the good ship so have swallow’d and The fraughting souls within her. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Be collected: No more amazement: tell your piteous heart There’s no harm done. </div> Mir. O, woe the day! <div class = "verse"> Pros. 15 No harm. I have done nothing but in care of thee, Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who Art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing Of whence I am, nor that I am more better 20 Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell, And thy no greater father. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. ’Tis time I should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand, And pluck my magic garment from me.—So: Lays down his mantle. 7 I. 2. 25 Lie there, my art. Wipe thou thine eyes; have comfort. The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch’d The very virtue of compassion in thee, I have with such provision in mine art So safely order’d, that there is no soul, 30 No, not so much perdition as an hair Betid to any creature in the vessel Which thou heard’st cry, which thou saw’st sink. Sit down; For thou must now know farther. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. You have often Begun to tell me what I am; but stopp’d, 35 And left me to a bootless inquisition, Concluding “Stay: not yet.” </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. The hour’s now come; The very minute bids thee ope thine ear; Obey, and be attentive. Canst thou remember A time before we came unto this cell? 40 I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not Out three years old. </div> Mir. Certainly, sir, I can. <div class = "verse"> Pros. By what? by any other house or person? Of any thing the image tell me that Hath kept with thy remembrance. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. ’Tis far off, 45 And rather like a dream than an assurance That my remembrance warrants. Had I not Four or five women once that tended me? </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Thou hadst, and more, Miranda. But how is it That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else I. 2. 50 In the dark backward and abysm of time? If thou remember’st ought ere thou camest here, How thou camest here thou mayst. </div> Mir. But that I do not. 8 <div class = "verse"> Pros. Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since, Thy father was the Duke of Milan, and A prince of power. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. 55 Sir, are not you my father? </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and She said thou wast my daughter; and thy father Was Duke of Milan; and his only heir And princess, no worse issued. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. O the heavens! 60 What foul play had we, that we came from thence? Or blessed was’t we did? </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Both, both, my girl: By foul play, as thou say’st, were we heaved thence; But blessedly holp hither. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. O, my heart bleeds To think o’ the teen that I have turn’d you to. 65 Which is from my remembrance! Please you, farther. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. My brother, and thy uncle, call’d Antonio,— I pray thee, mark me,—that a brother should Be so perfidious!—he whom, next thyself, Of all the world I loved, and to him put 70 The manage of my state; as, at that time, Through all the signories it was the first, And Prospero the prime duke, being so reputed In dignity, and for the liberal arts Without a parallel; those being all my study, I. 2. 75 The government I cast upon my brother, And to my state grew stranger, being transported And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle— Dost thou attend me? </div> Mir. Sir, most heedfully. <div class = "verse"> Pros. Being once perfected how to grant suits, 80 How to deny them, whom to advance, and whom 9 To trash for over-topping, new created The creatures that were mine, I say, or changed ’em, Or else new form’d ’em; having both the key Of officer and office, set all hearts i’ the state 85 To what tune pleased his ear; that now he was The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, And suck’d my verdure out on’t. Thou attend’st not. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. O, good sir, I do. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. I pray thee, mark me. I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated 90 To closeness and the bettering of my mind With that which, but by being so retired, O’er-prized all popular rate, in my false brother Awaked an evil nature; and my trust, Like a good parent, did beget of him 95 A falsehood in its contrary, as great As my trust was; which had indeed no limit, A confidence sans bound. He being thus lorded, Not only with what my revenue yielded, But what my power might else exact, like one I. 2. 100 Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie, he did believe He was indeed the duke; out o’ the substitution, And executing the outward face of royalty, 105 With all prerogative:—hence his ambition growing,— 10 Dost thou hear? </div> Mir. Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. <div class = "verse"> Pros. To have no screen between this part he play’d And him he play’d it for, he needs will be Absolute Milan. Me, poor man, my library 110 Was dukedom large enough: of temporal royalties He thinks me now incapable; confederates, So dry he was for sway, wi’ the King of Naples To give him annual tribute, do him homage, Subject his coronet to his crown, and bend 115 The dukedom, yet unbow’d,—alas, poor Milan!— To most ignoble stooping. </div> Mir. O the heavens! <div class = "verse"> Pros. Mark his condition, and th’ event; then tell me If this might be a brother. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. I should sin To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. 120 Now the condition. This King of Naples, being an enemy To me inveterate, hearkens my brother’s suit; Which was, that he, in lieu o’ the premises, Of homage and I know not how much tribute, I. 2. 125 Should presently extirpate me and mine Out of the dukedom, and confer fair Milan, With all the honours, on my brother: whereon, A treacherous army levied, one midnight Fated to the purpose, did Antonio open 130 The gates of Milan; and, i’ the dead of darkness, The ministers for the purpose hurried thence Me and thy crying self. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. Alack, for pity! I, not remembering how I cried out then, 11 Will cry it o’er again: it is a hint That wrings mine eyes to’t. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. 135 Hear a little further, And then I’ll bring thee to the present business Which now’s upon ’s; without the which, this story Were most impertinent. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. Wherefore did they not That hour destroy us? </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Well demanded, wench: 140 My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not, So dear the love my people bore me; nor set A mark so bloody on the business; but With colours fairer painted their foul ends. In few, they hurried us aboard a bark, 145 Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigg’d, Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats Instinctively have quit it: there they hoist us, To cry to the sea that roar’d to us; to sigh I. 2. 150 To the winds, whose pity, sighing back again, Did us but loving wrong. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. Alack, what trouble Was I then to you! </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. O, a cherubin Thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile, Infused with a fortitude from heaven, 155 When I have deck’d the sea with drops full salt, Under my burthen groan’d; which raised in me An undergoing stomach, to bear up Against what should ensue. </div> Mir. How came we ashore? <div class = "verse"> Pros. By Providence divine. 160 Some food we had, and some fresh water, that 12 A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo, Out of his charity, who being then appointed Master of this design, did give us, with Rich garments, linens, stuffs and necessaries, 165 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. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. Would I might But ever see that man! </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Now I arise: Resumes his mantle. 170 Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow. Here in this island we arrived; and here Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit Than other princesses can, that have more time For vainer hours, and tutors not so careful. </div> <div class = "verse"> I. 2. 175 Mir. Heavens thank you for’t! And now, I pray you, sir, For still ’tis beating in my mind, your reason For raising this sea-storm? </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Know thus far forth. By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune, Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies 180 Brought to this shore; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop. Here cease more questions: 185 Thou art inclined to sleep; ’tis a good dulness, And give it way: I know thou canst not choose. Miranda sleeps. Come away, servant, come. I am ready now. Approach, my Ariel, come. </div> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter <ins class = "correction" title = "printed in plain type">Ariel</ins>.</h5> <div class = "verse"> Ari. All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come 13 190 To answer thy best pleasure; be’t to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curl’d clouds, to thy strong bidding task Ariel and all his quality. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Hast thou, spirit, Perform’d to point the tempest that I bade thee? </div> <div class = "verse"> 195 Ari. To every article. I boarded the king’s ship; now on the beak, Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin, I flamed amazement: sometime I’ld divide, And burn in many places; on the topmast, I. 2. 200 The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, Then meet and join. Jove’s lightnings, the precursors O’ the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary And sight-outrunning were not: the fire and cracks Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune 205 Seem to besiege, and make his bold waves tremble, Yea, his dread trident shake. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. My brave spirit! Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil Would not infect his reason? </div> <div class = "verse"> Ari. Not a soul But felt a fever of the mad, and play’d 210 Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners Plunged in the foaming brine, and quit the vessel, Then all afire with me: the king’s son, Ferdinand, With hair up-staring,—then like reeds, not hair,— Was the first man that leap’d; cried, “Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.” </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. 215 Why, that’s my spirit! But was not this nigh shore? </div> 14 Ari. Close by, my master. <div class = "verse"> Pros. But are they, Ariel, safe? </div> <div class = "verse"> Ari. Not a hair perish’d; On their sustaining garments not a blemish, But fresher than before: and, as thou badest me, 220 In troops I have dispersed them ’bout the isle. The king’s son have I landed by himself; Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs In an odd angle of the isle, and sitting, His arms in this sad knot. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Of the king’s ship I. 2. 225 The mariners, say how thou hast disposed, And all the rest o’ the fleet. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ari. Safely in harbour Is the king’s ship; in the deep nook, where once Thou call’dst me up at midnight to fetch dew From the still-vex’d Bermoothes, there she’s hid: 230 The mariners all under hatches stow’d; Who, with a charm join’d to their suffer’d labour, I have left asleep: and for the rest o’ the fleet, Which I dispersed, they all have met again, And are upon the Mediterranean flote, 235 Bound sadly home for Naples; Supposing that they saw the king’s ship wreck’d, And his great person perish. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Ariel, thy charge Exactly is perform’d: but there’s more work. What is the time o’ the day? </div> Ari. Past the mid season. <div class = "verse"> 240 Pros. At least two glasses. The time ’twixt six and now Must by us both be spent most preciously. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ari. Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains, Let me remember thee what thou hast promised, 15 Which is not yet perform’d me. