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1THE TEMPEST
2
3	DRAMATIS PERSONAE
4
5ALONSO	King of Naples.
6
7SEBASTIAN	his brother.
8
9PROSPERO	the right Duke of Milan.
10
11ANTONIO	his brother, the usurping Duke of Milan.
12
13FERDINAND	son to the King of Naples.
14
15GONZALO	an honest old Counsellor.
16
17ADRIAN	|
18	|  Lords.
19FRANCISCO	|
20
21CALIBAN	a savage and deformed Slave.
22
23TRINCULO	a Jester.
24
25STEPHANO	a drunken Butler.
26
27	Master of a Ship. (Master:)
28
29	Boatswain. (Boatswain:)
30
31	Mariners. (Mariners:)
32
33MIRANDA	daughter to Prospero.
34
35ARIEL	an airy Spirit.
36
37IRIS	|
38	|
39CERES	|
40	|
41JUNO	|  presented by Spirits.
42	|
43Nymphs	|
44	|
45Reapers	|
46
47	Other Spirits attending on Prospero.
48
49SCENE	A ship at Sea: an island.
50
51	THE TEMPEST
52
53ACT I
54
55SCENE I	On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise
56	of thunder and lightning heard.
57
58	[Enter a Master and a Boatswain]
59
60Master	Boatswain!
61
62Boatswain	Here, master: what cheer?
63
64Master	Good, speak to the mariners: fall to't, yarely,
65	or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir.
66
67	[Exit]
68
69	[Enter Mariners]
70
71Boatswain	Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts!
72	yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to the
73	master's whistle. Blow, till thou burst thy wind,
74	if room enough!
75
76	[Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND,
77	GONZALO, and others]
78
79ALONSO	Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master?
80	Play the men.
81
82Boatswain	I pray now, keep below.
83
84ANTONIO	Where is the master, boatswain?
85
86Boatswain	Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: keep your
87	cabins: you do assist the storm.
88
89GONZALO	Nay, good, be patient.
90
91Boatswain	When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers
92	for the name of king? To cabin: silence! trouble us not.
93
94GONZALO	Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.
95
96Boatswain	None that I more love than myself. You are a
97	counsellor; if you can command these elements to
98	silence, and work the peace of the present, we will
99	not hand a rope more; use your authority: if you
100	cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make
101	yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of
102	the hour, if it so hap. Cheerly, good hearts! Out
103	of our way, I say.
104
105	[Exit]
106
107GONZALO	I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he
108	hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is
109	perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, to his
110	hanging: make the rope of his destiny our cable,
111	for our own doth little advantage. If he be not
112	born to be hanged, our case is miserable.
113
114	[Exeunt]
115
116	[Re-enter Boatswain]
117
118Boatswain	Down with the topmast! yare! lower, lower! Bring
119	her to try with main-course.
120
121	[A cry within]
122
123	A plague upon this howling! they are louder than
124	the weather or our office.
125
126	[Re-enter SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, and GONZALO]
127
128	Yet again! what do you here? Shall we give o'er
129	and drown? Have you a mind to sink?
130
131SEBASTIAN	A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous,
132	incharitable dog!
133
134Boatswain	Work you then.
135
136ANTONIO	Hang, cur! hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker!
137	We are less afraid to be drowned than thou art.
138
139GONZALO	I'll warrant him for drowning; though the ship were
140	no stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an
141	unstanched wench.
142
143Boatswain	Lay her a-hold, a-hold! set her two courses off to
144	sea again; lay her off.
145
146	[Enter Mariners wet]
147
148Mariners	All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost!
149
150Boatswain	What, must our mouths be cold?
151
152GONZALO	The king and prince at prayers! let's assist them,
153	For our case is as theirs.
154
155SEBASTIAN	I'm out of patience.
156
157ANTONIO	We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards:
158	This wide-chapp'd rascal--would thou mightst lie drowning
159	The washing of ten tides!
160
161GONZALO	He'll be hang'd yet,
162	Though every drop of water swear against it
163	And gape at widest to glut him.
164
165	[A confused noise within:   'Mercy on us!'--
166	'We split, we split!'--'Farewell, my wife and
167	children!'--
168	'Farewell, brother!'--'We split, we split, we split!']
169
170ANTONIO	Let's all sink with the king.
171
172SEBASTIAN	Let's take leave of him.
173
174	[Exeunt ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN]
175
176GONZALO	Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an
177	acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, any
178	thing. The wills above be done! but I would fain
179	die a dry death.
180
181	[Exeunt]
182
183	THE TEMPEST
184
185ACT I
186
187SCENE II	The island. Before PROSPERO'S cell.
188
189	[Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA]
190
191MIRANDA	If by your art, my dearest father, you have
192	Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.
193	The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,
194	But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek,
195	Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffered
196	With those that I saw suffer: a brave vessel,
197	Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her,
198	Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock
199	Against my very heart. Poor souls, they perish'd.
200	Had I been any god of power, I would
201	Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere
202	It should the good ship so have swallow'd and
203	The fraughting souls within her.
204
205PROSPERO	Be collected:
206	No more amazement: tell your piteous heart
207	There's no harm done.
208
209MIRANDA	O, woe the day!
210
211PROSPERO	No harm.
212	I have done nothing but in care of thee,
213	Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who
214	Art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing
215	Of whence I am, nor that I am more better
216	Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,
217	And thy no greater father.
218
219MIRANDA	More to know
220	Did never meddle with my thoughts.
221
222PROSPERO	'Tis time
223	I should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand,
224	And pluck my magic garment from me. So:
225
226	[Lays down his mantle]
227
228	Lie there, my art. Wipe thou thine eyes; have comfort.
229	The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd
230	The very virtue of compassion in thee,
231	I have with such provision in mine art
232	So safely ordered that there is no soul--
233	No, not so much perdition as an hair
234	Betid to any creature in the vessel
235	Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. Sit down;
236	For thou must now know farther.
237
238MIRANDA	You have often
239	Begun to tell me what I am, but stopp'd
240	And left me to a bootless inquisition,
241	Concluding 'Stay: not yet.'
242
243PROSPERO	The hour's now come;
244	The very minute bids thee ope thine ear;
245	Obey and be attentive. Canst thou remember
246	A time before we came unto this cell?
247	I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not
248	Out three years old.
249
250MIRANDA	Certainly, sir, I can.
251
252PROSPERO	By what? by any other house or person?
253	Of any thing the image tell me that
254	Hath kept with thy remembrance.
255
256MIRANDA	'Tis far off
257	And rather like a dream than an assurance
258	That my remembrance warrants. Had I not
259	Four or five women once that tended me?
260
261PROSPERO	Thou hadst, and more, Miranda. But how is it
262	That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else
263	In the dark backward and abysm of time?
264	If thou remember'st aught ere thou camest here,
265	How thou camest here thou mayst.
266
267MIRANDA	But that I do not.
268
269PROSPERO	Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since,
270	Thy father was the Duke of Milan and
271	A prince of power.
272
273MIRANDA	                  Sir, are not you my father?
274
275PROSPERO	Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and
276	She said thou wast my daughter; and thy father
277	Was Duke of Milan; and thou his only heir
278	And princess no worse issued.
279
280MIRANDA	O the heavens!
281	What foul play had we, that we came from thence?
282	Or blessed was't we did?
283
284PROSPERO	Both, both, my girl:
285	By foul play, as thou say'st, were we heaved thence,
286	But blessedly holp hither.
287
288MIRANDA	O, my heart bleeds
289	To think o' the teen that I have turn'd you to,
290	Which is from my remembrance! Please you, farther.
291
292PROSPERO	My brother and thy uncle, call'd Antonio--
293	I pray thee, mark me--that a brother should
294	Be so perfidious!--he whom next thyself
295	Of all the world I loved and to him put
296	The manage of my state; as at that time
297	Through all the signories it was the first
298	And Prospero the prime duke, being so reputed
299	In dignity, and for the liberal arts
300	Without a parallel; those being all my study,
301	The government I cast upon my brother
302	And to my state grew stranger, being transported
303	And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle--
304	Dost thou attend me?
305
306MIRANDA	Sir, most heedfully.
307
308PROSPERO	Being once perfected how to grant suits,
309	How to deny them, who to advance and who
310	To trash for over-topping, new created
311	The creatures that were mine, I say, or changed 'em,
312	Or else new form'd 'em; having both the key
313	Of officer and office, set all hearts i' the state
314	To what tune pleased his ear; that now he was
315	The ivy which had hid my princely trunk,
316	And suck'd my verdure out on't. Thou attend'st not.
317
318MIRANDA	O, good sir, I do.
319
320PROSPERO	                  I pray thee, mark me.
321	I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
322	To closeness and the bettering of my mind
323	With that which, but by being so retired,
324	O'er-prized all popular rate, in my false brother
325	Awaked an evil nature; and my trust,
326	Like a good parent, did beget of him
327	A falsehood in its contrary as great
328	As my trust was; which had indeed no limit,
329	A confidence sans bound. He being thus lorded,
330	Not only with what my revenue yielded,
331	But what my power might else exact, like one
332	Who having into truth, by telling of it,
333	Made such a sinner of his memory,
334	To credit his own lie, he did believe
335	He was indeed the duke; out o' the substitution
336	And executing the outward face of royalty,
337	With all prerogative: hence his ambition growing--
338	Dost thou hear?
339
340MIRANDA	                  Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
341
342PROSPERO	To have no screen between this part he play'd
343	And him he play'd it for, he needs will be
344	Absolute Milan. Me, poor man, my library
345	Was dukedom large enough: of temporal royalties
346	He thinks me now incapable; confederates--
347	So dry he was for sway--wi' the King of Naples
348	To give him annual tribute, do him homage,
349	Subject his coronet to his crown and bend
350	The dukedom yet unbow'd--alas, poor Milan!--
351	To most ignoble stooping.
352
353MIRANDA	O the heavens!
354
355PROSPERO	Mark his condition and the event; then tell me
356	If this might be a brother.
357
358MIRANDA	I should sin
359	To think but nobly of my grandmother:
360	Good wombs have borne bad sons.
361
362PROSPERO	Now the condition.
363	The King of Naples, being an enemy
364	To me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit;
365	Which was, that he, in lieu o' the premises
366	Of homage and I know not how much tribute,
367	Should presently extirpate me and mine
368	Out of the dukedom and confer fair Milan
369	With all the honours on my brother: whereon,
370	A treacherous army levied, one midnight
371	Fated to the purpose did Antonio open
372	The gates of Milan, and, i' the dead of darkness,
373	The ministers for the purpose hurried thence
374	Me and thy crying self.
375
376MIRANDA	Alack, for pity!
377	I, not remembering how I cried out then,
378	Will cry it o'er again: it is a hint
379	That wrings mine eyes to't.
380
381PROSPERO	Hear a little further
382	And then I'll bring thee to the present business
383	Which now's upon's; without the which this story
384	Were most impertinent.
385
386MIRANDA	Wherefore did they not
387	That hour destroy us?
388
389PROSPERO	Well demanded, wench:
390	My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not,
391	So dear the love my people bore me, nor set
392	A mark so bloody on the business, but
393	With colours fairer painted their foul ends.
394	In few, they hurried us aboard a bark,
395	Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared
396	A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigg'd,
397	Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats
398	Instinctively had quit it: there they hoist us,
399	To cry to the sea that roar'd to us, to sigh
400	To the winds whose pity, sighing back again,
401	Did us but loving wrong.
402
403MIRANDA	Alack, what trouble
404	Was I then to you!
405
406PROSPERO	                  O, a cherubim
407	Thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile.
408	Infused with a fortitude from heaven,
409	When I have deck'd the sea with drops full salt,
410	Under my burthen groan'd; which raised in me
411	An undergoing stomach, to bear up
412	Against what should ensue.
413
414MIRANDA	How came we ashore?
415
416PROSPERO	By Providence divine.
417	Some food we had and some fresh water that
418	A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo,
419	Out of his charity, being then appointed
420	Master of this design, did give us, with
421	Rich garments, linens, stuffs and necessaries,
422	Which since have steaded much; so, of his gentleness,
423	Knowing I loved my books, he furnish'd me
424	From mine own library with volumes that
425	I prize above my dukedom.
426
427MIRANDA	Would I might
428	But ever see that man!
429
430PROSPERO	Now I arise:
431
432	[Resumes his mantle]
433
434	Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow.
435	Here in this island we arrived; and here
436	Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit
437	Than other princesses can that have more time
438	For vainer hours and tutors not so careful.
439
440MIRANDA	Heavens thank you for't! And now, I pray you, sir,
441	For still 'tis beating in my mind, your reason
442	For raising this sea-storm?
443
444PROSPERO	Know thus far forth.
445	By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune,
446	Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies
447	Brought to this shore; and by my prescience
448	I find my zenith doth depend upon
449	A most auspicious star, whose influence
450	If now I court not but omit, my fortunes
451	Will ever after droop. Here cease more questions:
452	Thou art inclined to sleep; 'tis a good dulness,
453	And give it way: I know thou canst not choose.
454
455	[MIRANDA sleeps]
456
457	Come away, servant, come. I am ready now.
458	Approach, my Ariel, come.
459
460	[Enter ARIEL]
461
462ARIEL	All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come
463	To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly,
464	To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride
465	On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task
466	Ariel and all his quality.
467
468PROSPERO	Hast thou, spirit,
469	Perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee?
470
471ARIEL	To every article.
472	I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak,
473	Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin,
474	I flamed amazement: sometime I'ld divide,
475	And burn in many places; on the topmast,
476	The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly,
477	Then meet and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors
478	O' the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary
479	And sight-outrunning were not; the fire and cracks
480	Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune
481	Seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble,
482	Yea, his dread trident shake.
483
484PROSPERO	My brave spirit!
485	Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil
486	Would not infect his reason?
487
488ARIEL	Not a soul
489	But felt a fever of the mad and play'd
490	Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners
491	Plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel,
492	Then all afire with me: the king's son, Ferdinand,
493	With hair up-staring,--then like reeds, not hair,--
494	Was the first man that leap'd; cried, 'Hell is empty
495	And all the devils are here.'
496
497PROSPERO	Why that's my spirit!
498	But was not this nigh shore?
499
500ARIEL	Close by, my master.
501
502PROSPERO	But are they, Ariel, safe?
503
504ARIEL	Not a hair perish'd;
505	On their sustaining garments not a blemish,
506	But fresher than before: and, as thou badest me,
507	In troops I have dispersed them 'bout the isle.
508	The king's son have I landed by himself;
509	Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs
510	In an odd angle of the isle and sitting,
511	His arms in this sad knot.
512
513PROSPERO	Of the king's ship
514	The mariners say how thou hast disposed
515	And all the rest o' the fleet.
516
517ARIEL	Safely in harbour
518	Is the king's ship; in the deep nook, where once
519	Thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew
520	From the still-vex'd Bermoothes, there she's hid:
521	The mariners all under hatches stow'd;
522	Who, with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour,
523	I have left asleep; and for the rest o' the fleet
524	Which I dispersed, they all have met again
525	And are upon the Mediterranean flote,
526	Bound sadly home for Naples,
527	Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd
528	And his great person perish.
529
530PROSPERO	Ariel, thy charge
531	Exactly is perform'd: but there's more work.
532	What is the time o' the day?
533
534ARIEL	Past the mid season.
535
536PROSPERO	At least two glasses. The time 'twixt six and now
537	Must by us both be spent most preciously.
538
539ARIEL	Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains,
540	Let me remember thee what thou hast promised,
541	Which is not yet perform'd me.
542
543PROSPERO	How now? moody?
544	What is't thou canst demand?
545
546ARIEL	My liberty.
547
548PROSPERO	Before the time be out? no more!
549
550ARIEL	I prithee,
551	Remember I have done thee worthy service;
552	Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served
553	Without or grudge or grumblings: thou didst promise
554	To bate me a full year.
555
556PROSPERO	Dost thou forget
557	From what a torment I did free thee?
558
559ARIEL	No.
560
561PROSPERO	Thou dost, and think'st it much to tread the ooze
562	Of the salt deep,
563	To run upon the sharp wind of the north,
564	To do me business in the veins o' the earth
565	When it is baked with frost.
566
567ARIEL	I do not, sir.
568
569PROSPERO	Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot
570	The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy
571	Was grown into a hoop? hast thou forgot her?
572
573ARIEL	No, sir.
574
575PROSPERO	     Thou hast. Where was she born? speak; tell me.
576
577ARIEL	Sir, in Argier.
578
579PROSPERO	                  O, was she so? I must
580	Once in a month recount what thou hast been,
581	Which thou forget'st. This damn'd witch Sycorax,
582	For mischiefs manifold and sorceries terrible
583	To enter human hearing, from Argier,
584	Thou know'st, was banish'd: for one thing she did
585	They would not take her life. Is not this true?
586
587ARIEL	Ay, sir.
588
589PROSPERO	This blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child
590	And here was left by the sailors. Thou, my slave,
591	As thou report'st thyself, wast then her servant;
592	And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate
593	To act her earthy and abhorr'd commands,
594	Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,
595	By help of her more potent ministers
596	And in her most unmitigable rage,
597	Into a cloven pine; within which rift
598	Imprison'd thou didst painfully remain
599	A dozen years; within which space she died
600	And left thee there; where thou didst vent thy groans
601	As fast as mill-wheels strike. Then was this island--
602	Save for the son that she did litter here,
603	A freckled whelp hag-born--not honour'd with
604	A human shape.
605
606ARIEL	                  Yes, Caliban her son.
607
608PROSPERO	Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban
609	Whom now I keep in service. Thou best know'st
610	What torment I did find thee in; thy groans
611	Did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts
612	Of ever angry bears: it was a torment
613	To lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax
614	Could not again undo: it was mine art,
615	When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape
616	The pine and let thee out.
617
618ARIEL	I thank thee, master.
619
620PROSPERO	If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak
621	And peg thee in his knotty entrails till
622	Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.
623
624ARIEL	Pardon, master;
625	I will be correspondent to command
626	And do my spiriting gently.
627
628PROSPERO	Do so, and after two days
629	I will discharge thee.
630
631ARIEL	That's my noble master!
632	What shall I do? say what; what shall I do?
633
634PROSPERO	Go make thyself like a nymph o' the sea: be subject
635	To no sight but thine and mine, invisible
636	To every eyeball else. Go take this shape
637	And hither come in't: go, hence with diligence!
638
639	[Exit ARIEL]
640
641	Awake, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well; Awake!
642
643MIRANDA	     The strangeness of your story put
644	Heaviness in me.
645
646PROSPERO	                  Shake it off. Come on;
647	We'll visit Caliban my slave, who never
648	Yields us kind answer.
649
650MIRANDA	'Tis a villain, sir,
651	I do not love to look on.
652
653PROSPERO	But, as 'tis,
654	We cannot miss him: he does make our fire,
655	Fetch in our wood and serves in offices
656	That profit us. What, ho! slave! Caliban!
657	Thou earth, thou! speak.
658
659CALIBAN	[Within]  There's wood enough within.
660
661PROSPERO	Come forth, I say! there's other business for thee:
662	Come, thou tortoise! when?
663
664	[Re-enter ARIEL like a water-nymph]
665
666	Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel,
667	Hark in thine ear.
668
669ARIEL	                  My lord it shall be done.
670
671	[Exit]
672
673PROSPERO	Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself
674	Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!
675
676	[Enter CALIBAN]
677
678CALIBAN	As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd
679	With raven's feather from unwholesome fen
680	Drop on you both! a south-west blow on ye
681	And blister you all o'er!
682
683PROSPERO	For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps,
684	Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins
685	Shall, for that vast of night that they may work,
686	All exercise on thee; thou shalt be pinch'd
687	As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging
688	Than bees that made 'em.
689
690CALIBAN	I must eat my dinner.
691	This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,
692	Which thou takest from me. When thou camest first,
693	Thou strokedst me and madest much of me, wouldst give me
694	Water with berries in't, and teach me how
695	To name the bigger light, and how the less,
696	That burn by day and night: and then I loved thee
697	And show'd thee all the qualities o' the isle,
698	The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile:
699	Cursed be I that did so! All the charms
700	Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!
701	For I am all the subjects that you have,
702	Which first was mine own king: and here you sty me
703	In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me
704	The rest o' the island.
705
706PROSPERO	Thou most lying slave,
707	Whom stripes may move, not kindness! I have used thee,
708	Filth as thou art, with human care, and lodged thee
709	In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate
710	The honour of my child.
711
712CALIBAN	O ho, O ho! would't had been done!
713	Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else
714	This isle with Calibans.
715
716PROSPERO	Abhorred slave,
717	Which any print of goodness wilt not take,
718	Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,
719	Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour
720	One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage,
721	Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like
722	A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes
723	With words that made them known. But thy vile race,
724	Though thou didst learn, had that in't which
725	good natures
726	Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou
727	Deservedly confined into this rock,
728	Who hadst deserved more than a prison.
729
730CALIBAN	You taught me language; and my profit on't
731	Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
732	For learning me your language!
733
734PROSPERO	Hag-seed, hence!
735	Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou'rt best,
736	To answer other business. Shrug'st thou, malice?
737	If thou neglect'st or dost unwillingly
738	What I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps,
739	Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar
740	That beasts shall tremble at thy din.
741
742CALIBAN	No, pray thee.
743
744	[Aside]
745
746	I must obey: his art is of such power,
747	It would control my dam's god, Setebos,
748	and make a vassal of him.
749
750PROSPERO	So, slave; hence!
751
752	[Exit CALIBAN]
753
754	[Re-enter ARIEL, invisible, playing and singing;
755	FERDINAND following]
756
757	ARIEL'S song.
758
759	Come unto these yellow sands,
760	And then take hands:
761	Courtsied when you have and kiss'd
762	The wild waves whist,
763	Foot it featly here and there;
764	And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.
765	Hark, hark!
766
767	[Burthen [dispersedly, within]  Bow-wow]
768
769	The watch-dogs bark!
770
771	[Burthen Bow-wow]
772
773	Hark, hark! I hear
774	The strain of strutting chanticleer
775	Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow.
776
777FERDINAND	Where should this music be? i' the air or the earth?
778	It sounds no more: and sure, it waits upon
779	Some god o' the island. Sitting on a bank,
780	Weeping again the king my father's wreck,
781	This music crept by me upon the waters,
782	Allaying both their fury and my passion
783	With its sweet air: thence I have follow'd it,
784	Or it hath drawn me rather. But 'tis gone.
785	No, it begins again.
786
787	[ARIEL sings]
788
789	Full fathom five thy father lies;
790	Of his bones are coral made;
791	Those are pearls that were his eyes:
792	Nothing of him that doth fade
793	But doth suffer a sea-change
794	Into something rich and strange.
795	Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell
796
797	[Burthen Ding-dong]
798
799	Hark! now I hear them,--Ding-dong, bell.
800
801FERDINAND	The ditty does remember my drown'd father.
802	This is no mortal business, nor no sound
803	That the earth owes. I hear it now above me.
804
805PROSPERO	The fringed curtains of thine eye advance
806	And say what thou seest yond.
807
808MIRANDA	What is't? a spirit?
809	Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir,
810	It carries a brave form. But 'tis a spirit.
811
812PROSPERO	No, wench; it eats and sleeps and hath such senses
813	As we have, such. This gallant which thou seest
814	Was in the wreck; and, but he's something stain'd
815	With grief that's beauty's canker, thou mightst call him
816	A goodly person: he hath lost his fellows
817	And strays about to find 'em.
818
819MIRANDA	I might call him
820	A thing divine, for nothing natural
821	I ever saw so noble.
822
823PROSPERO	[Aside] It goes on, I see,
824	As my soul prompts it. Spirit, fine spirit! I'll free thee
825	Within two days for this.
826
827FERDINAND	Most sure, the goddess
828	On whom these airs attend! Vouchsafe my prayer
829	May know if you remain upon this island;
830	And that you will some good instruction give
831	How I may bear me here: my prime request,
832	Which I do last pronounce, is, O you wonder!
833	If you be maid or no?
834
835MIRANDA	No wonder, sir;
836	But certainly a maid.
837
838FERDINAND	My language! heavens!
839	I am the best of them that speak this speech,
840	Were I but where 'tis spoken.
841
842PROSPERO	How? the best?
843	What wert thou, if the King of Naples heard thee?
844
845FERDINAND	A single thing, as I am now, that wonders
846	To hear thee speak of Naples. He does hear me;
847	And that he does I weep: myself am Naples,
848	Who with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld
849	The king my father wreck'd.
850
851MIRANDA	Alack, for mercy!
852
853FERDINAND	Yes, faith, and all his lords; the Duke of Milan
854	And his brave son being twain.
855
856PROSPERO	[Aside]	The Duke of Milan
857	And his more braver daughter could control thee,
858	If now 'twere fit to do't. At the first sight
859	They have changed eyes. Delicate Ariel,
860	I'll set thee free for this.
861
862	[To FERDINAND]
863
864		        A word, good sir;
865	I fear you have done yourself some wrong: a word.
866
867MIRANDA	Why speaks my father so ungently? This
868	Is the third man that e'er I saw, the first
869	That e'er I sigh'd for: pity move my father
870	To be inclined my way!
871
872FERDINAND	O, if a virgin,
873	And your affection not gone forth, I'll make you
874	The queen of Naples.
875
876PROSPERO	Soft, sir! one word more.
877
878	[Aside]
879
880	They are both in either's powers; but this swift business
881	I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
882	Make the prize light.
883
884	[To FERDINAND]
885
886		One word more; I charge thee
887	That thou attend me: thou dost here usurp
888	The name thou owest not; and hast put thyself
889	Upon this island as a spy, to win it
890	From me, the lord on't.
891
892FERDINAND	No, as I am a man.
893
894MIRANDA	There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
895	If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
896	Good things will strive to dwell with't.
897
898PROSPERO	Follow me.
899	Speak not you for him; he's a traitor. Come;
900	I'll manacle thy neck and feet together:
901	Sea-water shalt thou drink; thy food shall be
902	The fresh-brook muscles, wither'd roots and husks
903	Wherein the acorn cradled. Follow.
904
905FERDINAND	No;
906	I will resist such entertainment till
907	Mine enemy has more power.
908
909	[Draws, and is charmed from moving]
910
911MIRANDA	O dear father,
912	Make not too rash a trial of him, for
913	He's gentle and not fearful.
914
915PROSPERO	What? I say,
916	My foot my tutor? Put thy sword up, traitor;
917	Who makest a show but darest not strike, thy conscience
918	Is so possess'd with guilt: come from thy ward,
919	For I can here disarm thee with this stick
920	And make thy weapon drop.
921
922MIRANDA	Beseech you, father.
923
924PROSPERO	Hence! hang not on my garments.