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. How now? moody? What is’t thou canst demand? </div> <div class = "verse"> Ari. 245 My liberty. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Before the time be out? no more! </div> <div class = "verse"> Ari. I prithee, Remember I have done thee worthy service; Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served Without or grudge or grumblings: thou didst promise To bate me a full year. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. I. 2. 250 Dost thou forget From what a torment I did free thee? </div> Ari. No. <div class = "verse"> Pros. Thou dost; and think’st it much to tread the ooze Of the salt deep, To run upon the sharp wind of the north, 255 To do me business in the veins o’ the earth When it is baked with frost. </div> Ari. I do not, sir. <div class = "verse"> Pros. Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy Was grown into a hoop? hast thou forgot her? </div> <div class = "verse"> Ari. No, sir. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. 260 Thou hast. Where was she born? speak; tell me. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ari. Sir, in Argier. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. O, was she so? I must Once in a month recount what thou hast been, Which thou forget’st. This damn’d witch Sycorax, For mischiefs manifold, and sorceries terrible 265 To enter human hearing, from Argier, Thou know’st, was banish’d: for one thing she did They would not take her life. Is not this true? </div> <div class = "verse"> Ari. Ay, sir. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. This blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child, 16 270 And here was left by the sailors. Thou, my slave, As thou report’st thyself, wast then her servant; And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate To act her earthy and abhorr’d commands, Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee, I. 2. 275 By help of her more potent ministers, And in her most unmitigable rage, Into a cloven pine; within which rift Imprison’d thou didst painfully remain A dozen years; within which space she died, 280 And left thee there; where thou didst vent thy groans As fast as mill-wheels strike. Then was this island— Save for the son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp hag-born—not honour’d with A human shape. </div> Ari. Yes, Caliban her son. <div class = "verse"> 285 Pros. Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban, Whom now I keep in service. Thou best know’st What torment I did find thee in; thy groans Did make wolves howl, and penetrate the breasts Of ever-angry bears: it was a torment 290 To lay upon the damn’d, which Sycorax Could not again undo: it was mine art, When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape The pine, and let thee out. </div> Ari. I thank thee, master. <div class = "verse"> Pros. If thou more murmur’st, I will rend an oak, 295 And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till Thou hast howl’d away twelve winters. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ari. Pardon, master: I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Do so; and after two days I will discharge thee. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ari. That’s my noble master! I. 2. 300 What shall I do? say what; what shall I do? </div> 17 <div class = "verse"> Pros. Go make thyself like a nymph o’ the sea: Be subject to no sight but thine and mine; invisible To every eyeball else. Go take this shape, And hither come in’t: go, hence with diligence! Exit Ariel. 305 Awake, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well; Awake! </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. The strangeness of your story put Heaviness in me. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Shake it off. Come on; We’ll visit Caliban my slave, who never Yields us kind answer. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. ’Tis a villain, sir, I do not love to look on. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. 310 But, as ’tis, We cannot miss him: he does make our fire, Fetch in our wood, and serves in offices That profit us. What, ho! slave! Caliban! Thou earth, thou! speak. </div> <div class = "verse"> Cal. [within] There’s wood enough within. </div> <div class = "verse"> 315 Pros. Come forth, I say! there’s other business for thee: Come, thou tortoise! when? </div> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Re-enter Ariel like a water-nymph.</h5> <div class = "verse"> Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel, Hark in thine ear. </div> Ari. My lord, it shall be done. Exit. <div class = "verse"> Pros. Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself 320 Upon thy wicked dam, come forth! </div> 18 <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter Caliban.</h5> <div class = "verse"> Cal. As wicked dew as e’er my mother brush’d With raven’s feather from unwholesome fen Drop on you both! a south-west blow on ye And blister you all o’er! </div> <div class = "verse"> I. 2. 325 Pros. For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins Shall, for that vast of night that they may work, All exercise on thee; thou shalt be pinch’d As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made ’em. </div> <div class = "verse"> Cal. 330 I must eat my dinner. This island’s mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou takest from me. When thou camest first, Thou strokedst me, and madest much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in’t; and teach me how 335 To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night: and then I loved thee, And show’d thee all the qualities o’ th’ isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile: Curs’d be I that did so! All the charms 340 Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you! For I am all the subjects that you have, Which first was mine own king: and here you sty me In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me The rest o’ th’ island. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Thou most lying slave, 345 Whom stripes may move, not kindness! I have used thee, Filth as thou art, with human care; and lodged thee In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate The honour of my child. </div> <div class = "verse"> Cal. O ho, O ho! would ’t had been done! I. 2. 350 Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else 19 This isle with Calibans. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness wilt not take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour 355 One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow’d thy purposes With words that made them known. But thy vile race, Though thou didst learn, had that in’t which good natures 360 Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou Deservedly confined into this rock, Who hadst deserved more than a prison. </div> <div class = "verse"> Cal. You taught me language; and my profit on’t Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your language! </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. 365 Hag-seed, hence! Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou’rt best, To answer other business. Shrug’st thou, malice? If thou neglect’st, or dost unwillingly What I command, I’ll rack thee with old cramps, 370 Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar, That beasts shall tremble at thy din. </div> <div class = "verse"> Cal. No, pray thee. [Aside] I must obey: his art is of such power, It would control my dam’s god, Setebos, And make a vassal of him. </div> Pros. So, slave; hence! Exit Caliban. 20 <h5 class = "stagedir"> Re-enter Ariel, invisible, playing and singing; Ferdinand following.</h5> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Ariel’s song.</h5> <div class = "verse"> I. 2. 375 Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have and kiss’d The wild waves whist: Foot it featly here and there; 380 And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear. </div> <div class = "verse"> Burthen [dispersedly]. Hark, hark! Bow-wow. The watch-dogs bark: Bow-wow. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ari. Hark, hark! I hear 385 The strain of strutting chanticleer Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow. </div> <div class = "verse"> Fer. Where should this music be? i’ th’ air or th’ earth? It sounds no more: and, sure, it waits upon Some god o’ th’ island. Sitting on a bank, 390 Weeping again the king my father’s wreck, This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air: thence I have follow’d it. Or it hath drawn me rather. But ’tis gone. 395 No, it begins again. </div> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Ariel sings.</h5> <div class = "verse"> Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, I. 2. 400 But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: </div> <div class = "verse"> Burthen: Ding-dong. </div> Ari. Hark! now I hear them,—Ding-dong, bell. 21 <div class = "verse"> 405 Fer. The ditty does remember my drown’d father. This is no mortal business, nor no sound That the earth owes:—I hear it now above me. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. What is’t? a spirit? 410 Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir, It carries a brave form. But ’tis a spirit. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. No, wench; it eats and sleeps and hath such senses As we have, such. This gallant which thou seest Was in the wreck; and, but he’s something stain’d 415 With grief, that’s beauty’s canker, thou mightst call him A goodly person: he hath lost his fellows, And strays about to find ’em. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. I might call him A thing divine; for nothing natural I ever saw so noble. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. [Aside] It goes on, I see, 420 As my soul prompts it. Spirit, fine spirit! I’ll free thee Within two days for this. </div> <div class = "verse"> Fer. Most sure, the goddess On whom these airs attend! Vouchsafe my prayer May know if you remain upon this island; And that you will some good instruction give I. 2. 425 How I may bear me here: my prime request, Which I do last pronounce, is, O you wonder! If you be maid or no? </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. No wonder, sir; But certainly a maid. </div> <div class = "verse"> Fer. My language! heavens! I am the best of them that speak this speech, Were I but where ’tis spoken. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. 430 How? the best? What wert thou, if the King of Naples heard thee? </div> 22 <div class = "verse"> Fer. A single thing, as I am now, that wonders To hear thee speak of Naples. He does hear me; And that he does I weep: myself am Naples, 435 Who with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld The king my father wreck’d. </div> Mir. Alack, for mercy! <div class = "verse"> Fer. Yes, faith, and all his lords; the Duke of Milan And his brave son being twain. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. [Aside] The Duke of Milan And his more braver daughter could control thee, 440 If now ’twere fit to do’t. At the first sight They have changed eyes. Delicate Ariel, I’ll set thee free for this. [To Fer.] A word, good sir; I fear you have done yourself some wrong: a word. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. Why speaks my father so ungently? This 445 Is the third man that e’er I saw; the first That e’er I sigh’d for: pity move my father To be inclined my way! </div> <div class = "verse"> Fer. O, if a virgin, And your affection not gone forth, I’ll make you The queen of Naples. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Soft, sir! one word more. I. 2. 450 [Aside] They are both in either’s powers: but this swift business I must uneasy make, lest too light winning Make the prize light. [To Fer.] One word more; I charge thee That thou attend me: thou dost here usurp The name thou owest not; and hast put thyself 455 Upon this island as a spy, to win it From me, the lord on’t. </div> Fer. No, as I am a man. <div class = "verse"> Mir. There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with’t. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Follow me. 23 460 Speak not you for him; he’s a traitor. Come; I’ll manacle thy neck and feet together: Sea-water shalt thou drink; thy food shall be The fresh-brook muscles, wither’d roots, and husks Wherein the acorn cradled. Follow. </div> <div class = "verse"> Fer. No; 465 I will resist such entertainment till Mine enemy has more power. Draws, and is charmed from moving. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. O dear father, Make not too rash a trial of him, for He’s gentle, and not fearful. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. What! I say, My foot my tutor? Put thy sword up, traitor; 470 Who makest a show, but darest not strike, thy conscience Is so possess’d with guilt: come from thy ward; For I can here disarm thee with this stick And make thy weapon drop. </div> Mir. Beseech you, father. Pros. Hence! hang not on my garments. <div class = "verse"> Mir. Sir, have pity; I’ll be his surety. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. I. 2. 475 Silence! one word more Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What! An advocate for an impostor! hush! Thou think’st there is no more such shapes as he, Having seen but him and Caliban: foolish wench! 480 To the most of men this is a Caliban, And they to him are angels. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. My affections Are, then, most humble; I have no ambition To see a goodlier man. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Come on; obey: Thy nerves are in their infancy again, And have no vigour in them. </div> 24 <div class = "verse"> Fer. 485 So they are: My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up. My father’s loss, the weakness which I feel, The wreck of all my friends, nor this man’s threats, To whom I am subdued, are but light to me, 490 Might I but through my prison once a day Behold this maid: all corners else o’ th’ earth Let liberty make use of; space enough Have I in such a prison. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. [Aside] It works. [To Fer.] Come on. Thou hast done well, fine Ariel! [To Fer.] Follow me. [To Ari.] Hark what thou else shalt do me. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. 495 Be of comfort; My father’s of a better nature, sir, Than he appears by speech: this is unwonted Which now came from him. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Thou shalt be as free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ari. I. 2. 500 To the syllable. </div> Pros. Come, follow. Speak not for him. Exeunt. <h3 class = "act">ACT II.</h3> <h4 class = "scene"> II. 1 Scene I. Another part of the island.</h4> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, Gonzalo, Adrian, Francisco, and others.</h5> <div class = "verse"> Gon. Beseech you, sir, be merry; you have cause, So have we all, of joy; for our escape Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of woe Is common; every day, some sailor’s wife, 5 The masters of some merchant, and the merchant, Have just our theme of woe; but for the miracle, 25 I mean our preservation, few in millions Can speak like us: then wisely, good sir, weigh Our sorrow with our comfort. </div> Alon. Prithee, peace. 10 Seb. He receives comfort like cold porridge. Ant. The visitor will not give him o’er so. Seb. Look, he’s winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. Gon. Sir,— 15 Seb. One: tell. <div class = "verse"> Gon. When every grief is entertain’d that’s offer’d, Comes to the entertainer— </div> Seb. A dollar. Gon. Dolour comes to him, indeed: you have spoken 20 truer than you purposed. Seb. You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should. Gon. Therefore, my lord,— Ant. Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue! Alon. I prithee, spare. II. 1. 25 Gon. Well, I have done: but yet,— Seb. He will be talking. Ant. Which, of he or Adrian, for a good wager, first begins to crow? Seb. The old cock. 30 Ant. The cockerel. Seb. Done. The wager? Ant. A laughter. Seb. A match! Adr. Though this island seem to be desert,— 35 Seb. Ha, ha, ha!—So, you’re paid. Adr. Uninhabitable, and almost inaccessible,— Seb. Yet,— Adr. Yet,— 26 Ant. He could not miss’t. 40 Adr. It must needs be of subtle, tender and delicate temperance. Ant. Temperance was a delicate wench. Seb. Ay, and a subtle; as he most learnedly delivered. Adr. The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. 45 Seb. As if it had lungs, and rotten ones. Ant. Or as ’twere perfumed by a fen. Gon. Here is every thing advantageous to life. Ant. True; save means to live. Seb. Of that there’s none, or little. II. 1. 50 Gon. How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green! Ant. The ground, indeed, is tawny. Seb. With an eye of green in’t. Ant. He misses not much. Seb. No; he doth but mistake the truth totally. 55 Gon. But the rarity of it is,—which is indeed almost beyond credit,— Seb. As many vouched rarities are. Gon. That our garments, being, as they were, drenched in the sea, hold, notwithstanding, their freshness and glosses, 60 being rather new-dyed than stained with salt water. Ant. If but one of his pockets could speak, would it not say he lies? Seb. Ay, or very falsely pocket up his report. Gon. Methinks our garments are now as fresh as when 65 we put them on first in Afric, at the marriage of the king’s fair daughter Claribel to the King of Tunis. Seb. ’Twas a sweet marriage, and we prosper well in our return. Adr. Tunis was never graced before with such a paragon 70 to their queen. Gon. Not since widow Dido’s time. Ant. Widow! a pox o’ that! How came that widow in? widow Dido! Seb. What if he had said ‘widower Æneas’ too? Good II. 1. 75 Lord, how you take it! Adr. ‘Widow Dido’ said you? you make me study of that: she was of Carthage, not of Tunis. 27 Gon. This Tunis, sir, was Carthage. Adr. Carthage? 80 Gon. I assure you, Carthage. Seb. His word is more than the miraculous harp; he hath raised the wall, and houses too. Ant. What impossible matter will he make easy next? Seb. I think he will carry this island home in his 85 pocket, and give it his son for an apple. Ant. And, sowing the kernels of it in the sea, bring forth more islands. Gon. Ay. Ant. Why, in good time. 90 Gon. 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. Ant. And the rarest that e’er came there. Seb. Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido. 95 Ant. O, widow Dido! ay, widow Dido. Gon. Is not, sir, my doublet as fresh as the first day I wore it? I mean, in a sort. Ant. That sort was well fished for. Gon. When I wore it at your daughter’s marriage? <div class = "verse"> II. 1. 100 Alon. You cram these words into mine ears against The stomach of my 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 105 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? </div> <div class = "verse"> Fran. Sir, he may live: I saw him beat the surges under him, And ride upon their backs; he trod the water. 110 Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted The surge most swoln that met him; his bold head 28 ’Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oar’d Himself with his good arms in lusty stroke To the shore, that o’er his wave-worn basis bow’d, 115 As stooping to relieve him: I not doubt He came alive to land. </div> Alon. No, no, he’s gone. <div class = "verse"> Seb. Sir, you may thank yourself for this great loss, That would not bless our Europe with your daughter, But rather lose her to an African; 120 Where she, at least, is banish’d from your eye, Who hath cause to wet the grief on’t. </div> Alon. Prithee, peace. <div class = "verse"> Seb. You were kneel’d to, and importuned otherwise, By all of us; and the fair soul herself Weigh’d between loathness and obedience, at II. 1. 125 Which end o’ the beam should bow. We have lost your son, I fear, for ever: Milan and Naples have More widows in them of this business’ making Than we bring men to comfort them: The fault’s your own. </div> Alon. So is the dear’st o’ the loss. <div class = "verse"> 130 Gon. My lord Sebastian, The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness, And time to speak it in: you rub the sore, When you should bring the plaster. </div> Seb. Very well. Ant. And most chirurgeonly. <div class = "verse"> 135 Gon. It is foul weather in us all, good sir, When you are cloudy. </div> Seb. Foul weather? Ant. Very foul. Gon. Had I plantation of this isle, my lord,— Ant. He’ld sow’t with nettle-seed. Seb. Or docks, or mallows. 29 Gon. And were the king on’t, what would I do? 140 Seb. ’Scape being drunk for want of wine. <div class = "verse"> Gon. I’ the 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, 145 And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all; And women too, but innocent and pure; II. 1. 150 No sovereignty;— </div> Seb. Yet he would be king on’t. Ant. The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the beginning. <div class = "verse"> Gon. All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony, 155 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. </div> Seb. No marrying ’mong his subjects? 160 Ant. None, man; all idle; whores and knaves. <div class = "verse"> Gon. I would with such perfection govern, sir, To excel the golden age. </div> Seb. ’Save his majesty! Ant. Long live Gonzalo! Gon. And,—do you mark me, sir? Alon. Prithee, no more: thou dost talk nothing to me. 165 Gon. 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. Ant. ’Twas you we laughed at. Gon. Who in this kind of merry fooling am nothing to 170 you: so you may continue, and laugh at nothing still. 30 Ant. What a blow was there given! Seb. An it had not fallen flat-long. Gon. You are gentlemen of brave mettle; you would lift the moon out of her sphere, if she would continue in it II. 1. 175 five weeks without changing. <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter Ariel (invisible) playing solemn music.</h5> Seb. We would so, and then go a bat-fowling. Ant. Nay, good my lord, be not angry. Gon. No, I warrant you; I will not adventure my discretion so weakly. Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very 180 heavy? Ant. Go sleep, and hear us. All sleep except Alon., Seb., and Ant. <div class = "verse"> Alon. What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts: I find They are inclined to do so. </div> <div class = "verse"> Seb. Please you, sir, 185 Do not omit the heavy offer of it: It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth, It is a comforter. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ant. We two, my lord, Will guard your person while you take your rest, And watch your safety. </div> <div class = "verse"> Alon. Thank you.—Wondrous heavy. </div> Alonso sleeps. Exit Ariel. 190 Seb. What a strange drowsiness possesses them! Ant. It is the quality o’ the climate. <div class = "verse"> Seb. Why Doth it not then our eyelids sink? I find not Myself disposed to sleep. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ant. Nor I; my spirits are nimble. 31 They fell together all, as by consent; 195 They dropp’d, as by a thunder-stroke. What might, Worthy Sebastian?—O, what might?—No more:— And yet methinks I see it in thy face, What thou shouldst be: the occasion speaks thee; and My strong imagination sees a crown Dropping upon thy head. </div> Seb. II. 1. 200 What, art thou waking? Ant. Do you not hear me speak? <div class = "verse"> Seb. I do; and surely It is a sleepy language, and thou speak’st Out of thy sleep. What is it thou didst say? This is a strange repose, to be asleep 205 With eyes wide open; standing, speaking, moving, And yet so fast asleep. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ant. Noble Sebastian, Thou let’st thy fortune sleep—die, rather; wink’st Whiles thou art waking. </div> <div class = "verse"> Seb. Thou dost snore distinctly; There’s meaning in thy snores. </div> <div class = "verse"> 210 Ant. I am more serious than my custom: you Must be so too, if heed me; which to do Trebles thee o’er. </div> Seb. Well, I am standing water. Ant. I’ll teach you how to flow. <div class = "verse"> Seb. Do so: to ebb Hereditary sloth instructs me. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ant. O, 215 If you but knew how you the purpose cherish Whiles thus you mock it! how, in stripping it, You more invest it! Ebbing men, indeed, Most often do so near the bottom run By their own fear or sloth. </div> <div class = "verse"> Seb. Prithee, say on: 220 The setting of thine eye and cheek proclaim A matter from thee; and a birth, indeed, 32 Which throes thee much to yield. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ant. Thus, sir: Although this lord of weak remembrance, this, Who shall be of as little memory II. 1. 225 When he is earth’d, hath here almost persuaded,— For he’s a spirit of persuasion, only Professes to persuade,—the king his son’s alive, ’Tis as impossible that he’s undrown’d As he that sleeps here swims. </div> <div class = "verse"> Seb. I have no hope That he’s undrown’d. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ant. 230 O, out of that ‘no hope’ What great hope have you! no hope that way is Another way so high a hope that even Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond, But doubt discovery there. Will you grant with me That Ferdinand is drown’d? </div> Seb. He’s gone. <div class = "verse"> Ant. 235 Then, tell me, Who’s the next heir of Naples? </div> Seb. Claribel. <div class = "verse"> Ant. She that is queen of Tunis; she that dwells Ten leagues beyond man’s life; she that from Naples Can have no note, unless the sun were post,— 240 The man i’ the moon’s too slow,—till new-born chins Be rough and razorable; she that from whom We all were sea-swallow’d, though some cast again, And by that destiny, to perform an act Whereof what’s past is prologue; what to come, In yours and my discharge. </div> <div class = "verse"> Seb. 245 What stuff is this! How say you? 33 ’Tis true, my brother’s daughter’s queen of Tunis; So is she heir of Naples; ’twixt which regions There is some space. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ant. A space whose every cubit Seems to cry out, “How shall that Claribel II. 1. 250 Measure us back to Naples? Keep in Tunis, And let Sebastian wake.” Say, this were death That now hath seized them; why, they were no worse Than now they are. There be that can rule Naples As well as he that sleeps; lords that can prate 255 As amply and unnecessarily As this Gonzalo; I myself could make A chough of as deep chat. O, that you bore The mind that I do! what a sleep were this For your advancement! Do you understand me? </div> Seb. Methinks I do. <div class = "verse"> Ant. 260 And how does your content Tender your own good fortune? </div> <div class = "verse"> Seb. I remember You did supplant your brother Prospero. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ant. True: And look how well my garments sit upon me; Much feater than before: my brother’s servants 265 Were then my fellows; now they are my men. </div> Seb. But for your conscience. <div class = "verse"> Ant. Ay, sir; where lies that? if ’twere a kibe, ’Twould put me to my slipper: but I feel not This deity in my bosom: twenty consciences, 270 That stand ’twixt me and Milan, candied be they, And melt, ere they molest! Here lies your brother, No better than the earth he lies upon, If he were that which now he’s like, that’s dead; 34 Whom I, with this obedient steel, three inches of it, II. 1. 275 Can lay to bed for ever; whiles you, doing thus, To the perpetual wink for aye might put This ancient morsel, this Sir Prudence, who Should not upbraid our course. For all the rest, They’ll take suggestion as a cat laps milk; 280 They’ll tell the clock to any business that We say befits the hour. </div> <div class = "verse"> Seb. Thy case, dear friend, Shall be my precedent; as thou got’st Milan, I’ll come by Naples. Draw thy sword: one stroke Shall free thee from the tribute which thou payest; And I the king shall love thee. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ant. 285 Draw together; And when I rear my hand, do you the like, To fall it on Gonzalo. </div> Seb. O, but one word. They talk apart. <h5 class = "stagedir"> Re-enter Ariel invisible.</h5> <div class = "verse"> Ari. My master through his art foresees the danger That you, his friend, are in; and sends me forth,— 290 For else his project dies,—to keep them living. </div> Sings in Gonzalo’s ear. <div class = "verse"> While you here do snoring lie, Open-eyed conspiracy His time doth take. If of life you keep a care, 295 Shake off slumber, and beware: Awake, awake! </div> Ant. Then let us both be sudden. <div class = "verse"> Gon. Now, good angels Preserve the king! They wake. </div> 35 <div class = "verse"> Alon. Why, how now? ho, awake!—Why are you drawn? Wherefore this ghastly looking? </div> Gon. II. 1. 300 What’s the matter? <div class = "verse"> Seb. Whiles we stood here securing your repose, Even now, we heard a hollow burst of bellowing Like bulls, or rather lions: did’t not wake you? It struck mine ear most terribly. </div> Alon. I heard nothing. <div class = "verse"> 305 Ant. O, ’twas a din to fright a monster’s ear, To make an earthquake! sure, it was the roar Of a whole herd of lions. </div> Alon. Heard you this, Gonzalo? <div class = "verse"> Gon. Upon mine honour, sir, I heard a humming, And that a strange one too, which did awake me: 310 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 our weapons. </div> <div class = "verse"> Alon. Lead off this ground; and let’s make further search For my poor son. </div> <div class = "verse"> Gon. 315 Heavens keep him from these beasts! For he is, sure, i’ th’ island. </div> Alon. Lead away. <div class = "verse"> Ari. Prospero my lord shall know what I have done: So, king, go safely on to seek thy son. Exeunt. </div> <h4 class = "scene"> II. 2 Scene II. Another part of the island.</h4> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter Caliban with a burden of wood. A noise of thunder heard.</h5> <div class = "verse"> Cal. All the infections that the sun sucks up From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me, And yet I needs must curse. But they’ll nor pinch, 5 Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i’ the mire, Nor lead me, like a firebrand, in the dark 36 Out of my way, unless he bid ’em: but For every trifle are they set upon me; Sometime like apes, that mow and chatter at me, 10 And after bite me; then like hedgehogs, which Lie tumbling in my barefoot way, and mount Their pricks at my footfall; sometime am I All wound with adders, who with cloven tongues Do hiss me into madness. </div> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter Trinculo.</h5> <div class = "verse"> Lo, now, lo! 15 Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me For bringing wood in slowly. I’ll fall flat; Perchance he will not mind me. </div> Trin. Here’s neither bush nor shrub, to bear off any weather at all, and another storm brewing; I hear it sing i’ 20 the wind: yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. If it should thunder as it did before, I know not where to hide my head: yond same cloud cannot choose but fall by pailfuls. What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he II. 2. 25 smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of not of the newest Poor-John. 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 30 beast there makes a man: when they will not give a doit 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 35 by a thunderbolt. [Thunder.] Alas, the storm is come again! my best way is to creep under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter hereabout: misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows. I will here shroud till the dregs of the storm be past. 37 <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter Stephano, singing: a bottle in his hand.</h5> <div class = "verse"> 40 Ste. I shall no more to sea, to sea, Here shall I die a-shore,— </div> This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man’s funeral: well, here’s my comfort. Drinks. <div class = "verse"> [Sings. The master, the swabber, the boatswain, and I, 45 The gunner, and his mate, Loved Mall, Meg, and Marian, and Margery, But none of us cared for Kate; For she had a tongue with a tang, Would cry to a sailor, Go hang! II. 2. 50 She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch; Yet a tailor might scratch her where’er she did itch. Then, to sea, boys, and let her go hang! </div> This is a scurvy tune too: but here’s my comfort. Drinks. Cal. Do not torment me:—O! 55 Ste. What’s the matter? Have we devils here? Do you put tricks upon ’s with savages and men of Ind, ha? I have not scaped drowning, to be afeard now of your four legs; for it hath been said, As proper a man as ever went on four legs cannot make him give ground; and it shall be 60 said so again, while Stephano breathes at’s nostrils. Cal. The spirit torments me:—O! Ste. 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 65 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 that ever trod on neat’s-leather. Cal. Do not torment me, prithee; I’ll bring my wood home faster. 70 Ste. He’s in his fit now, and does not talk after the wisest. He shall taste of my bottle: if he have never drunk wine afore, it will go near to remove his fit. If I can recover him, and keep him tame, I will not take too much for him; he shall pay for him that hath him, and that soundly. 38 II. 2. 75 Cal. Thou dost me yet but little hurt; thou wilt anon, I know it by thy trembling: now Prosper works upon thee. Ste. Come on your ways; open your mouth; here is that which will give language to you, cat: open your mouth; this will shake your shaking, I can tell you, and that soundly: 80 you cannot tell who’s your friend: open your chaps again. Trin. I should know that voice: it should be—but he is drowned; and these are devils:—O defend me! Ste. Four legs and two voices,—a most delicate monster! His forward voice, now, is to speak well of his friend; 85 his backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract. If all the wine in my bottle will recover him, I will help his ague. Come:—Amen! I will pour some in thy other mouth. Trin. Stephano! 90 Ste. Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy, mercy! This is a devil, and no monster: I will leave him; I have no long spoon. Trin. Stephano! If thou beest Stephano, touch me, and speak to me; for I am Trinculo,—be not afeard,—thy 95 good friend Trinculo. Ste. If thou beest Trinculo, come forth: I’ll pull thee by the lesser legs: if any be Trinculo’s legs, these are they. Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How earnest thou to be the siege of this moon-calf? can he vent Trinculos? II. 2. 100 Trin. I took him to be killed with a thunder-stroke. But art thou not drowned, Stephano? I hope, now, thou art not drowned. Is the storm overblown? I hid me under the dead moon-calf’s gaberdine for fear of the storm. And art thou living, Stephano? O Stephano, two Neapolitans 105 scaped! Ste. Prithee, do not turn me about; my stomach is not constant. <div class = "verse"> Cal. [aside] These be fine things, an if they be not sprites. That’s a brave god, and bears celestial liquor: 110 I will kneel to him. </div> 39 Ste. How didst thou ’scape? How camest thou hither? swear, by this bottle, how thou camest hither. I escaped upon a butt of sack, which the sailors heaved o’erboard, by this bottle! which I made of the bark of a tree with mine 115 own hands, since I was cast ashore. Cal. I’ll swear, upon that bottle, to be thy true subject; for the liquor is not earthly. Ste. Here; swear, then, how thou escapedst. Trin. Swum ashore, man, like a duck: I can swim 120 like a duck, I’ll be sworn. Ste. Here, kiss the book. Though thou canst swim like a duck, thou art made like a goose. Trin. O Stephano, hast any more of this? Ste. The whole butt, man: my cellar is in a rock by II. 2. 125 the sea-side, where my wine is hid. How now, moon-calf! how does thine ague? Cal. Hast thou not dropp’d from heaven? Ste. Out o’ the moon, I do assure thee: I was the man i’ the moon when time was. 130 Cal. I have seen thee in her, and I do adore thee: My mistress show’d me thee, and thy dog, and thy bush. Ste. Come, swear to that; kiss the book: I will furnish it anon with new contents: swear. Trin. By this good light, this is a very shallow monster! 135 I afeard of him! A very weak monster! The man i’ the moon! A most poor credulous monster! Well drawn, monster, in good sooth! <div class = "verse"> Cal. I’ll show thee every fertile inch o’ th’ island; And I will kiss thy foot: I prithee, be my god. </div> 140 Trin. By this light, a most perfidious and drunken monster! when’s god’s asleep, he’ll rob his bottle. Cal. I’ll kiss thy foot; I’ll swear myself thy subject. Ste. Come on, then; down, and swear. 40 Trin. I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster. A most scurvy monster! I could find in 145 my heart to beat him,— Ste. Come, kiss. Trin. But that the poor monster’s in drink: an abominable monster! <div class = "verse"> II. 2. 150 Cal. I’ll show thee the best springs; I’ll pluck thee berries; I’ll fish for thee, and get thee wood enough. A plague upon the tyrant that I serve! I’ll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee, Thou wondrous man. </div> Trin. A most ridiculous monster, to make a wonder 155 of a poor drunkard! <div class = "verse"> Cal. I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow; And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts; Show thee a jay’s nest, and instruct thee how 160 To snare the nimble marmoset; I’ll bring thee To clustering filberts, and sometimes I’ll get thee Young scamels from the rock. Wilt thou go with me? </div> Ste. I prithee now, lead the way, without any more talking. Trinculo, the king and all our company else being drowned, 165 we will inherit here: here; bear my bottle: fellow Trinculo, we’ll fill him by and by again. Cal. sings drunkenly.] Farewell, master; farewell, farewell! Trin. A howling monster; a drunken monster! <div class = "verse"> Cal. No more dams I’ll make for fish; 170 Nor fetch in firing At requiring; Nor scrape trencher, nor wash dish: ’Ban, ’Ban, Cacaliban Has a new master:—get a new man. </div> II. 2. 