925
926MIRANDA	Sir, have pity;
927	I'll be his surety.
928
929PROSPERO	Silence! one word more
930	Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What!
931	An advocate for an imposter! hush!
932	Thou think'st there is no more such shapes as he,
933	Having seen but him and Caliban: foolish wench!
934	To the most of men this is a Caliban
935	And they to him are angels.
936
937MIRANDA	My affections
938	Are then most humble; I have no ambition
939	To see a goodlier man.
940
941PROSPERO	Come on; obey:
942	Thy nerves are in their infancy again
943	And have no vigour in them.
944
945FERDINAND	So they are;
946	My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up.
947	My father's loss, the weakness which I feel,
948	The wreck of all my friends, nor this man's threats,
949	To whom I am subdued, are but light to me,
950	Might I but through my prison once a day
951	Behold this maid: all corners else o' the earth
952	Let liberty make use of; space enough
953	Have I in such a prison.
954
955PROSPERO	[Aside]                It works.
956
957	[To FERDINAND]
958
959		                  Come on.
960	Thou hast done well, fine Ariel!
961
962	[To FERDINAND]
963
964		                  Follow me.
965
966	[To ARIEL]
967
968	Hark what thou else shalt do me.
969
970MIRANDA	Be of comfort;
971	My father's of a better nature, sir,
972	Than he appears by speech: this is unwonted
973	Which now came from him.
974
975PROSPERO	Thou shalt be free
976	As mountain winds: but then exactly do
977	All points of my command.
978
979ARIEL	To the syllable.
980
981PROSPERO	Come, follow. Speak not for him.
982
983	[Exeunt]
984
985	THE TEMPEST
986
987ACT II
988
989SCENE I	Another part of the island.
990
991	[Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO,
992	ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others]
993
994GONZALO	Beseech you, sir, be merry; you have cause,
995	So have we all, of joy; for our escape
996	Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of woe
997	Is common; every day some sailor's wife,
998	The masters of some merchant and the merchant
999	Have just our theme of woe; but for the miracle,
1000	I mean our preservation, few in millions
1001	Can speak like us: then wisely, good sir, weigh
1002	Our sorrow with our comfort.
1003
1004ALONSO	Prithee, peace.
1005
1006SEBASTIAN	He receives comfort like cold porridge.
1007
1008ANTONIO	The visitor will not give him o'er so.
1009
1010SEBASTIAN	Look he's winding up the watch of his wit;
1011	by and by it will strike.
1012
1013GONZALO	Sir,--
1014
1015SEBASTIAN	One: tell.
1016
1017GONZALO	When every grief is entertain'd that's offer'd,
1018	Comes to the entertainer--
1019
1020SEBASTIAN	A dollar.
1021
1022GONZALO	Dolour comes to him, indeed: you
1023	have spoken truer than you purposed.
1024
1025SEBASTIAN	You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should.
1026
1027GONZALO	Therefore, my lord,--
1028
1029ANTONIO	Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!
1030
1031ALONSO	I prithee, spare.
1032
1033GONZALO	Well, I have done: but yet,--
1034
1035SEBASTIAN	He will be talking.
1036
1037ANTONIO	Which, of he or Adrian, for a good
1038	wager, first begins to crow?
1039
1040SEBASTIAN	The old cock.
1041
1042ANTONIO	The cockerel.
1043
1044SEBASTIAN	Done. The wager?
1045
1046ANTONIO	A laughter.
1047
1048SEBASTIAN	A match!
1049
1050ADRIAN	Though this island seem to be desert,--
1051
1052SEBASTIAN	Ha, ha, ha! So, you're paid.
1053
1054ADRIAN	Uninhabitable and almost inaccessible,--
1055
1056SEBASTIAN	Yet,--
1057
1058ADRIAN	Yet,--
1059
1060ANTONIO	He could not miss't.
1061
1062ADRIAN	It must needs be of subtle, tender and delicate
1063	temperance.
1064
1065ANTONIO	Temperance was a delicate wench.
1066
1067SEBASTIAN	Ay, and a subtle; as he most learnedly delivered.
1068
1069ADRIAN	The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.
1070
1071SEBASTIAN	As if it had lungs and rotten ones.
1072
1073ANTONIO	Or as 'twere perfumed by a fen.
1074
1075GONZALO	Here is everything advantageous to life.
1076
1077ANTONIO	True; save means to live.
1078
1079SEBASTIAN	Of that there's none, or little.
1080
1081GONZALO	How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!
1082
1083ANTONIO	The ground indeed is tawny.
1084
1085SEBASTIAN	With an eye of green in't.
1086
1087ANTONIO	He misses not much.
1088
1089SEBASTIAN	No; he doth but mistake the truth totally.
1090
1091GONZALO	But the rarity of it is,--which is indeed almost
1092	beyond credit,--
1093
1094SEBASTIAN	As many vouched rarities are.
1095
1096GONZALO	That our garments, being, as they were, drenched in
1097	the sea, hold notwithstanding their freshness and
1098	glosses, being rather new-dyed than stained with
1099	salt water.
1100
1101ANTONIO	If but one of his pockets could speak, would it not
1102	say he lies?
1103
1104SEBASTIAN	Ay, or very falsely pocket up his report
1105
1106GONZALO	Methinks our garments are now as fresh as when we
1107	put them on first in Afric, at the marriage of
1108	the king's fair daughter Claribel to the King of Tunis.
1109
1110SEBASTIAN	'Twas a sweet marriage, and we prosper well in our return.
1111
1112ADRIAN	Tunis was never graced before with such a paragon to
1113	their queen.
1114
1115GONZALO	Not since widow Dido's time.
1116
1117ANTONIO	Widow! a pox o' that! How came that widow in?
1118	widow Dido!
1119
1120SEBASTIAN	What if he had said 'widower AEneas' too? Good Lord,
1121	how you take it!
1122
1123ADRIAN	'Widow Dido' said you? you make me study of that:
1124	she was of Carthage, not of Tunis.
1125
1126GONZALO	This Tunis, sir, was Carthage.
1127
1128ADRIAN	Carthage?
1129
1130GONZALO	I assure you, Carthage.
1131
1132SEBASTIAN	His word is more than the miraculous harp; he hath
1133	raised the wall and houses too.
1134
1135ANTONIO	What impossible matter will he make easy next?
1136
1137SEBASTIAN	I think he will carry this island home in his pocket
1138	and give it his son for an apple.
1139
1140ANTONIO	And, sowing the kernels of it in the sea, bring
1141	forth more islands.
1142
1143GONZALO	Ay.
1144
1145ANTONIO	Why, in good time.
1146
1147GONZALO	Sir, we were talking that our garments seem now
1148	as fresh as when we were at Tunis at the marriage
1149	of your daughter, who is now queen.
1150
1151ANTONIO	And the rarest that e'er came there.
1152
1153SEBASTIAN	Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido.
1154
1155ANTONIO	O, widow Dido! ay, widow Dido.
1156
1157GONZALO	Is not, sir, my doublet as fresh as the first day I
1158	wore it? I mean, in a sort.
1159
1160ANTONIO	That sort was well fished for.
1161
1162GONZALO	When I wore it at your daughter's marriage?
1163
1164ALONSO	You cram these words into mine ears against
1165	The stomach of my sense. Would I had never
1166	Married my daughter there! for, coming thence,
1167	My son is lost and, in my rate, she too,
1168	Who is so far from Italy removed
1169	I ne'er again shall see her. O thou mine heir
1170	Of Naples and of Milan, what strange fish
1171	Hath made his meal on thee?
1172
1173FRANCISCO	Sir, he may live:
1174	I saw him beat the surges under him,
1175	And ride upon their backs; he trod the water,
1176	Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted
1177	The surge most swoln that met him; his bold head
1178	'Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oar'd
1179	Himself with his good arms in lusty stroke
1180	To the shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd,
1181	As stooping to relieve him: I not doubt
1182	He came alive to land.
1183
1184ALONSO	No, no, he's gone.
1185
1186SEBASTIAN	Sir, you may thank yourself for this great loss,
1187	That would not bless our Europe with your daughter,
1188	But rather lose her to an African;
1189	Where she at least is banish'd from your eye,
1190	Who hath cause to wet the grief on't.
1191
1192ALONSO	Prithee, peace.
1193
1194SEBASTIAN	You were kneel'd to and importuned otherwise
1195	By all of us, and the fair soul herself
1196	Weigh'd between loathness and obedience, at
1197	Which end o' the beam should bow. We have lost your
1198	son,
1199	I fear, for ever: Milan and Naples have
1200	More widows in them of this business' making
1201	Than we bring men to comfort them:
1202	The fault's your own.
1203
1204ALONSO	So is the dear'st o' the loss.
1205
1206GONZALO	My lord Sebastian,
1207	The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness
1208	And time to speak it in: you rub the sore,
1209	When you should bring the plaster.
1210
1211SEBASTIAN	Very well.
1212
1213ANTONIO	And most chirurgeonly.
1214
1215GONZALO	It is foul weather in us all, good sir,
1216	When you are cloudy.
1217
1218SEBASTIAN	Foul weather?
1219
1220ANTONIO	Very foul.
1221
1222GONZALO	Had I plantation of this isle, my lord,--
1223
1224ANTONIO	He'ld sow't with nettle-seed.
1225
1226SEBASTIAN	Or docks, or mallows.
1227
1228GONZALO	And were the king on't, what would I do?
1229
1230SEBASTIAN	'Scape being drunk for want of wine.
1231
1232GONZALO	I' the commonwealth I would by contraries
1233	Execute all things; for no kind of traffic
1234	Would I admit; no name of magistrate;
1235	Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,
1236	And use of service, none; contract, succession,
1237	Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;
1238	No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;
1239	No occupation; all men idle, all;
1240	And women too, but innocent and pure;
1241	No sovereignty;--
1242
1243SEBASTIAN	                  Yet he would be king on't.
1244
1245ANTONIO	The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the
1246	beginning.
1247
1248GONZALO	All things in common nature should produce
1249	Without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony,
1250	Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine,
1251	Would I not have; but nature should bring forth,
1252	Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance,
1253	To feed my innocent people.
1254
1255SEBASTIAN	No marrying 'mong his subjects?
1256
1257ANTONIO	None, man; all idle: whores and knaves.
1258
1259GONZALO	I would with such perfection govern, sir,
1260	To excel the golden age.
1261
1262SEBASTIAN	God save his majesty!
1263
1264ANTONIO	Long live Gonzalo!
1265
1266GONZALO	                  And,--do you mark me, sir?
1267
1268ALONSO	Prithee, no more: thou dost talk nothing to me.
1269
1270GONZALO	I do well believe your highness; and
1271	did it to minister occasion to these gentlemen,
1272	who are of such sensible and nimble lungs that
1273	they always use to laugh at nothing.
1274
1275ANTONIO	'Twas you we laughed at.
1276
1277GONZALO	Who in this kind of merry fooling am nothing
1278	to you: so you may continue and laugh at
1279	nothing still.
1280
1281ANTONIO	What a blow was there given!
1282
1283SEBASTIAN	An it had not fallen flat-long.
1284
1285GONZALO	You are gentlemen of brave metal; you would lift
1286	the moon out of her sphere, if she would continue
1287	in it five weeks without changing.
1288
1289	[Enter ARIEL, invisible, playing solemn music]
1290
1291SEBASTIAN	We would so, and then go a bat-fowling.
1292
1293ANTONIO	Nay, good my lord, be not angry.
1294
1295GONZALO	No, I warrant you; I will not adventure
1296	my discretion so weakly. Will you laugh
1297	me asleep, for I am very heavy?
1298
1299ANTONIO	Go sleep, and hear us.
1300
1301	[All sleep except ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, and ANTONIO]
1302
1303ALONSO	What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes
1304	Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts: I find
1305	They are inclined to do so.
1306
1307SEBASTIAN	Please you, sir,
1308	Do not omit the heavy offer of it:
1309	It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth,
1310	It is a comforter.
1311
1312ANTONIO	                  We two, my lord,
1313	Will guard your person while you take your rest,
1314	And watch your safety.
1315
1316ALONSO	Thank you. Wondrous heavy.
1317
1318	[ALONSO sleeps. Exit ARIEL]
1319
1320SEBASTIAN	What a strange drowsiness possesses them!
1321
1322ANTONIO	It is the quality o' the climate.
1323
1324SEBASTIAN	Why
1325	Doth it not then our eyelids sink? I find not
1326	Myself disposed to sleep.
1327
1328ANTONIO	Nor I; my spirits are nimble.
1329	They fell together all, as by consent;
1330	They dropp'd, as by a thunder-stroke. What might,
1331	Worthy Sebastian? O, what might?--No more:--
1332	And yet me thinks I see it in thy face,
1333	What thou shouldst be: the occasion speaks thee, and
1334	My strong imagination sees a crown
1335	Dropping upon thy head.
1336
1337SEBASTIAN	What, art thou waking?
1338
1339ANTONIO	Do you not hear me speak?
1340
1341SEBASTIAN	I do; and surely
1342	It is a sleepy language and thou speak'st
1343	Out of thy sleep. What is it thou didst say?
1344	This is a strange repose, to be asleep
1345	With eyes wide open; standing, speaking, moving,
1346	And yet so fast asleep.
1347
1348ANTONIO	Noble Sebastian,
1349	Thou let'st thy fortune sleep--die, rather; wink'st
1350	Whiles thou art waking.
1351
1352SEBASTIAN	Thou dost snore distinctly;
1353	There's meaning in thy snores.
1354
1355ANTONIO	I am more serious than my custom: you
1356	Must be so too, if heed me; which to do
1357	Trebles thee o'er.
1358
1359SEBASTIAN	                  Well, I am standing water.