175 Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! freedom, hey-day, freedom! Ste. O brave monster! Lead the way. Exeunt. 41 <h3 class = "act">ACT III.</h3> <h4 class = "scene"> III. 1 Scene I. Before Prospero’s cell.</h4> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter Ferdinand, bearing a log.</h5> <div class = "verse"> Fer. There be some sports are painful, and their labour Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters Point to rich ends. This my mean task 5 Would be as heavy to me as odious, but The mistress which I serve quickens what’s dead, And makes my labours pleasures: O, she is Ten times more gentle than her father’s crabbed. And he’s composed of harshness. I must remove 10 Some thousands of these logs, and pile them up, Upon a sore injunction: my sweet mistress Weeps when she sees me work, and says, such baseness Had never like executor. I forget: But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours, Most busy lest, when I do it. </div> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter Miranda; and Prospero at a distance, unseen.</h5> <div class = "verse"> Mir. 15 Alas, now, pray you, Work not so hard: I would the lightning had Burnt up those logs that you are enjoin’d to pile! Pray, set it down, and rest you: when this burns, ’Twill weep for having wearied you. My father 20 Is hard at study; pray, now, rest yourself; 42 He’s safe for these three hours. </div> <div class = "verse"> Fer. O most dear mistress, The sun will set before I shall discharge What I must strive to do. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. If you’ll sit down, I’ll bear your logs the while: pray, give me that; I’ll carry it to the pile. </div> <div class = "verse"> Fer. III. 1. 25 No, precious creature; I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, Than you should such dishonour undergo, While I sit lazy by. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. It would become me As well as it does you: and I should do it 30 With much more ease; for my good will is to it, And yours it is against. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Poor worm, thou art infected! This visitation shows it. </div> Mir. You look wearily. <div class = "verse"> Fer. No, noble mistress; ’tis fresh morning with me When you are by at night. I do beseech you,— 35 Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers,— What is your name? </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. Miranda.—O my father, I have broke your hest to say so! </div> <div class = "verse"> Fer. Admired Miranda! Indeed the top of admiration! worth What’s dearest to the world! Full many a lady 40 I have eyed with best regard, and many a time The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul, but some defect in her 45 Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil: but you, O you, So perfect and so peerless, are created Of every creature’s best! </div> 43 <div class = "verse"> Mir. I do not know One of my sex; no woman’s face remember, III. 1. 50 Save, from my glass, mine own; nor have I seen More that I may call men than you, good friend, And my dear father: how features are abroad, I am skilless of; but, by my modesty, The jewel in my dower, I would not wish 55 Any companion in the world but you; Nor can imagination form a shape, Besides yourself, to like of. But I prattle Something too wildly, and my father’s precepts I therein do forget. </div> <div class = "verse"> Fer. I am, in my condition, 60 A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king; I would, not so!—and would no more endure This wooden slavery than to suffer The flesh-fly blow my mouth. Hear my soul speak: The very instant that I saw you, did 65 My heart fly to your service; there resides, To make me slave to it; and for your sake Am I this patient log-man. </div> Mir. Do you love me? <div class = "verse"> Fer. O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound, And crown what I profess with kind event, 70 If I speak true! if hollowly, invert What best is boded me to mischief! I, Beyond all limit of what else i’ the world, Do love, prize, honour you. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. I am a fool To weep at what I am glad of. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Fair encounter III. 1. 75 Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace On that which breeds between ’em! </div> Fer. Wherefore weep you? <div class = "verse"> Mir. At mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give; and much less take 44 What I shall die to want. But this is trifling; 80 And all the more it seeks to hide itself, The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence! I am your wife, if you will marry me; If not, I’ll die your maid: to be your fellow 85 You may deny me; but I’ll be your servant, Whether you will or no. </div> <div class = "verse"> Fer. My mistress, dearest; And I thus humble ever. </div> Mir. My husband, then? <div class = "verse"> Fer. Ay, with a heart as willing As bondage e’er of freedom: here’s my hand. </div> <div class = "verse"> 90 Mir. And mine, with my heart in’t: and now farewell Till half an hour hence. </div> Fer. A thousand thousand! Exeunt Fer. and Mir. severally. <div class = "verse"> Pros. So glad of this as they I cannot be, Who are surprised withal; but my rejoicing At nothing can be more. I’ll to my book; 95 For yet, ere supper-time, must I perform Much business appertaining. Exit. </div> <h4 class = "scene"> III. 2 Scene II. Another part of the island.</h4> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo.</h5> Ste. Tell not me;—when the butt is out, we will drink water; not a drop before: therefore bear up, and board ’em. Servant-monster, drink to me. Trin. Servant-monster! the folly of this island! They 5 say there’s but five upon this isle: we are three of them; if th’ other two be brained like us, the state totters. 45 Ste. Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee: thy eyes are almost set in thy head. Trin. Where should they be set else? he were a brave 10 monster indeed, if they were set in his tail. Ste. My man-monster hath drowned his tongue in sack: for my part, the sea cannot drown me; I swam, ere I could recover the shore, five-and-thirty leagues off and on. By this light, thou shalt be my lieutenant, monster, or my 15 standard. Trin. Your lieutenant, if you list; he’s no standard. Ste. We’ll not run, Monsieur Monster. Trin. Nor go neither; but you’ll lie, like dogs, and yet say nothing neither. 20 Ste. Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a good moon-calf. Cal. How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe. I’ll not serve him, he is not valiant. Trin. Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in case III. 2. 25 to justle a constable. Why, thou debauched fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I to-day? Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster? Cal. Lo, how he mocks me! wilt thou let him, my lord? 30 Trin. ‘Lord,’ quoth he! That a monster should be such a natural! Cal. Lo, lo, again! bite him to death, I prithee. Ste. Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head: if you prove a mutineer,—the next tree! The poor monster’s my 35 subject, and he shall not suffer indignity. Cal. I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleased to hearken once again to the suit I made to thee? Ste. Marry, will I: kneel and repeat it; I will stand, and so shall Trinculo. 46 <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter Ariel, invisible.</h5> 40 Cal. As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island. Ari. Thou liest. <div class = "verse"> Cal. Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou: I would my valiant master would destroy thee! I do not lie. </div> 45 Ste. Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in’s tale, by this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth. Trin. Why, I said nothing. Ste. Mum, then, and no more. Proceed. <div class = "verse"> Cal. I say, by sorcery he got this isle; III. 2. 50 From me he got it. If thy greatness will Revenge it on him,—for I know thou darest, But this thing dare not,— </div> Ste. That’s most certain. Cal. Thou shalt be lord of it, and I’ll serve thee. 55 Ste. How now shall this be compassed? Canst thou bring me to the party? <div class = "verse"> Cal. Yea, yea, my lord: I’ll yield him thee asleep, Where thou mayst knock a nail into his head. </div> Ari. Thou liest; thou canst not. <div class = "verse"> 60 Cal. What a pied ninny’s this! Thou scurvy patch! I do beseech thy Greatness, give him blows, And take his bottle from him: when that’s gone, He shall drink nought but brine; for I’ll not show him Where the quick freshes are. </div> 65 Ste. Trinculo, run into no further danger: interrupt the monster one word further, and, by this hand, I’ll turn my mercy out o’ doors, and make a stock-fish of thee. Trin. Why, what did I? I did nothing. I’ll go farther off. 70 Ste. Didst thou not say he lied? Ari. Thou liest. Ste. Do I so? take thou that. [Beats him.] As you like this, give me the lie another time. 47 Trin. I did not give the lie. Out o’ your wits, and III. 2. 75 hearing too? A pox o’ your bottle! this can sack and drinking do. A murrain on your monster, and the devil take your fingers! Cal. Ha, ha, ha! Ste. Now, forward with your tale.—Prithee, stand farther 80 off. Cal. Beat him enough: after a little time, I’ll beat him too. Ste. Stand farther. Come, proceed. <div class = "verse"> Cal. Why, as I told thee, ’tis a custom with him I’ th’ afternoon to sleep: there thou mayst brain him, 85 Having first seized his books; or with a log Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, Or cut his wezand with thy knife. Remember First to possess his books; for without them He’s but a sot, as I am, nor hath not 90 One spirit to command: they all do hate him As rootedly as I. Burn but his books. He has brave utensils,—for so he calls them,— Which, when he has a house, he’ll deck withal. And that most deeply to consider is 95 The beauty of his daughter; he himself Calls her a nonpareil: I never saw a woman, But only Sycorax my dam and she; But she as far surpasseth Sycorax As great’st does least. </div> Ste. Is it so brave a lass? <div class = "verse"> III. 2. 100 Cal. Ay, lord; she will become thy bed, I warrant, And bring thee forth brave brood. </div> Ste. Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and I will be king and queen,—save our Graces!—and Trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys. Dost thou like the plot, 105 Trinculo? Trin. Excellent. 48 Ste. Give me thy hand: I am sorry I beat thee; but, while thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head. <div class = "verse"> Cal. Within this half hour will he be asleep: Wilt thou destroy him then? </div> Ste. 110 Ay, on mine honour. Ari. This will I tell my master. <div class = "verse"> Cal. Thou makest me merry; I am full of pleasure: Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch You taught me but while-ere? </div> 115 Ste. At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any reason. —Come on. Trinculo, let us sing. Sings. <div class = "verse"> Flout ’em and scout ’em, and scout ’em and flout ’em; Thought is free. </div> Cal. That’s not the tune. Ariel plays the tune on a tabor and pipe. 120 Ste. What is this same? Trin. This is the tune of our catch, played by the picture of Nobody. Ste. If thou beest a man, show thyself in thy likeness: if thou beest a devil, take’t as thou list. III. 2. 125 Trin. O, forgive me my sins! Ste. He that dies pays all debts: I defy thee. Mercy upon us! Cal. Art thou afeard? Ste. No, monster, not I. <div class = "verse"> 130 Cal. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, 135 Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again. </div> 49 Ste. This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I 140 shall have my music for nothing. Cal. When Prospero is destroyed. Ste. That shall be by and by: I remember the story. Trin. The sound is going away; let’s follow it, and after do our work. 145 Ste. Lead, monster; we’ll follow. I would I could see this taborer; he lays it on. Trin. Wilt come? I’ll follow, Stephano. Exeunt. <h4 class = "scene"> III. 3 Scene III. Another part of the island.</h4> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, Gonzalo, Adrian, Francisco, and others.</h5> <div class = "verse"> Gon. By’r lakin, I can go no further, sir; My old bones ache: here’s a maze trod, indeed, Through forth-rights and meanders! By your patience, I needs must rest me. </div> <div class = "verse"> Alon. Old lord, I cannot blame thee, 5 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 10 Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ant. [Aside to Seb.] I am right glad that he’s so out of hope. Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose That you resolved to effect. </div> <div class = "verse"> Seb. [Aside to Ant.] The next advantage Will we take throughly. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ant. [Aside to Seb.] Let it be to-night; 50 15 For, now they are oppress’d with travel, they Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance As when they are fresh. </div> Seb. [Aside to Ant.] I say, to-night: no more. Solemn and strange music. Alon. What harmony is this?—My good friends, hark! Gon. Marvellous sweet music! <h5 class = "stagedir long"> Enter Prospero above, invisible. Enter several strange Shapes, bringing in a banquet: they dance about it with gentle actions of salutation; and, inviting the King, &c. to eat, they depart.</h5> 20 Alon. Give us kind keepers, heavens!—What were these? <div class = "verse"> Seb. A living drollery. Now I will believe That there are unicorns; that in Arabia There is one tree, the phœnix’ throne; one phœnix At this hour reigning there. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ant. I’ll believe both; III. 3. 25 And what does else want credit, come to me, And I’ll be sworn ’tis true: travellers ne’er did lie, Though fools at home condemn ’em. </div> <div class = "verse"> Gon. If in Naples I should report this now, would they believe me? If I should say, I saw such islanders,— 30 For, certes, these are people of the island,— Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet, note, Their manners are more gentle-kind than of Our human generation you shall find Many, nay, almost any. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. [Aside] Honest lord, 35 Thou hast said well; for some of you there present Are worse than devils. </div> <div class = "verse"> Alon. I cannot too much muse Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, expressing— 51 Although they want the use of tongue—a kind Of excellent dumb discourse. </div> Pros. [Aside] Praise in departing. Fran. They vanish’d strangely. <div class = "verse"> Seb. 40 No matter, since They have left their viands behind; for we have stomachs.— Will’t please you taste of what is here? </div> Alon. Not I. <div class = "verse"> Gon. Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys, Who would believe that there were mountaineers 45 Dew-lapp’d like bulls, whose throats had hanging at ’em Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find Each putter-out of five for one will bring us Good warrant of. </div> <div class = "verse"> Alon. I will stand to, and feed, III. 3. 50 Although my last: no matter, since I feel The best is past. Brother, my lord the duke, Stand to, and do as we. </div> <h5 class = "stagedir long"> Thunder and lightning. Enter Ariel, like a harpy; claps his wings upon the table; and, with a quaint device, the banquet vanishes.</h5> <div class = "verse"> Ari. You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,— That hath to instrument this lower world 55 And what is in’t,—the never-surfeited sea Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island, Where man doth not inhabit,—you ’mongst men Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad; And even with such-like valour men hang and drown Their proper selves. Alon., Seb. &c. draw their swords. 60 You fools! I and my fellows Are ministers of Fate: the elements, 52 Of whom your swords are temper’d, may as well Wound the loud winds, or with bemock’d-at stabs Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish 65 One dowle that’s in my plume: my fellow-ministers Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt, Your swords are now too massy for your strengths, And will not be uplifted. But remember,— For that’s my business to you,—that you three 70 From Milan did supplant good Prospero; Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it, Him and his innocent child: for which foul deed The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have Incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures, III. 3. 75 Against your peace. Thee of thy son, Alonso, They have bereft; and do pronounce by me: Lingering perdition—worse than any death Can be at once—shall step by step attend You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from,— 80 Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls Upon your heads,—is nothing but heart-sorrow And a clear life ensuing. </div> <h5 class = "stagedir long"> He vanishes in thunder; then, to soft music, enter the Shapes again, and dance, with mocks and mows, and carrying out the table.</h5> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou Perform’d, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring: 85 Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated In what thou hadst to say: so, with good life And observation strange, my meaner ministers Their several kinds have done. My high charms work, And these mine enemies are all knit up 90 In their distractions: they now are in my power; And in these fits I leave them, while I visit 53 Young Ferdinand,—whom they suppose is drown’d,— And his and mine loved darling. Exit above. </div> <div class = "verse"> Gon. I’ the name of something holy, sir, why stand you In this strange stare? </div> <div class = "verse"> Alon. 95 O, it is monstrous, monstrous! Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass. III. 3. 100 Therefore my son i’ th’ ooze is bedded; and I’ll seek him deeper than e’er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded. Exit. </div> <div class = "verse"> Seb. But one fiend at a time, I’ll fight their legions o’er. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ant. I’ll be thy second. </div> Exeunt Seb. and Ant. <div class = "verse"> Gon. All three of them are desperate: their great guilt, 105 Like poison given to work a great time after, Now ’gins to bite the spirits. I do beseech you, That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly, And hinder them from what this ecstasy May now provoke them to. </div> <div class = "verse"> Adr. Follow, I pray you. Exeunt. </div> 54 <h3 class = "act">ACT IV.</h3> <h4 class = "scene"> IV. 1 Scene I. Before Prospero’s cell.</h4> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter Prospero, Ferdinand, and Miranda.</h5> <div class = "verse"> Pros. If I have too austerely punish’d you, Your compensation makes amends; for I Have given you here a third of mine own life, Or that for which I live; who once again 5 I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test: here, afore Heaven, I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand, Do not smile at me that I boast her off, 10 For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise, And make it halt behind her. </div> <div class = "verse"> Fer. I do believe it Against an oracle. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Then, as my gift, and thine own acquisition Worthily purchased, take my daughter: but 15 If thou dost break her virgin-knot before All sanctimonious ceremonies may With full and holy rite be minister’d, No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall To make this contract grow; but barren hate, 20 Sour-eyed disdain and discord shall bestrew The union of your bed with weeds so loathly That you shall hate it both: therefore take heed, As Hymen’s lamps shall light you. </div> <div class = "verse"> Fer. As I hope For quiet days, fair issue and long life, 55 IV. 1. 25 With such love as ’tis now, the murkiest den, The most opportune place, the strong’st suggestion Our worser Genius can, shall never melt Mine honour into lust, to take away The edge of that day’s celebration 30 When I shall think, or Phœbus’ steeds are founder’d, Or Night kept chain’d below. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Fairly spoke. Sit, then, and talk with her; she is thine own. What, Ariel! my industrious servant, Ariel! </div> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter Ariel.</h5> Ari. What would my potent master? here I am. <div class = "verse"> 35 Pros. Thou and thy meaner fellows your last service Did worthily perform; and I must use you In such another trick. Go bring the rabble, O’er whom I give thee power, here to this place: Incite them to quick motion; for I must 40 Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple Some vanity of mine art: it is my promise, And they expect it from me. </div> Ari. Presently? Pros. Ay, with a twink. <div class = "verse"> Ari. Before you can say, ‘come,’ and ‘go,’ 45 And breathe twice, and cry, ‘so, so,’ Each one, tripping on his toe, Will be here with mop and mow. Do you love me, master? no? </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Dearly, my delicate Ariel. Do not approach Till thou dost hear me call. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ari. IV. 1. 50 Well, I conceive. Exit. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Look thou be true; do not give dalliance Too much the rein: the strongest oaths are straw To the fire i’ the blood: be more abstemious, 56 Or else, good night your vow! </div> <div class = "verse"> Fer. I warrant you, sir; 55 The white cold virgin snow upon my heart Abates the ardour of my liver. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Well. Now come, my Ariel! bring a corollary, Rather than want a spirit: appear, and pertly! No tongue! all eyes! be silent. Soft music. </div> <div class = "poem"> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter Iris.</h5> <div class = "verse"> 60 Iris. Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats, and pease; Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatch’d with stover, them to keep; Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims, 65 Which spongy April at thy best betrims, To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broom-groves, Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves, Being lass-lorn; thy pole-clipt vineyard; And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard, 70 Where thou thyself dost air;—the queen o’ the sky, Whose watery arch and messenger am I, Bids thee leave these; and with her sovereign grace, Here on this grass-plot, in this very place, To come and sport:—her peacocks fly amain: IV. 1. 75 Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain. </div> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter Ceres.</h5> <div class = "verse"> Cer. Hail, many-colour’d messenger, that ne’er Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter; Who, with thy saffron wings, upon my flowers Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers; 80 And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown My bosky acres and my unshrubb’d down, Rich scarf to my proud earth;—why hath thy queen Summon’d me hither, to this short-grass’d green? </div> 57 <div class = "verse"> Iris. A contract of true love to celebrate; 85 And some donation freely to estate On the blest lovers. </div> <div class = "verse"> Cer. Tell me, heavenly bow, If Venus or her son, as thou dost know, Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot The means that dusky Dis my daughter got, 90 Her and her blind boy’s scandal’d company I have forsworn. </div> <div class = "verse"> Iris. Of her society Be not afraid: I met her Deity Cutting the clouds towards Paphos, and her son Dove-drawn with her. Here thought they to have done 95 Some wanton charm upon this man and maid, Whose vows are, that no bed-right shall be paid Till Hymen’s torch be lighted: but in vain; Mars’s hot minion is returned again; Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows, IV. 1. 100 Swears he will shoot no more, but play with sparrows, And be a boy right out. </div> <div class = "verse"> Cer. High’st queen of state, Great Juno, comes; I know her by her gait. </div> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter Juno.</h5> <div class = "verse"> Juno. How does my bounteous sister? Go with me To bless this twain, that they may prosperous be, 105 And honour’d in their issue. They sing: </div> <div class = "song"> Juno. Honour, riches, marriage-blessing, Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you! Juno sings her blessings on you. </div> <div class = "song"> 110 Cer. Earth’s increase, foison plenty, Barns and garners never empty; Vines with clustering bunches growing; Plants with goodly burthen bowing; Spring come to you at the farthest 115 In the very end of harvest! Scarcity and want shall shun you; Ceres’ blessing so is on you. </div> </div>  58 <div class = "verse"> Fer. This is a most majestic vision, and Harmonious charmingly. May I be bold To think these spirits? </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. 120 Spirits, which by mine art I have from their confines call’d to enact My present fancies. </div> <div class = "verse"> Fer. Let me live here ever; So rare a wonder’d father and a wife Makes this place Paradise. </div> Juno and Ceres whisper, and send Iris on employment. <div class = "verse"> Pros. Sweet, now, silence! IV. 1. 