1360
1361ANTONIO	I'll teach you how to flow.
1362
1363SEBASTIAN	Do so: to ebb
1364	Hereditary sloth instructs me.
1365
1366ANTONIO	O,
1367	If you but knew how you the purpose cherish
1368	Whiles thus you mock it! how, in stripping it,
1369	You more invest it! Ebbing men, indeed,
1370	Most often do so near the bottom run
1371	By their own fear or sloth.
1372
1373SEBASTIAN	Prithee, say on:
1374	The setting of thine eye and cheek proclaim
1375	A matter from thee, and a birth indeed
1376	Which throes thee much to yield.
1377
1378ANTONIO	Thus, sir:
1379	Although this lord of weak remembrance, this,
1380	Who shall be of as little memory
1381	When he is earth'd, hath here almost persuade,--
1382	For he's a spirit of persuasion, only
1383	Professes to persuade,--the king his son's alive,
1384	'Tis as impossible that he's undrown'd
1385	And he that sleeps here swims.
1386
1387SEBASTIAN	I have no hope
1388	That he's undrown'd.
1389
1390ANTONIO	O, out of that 'no hope'
1391	What great hope have you! no hope that way is
1392	Another way so high a hope that even
1393	Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond,
1394	But doubt discovery there. Will you grant with me
1395	That Ferdinand is drown'd?
1396
1397SEBASTIAN	He's gone.
1398
1399ANTONIO	Then, tell me,
1400	Who's the next heir of Naples?
1401
1402SEBASTIAN	Claribel.
1403
1404ANTONIO	She that is queen of Tunis; she that dwells
1405	Ten leagues beyond man's life; she that from Naples
1406	Can have no note, unless the sun were post--
1407	The man i' the moon's too slow--till new-born chins
1408	Be rough and razorable; she that--from whom?
1409	We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again,
1410	And by that destiny to perform an act
1411	Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come
1412	In yours and my discharge.
1413
1414SEBASTIAN	What stuff is this! how say you?
1415	'Tis true, my brother's daughter's queen of Tunis;
1416	So is she heir of Naples; 'twixt which regions
1417	There is some space.
1418
1419ANTONIO	A space whose every cubit
1420	Seems to cry out, 'How shall that Claribel
1421	Measure us back to Naples? Keep in Tunis,
1422	And let Sebastian wake.' Say, this were death
1423	That now hath seized them; why, they were no worse
1424	Than now they are. There be that can rule Naples
1425	As well as he that sleeps; lords that can prate
1426	As amply and unnecessarily
1427	As this Gonzalo; I myself could make
1428	A chough of as deep chat. O, that you bore
1429	The mind that I do! what a sleep were this
1430	For your advancement! Do you understand me?
1431
1432SEBASTIAN	Methinks I do.
1433
1434ANTONIO	                  And how does your content
1435	Tender your own good fortune?
1436
1437SEBASTIAN	I remember
1438	You did supplant your brother Prospero.
1439
1440ANTONIO	True:
1441	And look how well my garments sit upon me;
1442	Much feater than before: my brother's servants
1443	Were then my fellows; now they are my men.
1444
1445SEBASTIAN	But, for your conscience?
1446
1447ANTONIO	Ay, sir; where lies that? if 'twere a kibe,
1448	'Twould put me to my slipper: but I feel not
1449	This deity in my bosom: twenty consciences,
1450	That stand 'twixt me and Milan, candied be they
1451	And melt ere they molest! Here lies your brother,
1452	No better than the earth he lies upon,
1453	If he were that which now he's like, that's dead;
1454	Whom I, with this obedient steel, three inches of it,
1455	Can lay to bed for ever; whiles you, doing thus,
1456	To the perpetual wink for aye might put
1457	This ancient morsel, this Sir Prudence, who
1458	Should not upbraid our course. For all the rest,
1459	They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk;
1460	They'll tell the clock to any business that
1461	We say befits the hour.
1462
1463SEBASTIAN	Thy case, dear friend,
1464	Shall be my precedent; as thou got'st Milan,
1465	I'll come by Naples. Draw thy sword: one stroke
1466	Shall free thee from the tribute which thou payest;
1467	And I the king shall love thee.
1468
1469ANTONIO	Draw together;
1470	And when I rear my hand, do you the like,
1471	To fall it on Gonzalo.
1472
1473SEBASTIAN	O, but one word.
1474
1475	[They talk apart]
1476
1477	[Re-enter ARIEL, invisible]
1478
1479ARIEL	My master through his art foresees the danger
1480	That you, his friend, are in; and sends me forth--
1481	For else his project dies--to keep them living.
1482
1483	[Sings in GONZALO's ear]
1484
1485	While you here do snoring lie,
1486	Open-eyed conspiracy
1487	His time doth take.
1488	If of life you keep a care,
1489	Shake off slumber, and beware:
1490	Awake, awake!
1491
1492ANTONIO	Then let us both be sudden.
1493
1494GONZALO	Now, good angels
1495	Preserve the king.
1496
1497	[They wake]
1498
1499ALONSO	Why, how now? ho, awake! Why are you drawn?
1500	Wherefore this ghastly looking?
1501
1502GONZALO	What's the matter?
1503
1504SEBASTIAN	Whiles we stood here securing your repose,
1505	Even now, we heard a hollow burst of bellowing
1506	Like bulls, or rather lions: did't not wake you?
1507	It struck mine ear most terribly.
1508
1509ALONSO	I heard nothing.
1510
1511ANTONIO	O, 'twas a din to fright a monster's ear,
1512	To make an earthquake! sure, it was the roar
1513	Of a whole herd of lions.
1514
1515ALONSO	Heard you this, Gonzalo?
1516
1517GONZALO	Upon mine honour, sir, I heard a humming,
1518	And that a strange one too, which did awake me:
1519	I shaked you, sir, and cried: as mine eyes open'd,
1520	I saw their weapons drawn: there was a noise,
1521	That's verily. 'Tis best we stand upon our guard,
1522	Or that we quit this place; let's draw our weapons.
1523
1524ALONSO	Lead off this ground; and let's make further search
1525	For my poor son.
1526
1527GONZALO	Heavens keep him from these beasts!
1528	For he is, sure, i' the island.
1529
1530ALONSO	Lead away.
1531
1532ARIEL	Prospero my lord shall know what I have done:
1533	So, king, go safely on to seek thy son.
1534
1535	[Exeunt]
1536
1537	THE TEMPEST
1538
1539ACT II
1540
1541SCENE II	Another part of the island.
1542
1543	[Enter CALIBAN with a burden of wood. A noise of
1544	thunder heard]
1545
1546CALIBAN	All the infections that the sun sucks up
1547	From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall and make him
1548	By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me
1549	And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch,
1550	Fright me with urchin--shows, pitch me i' the mire,
1551	Nor lead me, like a firebrand, in the dark
1552	Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but
1553	For every trifle are they set upon me;
1554	Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me
1555	And after bite me, then like hedgehogs which
1556	Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount
1557	Their pricks at my footfall; sometime am I
1558	All wound with adders who with cloven tongues
1559	Do hiss me into madness.
1560
1561	[Enter TRINCULO]
1562
1563		    Lo, now, lo!
1564
1565	Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me
1566	For bringing wood in slowly. I'll fall flat;
1567	Perchance he will not mind me.
1568
1569TRINCULO	Here's neither bush nor shrub, to bear off
1570	any weather at all, and another storm brewing;
1571	I hear it sing i' the wind: yond same black
1572	cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul
1573	bombard that would shed his liquor. If it
1574	should thunder as it did before, I know not
1575	where to hide my head: yond same cloud cannot
1576	choose but fall by pailfuls. What have we
1577	here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish:
1578	he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-
1579	like smell; a kind of not of the newest Poor-
1580	John. A strange fish! Were I in England now,
1581	as once I was, and had but this fish painted,
1582	not a holiday fool there but would give a piece
1583	of silver: there would this monster make a
1584	man; any strange beast there makes a man:
1585	when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame
1586	beggar, they will lazy out ten to see a dead
1587	Indian. Legged like a man and his fins like
1588	arms! Warm o' my troth! I do now let loose
1589	my opinion; hold it no longer: this is no fish,
1590	but an islander, that hath lately suffered by a
1591	thunderbolt.
1592
1593	[Thunder]
1594
1595	Alas, the storm is come again! my best way is to
1596	creep under his gaberdine; there is no other
1597	shelter hereabouts: misery acquaints a man with
1598	strange bed-fellows. I will here shroud till the
1599	dregs of the storm be past.
1600
1601	[Enter STEPHANO, singing: a bottle in his hand]
1602
1603STEPHANO	   I shall no more to sea, to sea,
1604	Here shall I die ashore--
1605
1606	This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's
1607	funeral: well, here's my comfort. [Drinks]
1608
1609	[Sings]
1610
1611	The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I,
1612	The gunner and his mate
1613	Loved Mall, Meg and Marian and Margery,
1614	But none of us cared for Kate;
1615	For she had a tongue with a tang,
1616	Would cry to a sailor, Go hang!
1617	She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch,
1618	Yet a tailor might scratch her where'er she did itch:
1619	Then to sea, boys, and let her go hang!
1620
1621	This is a scurvy tune too: but here's my comfort.
1622	[Drinks]
1623
1624CALIBAN	Do not torment me: Oh!
1625
1626STEPHANO	What's the matter? Have we devils here? Do you put
1627	tricks upon's with savages and men of Ind, ha? I
1628	have not scaped drowning to be afeard now of your
1629	four legs; for it hath been said, As proper a man as
1630	ever went on four legs cannot make him give ground;
1631	and it shall be said so again while Stephano
1632	breathes at's nostrils.
1633
1634CALIBAN	The spirit torments me; Oh!
1635
1636STEPHANO	This is some monster of the isle with four legs, who
1637	hath got, as I take it, an ague. Where the devil
1638	should he learn our language? I will give him some
1639	relief, if it be but for that. if I can recover him
1640	and keep him tame and get to Naples with him, he's a
1641	present for any emperor that ever trod on neat's leather.
1642
1643CALIBAN	Do not torment me, prithee; I'll bring my wood home faster.
1644
1645STEPHANO	He's in his fit now and does not talk after the
1646	wisest. He shall taste of my bottle: if he have
1647	never drunk wine afore will go near to remove his
1648	fit. If I can recover him and keep him tame, I will
1649	not take too much for him; he shall pay for him that
1650	hath him, and that soundly.
1651
1652CALIBAN	Thou dost me yet but little hurt; thou wilt anon, I
1653	know it by thy trembling: now Prosper works upon thee.
1654
1655STEPHANO	Come on your ways; open your mouth; here is that
1656	which will give language to you, cat: open your
1657	mouth; this will shake your shaking, I can tell you,
1658	and that soundly: you cannot tell who's your friend:
1659	open your chaps again.
1660
1661TRINCULO	I should know that voice: it should be--but he is
1662	drowned; and these are devils: O defend me!
1663
1664STEPHANO	Four legs and two voices: a most delicate monster!
1665	His forward voice now is to speak well of his
1666	friend; his backward voice is to utter foul speeches
1667	and to detract. If all the wine in my bottle will
1668	recover him, I will help his ague. Come. Amen! I
1669	will pour some in thy other mouth.
1670
1671TRINCULO	Stephano!
1672
1673STEPHANO	Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy, mercy! This is
1674	a devil, and no monster: I will leave him; I have no
1675	long spoon.
1676
1677TRINCULO	Stephano! If thou beest Stephano, touch me and
1678	speak to me: for I am Trinculo--be not afeard--thy
1679	good friend Trinculo.
1680
1681STEPHANO	If thou beest Trinculo, come forth: I'll pull thee
1682	by the lesser legs: if any be Trinculo's legs,
1683	these are they. Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How
1684	camest thou to be the siege of this moon-calf? can
1685	he vent Trinculos?
1686
1687TRINCULO	I took him to be killed with a thunder-stroke. But
1688	art thou not drowned, Stephano? I hope now thou art
1689	not drowned. Is the storm overblown? I hid me
1690	under the dead moon-calf's gaberdine for fear of
1691	the storm. And art thou living, Stephano? O
1692	Stephano, two Neapolitans 'scaped!
1693
1694STEPHANO	Prithee, do not turn me about; my stomach is not constant.
1695
1696CALIBAN	[Aside]  These be fine things, an if they be
1697	not sprites.
1698	That's a brave god and bears celestial liquor.
1699	I will kneel to him.
1700
1701STEPHANO	How didst thou 'scape? How camest thou hither?
1702	swear by this bottle how thou camest hither. I
1703	escaped upon a butt of sack which the sailors
1704	heaved o'erboard, by this bottle; which I made of
1705	the bark of a tree with mine own hands since I was
1706	cast ashore.
1707
1708CALIBAN	I'll swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject;
1709	for the liquor is not earthly.
1710
1711STEPHANO	Here; swear then how thou escapedst.
1712
1713TRINCULO	Swum ashore. man, like a duck: I can swim like a
1714	duck, I'll be sworn.
1715
1716STEPHANO	Here, kiss the book. Though thou canst swim like a
1717	duck, thou art made like a goose.
1718
1719TRINCULO	O Stephano. hast any more of this?
1720
1721STEPHANO	The whole butt, man: my cellar is in a rock by the
1722	sea-side where my wine is hid. How now, moon-calf!