125 Juno and Ceres whisper seriously; There’s something else to do: hush, and be mute, Or else our spell is marr’d. </div> <div class = "poem"> <div class = "verse"> Iris. You nymphs, call’d Naiads, of the windring brooks, With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks, 130 Leave your crisp channels, and on this green land Answer your summons; Juno does command: Come, temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate A contract of true love; be not too late. </div> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter certain Nymphs.</h5> <div class = "verse"> You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary, 135 Come hither from the furrow, and be merry: Make holiday; your rye-straw hats put on, And these fresh nymphs encounter every one In country footing. </div> <h5 class = "stagedir long"> Enter certain Reapers, properly habited: they join with the Nymphs in a graceful dance; towards the end whereof Prospero starts 59 suddenly, and speaks; after which, to a strange, hollow, and confused noise, they heavily vanish.</h5></div>  <div class = "verse"> Pros. [Aside] I had forgot that foul conspiracy 140 Of the beast Caliban and his confederates Against my life: the minute of their plot Is almost come. [To the Spirits.] Well done! avoid; no more! </div> <div class = "verse"> Fer. This is strange: your father’s in some passion That works him strongly. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. Never till this day 145 Saw I him touch’d with anger so distemper’d. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. You do look, my son, in a moved sort, As if you were dismay’d: be cheerful, sir. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and IV. 1. 150 Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, 155 And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vex’d; Bear with my weakness; my old brain is troubled: 160 Be not disturb’d with my infirmity: If you be pleased, retire into my cell, And there repose: a turn or two I’ll walk, To still my beating mind. </div> Fer. Mir. We wish your peace. Exeunt. Pros. Come with a thought. I thank thee, Ariel: come. 60 <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter Ariel.</h5> 165 Ari. Thy thoughts I cleave to. What’s thy pleasure? <div class = "verse"> Pros. Spirit, We must prepare to meet with Caliban. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ari. Ay, my commander: when I presented Ceres, I thought to have told thee of it; but I fear’d Lest I might anger thee. </div> 170 Pros. Say again, where didst thou leave these varlets? <div class = "verse"> Ari. I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; So full of valour that they smote the air For breathing in their faces; beat the ground For kissing of their feet; yet always bending IV. 1. 175 Towards their project. Then I beat my tabor; At which, like unback’d colts, they prick’d their ears, Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses As they smelt music: so I charm’d their ears, That, calf-like, they my lowing follow’d through 180 Tooth’d briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss, and thorns, Which enter’d their frail shins: at last I left them I’ the filthy-mantled pool beyond your cell, There dancing up to the chins, that the foul lake O’erstunk their feet. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. This was well done, my bird. 185 Thy shape invisible retain thou still: The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither, For stale to catch these thieves. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ari. I go, I go. Exit. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. A devil, a born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains, 190 Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost; And as with age his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers. I will plague them all, Even to roaring. </div> 61 <h5 class = "stagedir"> Re-enter Ariel, loaden with glistering apparel, &c.</h5> Come, hang them on this line. <h5 class = "stagedir"> Prospero and Ariel remain, invisible. Enter Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo, all wet.</h5> <div class = "verse"> Cal. Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not 195 Hear a foot fall: we now are near his cell. </div> Ste. Monster, your fairy, which you say is a harmless fairy, has done little better than played the Jack with us. Trin. Monster, I do smell all horse-piss; at which my nose is in great indignation. IV. 1. 200 Ste. So is mine. Do you hear, monster? If I should take a displeasure against you, look you,— Trin. Thou wert but a lost monster. <div class = "verse"> Cal. Good my lord, give me thy favour still. Be patient, for the prize I’ll bring thee to 205 Shall hoodwink this mischance: therefore speak softly. All’s hush’d as midnight yet. </div> Trin. Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool,— Ste. There is not only disgrace and dishonour in that, monster, but an infinite loss. 210 Trin. That’s more to me than my wetting: yet this is your harmless fairy, monster. Ste. I will fetch off my bottle, though I be o’er ears for my labour. <div class = "verse"> Cal. Prithee, my king, be quiet. See’st thou here, 215 This is the mouth o’ the cell: no noise, and enter. Do that good mischief which may make this island Thine own for ever, and I, thy Caliban, For aye thy foot-licker. </div> Ste. Give me thy hand. I do begin to have bloody 220 thoughts. Trin. O King Stephano! O peer! O worthy Stephano! look what a wardrobe here is for thee! Cal. Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash. Trin. O, ho, monster! we know what belongs to a frippery. IV. 1. 225 O King Stephano! 62 Ste. Put off that gown, Trinculo; by this hand, I’ll have that gown. Trin. Thy Grace shall have it. <div class = "verse"> Cal. The dropsy drown this fool! what do you mean 230 To dote thus on such luggage? Let’s alone, And do the murder first: if he awake, From toe to crown he’ll fill our skins with pinches, Make us strange stuff. </div> Ste. Be you quiet, monster. Mistress line, is not this 235 my jerkin? Now is the jerkin under the line: now, jerkin, you are like to lose your hair, and prove a bald jerkin. Trin. Do, do: we steal by line and level, an’t like your Grace. Ste. I thank thee for that jest; here’s a garment for’t: 240 wit shall not go unrewarded while I am king of this country. ‘Steal by line and level’ is an excellent pass of pate; there’s another garment for’t. Trin. Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and away with the rest. <div class = "verse"> 245 Cal. I will have none on’t: we shall lose our time, And all be turn’d to barnacles, or to apes With foreheads villanous low. </div> Ste. Monster, lay-to your fingers: help to bear this away where my hogshead of wine is, or I’ll turn you out IV. 1. 250 of my kingdom: go to, carry this. Trin. And this. Ste. Ay, and this. <h5 class = "stagedir long"> A noise of hunters heard. Enter divers Spirits, in shape of dogs and hounds, and hunt them about, Prospero and Ariel setting them on.</h5> Pros. Hey, Mountain, hey! Ari. Silver! there it goes, Silver! <div class = "verse"> 255 Pros. Fury, fury! there, Tyrant, there! hark, hark! Cal., Ste., and Trin. are driven out. Go charge my goblins that they grind their joints 63 With dry convulsions; shorten up their sinews With aged cramps; and more pinch-spotted make them Then pard or cat o’ mountain. </div> Ari. Hark, they roar! <div class = "verse"> 260 Pros. Let them be hunted soundly. At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies: Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou Shalt have the air at freedom: for a little Follow, and do me service. Exeunt. </div> <h3 class = "act">ACT V.</h3> <h4 class = "scene"> V. 1 Scene I. Before the cell of Prospero.</h4> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Enter Prospero in his magic robes, and Ariel.</h5> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Now does my project gather to a head: My charms crack not; my spirits obey; and time Goes upright with his carriage. How’s the day? </div> <div class = "verse"> Ari. On the sixth hour; at which time, my lord, You said our work should cease. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. 5 I did say so, When first I raised the tempest. Say, my spirit, How fares the king and’s followers? </div> <div class = "verse"> Ari. Confined together In the same fashion as you gave in charge, Just as you left them; all prisoners, sir, 10 In the line-grove which weather-fends your cell; They cannot budge till your release. The king, His brother, and yours, abide all three distracted, And the remainder mourning over them, Brimful of sorrow and dismay; but chiefly 15 Him that you term’d, sir, “The good old lord, Gonzalo;” 64 His tears run down his beard, like winter’s drops From eaves of reeds. Your charm so strongly works ’em, That if you now beheld them, your affections Would become tender. </div> Pros. Dost thou think so, spirit? Ari. Mine would, sir, were I human. <div class = "verse"> Pros. 20 And mine shall. Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art? V. 1. 25 Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, Yet with my nobler reason ’gainst my fury Do I take part: the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend 30 Not a frown further. Go release them, Ariel: My charms I’ll break, their senses I’ll restore, And they shall be themselves. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ari. I’ll fetch them, sir. Exit. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves; And ye that on the sands with printless foot 35 Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites; and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice 40 To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid— Weak masters though ye be—I have bedimm’d The noontide sun, call’d forth the mutinous winds. And ’twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder 45 Have I given fire, and rifted Jove’s stout oak 65 With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck’d up The pine and cedar: graves at my command Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let ’em forth V. 1. 50 By my so potent art. But this rough magic I here abjure; and, when I have required Some heavenly music,—which even now I do,— To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I’ll break my staff, 55 Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I’ll drown my book. Solemn music. </div> <h5 class = "stagedir long"> Re-enter Ariel before: then Alonso, with a frantic gesture, attended by Gonzalo; Sebastian and Antonio in like manner, attended by Adrian and Francisco: they all enter the circle which Prospero had made, and there stand charmed; which Prospero observing, speaks:</h5> <div class = "verse"> A solemn air, and the best comforter To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains, 60 Now useless, boil’d within thy skull! There stand, For you are spell-stopp’d. Holy Gonzalo, honourable man, Mine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine, Fall fellowly drops. The charm dissolves apace; 65 And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason. O good Gonzalo, My true preserver, and a loyal sir 70 To him thou follow’st! I will pay thy graces Home both in word and deed. Most cruelly 66 Didst thou, Alonso, use me and my daughter: Thy brother was a furtherer in the act. Thou art pinch’d for’t now, Sebastian. Flesh and blood, V. 1. 75 You, brother mine, that entertain’d ambition, Expell’d remorse and nature; who, with Sebastian,— Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong,— Would here have kill’d your king; I do forgive thee, Unnatural though thou art. Their understanding 80 Begins to swell; and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shore, That now lies foul and muddy. Not one of them That yet looks on me, or would know me: Ariel, Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell: 85 I will discase me, and myself present As I was sometime Milan: quickly, spirit; Thou shalt ere long be free. </div> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Ariel sings and helps to attire him.</h5> <div class = "verse"> Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip’s bell I lie; 90 There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat’s back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. </div> <div class = "verse"> 95 Pros. Why, that’s my dainty Ariel! I shall miss thee; But yet thou shalt have freedom: so, so, so. To the king’s ship, invisible as thou art: There shalt thou find the mariners asleep Under the hatches; the master and the boatswain V. 1. 