1723	how does thine ague?
1724
1725CALIBAN	Hast thou not dropp'd from heaven?
1726
1727STEPHANO	Out o' the moon, I do assure thee: I was the man i'
1728	the moon when time was.
1729
1730CALIBAN	I have seen thee in her and I do adore thee:
1731	My mistress show'd me thee and thy dog and thy bush.
1732
1733STEPHANO	Come, swear to that; kiss the book: I will furnish
1734	it anon with new contents swear.
1735
1736TRINCULO	By this good light, this is a very shallow monster!
1737	I afeard of him! A very weak monster! The man i'
1738	the moon! A most poor credulous monster! Well
1739	drawn, monster, in good sooth!
1740
1741CALIBAN	I'll show thee every fertile inch o' th' island;
1742	And I will kiss thy foot: I prithee, be my god.
1743
1744TRINCULO	By this light, a most perfidious and drunken
1745	monster! when 's god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle.
1746
1747CALIBAN	I'll kiss thy foot; I'll swear myself thy subject.
1748
1749STEPHANO	Come on then; down, and swear.
1750
1751TRINCULO	I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed
1752	monster. A most scurvy monster! I could find in my
1753	heart to beat him,--
1754
1755STEPHANO	Come, kiss.
1756
1757TRINCULO	But that the poor monster's in drink: an abominable monster!
1758
1759CALIBAN	I'll show thee the best springs; I'll pluck thee berries;
1760	I'll fish for thee and get thee wood enough.
1761	A plague upon the tyrant that I serve!
1762	I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee,
1763	Thou wondrous man.
1764
1765TRINCULO	A most ridiculous monster, to make a wonder of a
1766	Poor drunkard!
1767
1768CALIBAN	I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow;
1769	And I with my long nails will dig thee pignuts;
1770	Show thee a jay's nest and instruct thee how
1771	To snare the nimble marmoset; I'll bring thee
1772	To clustering filberts and sometimes I'll get thee
1773	Young scamels from the rock. Wilt thou go with me?
1774
1775STEPHANO	I prithee now, lead the way without any more
1776	talking. Trinculo, the king and all our company
1777	else being drowned, we will inherit here: here;
1778	bear my bottle: fellow Trinculo, we'll fill him by
1779	and by again.
1780
1781CALIBAN	[Sings drunkenly]
1782	Farewell master; farewell, farewell!
1783
1784TRINCULO	A howling monster: a drunken monster!
1785
1786CALIBAN	   No more dams I'll make for fish
1787	Nor fetch in firing
1788	At requiring;
1789	Nor scrape trencher, nor wash dish
1790	'Ban, 'Ban, Cacaliban
1791	Has a new master: get a new man.
1792
1793	Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! freedom,
1794	hey-day, freedom!
1795
1796STEPHANO	O brave monster! Lead the way.
1797
1798	[Exeunt]
1799
1800	THE TEMPEST
1801
1802ACT III
1803
1804SCENE I	Before PROSPERO'S Cell.
1805
1806	[Enter FERDINAND, bearing a log]
1807
1808FERDINAND	There be some sports are painful, and their labour
1809	Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness
1810	Are nobly undergone and most poor matters
1811	Point to rich ends. This my mean task
1812	Would be as heavy to me as odious, but
1813	The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead
1814	And makes my labours pleasures: O, she is
1815	Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed,
1816	And he's composed of harshness. I must remove
1817	Some thousands of these logs and pile them up,
1818	Upon a sore injunction: my sweet mistress
1819	Weeps when she sees me work, and says, such baseness
1820	Had never like executor. I forget:
1821	But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours,
1822	Most busy lest, when I do it.
1823
1824	[Enter MIRANDA; and PROSPERO at a distance, unseen]
1825
1826MIRANDA	Alas, now, pray you,
1827	Work not so hard: I would the lightning had
1828	Burnt up those logs that you are enjoin'd to pile!
1829	Pray, set it down and rest you: when this burns,
1830	'Twill weep for having wearied you. My father
1831	Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself;
1832	He's safe for these three hours.
1833
1834FERDINAND	O most dear mistress,
1835	The sun will set before I shall discharge
1836	What I must strive to do.
1837
1838MIRANDA	If you'll sit down,
1839	I'll bear your logs the while: pray, give me that;
1840	I'll carry it to the pile.
1841
1842FERDINAND	No, precious creature;
1843	I had rather crack my sinews, break my back,
1844	Than you should such dishonour undergo,
1845	While I sit lazy by.
1846
1847MIRANDA	It would become me
1848	As well as it does you: and I should do it
1849	With much more ease; for my good will is to it,
1850	And yours it is against.
1851
1852PROSPERO	Poor worm, thou art infected!
1853	This visitation shows it.
1854
1855MIRANDA	You look wearily.
1856
1857FERDINAND	No, noble mistress;'tis fresh morning with me
1858	When you are by at night. I do beseech you--
1859	Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers--
1860	What is your name?
1861
1862MIRANDA	                  Miranda.--O my father,
1863	I have broke your hest to say so!
1864
1865FERDINAND	Admired Miranda!
1866	Indeed the top of admiration! worth
1867	What's dearest to the world! Full many a lady
1868	I have eyed with best regard and many a time
1869	The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage
1870	Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues
1871	Have I liked several women; never any
1872	With so fun soul, but some defect in her
1873	Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed
1874	And put it to the foil: but you, O you,
1875	So perfect and so peerless, are created
1876	Of every creature's best!
1877
1878MIRANDA	I do not know
1879	One of my sex; no woman's face remember,
1880	Save, from my glass, mine own; nor have I seen
1881	More that I may call men than you, good friend,
1882	And my dear father: how features are abroad,
1883	I am skilless of; but, by my modesty,
1884	The jewel in my dower, I would not wish
1885	Any companion in the world but you,
1886	Nor can imagination form a shape,
1887	Besides yourself, to like of. But I prattle
1888	Something too wildly and my father's precepts
1889	I therein do forget.
1890
1891FERDINAND	I am in my condition
1892	A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king;
1893	I would, not so!--and would no more endure
1894	This wooden slavery than to suffer
1895	The flesh-fly blow my mouth. Hear my soul speak:
1896	The very instant that I saw you, did
1897	My heart fly to your service; there resides,
1898	To make me slave to it; and for your sake
1899	Am I this patient log--man.
1900
1901MIRANDA	Do you love me?
1902
1903FERDINAND	O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound
1904	And crown what I profess with kind event
1905	If I speak true! if hollowly, invert
1906	What best is boded me to mischief! I
1907	Beyond all limit of what else i' the world
1908	Do love, prize, honour you.
1909
1910MIRANDA	I am a fool
1911	To weep at what I am glad of.
1912
1913PROSPERO	Fair encounter
1914	Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace
1915	On that which breeds between 'em!
1916
1917FERDINAND	Wherefore weep you?
1918
1919MIRANDA	At mine unworthiness that dare not offer
1920	What I desire to give, and much less take
1921	What I shall die to want. But this is trifling;
1922	And all the more it seeks to hide itself,
1923	The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning!
1924	And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!
1925	I am your wife, it you will marry me;
1926	If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow
1927	You may deny me; but I'll be your servant,
1928	Whether you will or no.
1929
1930FERDINAND	My mistress, dearest;
1931	And I thus humble ever.
1932
1933MIRANDA	My husband, then?
1934
1935FERDINAND	Ay, with a heart as willing
1936	As bondage e'er of freedom: here's my hand.
1937
1938MIRANDA	And mine, with my heart in't; and now farewell
1939	Till half an hour hence.
1940
1941FERDINAND	A thousand thousand!
1942
1943	[Exeunt FERDINAND and MIRANDA severally]
1944
1945PROSPERO	So glad of this as they I cannot be,
1946	Who are surprised withal; but my rejoicing
1947	At nothing can be more. I'll to my book,
1948	For yet ere supper-time must I perform
1949	Much business appertaining.
1950
1951	[Exit]
1952
1953	THE TEMPEST
1954
1955ACT III
1956
1957SCENE II	Another part of the island.
1958
1959	[Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO]
1960
1961STEPHANO	Tell not me; when the butt is out, we will drink
1962	water; not a drop before: therefore bear up, and
1963	board 'em. Servant-monster, drink to me.
1964
1965TRINCULO	Servant-monster! the folly of this island! They
1966	say there's but five upon this isle: we are three
1967	of them; if th' other two be brained like us, the
1968	state totters.
1969
1970STEPHANO	Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee: thy eyes
1971	are almost set in thy head.
1972
1973TRINCULO	Where should they be set else? he were a brave
1974	monster indeed, if they were set in his tail.
1975
1976STEPHANO	My man-monster hath drown'd his tongue in sack:
1977	for my part, the sea cannot drown me; I swam, ere I
1978	could recover the shore, five and thirty leagues off
1979	and on. By this light, thou shalt be my lieutenant,
1980	monster, or my standard.
1981
1982TRINCULO	Your lieutenant, if you list; he's no standard.
1983
1984STEPHANO	We'll not run, Monsieur Monster.
1985
1986TRINCULO	Nor go neither; but you'll lie like dogs and yet say
1987	nothing neither.
1988
1989STEPHANO	Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a
1990	good moon-calf.
1991
1992CALIBAN	How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe.
1993	I'll not serve him; he's not valiant.
1994
1995TRINCULO	Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in case to
1996	justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish thou,
1997	was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much
1998	sack as I to-day? Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie,
1999	being but half a fish and half a monster?
2000
2001CALIBAN	Lo, how he mocks me! wilt thou let him, my lord?
2002
2003TRINCULO	'Lord' quoth he! That a monster should be such a natural!
2004
2005CALIBAN	Lo, lo, again! bite him to death, I prithee.
2006
2007STEPHANO	Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head: if you
2008	prove a mutineer,--the next tree! The poor monster's
2009	my subject and he shall not suffer indignity.
2010
2011CALIBAN	I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleased to
2012	hearken once again to the suit I made to thee?
2013
2014STEPHANO	Marry, will I	kneel and repeat it; I will stand,
2015	and so shall Trinculo.
2016
2017	[Enter ARIEL, invisible]
2018
2019CALIBAN	As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a
2020	sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island.
2021
2022ARIEL	Thou liest.
2023
2024CALIBAN	Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou: I would my
2025	valiant master would destroy thee! I do not lie.
2026
2027STEPHANO	Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in's tale, by
2028	this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.
2029
2030TRINCULO	Why, I said nothing.
2031
2032STEPHANO	Mum, then, and no more. Proceed.
2033
2034CALIBAN	I say, by sorcery he got this isle;
2035	From me he got it. if thy greatness will
2036	Revenge it on him,--for I know thou darest,
2037	But this thing dare not,--
2038
2039STEPHANO	That's most certain.
2040
2041CALIBAN	Thou shalt be lord of it and I'll serve thee.
2042
2043STEPHANO	How now shall this be compassed?
2044	Canst thou bring me to the party?
2045
2046CALIBAN	Yea, yea, my lord: I'll yield him thee asleep,
2047	Where thou mayst knock a nail into his bead.
2048
2049ARIEL	Thou liest; thou canst not.
2050
2051CALIBAN	What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch!
2052	I do beseech thy greatness, give him blows
2053	And take his bottle from him: when that's gone
2054	He shall drink nought but brine; for I'll not show him
2055	Where the quick freshes are.
2056
2057STEPHANO	Trinculo, run into no further danger:
2058	interrupt the monster one word further, and,
2059	by this hand, I'll turn my mercy out o' doors
2060	and make a stock-fish of thee.
2061
2062TRINCULO	Why, what did I? I did nothing. I'll go farther
2063	off.
2064
2065STEPHANO	Didst thou not say he lied?
2066
2067ARIEL	Thou liest.
2068
2069STEPHANO	Do I so? take thou that.
2070
2071	[Beats TRINCULO]
2072
2073	As you like this, give me the lie another time.
2074
2075TRINCULO	I did not give the lie. Out o' your
2076	wits and bearing too? A pox o' your bottle!
2077	this can sack and drinking do. A murrain on
2078	your monster, and the devil take your fingers!
2079
2080CALIBAN	Ha, ha, ha!
2081
2082STEPHANO	Now, forward with your tale. Prithee, stand farther
2083	off.
2084
2085CALIBAN	Beat him enough: after a little time
2086	I'll beat him too.
2087
2088STEPHANO	                  Stand farther. Come, proceed.
2089
2090CALIBAN	Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him,
2091	I' th' afternoon to sleep: there thou mayst brain him,
2092	Having first seized his books, or with a log
2093	Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,
2094	Or cut his wezand with thy knife. Remember
2095	First to possess his books; for without them
2096	He's but a sot, as I am, nor hath not
2097	One spirit to command: they all do hate him
2098	As rootedly as I. Burn but his books.
2099	He has brave utensils,--for so he calls them--
2100	Which when he has a house, he'll deck withal
2101	And that most deeply to consider is
2102	The beauty of his daughter; he himself
2103	Calls her a nonpareil: I never saw a woman,
2104	But only Sycorax my dam and she;
2105	But she as far surpasseth Sycorax
2106	As great'st does least.
2107
2108STEPHANO	Is it so brave a lass?
2109
2110CALIBAN	Ay, lord; she will become thy bed, I warrant.
2111	And bring thee forth brave brood.
2112
2113STEPHANO	Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and I
2114	will be king and queen--save our graces!--and
2115	Trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys. Dost thou
2116	like the plot, Trinculo?