100 Being awake, enforce them to this place, 67 And presently, I prithee. </div> <div class = "verse"> Ari. I drink the air before me, and return Or ere your pulse twice beat. Exit. </div> <div class = "verse"> Gon. All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement 105 Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us Out of this fearful country! </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. Behold, sir king, The wronged Duke of Milan, Prospero: For more assurance that a living prince Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body; 110 And to thee and thy company I bid A hearty welcome. </div> <div class = "verse"> Alon. Whether thou be’st he or no, Or some enchanted trifle to abuse me, As late I have been, I not know: thy pulse Beats, as of flesh and blood; and, since I saw thee, 115 The affliction of my mind amends, with which, I fear, a madness held me: this must crave— An if this be at all—a most strange story. Thy dukedom I resign, and do entreat Thou pardon me my wrongs.—But how should Prospero Be living and be here? </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. 120 First, noble friend, Let me embrace thine age, whose honour cannot Be measured or confined. </div> <div class = "verse"> Gon. Whether this be Or be not, I’ll not swear. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. You do yet taste Some subtilties o’ the isle, that will not let you V. 1. 125 Believe things certain. Welcome, my friends all! [Aside to Seb. and Ant.] But you, my brace of lords, were I so minded, I here could pluck his Highness’ frown upon you, And justify you traitors: at this time I will tell no tales. </div> 68 Seb. [Aside] The devil speaks in him. <div class = "verse"> Pros. No. 130 For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive Thy rankest fault,—all of them; and require My dukedom of thee, which perforce, I know, Thou must restore. </div> <div class = "verse"> Alon. If thou be’st Prospero, 135 Give us particulars of thy preservation; How thou hast met us here, who three hours since Were wreck’d upon this shore; where I have lost— How sharp the point of this remembrance is!— My dear son Ferdinand. </div> Pros. I am woe for’t, sir. <div class = "verse"> 140 Alon. Irreparable is the loss; and patience Says it is past her cure. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. I rather think You have not sought her help, of whose soft grace For the like loss I have her sovereign aid, And rest myself content. </div> Alon. You the like loss! <div class = "verse"> 145 Pros. As great to me as late; and, supportable To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker Than you may call to comfort you, for I Have lost my daughter. </div> <div class = "verse"> Alon. A daughter? O heavens, that they were living both in Naples, V. 1. 150 The king and queen there! that they were, I wish Myself were mudded in that oozy bed Where my son lies. When did you lose <ins class = "correction" title = "text unchanged: error for ‘your’?">you</ins> daughter? </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. In this last tempest. I perceive, these lords At this encounter do so much admire, 155 That they devour their reason, and scarce think Their eyes do offices of truth, their words Are natural breath: but, howsoe’er you have 69 Been justled from your senses, know for certain That I am Prospero, and that very duke 160 Which was thrust forth of Milan; who most strangely Upon this shore, where you were wreck’d, was landed, To be the Lord on’t. No more yet of this; For ’tis a chronicle of day by day, Not a relation for a breakfast, nor 165 Befitting this first meeting. Welcome, sir; This cell’s my court: here have I few attendants, And subjects none abroad: pray you, look in. My dukedom since you have given me again, I will requite you with as good a thing; 170 At least bring forth a wonder, to content ye As much as me my dukedom. </div> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Here Prospero discovers Ferdinand and Miranda playing at chess.</h5> Mir. Sweet lord, you play me false. <div class = "verse"> Fer. No, my dear’st love, I would not for the world. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle, And I would call it fair play. </div> <div class = "verse"> Alon. V. 1. 175 If this prove A vision of the island, one dear son Shall I twice lose. </div> Seb. A most high miracle! <div class = "verse"> Fer. Though the seas threaten, they are merciful; I have cursed them without cause. Kneels. </div> <div class = "verse"> Alon. Now all the blessings 180 Of a glad father compass thee about! Arise, and say how thou camest here. </div> <div class = "verse"> Mir. O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, 70 That has such people in’t! </div> Pros. ’Tis new to thee. <div class = "verse"> 185 Alon. What is this maid with whom thou wast at play? Your eld’st acquaintance cannot be three hours: Is she the goddess that hath sever’d us, And brought us thus together? </div> <div class = "verse"> Fer. Sir, she is mortal; But by immortal Providence she’s mine: 190 I chose her when I could not ask my father For his advice, nor thought I had one. She Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan, Of whom so often I have heard renown, But never saw before; of whom I have 195 Received a second life; and second father This lady makes him to me. </div> <div class = "verse"> Alon. I am hers: But, O, how oddly will it sound that I Must ask my child forgiveness! </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. There, sir, stop: Let us not burthen our remembrances with A heaviness that’s gone. </div> <div class = "verse"> Gon. V. 1. 200 I have inly wept, Or should have spoke ere this. Look down, you gods, And on this couple drop a blessed crown! For it is you that have chalk’d forth the way Which brought us hither. </div> Alon. I say, Amen, Gonzalo! <div class = "verse"> 205 Gon. Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue Should become kings of Naples? O, rejoice Beyond a common joy! and set it down With gold on lasting pillars: In one voyage Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis, 210 And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife Where he himself was lost, Prospero his dukedom In a poor isle, and all of us ourselves When no man was his own. </div> 71 <div class = "verse"> Alon. [to Fer. and Mir.] Give me your hands: Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart That doth not wish you joy! </div> Gon. 215 Be it so! Amen! <h5 class = "stagedir"> Re-enter Ariel, with the Master and Boatswain amazedly following.</h5> <div class = "verse"> O, look, sir, look, sir! here is more of us: I prophesied, if a gallows were on land, This fellow could not drown. Now, blasphemy, That swear’st grace o’erboard, not an oath on shore? 220 Hast thou no mouth by land? What is the news? </div> <div class = "verse"> Boats. The best news is, that we have safely found Our king and company; the next, 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 sea. </div> <div class = "verse"> V. 1. 225 Ari. [Aside to Pros.] Sir, all this service Have I done since I went. </div> Pros. [Aside to Ari.] My tricksy spirit! <div class = "verse"> Alon. These are not natural events; they strengthen From strange to stranger. Say, how came you hither? </div> <div class = "verse"> Boats. If I did think, sir, I were well awake, 230 I’ld strive to tell you. We were dead of sleep, And—how we know not—all clapp’d under hatches; Where, but even now, with strange and several noises Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling chains, And more diversity of sounds, all horrible, 235 We were awaked; straightway, at liberty; Where we, in all her trim, freshly beheld Our royal, good, and gallant ship; our master Capering to eye her:—on a trice, so please you, Even in a dream, were we divided from them, And were brought moping hither. </div> 240 Ari. [Aside to Pros.] Was’t well done? 72 Pros. [Aside to Ari.] Bravely, my diligence. Thou shalt be free. <div class = "verse"> Alon. This is as strange a maze as e’er men trod; And there is in this business more than nature Was ever conduct of: some oracle Must rectify our knowledge. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. 245 Sir, my liege, Do not infest your mind with beating on The strangeness of this business; at pick’d leisure Which shall be shortly, single I’ll resolve you, Which to you shall seem probable, of every V. 1. 250 These happen’d accidents; till when, be cheerful, And think of each thing well. [Aside to Ari.] Come hither, spirit: Set Caliban and his companions free; Untie the spell. [Exit Ariel.] How fares my gracious sir? There are yet missing of your company 255 Some few odd lads that you remember not. </div> <h5 class = "stagedir"> Re-enter Ariel, driving in Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo, in their stolen apparel.</h5> Ste. Every man shift for all the rest, and let no man take care for himself; for all is but fortune.—Coragio, bully-monster, coragio! Trin. If these be true spies which I wear in my head, 260 here’s a goodly sight. <div class = "verse"> Cal. O Setebos, these be brave spirits indeed! How fine my master is! I am afraid He will chastise me. </div> <div class = "verse"> Seb. Ha, ha! What things are these, my lord Antonio? Will money buy ’em? </div> <div class = "verse"> Ant. 265 Very like; one of them Is a plain fish, and, no doubt, marketable. </div> 73 <div class = "verse"> Pros. Mark but the badges of these men, my lords, Then say if they be true. This mis-shapen knave, His mother was a witch; and one so strong 270 That could control the moon, make flows and ebbs, And deal in her command, without her power. These three have robb’d me; and this demi-devil— For he’s a bastard one—had plotted with them To take my life. Two of these fellows you V. 1. 275 Must know and own; this thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine. </div> Cal. I shall be pinch’d to death. Alon. Is not this Stephano, my drunken butler? Seb. He is drunk now: where had he wine? <div class = "verse"> Alon. And Trinculo is reeling ripe: where should they 280 Find this grand liquor that hath gilded ’em?— How camest thou in this pickle? </div> Trin. I have been in such a pickle, since I saw you last, that, I fear me, will never out of my bones: I shall not fear fly-blowing. 285 Seb. Why, how now, Stephano! Ste. O, touch me not;—I am not Stephano, but a cramp. Pros. You’ld be king o’ the isle, sirrah? Ste. I should have been a sore one, then. Alon. This is a strange thing as e’er I look’d on. Pointing to Caliban. <div class = "verse"> 290 Pros. He is as disproportion’d in his manners As in his shape. Go, sirrah, to my cell; Take with you your companions; as you look To have my pardon, trim it handsomely. </div> <div class = "verse"> Cal. Ay, that I will; and I’ll be wise hereafter, 295 And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass Was I, to take this drunkard for a god, And worship this dull fool! </div> 74 Pros. Go to; away! Alon. Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it. Seb. Or stole it, rather. Exeunt Cal., Ste., and Trin. <div class = "verse"> V. 1. 300 Pros. Sir, I invite your Highness and your train To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest For this one night; which, part of it, I’ll waste With such discourse as, I not doubt, shall make it Go quick away: the story of my life, 305 And the particular accidents gone by Since I came to this isle: and in the morn I’ll bring you to your ship, and so to Naples, Where I have hope to see the nuptial Of these our dear-beloved solemnized; 310 And thence retire me to my Milan, where Every third thought shall be my grave. </div> <div class = "verse"> Alon. I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely. </div> <div class = "verse"> Pros. I’ll deliver all; And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales, And sail so expeditious, that shall catch 315 Your royal fleet far off. [Aside to Ari.] My Ariel, chick, That is thy charge: then to the elements Be free, and fare thou well! Please you, draw near. </div> Exeunt. 75 <h3 class = "act"> EPILOGUE.</h3> <h5>SPOKEN BY PROSPERO.</h5> <div class = "verse"> Now my charms are all o’erthrown, And what strength I have’s mine own, Which is most faint: now, ’tis true, I must be here confined by you, 5 Or sent to Naples. Let me not, Since I have my dukedom got, And pardon’d the deceiver, dwell In this bare island by your spell; But release me from my bands 10 With the help of your good hands: Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please. Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant; 15 And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer, Which pierces so, that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardon’d be, 20 Let your indulgence set me free. </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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