2117
2118TRINCULO	Excellent.
2119
2120STEPHANO	Give me thy hand: I am sorry I beat thee; but,
2121	while thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head.
2122
2123CALIBAN	Within this half hour will he be asleep:
2124	Wilt thou destroy him then?
2125
2126STEPHANO	Ay, on mine honour.
2127
2128ARIEL	This will I tell my master.
2129
2130CALIBAN	Thou makest me merry; I am full of pleasure:
2131	Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch
2132	You taught me but while-ere?
2133
2134STEPHANO	At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any
2135	reason. Come on, Trinculo, let us sing.
2136
2137	[Sings]
2138
2139	Flout 'em and scout 'em
2140	And scout 'em and flout 'em
2141	Thought is free.
2142
2143CALIBAN	That's not the tune.
2144
2145	[Ariel plays the tune on a tabour and pipe]
2146
2147STEPHANO	What is this same?
2148
2149TRINCULO	This is the tune of our catch, played by the picture
2150	of Nobody.
2151
2152STEPHANO	If thou beest a man, show thyself in thy likeness:
2153	if thou beest a devil, take't as thou list.
2154
2155TRINCULO	O, forgive me my sins!
2156
2157STEPHANO	He that dies pays all debts: I defy thee. Mercy upon us!
2158
2159CALIBAN	Art thou afeard?
2160
2161STEPHANO	No, monster, not I.
2162
2163CALIBAN	Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
2164	Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
2165	Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
2166	Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
2167	That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
2168	Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
2169	The clouds methought would open and show riches
2170	Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked,
2171	I cried to dream again.
2172
2173STEPHANO	This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall
2174	have my music for nothing.
2175
2176CALIBAN	When Prospero is destroyed.
2177
2178STEPHANO	That shall be by and by: I remember the story.
2179
2180TRINCULO	The sound is going away; let's follow it, and
2181	after do our work.
2182
2183STEPHANO	Lead, monster; we'll follow. I would I could see
2184	this tabourer; he lays it on.
2185
2186TRINCULO	Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano.
2187
2188	[Exeunt]
2189
2190	THE TEMPEST
2191
2192ACT III
2193
2194SCENE III	Another part of the island.
2195
2196	[Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO,
2197	ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others]
2198
2199GONZALO	By'r lakin, I can go no further, sir;
2200	My old bones ache: here's a maze trod indeed
2201	Through forth-rights and meanders! By your patience,
2202	I needs must rest me.
2203
2204ALONSO	Old lord, I cannot blame thee,
2205	Who am myself attach'd with weariness,
2206	To the dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
2207	Even here I will put off my hope and keep it
2208	No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd
2209	Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks
2210	Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go.
2211
2212ANTONIO	[Aside to SEBASTIAN]  I am right glad that he's so
2213	out of hope.
2214	Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose
2215	That you resolved to effect.
2216
2217SEBASTIAN	[Aside to ANTONIO]  The next advantage
2218	Will we take throughly.
2219
2220ANTONIO	[Aside to SEBASTIAN]  Let it be to-night;
2221	For, now they are oppress'd with travel, they
2222	Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance
2223	As when they are fresh.
2224
2225SEBASTIAN	[Aside to ANTONIO]  I say, to-night: no more.
2226
2227	[Solemn and strange music]
2228
2229ALONSO	What harmony is this? My good friends, hark!
2230
2231GONZALO	Marvellous sweet music!
2232
2233	[Enter PROSPERO above, invisible. Enter several
2234	strange Shapes, bringing in a banquet;
2235	they dance about it with gentle actions of
2236	salutation; and, inviting the King, &c. to
2237	eat, they depart]
2238
2239ALONSO	Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these?
2240
2241SEBASTIAN	A living drollery. Now I will believe
2242	That there are unicorns, that in Arabia
2243	There is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one phoenix
2244	At this hour reigning there.
2245
2246ANTONIO	I'll believe both;
2247	And what does else want credit, come to me,
2248	And I'll be sworn 'tis true: travellers ne'er did
2249	lie,
2250	Though fools at home condemn 'em.
2251
2252GONZALO	If in Naples
2253	I should report this now, would they believe me?
2254	If I should say, I saw such islanders--
2255	For, certes, these are people of the island--
2256	Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet, note,
2257	Their manners are more gentle-kind than of
2258	Our human generation you shall find
2259	Many, nay, almost any.
2260
2261PROSPERO	[Aside]              Honest lord,
2262	Thou hast said well; for some of you there present
2263	Are worse than devils.
2264
2265ALONSO	I cannot too much muse
2266	Such shapes, such gesture and such sound, expressing,
2267	Although they want the use of tongue, a kind
2268	Of excellent dumb discourse.
2269
2270PROSPERO	[Aside]	Praise in departing.
2271
2272FRANCISCO	They vanish'd strangely.
2273
2274SEBASTIAN	No matter, since
2275	They have left their viands behind; for we have stomachs.
2276	Will't please you taste of what is here?
2277
2278ALONSO	Not I.
2279
2280GONZALO	Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys,
2281	Who would believe that there were mountaineers
2282	Dew-lapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at 'em
2283	Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men
2284	Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find
2285	Each putter-out of five for one will bring us
2286	Good warrant of.
2287
2288ALONSO	                  I will stand to and feed,
2289	Although my last: no matter, since I feel
2290	The best is past. Brother, my lord the duke,
2291	Stand to and do as we.
2292
2293	[Thunder and lightning. Enter ARIEL, like a
2294	harpy; claps his wings upon the table; and,
2295	with a quaint device, the banquet vanishes]
2296
2297ARIEL	You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,
2298	That hath to instrument this lower world
2299	And what is in't, the never-surfeited sea
2300	Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island
2301	Where man doth not inhabit; you 'mongst men
2302	Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad;
2303	And even with such-like valour men hang and drown
2304	Their proper selves.
2305
2306	[ALONSO, SEBASTIAN &c. draw their swords]
2307
2308		You fools! I and my fellows
2309	Are ministers of Fate: the elements,
2310	Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well
2311	Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs
2312	Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish
2313	One dowle that's in my plume: my fellow-ministers
2314	Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,
2315	Your swords are now too massy for your strengths
2316	And will not be uplifted. But remember--
2317	For that's my business to you--that you three
2318	From Milan did supplant good Prospero;
2319	Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it,
2320	Him and his innocent child: for which foul deed
2321	The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have
2322	Incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
2323	Against your peace. Thee of thy son, Alonso,
2324	They have bereft; and do pronounce by me:
2325	Lingering perdition, worse than any death
2326	Can be at once, shall step by step attend
2327	You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from--
2328	Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls
2329	Upon your heads--is nothing but heart-sorrow
2330	And a clear life ensuing.
2331
2332	[He vanishes in thunder; then, to soft music
2333	enter the Shapes again, and dance, with
2334	mocks and mows, and carrying out the table]
2335
2336PROSPERO	Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou
2337	Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring:
2338	Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated
2339	In what thou hadst to say: so, with good life
2340	And observation strange, my meaner ministers
2341	Their several kinds have done. My high charms work
2342	And these mine enemies are all knit up
2343	In their distractions; they now are in my power;
2344	And in these fits I leave them, while I visit
2345	Young Ferdinand, whom they suppose is drown'd,
2346	And his and mine loved darling.
2347
2348	[Exit above]
2349
2350GONZALO	I' the name of something holy, sir, why stand you
2351	In this strange stare?
2352
2353ALONSO	O, it is monstrous, monstrous:
2354	Methought the billows spoke and told me of it;
2355	The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder,
2356	That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced
2357	The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass.
2358	Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded, and
2359	I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded
2360	And with him there lie mudded.
2361	[Exit]
2362
2363SEBASTIAN	But one fiend at a time,
2364	I'll fight their legions o'er.
2365
2366ANTONIO	I'll be thy second.
2367
2368	[Exeunt SEBASTIAN, and ANTONIO]
2369
2370GONZALO	All three of them are desperate: their great guilt,
2371	Like poison given to work a great time after,
2372	Now 'gins to bite the spirits. I do beseech you
2373	That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly
2374	And hinder them from what this ecstasy
2375	May now provoke them to.
2376
2377ADRIAN	Follow, I pray you.
2378
2379	[Exeunt]
2380
2381	THE TEMPEST
2382
2383ACT IV
2384
2385SCENE I	Before PROSPERO'S cell.
2386
2387	[Enter PROSPERO, FERDINAND, and MIRANDA]
2388
2389PROSPERO	If I have too austerely punish'd you,
2390	Your compensation makes amends, for I
2391	Have given you here a third of mine own life,
2392	Or that for which I live; who once again
2393	I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations
2394	Were but my trials of thy love and thou
2395	Hast strangely stood the test here, afore Heaven,
2396	I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand,
2397	Do not smile at me that I boast her off,
2398	For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise
2399	And make it halt behind her.
2400
2401FERDINAND	I do believe it
2402	Against an oracle.
2403
2404PROSPERO	Then, as my gift and thine own acquisition
2405	Worthily purchased take my daughter: but
2406	If thou dost break her virgin-knot before
2407	All sanctimonious ceremonies may
2408	With full and holy rite be minister'd,
2409	No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall
2410	To make this contract grow: but barren hate,
2411	Sour-eyed disdain and discord shall bestrew
2412	The union of your bed with weeds so loathly
2413	That you shall hate it both: therefore take heed,
2414	As Hymen's lamps shall light you.
2415
2416FERDINAND	As I hope
2417	For quiet days, fair issue and long life,
2418	With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den,
2419	The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion.
2420	Our worser genius can, shall never melt
2421	Mine honour into lust, to take away
2422	The edge of that day's celebration
2423	When I shall think: or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd,
2424	Or Night kept chain'd below.
2425
2426PROSPERO	Fairly spoke.
2427	Sit then and talk with her; she is thine own.
2428	What, Ariel! my industrious servant, Ariel!
2429
2430	[Enter ARIEL]
2431
2432ARIEL	What would my potent master? here I am.
2433
2434PROSPERO	Thou and thy meaner fellows your last service
2435	Did worthily perform; and I must use you
2436	In such another trick. Go bring the rabble,
2437	O'er whom I give thee power, here to this place:
2438	Incite them to quick motion; for I must
2439	Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple
2440	Some vanity of mine art: it is my promise,
2441	And they expect it from me.
2442
2443ARIEL	Presently?
2444
2445PROSPERO	Ay, with a twink.
2446
2447ARIEL	   Before you can say 'come' and 'go,'
2448	And breathe twice and cry 'so, so,'
2449	Each one, tripping on his toe,
2450	Will be here with mop and mow.
2451	Do you love me, master? no?
2452
2453PROSPERO	Dearly my delicate Ariel. Do not approach
2454	Till thou dost hear me call.
2455
2456ARIEL	Well, I conceive.
2457
2458	[Exit]
2459
2460PROSPERO	Look thou be true; do not give dalliance
2461	Too much the rein: the strongest oaths are straw
2462	To the fire i' the blood: be more abstemious,
2463	Or else, good night your vow!
2464
2465FERDINAND	I warrant you sir;
2466	The white cold virgin snow upon my heart
2467	Abates the ardour of my liver.
2468
2469PROSPERO	Well.
2470	Now come, my Ariel! bring a corollary,
2471	Rather than want a spirit: appear and pertly!
2472	No tongue! all eyes! be silent.
2473
2474	[Soft music]
2475
2476	[Enter IRIS]
2477
2478IRIS	Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas
2479	Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats and pease;
2480	Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,
2481	And flat meads thatch'd with stover, them to keep;
2482	Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims,
2483	Which spongy April at thy hest betrims,
2484	To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broom -groves,
2485	Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,
2486	Being lass-lorn: thy pole-clipt vineyard;
2487	And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,
2488	Where thou thyself dost air;--the queen o' the sky,
2489	Whose watery arch and messenger am I,
2490	Bids thee leave these, and with her sovereign grace,
2491	Here on this grass-plot, in this very place,
2492	To come and sport: her peacocks fly amain:
2493	Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.
2494
2495	[Enter CERES]
2496
2497CERES	Hail, many-colour'd messenger, that ne'er
2498	Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter;
2499	Who with thy saffron wings upon my flowers
2500	Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers,
2501	And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown
2502	My bosky acres and my unshrubb'd down,
2503	Rich scarf to my proud earth; why hath thy queen
2504	Summon'd me hither, to this short-grass'd green?
2505
2506IRIS	A contract of true love to celebrate;
2507	And some donation freely to estate
2508	On the blest lovers.
2509
2510CERES	Tell me, heavenly bow,
2511	If Venus or her son, as thou dost know,
2512	Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot
2513	The means that dusky Dis my daughter got,
2514	Her and her blind boy's scandal'd company
2515	I have forsworn.
2516
2517IRIS	                  Of her society
2518	Be not afraid: I met her deity
2519	Cutting the clouds towards Paphos and her son
2520	Dove-drawn with her. Here thought they to have done
2521	Some wanton charm upon this man and maid,
2522	Whose vows are, that no bed-right shall be paid
2523	Till Hymen's torch be lighted: but vain;
2524	Mars's hot minion is returned again;
2525	Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows,
2526	Swears he will shoot no more but play with sparrows
2527	And be a boy right out.
2528
2529CERES	High'st queen of state,
2530	Great Juno, comes; I know her by her gait.
2531
2532	[Enter JUNO]
2533
2534JUNO	How does my bounteous sister? Go with me
2535	To bless this twain, that they may prosperous be
2536	And honour'd in their issue.
2537
2538	[They sing:]
2539
2540JUNO	   Honour, riches, marriage-blessing,
2541	Long continuance, and increasing,
2542	Hourly joys be still upon you!
2543	Juno sings her blessings upon you.
2544
2545CERES	   Earth's increase, foison plenty,
2546	Barns and garners never empty,
2547	Vines and clustering bunches growing,
2548	Plants with goodly burthen bowing;
2549	Spring come to you at the farthest
2550	In the very end of harvest!
2551	Scarcity and want shall shun you;
2552	Ceres' blessing so is on you.
2553
2554FERDINAND	This is a most majestic vision, and
2555	Harmoniously charmingly. May I be bold
2556	To think these spirits?
2557
2558PROSPERO	Spirits, which by mine art
2559	I have from their confines call'd to enact
2560	My present fancies.
2561
2562FERDINAND	Let me live here ever;
2563	So rare a wonder'd father and a wife
2564	Makes this place Paradise.
2565
2566	[Juno and Ceres whisper, and send Iris on
2567	employment]
2568
2569PROSPERO	Sweet, now, silence!
2570	Juno and Ceres whisper seriously;
2571	There's something else to do: hush, and be mute,
2572	Or else our spell is marr'd.
2573
2574IRIS	You nymphs, call'd Naiads, of the windring brooks,
2575	With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks,
2576	Leave your crisp channels and on this green land
2577	Answer your summons; Juno does command:
2578	Come, temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate
2579	A contract of true love; be not too late.
2580
2581	[Enter certain Nymphs]
2582
2583	You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary,
2584	Come hither from the furrow and be merry:
2585	Make holiday; your rye-straw hats put on
2586	And these fresh nymphs encounter every one
2587	In country footing.
2588
2589	[Enter certain Reapers, properly habited: they
2590	join with the Nymphs in a graceful dance;
2591	towards the end whereof PROSPERO starts
2592	suddenly, and speaks; after which, to a
2593	strange, hollow, and confused noise, they
2594	heavily vanish]
2595
2596PROSPERO	[Aside]  I had forgot that foul conspiracy
2597	Of the beast Caliban and his confederates
2598	Against my life: the minute of their plot
2599	Is almost come.
2600
2601	[To the Spirits]
2602
2603	Well done! avoid; no more!
2604
2605FERDINAND	This is strange: your father's in some passion
2606	That works him strongly.
2607
2608MIRANDA	Never till this day
2609	Saw I him touch'd with anger so distemper'd.
2610
2611PROSPERO	You do look, my son, in a moved sort,
2612	As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, sir.
2613	Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
2614	As I foretold you, were all spirits and
2615	Are melted into air, into thin air:
2616	And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
2617	The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
2618	The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
2619	Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve
2620	And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
2621	Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
2622	As dreams are made on, and our little life
2623	Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vex'd;
2624	Bear with my weakness; my, brain is troubled:
2625	Be not disturb'd with my infirmity:
2626	If you be pleased, retire into my cell
2627	And there repose: a turn or two I'll walk,
2628	To still my beating mind.
2629
2630FERDINAND	|
2631	|  We wish your peace.
2632MIRANDA	|
2633
2634	[Exeunt]
2635
2636PROSPERO	Come with a thought I thank thee, Ariel: come.
2637
2638	[Enter ARIEL]
2639
2640ARIEL	Thy thoughts I cleave to. What's thy pleasure?
2641
2642PROSPERO	Spirit,
2643	We must prepare to meet with Caliban.
2644
2645ARIEL	Ay, my commander: when I presented Ceres,
2646	I thought to have told thee of it, but I fear'd
2647	Lest I might anger thee.
2648
2649PROSPERO	Say again, where didst thou leave these varlets?
2650
2651ARIEL	I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking;
2652	So fun of valour that they smote the air
2653	For breathing in their faces; beat the ground
2654	For kissing of their feet; yet always bending
2655	Towards their project. Then I beat my tabour;
2656	At which, like unback'd colts, they prick'd
2657	their ears,
2658	Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses
2659	As they smelt music: so I charm'd their ears
2660	That calf-like they my lowing follow'd through
2661	Tooth'd briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss and thorns,
2662	Which entered their frail shins: at last I left them
2663	I' the filthy-mantled pool beyond your cell,
2664	There dancing up to the chins, that the foul lake
2665	O'erstunk their feet.
2666
2667PROSPERO	This was well done, my bird.
2668	Thy shape invisible retain thou still:
2669	The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither,
2670	For stale to catch these thieves.
2671
2672ARIEL	I go, I go.
2673
2674	[Exit]
2675
2676PROSPERO	A devil, a born devil, on whose nature
2677	Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains,
2678	Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost;
2679	And as with age his body uglier grows,
2680	So his mind cankers. I will plague them all,
2681	Even to roaring.
2682
2683	[Re-enter ARIEL, loaden with glistering apparel, &c]
2684
2685	Come, hang them on this line.
2686
2687	[PROSPERO and ARIEL remain invisible. Enter
2688	CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO, all wet]
2689
2690CALIBAN	Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not
2691	Hear a foot fall: we now are near his cell.
2692
2693STEPHANO	Monster, your fairy, which you say is
2694	a harmless fairy, has done little better than
2695	played the Jack with us.
2696
2697TRINCULO	Monster, I do smell all horse-piss; at
2698	which my nose is in great indignation.
2699
2700STEPHANO	So is mine. Do you hear, monster? If I should take
2701	a displeasure against you, look you,--
2702
2703TRINCULO	Thou wert but a lost monster.
2704
2705CALIBAN	Good my lord, give me thy favour still.
2706	Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to
2707	Shall hoodwink this mischance: therefore speak softly.
2708	All's hush'd as midnight yet.
2709
2710TRINCULO	Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool,--
2711
2712STEPHANO	There is not only disgrace and dishonour in that,
2713	monster, but an infinite loss.
2714
2715TRINCULO	That's more to me than my wetting: yet this is your
2716	harmless fairy, monster.
2717
2718STEPHANO	I will fetch off my bottle, though I be o'er ears
2719	for my labour.
2720
2721CALIBAN	Prithee, my king, be quiet. Seest thou here,
2722	This is the mouth o' the cell: no noise, and enter.
2723	Do that good mischief which may make this island
2724	Thine own for ever, and I, thy Caliban,
2725	For aye thy foot-licker.
2726
2727STEPHANO	Give me thy hand. I do begin to have bloody thoughts.
2728
2729TRINCULO	O king Stephano! O peer! O worthy Stephano! look
2730	what a wardrobe here is for thee!
2731
2732CALIBAN	Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash.
2733
2734TRINCULO	O, ho, monster! we know what belongs to a frippery.
2735	O king Stephano!
2736
2737STEPHANO	Put off that gown, Trinculo; by this hand, I'll have
2738	that gown.
2739
2740TRINCULO	Thy grace shall have it.
2741
2742CALIBAN	The dropsy drown this fool I what do you mean
2743	To dote thus on such luggage? Let's alone
2744	And do the murder first: if he awake,
2745	From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches,
2746	Make us strange stuff.
2747
2748STEPHANO	Be you quiet, monster. Mistress line,
2749	is not this my jerkin? Now is the jerkin under
2750	the line: now, jerkin, you are like to lose your
2751	hair and prove a bald jerkin.
2752
2753TRINCULO	Do, do: we steal by line and level, an't like your grace.
2754
2755STEPHANO	I thank thee for that jest; here's a garment for't:
2756	wit shall not go unrewarded while I am king of this
2757	country. 'Steal by line and level' is an excellent
2758	pass of pate; there's another garment for't.
2759
2760TRINCULO	Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and
2761	away with the rest.
2762
2763CALIBAN	I will have none on't: we shall lose our time,
2764	And all be turn'd to barnacles, or to apes
2765	With foreheads villanous low.
2766
2767STEPHANO	Monster, lay-to your fingers: help to bear this
2768	away where my hogshead of wine is, or I'll turn you
2769	out of my kingdom: go to, carry this.
2770
2771TRINCULO	And this.
2772
2773STEPHANO	Ay, and this.
2774
2775	[A noise of hunters heard. Enter divers Spirits,
2776	in shape of dogs and hounds, and hunt them about,
2777	PROSPERO and ARIEL setting them on]
2778
2779PROSPERO	Hey, Mountain, hey!
2780
2781ARIEL	Silver I there it goes, Silver!
2782
2783PROSPERO	Fury, Fury! there, Tyrant, there! hark! hark!
2784
2785	[CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO, are
2786	driven out]
2787
2788	Go charge my goblins that they grind their joints
2789	With dry convulsions, shorten up their sinews
2790	With aged cramps, and more pinch-spotted make them
2791	Than pard or cat o' mountain.
2792
2793ARIEL	Hark, they roar!
2794
2795PROSPERO	Let them be hunted soundly. At this hour
2796	Lie at my mercy all mine enemies:
2797	Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou
2798	Shalt have the air at freedom: for a little
2799	Follow, and do me service.
2800
2801	[Exeunt]
2802
2803	THE TEMPEST
2804
2805ACT V
2806
2807SCENE I	Before PROSPERO'S cell.
2808
2809	[Enter PROSPERO in his magic robes, and ARIEL]
2810
2811PROSPERO	Now does my project gather to a head:
2812	My charms crack not; my spirits obey; and time
2813	Goes upright with his carriage. How's the day?
2814
2815ARIEL	On the sixth hour; at which time, my lord,
2816	You said our work should cease.
2817
2818PROSPERO	I did say so,
2819	When first I raised the tempest. Say, my spirit,
2820	How fares the king and's followers?
2821
2822ARIEL	Confined together
2823	In the same fashion as you gave in charge,
2824	Just as you left them; all prisoners, sir,
2825	In the line-grove which weather-fends your cell;
2826	They cannot budge till your release. The king,
2827	His brother and yours, abide all three distracted
2828	And the remainder mourning over them,
2829	Brimful of sorrow and dismay; but chiefly
2830	Him that you term'd, sir, 'The good old lord Gonzalo;'
2831	His tears run down his beard, like winter's drops
2832	From eaves of reeds. Your charm so strongly works 'em
2833	That if you now beheld them, your affections
2834	Would become tender.
2835
2836PROSPERO	Dost thou think so, spirit?
2837
2838ARIEL	Mine would, sir, were I human.
2839
2840PROSPERO	And mine shall.
2841	Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling
2842	Of their afflictions, and shall not myself,
2843	One of their kind, that relish all as sharply,
2844	Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art?
2845	Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick,
2846	Yet with my nobler reason 'gaitist my fury
2847	Do I take part: the rarer action is
2848	In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,
2849	The sole drift of my purpose doth extend
2850	Not a frown further. Go release them, Ariel:
2851	My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore,
2852	And they shall be themselves.
2853
2854ARIEL	I'll fetch them, sir.
2855
2856	[Exit]
2857
2858PROSPERO	Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves,
2859	And ye that on the sands with printless foot
2860	Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him
2861	When he comes back; you demi-puppets that
2862	By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make,
2863	Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime
2864	Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice
2865	To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid,
2866	Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd
2867	The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,
2868	And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault
2869	Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder
2870	Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak
2871	With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory
2872	Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up
2873	The pine and cedar: graves at my command
2874	Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth
2875	By my so potent art. But this rough magic
2876	I here abjure, and, when I have required
2877	Some heavenly music, which even now I do,
2878	To work mine end upon their senses that
2879	This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
2880	Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
2881	And deeper than did ever plummet sound
2882	I'll drown my book.
2883
2884	[Solemn music]
2885
2886	[Re-enter ARIEL before: then ALONSO, with a
2887	frantic gesture, attended by GONZALO;
2888	SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO in like manner,
2889	attended by ADRIAN and FRANCISCO   they all
2890	enter the circle which PROSPERO had made,
2891	and there stand charmed; which PROSPERO
2892	observing, speaks:]
2893
2894	A solemn air and the best comforter
2895	To an unsettled fancy cure thy brains,
2896	Now useless, boil'd within thy skull! There stand,
2897	For you are spell-stopp'd.
2898	Holy Gonzalo, honourable man,
2899	Mine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine,
2900	Fall fellowly drops. The charm dissolves apace,
2901	And as the morning steals upon the night,
2902	Melting the darkness, so their rising senses
2903	Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
2904	Their clearer reason. O good Gonzalo,
2905	My true preserver, and a loyal sir
2906	To him you follow'st! I will pay thy graces
2907	Home both in word and deed. Most cruelly
2908	Didst thou, Alonso, use me and my daughter:
2909	Thy brother was a furtherer in the act.
2910	Thou art pinch'd fort now, Sebastian. Flesh and blood,
2911	You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,
2912	Expell'd remorse and nature; who, with Sebastian,
2913	Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong,
2914	Would here have kill'd your king; I do forgive thee,
2915	Unnatural though thou art. Their understanding
2916	Begins to swell, and the approaching tide
2917	Will shortly fill the reasonable shore
2918	That now lies foul and muddy. Not one of them
2919	That yet looks on me, or would know me Ariel,
2920	Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell:
2921	I will discase me, and myself present
2922	As I was sometime Milan: quickly, spirit;
2923	Thou shalt ere long be free.
2924
2925	[ARIEL sings and helps to attire him]
2926
2927	Where the bee sucks. there suck I:
2928	In a cowslip's bell I lie;
2929	There I couch when owls do cry.
2930	On the bat's back I do fly
2931	After summer merrily.
2932	Merrily, merrily shall I live now
2933	Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
2934
2935PROSPERO	Why, that's my dainty Ariel! I shall miss thee:
2936	But yet thou shalt have freedom: so, so, so.
2937	To the king's ship, invisible as thou art:
2938	There shalt thou find the mariners asleep
2939	Under the hatches; the master and the boatswain
2940	Being awake, enforce them to this place,
2941	And presently, I prithee.
2942
2943ARIEL	I drink the air before me, and return
2944	Or ere your pulse twice beat.
2945
2946	[Exit]
2947
2948GONZALO	All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement
2949	Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us
2950	Out of this fearful country!
2951
2952PROSPERO	Behold, sir king,
2953	The wronged Duke of Milan, Prospero:
2954	For more assurance that a living prince
2955	Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body;
2956	And to thee and thy company I bid
2957	A hearty welcome.
2958
2959ALONSO	                  Whether thou best he or no,
2960	Or some enchanted trifle to abuse me,
2961	As late I have been, I not know: thy pulse
2962	Beats as of flesh and blood; and, since I saw thee,
2963	The affliction of my mind amends, with which,
2964	I fear, a madness held me: this must crave,
2965	An if this be at all, a most strange story.
2966	Thy dukedom I resign and do entreat
2967	Thou pardon me my wrongs. But how should Prospero
2968	Be living and be here?
2969
2970PROSPERO	First, noble friend,
2971	Let me embrace thine age, whose honour cannot
2972	Be measured or confined.
2973
2974GONZALO	Whether this be
2975	Or be not, I'll not swear.
2976
2977PROSPERO	You do yet taste
2978	Some subtilties o' the isle, that will not let you
2979	Believe things certain. Welcome, my friends all!
2980
2981	[Aside to SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO]
2982
2983	But you, my brace of lords, were I so minded,
2984	I here could pluck his highness' frown upon you
2985	And justify you traitors: at this time
2986	I will tell no tales.
2987
2988SEBASTIAN	[Aside]  The devil speaks in him.
2989
2990PROSPERO	No.
2991	For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother
2992	Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive
2993	Thy rankest fault; all of them; and require
2994	My dukedom of thee, which perforce, I know,
2995	Thou must restore.
2996
2997ALONSO	                  If thou be'st Prospero,
2998	Give us particulars of thy preservation;
2999	How thou hast met us here, who three hours since
3000	Were wreck'd upon this shore; where I have lost--
3001	How sharp the point of this remembrance is!--
3002	My dear son Ferdinand.
3003
3004PROSPERO	I am woe for't, sir.
3005
3006ALONSO	Irreparable is the loss, and patience
3007	Says it is past her cure.
3008
3009PROSPERO	I rather think
3010	You have not sought her help, of whose soft grace
3011	For the like loss I have her sovereign aid
3012	And rest myself content.
3013
3014ALONSO	You the like loss!
3015
3016PROSPERO	As great to me as late; and, supportable
3017	To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker
3018	Than you may call to comfort you, for I
3019	Have lost my daughter.
3020
3021ALONSO	A daughter?
3022	O heavens, that they were living both in Naples,
3023	The king and queen there! that they were, I wish
3024	Myself were mudded in that oozy bed
3025	Where my son lies. When did you lose your daughter?
3026
3027PROSPERO	In this last tempest. I perceive these lords
3028	At this encounter do so much admire
3029	That they devour their reason and scarce think
3030	Their eyes do offices of truth, their words
3031	Are natural breath: but, howsoe'er you have
3032	Been justled from your senses, know for certain
3033	That I am Prospero and that very duke
3034	Which was thrust forth of Milan, who most strangely
3035	Upon this shore, where you were wreck'd, was landed,
3036	To be the lord on't. No more yet of this;
3037	For 'tis a chronicle of day by day,
3038	Not a relation for a breakfast nor
3039	Befitting this first meeting. Welcome, sir;
3040	This cell's my court: here have I few attendants
3041	And subjects none abroad: pray you, look in.
3042	My dukedom since you have given me again,
3043	I will requite you with as good a thing;
3044	At least bring forth a wonder, to content ye
3045	As much as me my dukedom.
3046
3047	[Here PROSPERO discovers FERDINAND and MIRANDA
3048	playing at chess]
3049
3050MIRANDA	Sweet lord, you play me false.
3051
3052FERDINAND	No, my dear'st love,
3053	I would not for the world.
3054
3055MIRANDA	Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle,
3056	And I would call it, fair play.
3057
3058ALONSO	If this prove
3059	A vision of the Island, one dear son
3060	Shall I twice lose.
3061
3062SEBASTIAN	A most high miracle!
3063
3064FERDINAND	Though the seas threaten, they are merciful;
3065	I have cursed them without cause.
3066
3067	[Kneels]
3068
3069ALONSO	Now all the blessings
3070	Of a glad father compass thee about!
3071	Arise, and say how thou camest here.
3072
3073MIRANDA	O, wonder!
3074	How many goodly creatures are there here!
3075	How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
3076	That has such people in't!
3077
3078PROSPERO	'Tis new to thee.
3079
3080ALONSO	What is this maid with whom thou wast at play?
3081	Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours:
3082	Is she the goddess that hath sever'd us,
3083	And brought us thus together?
3084
3085FERDINAND	Sir, she is mortal;
3086	But by immortal Providence she's mine:
3087	I chose her when I could not ask my father
3088	For his advice, nor thought I had one. She
3089	Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan,
3090	Of whom so often I have heard renown,
3091	But never saw before; of whom I have
3092	Received a second life; and second father
3093	This lady makes him to me.
3094
3095ALONSO	I am hers:
3096	But, O, how oddly will it sound that I
3097	Must ask my child forgiveness!
3098
3099PROSPERO	There, sir, stop:
3100	Let us not burthen our remembrance with
3101	A heaviness that's gone.
3102
3103GONZALO	I have inly wept,
3104	Or should have spoke ere this. Look down, you god,
3105	And on this couple drop a blessed crown!
3106	For it is you that have chalk'd forth the way
3107	Which brought us hither.
3108
3109ALONSO	I say, Amen, Gonzalo!
3110
3111GONZALO	Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue
3112	Should become kings of Naples? O, rejoice
3113	Beyond a common joy, and set it down
3114	With gold on lasting pillars: In one voyage
3115	Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis,
3116	And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife
3117	Where he himself was lost, Prospero his dukedom
3118	In a poor isle and all of us ourselves
3119	When no man was his own.
3120
3121ALONSO	[To FERDINAND and MIRANDA]  Give me your hands:
3122	Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart
3123	That doth not wish you joy!
3124
3125GONZALO	Be it so! Amen!
3126
3127	[Re-enter ARIEL, with the Master and Boatswain
3128	amazedly following]
3129
3130	O, look, sir, look, sir! here is more of us:
3131	I prophesied, if a gallows were on land,
3132	This fellow could not drown. Now, blasphemy,
3133	That swear'st grace o'erboard, not an oath on shore?
3134	Hast thou no mouth by land? What is the news?
3135
3136Boatswain	The best news is, that we have safely found
3137	Our king and company; the next, our ship--
3138	Which, but three glasses since, we gave out split--
3139	Is tight and yare and bravely rigg'd as when
3140	We first put out to sea.
3141
3142ARIEL	[Aside to PROSPERO]  Sir, all this service
3143	Have I done since I went.
3144
3145PROSPERO	[Aside to ARIEL]  My tricksy spirit!
3146
3147ALONSO	These are not natural events; they strengthen
3148	From strange to stranger. Say, how came you hither?
3149
3150Boatswain	If I did think, sir, I were well awake,
3151	I'ld strive to tell you. We were dead of sleep,
3152	And--how we know not--all clapp'd under hatches;
3153	Where but even now with strange and several noises
3154	Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling chains,
3155	And more diversity of sounds, all horrible,
3156	We were awaked; straightway, at liberty;
3157	Where we, in all her trim, freshly beheld
3158	Our royal, good and gallant ship, our master
3159	Capering to eye her: on a trice, so please you,
3160	Even in a dream, were we divided from them
3161	And were brought moping hither.
3162
3163ARIEL	[Aside to PROSPERO]          Was't well done?
3164
3165PROSPERO	[Aside to ARIEL]  Bravely, my diligence. Thou shalt be free.
3166
3167ALONSO	This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod
3168	And there is in this business more than nature
3169	Was ever conduct of: some oracle
3170	Must rectify our knowledge.
3171
3172PROSPERO	Sir, my liege,
3173	Do not infest your mind with beating on
3174	The strangeness of this business; at pick'd leisure
3175	Which shall be shortly, single I'll resolve you,
3176	Which to you shall seem probable, of every
3177	These happen'd accidents; till when, be cheerful
3178	And think of each thing well.
3179
3180	[Aside to ARIEL]
3181
3182		        Come hither, spirit:
3183	Set Caliban and his companions free;
3184	Untie the spell.
3185
3186	[Exit ARIEL]
3187
3188	How fares my gracious sir?
3189	There are yet missing of your company
3190	Some few odd lads that you remember not.
3191
3192	[Re-enter ARIEL, driving in CALIBAN, STEPHANO
3193	and TRINCULO, in their stolen apparel]
3194
3195STEPHANO	Every man shift for all the rest, and
3196	let no man take care for himself; for all is
3197	but fortune. Coragio, bully-monster, coragio!
3198
3199TRINCULO	If these be true spies which I wear in my head,
3200	here's a goodly sight.
3201
3202CALIBAN	O Setebos, these be brave spirits indeed!
3203	How fine my master is! I am afraid
3204	He will chastise me.
3205
3206SEBASTIAN	Ha, ha!
3207	What things are these, my lord Antonio?
3208	Will money buy 'em?
3209
3210ANTONIO	Very like; one of them
3211	Is a plain fish, and, no doubt, marketable.
3212
3213PROSPERO	Mark but the badges of these men, my lords,
3214	Then say if they be true. This mis-shapen knave,
3215	His mother was a witch, and one so strong
3216	That could control the moon, make flows and ebbs,
3217	And deal in her command without her power.
3218	These three have robb'd me; and this demi-devil--
3219	For he's a bastard one--had plotted with them
3220	To take my life. Two of these fellows you
3221	Must know and own; this thing of darkness!
3222	Acknowledge mine.
3223
3224CALIBAN	                  I shall be pinch'd to death.
3225
3226ALONSO	Is not this Stephano, my drunken butler?
3227
3228SEBASTIAN	He is drunk now: where had he wine?
3229
3230ALONSO	And Trinculo is reeling ripe: where should they
3231	Find this grand liquor that hath gilded 'em?
3232	How camest thou in this pickle?
3233
3234TRINCULO	I have been in such a pickle since I
3235	saw you last that, I fear me, will never out of
3236	my bones: I shall not fear fly-blowing.
3237
3238SEBASTIAN	Why, how now, Stephano!
3239
3240STEPHANO	O, touch me not; I am not Stephano, but a cramp.
3241
3242PROSPERO	You'ld be king o' the isle, sirrah?
3243
3244STEPHANO	I should have been a sore one then.
3245
3246ALONSO	This is a strange thing as e'er I look'd on.
3247
3248	[Pointing to Caliban]
3249
3250PROSPERO	He is as disproportion'd in his manners
3251	As in his shape. Go, sirrah, to my cell;
3252	Take with you your companions; as you look
3253	To have my pardon, trim it handsomely.
3254
3255CALIBAN	Ay, that I will; and I'll be wise hereafter
3256	And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass
3257	Was I, to take this drunkard for a god
3258	And worship this dull fool!
3259
3260PROSPERO	Go to; away!
3261
3262ALONSO	Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it.
3263
3264SEBASTIAN	Or stole it, rather.
3265
3266	[Exeunt CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO]
3267
3268PROSPERO	Sir, I invite your highness and your train
3269	To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest
3270	For this one night; which, part of it, I'll waste
3271	With such discourse as, I not doubt, shall make it
3272	Go quick away; the story of my life
3273	And the particular accidents gone by
3274	Since I came to this isle: and in the morn
3275	I'll bring you to your ship and so to Naples,
3276	Where I have hope to see the nuptial
3277	Of these our dear-beloved solemnized;
3278	And thence retire me to my Milan, where
3279	Every third thought shall be my grave.
3280
3281ALONSO	I long
3282	To hear the story of your life, which must
3283	Take the ear strangely.
3284
3285PROSPERO	I'll deliver all;
3286	And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales
3287	And sail so expeditious that shall catch
3288	Your royal fleet far off.
3289
3290	[Aside to ARIEL]
3291
3292		    My Ariel, chick,
3293	That is thy charge: then to the elements
3294	Be free, and fare thou well! Please you, draw near.
3295
3296	[Exeunt]
3297
3298	THE TEMPEST
3299
3300	EPILOGUE
3301
3302	SPOKEN BY PROSPERO
3303
3304	Now my charms are all o'erthrown,
3305	And what strength I have's mine own,
3306	Which is most faint: now, 'tis true,
3307	I must be here confined by you,
3308	Or sent to Naples. Let me not,
3309	Since I have my dukedom got
3310	And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell
3311	In this bare island by your spell;
3312	But release me from my bands
3313	With the help of your good hands:
3314	Gentle breath of yours my sails
3315	Must fill, or else my project fails,
3316	Which was to please. Now I want
3317	Spirits to enforce, art to enchant,
3318	And my ending is despair,
3319	Unless I be relieved by prayer,
3320	Which pierces so that it assaults
3321	Mercy itself and frees all faults.
3322	As you from crimes would pardon'd be,
3323	Let your indulgence set me free.