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1THE TEMPEST
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4DRAMATIS PERSONAE
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7ALONSO King of Naples.
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9SEBASTIAN his brother.
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11PROSPERO the right Duke of Milan.
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13ANTONIO his brother, the usurping Duke of Milan.
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15FERDINAND son to the King of Naples.
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17GONZALO an honest old Counsellor.
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20ADRIAN |
21|  Lords.
22FRANCISCO |
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25CALIBAN a savage and deformed Slave.
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27TRINCULO a Jester.
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29STEPHANO a drunken Butler.
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31Master of a Ship. (Master:)
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33Boatswain. (Boatswain:)
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35Mariners. (Mariners:)
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37MIRANDA daughter to Prospero.
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39ARIEL an airy Spirit.
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42IRIS |
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44CERES |
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46JUNO |  presented by Spirits.
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48Nymphs |
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50Reapers |
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53Other Spirits attending on Prospero.
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55
56SCENE A ship at Sea: an island.
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60
61THE TEMPEST
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63
64ACT I
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67
68SCENE I On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise
69of thunder and lightning heard.
70
71
72[Enter a Master and a Boatswain]
73
74Master Boatswain!
75
76Boatswain Here, master: what cheer?
77
78Master Good, speak to the mariners: fall to't, yarely,
79or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir.
80
81[Exit]
82
83[Enter Mariners]
84
85Boatswain Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts!
86yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to the
87master's whistle. Blow, till thou burst thy wind,
88if room enough!
89
90[Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND,
91GONZALO, and others]
92
93ALONSO Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master?
94Play the men.
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96Boatswain I pray now, keep below.
97
98ANTONIO Where is the master, boatswain?
99
100Boatswain Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: keep your
101cabins: you do assist the storm.
102
103GONZALO Nay, good, be patient.
104
105Boatswain When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers
106for the name of king? To cabin: silence! trouble us not.
107
108GONZALO Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.
109
110Boatswain None that I more love than myself. You are a
111counsellor; if you can command these elements to
112silence, and work the peace of the present, we will
113not hand a rope more; use your authority: if you
114cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make
115yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of
116the hour, if it so hap. Cheerly, good hearts! Out
117of our way, I say.
118
119[Exit]
120
121GONZALO I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he
122hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is
123perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, to his
124hanging: make the rope of his destiny our cable,
125for our own doth little advantage. If he be not
126born to be hanged, our case is miserable.
127
128[Exeunt]
129
130[Re-enter Boatswain]
131
132Boatswain Down with the topmast! yare! lower, lower! Bring
133her to try with main-course.
134
135[A cry within]
136
137A plague upon this howling! they are louder than
138the weather or our office.
139
140[Re-enter SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, and GONZALO]
141
142Yet again! what do you here? Shall we give o'er
143and drown? Have you a mind to sink?
144
145SEBASTIAN A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous,
146incharitable dog!
147
148Boatswain Work you then.
149
150ANTONIO Hang, cur! hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker!
151We are less afraid to be drowned than thou art.
152
153GONZALO I'll warrant him for drowning; though the ship were
154no stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an
155unstanched wench.
156
157Boatswain Lay her a-hold, a-hold! set her two courses off to
158sea again; lay her off.
159
160[Enter Mariners wet]
161
162Mariners All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost!
163
164Boatswain What, must our mouths be cold?
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166GONZALO The king and prince at prayers! let's assist them,
167For our case is as theirs.
168
169SEBASTIAN I'm out of patience.
170
171ANTONIO We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards:
172This wide-chapp'd rascal--would thou mightst lie drowning
173The washing of ten tides!
174
175GONZALO He'll be hang'd yet,
176Though every drop of water swear against it
177And gape at widest to glut him.
178
179[A confused noise within:   'Mercy on us!'--
180'We split, we split!'--'Farewell, my wife and
181children!'--
182'Farewell, brother!'--'We split, we split, we split!']
183
184ANTONIO Let's all sink with the king.
185
186SEBASTIAN Let's take leave of him.
187
188[Exeunt ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN]
189
190GONZALO Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an
191acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, any
192thing. The wills above be done! but I would fain
193die a dry death.
194
195[Exeunt]
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200THE TEMPEST
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203ACT I
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206
207SCENE II The island. Before PROSPERO'S cell.
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209
210[Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA]
211
212MIRANDA If by your art, my dearest father, you have
213Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.
214The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,
215But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek,
216Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffered
217With those that I saw suffer: a brave vessel,
218Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her,
219Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock
220Against my very heart. Poor souls, they perish'd.
221Had I been any god of power, I would
222Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere
223It should the good ship so have swallow'd and
224The fraughting souls within her.
225
226PROSPERO Be collected:
227No more amazement: tell your piteous heart
228There's no harm done.
229
230MIRANDA O, woe the day!
231
232PROSPERO No harm.
233I have done nothing but in care of thee,
234Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who
235Art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing
236Of whence I am, nor that I am more better
237Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,
238And thy no greater father.
239
240MIRANDA More to know
241Did never meddle with my thoughts.
242
243PROSPERO 'Tis time
244I should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand,
245And pluck my magic garment from me. So:
246
247[Lays down his mantle]
248
249Lie there, my art. Wipe thou thine eyes; have comfort.
250The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd
251The very virtue of compassion in thee,
252I have with such provision in mine art
253So safely ordered that there is no soul--
254No, not so much perdition as an hair
255Betid to any creature in the vessel
256Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. Sit down;
257For thou must now know farther.
258
259MIRANDA You have often
260Begun to tell me what I am, but stopp'd
261And left me to a bootless inquisition,
262Concluding 'Stay: not yet.'
263
264PROSPERO The hour's now come;
265The very minute bids thee ope thine ear;
266Obey and be attentive. Canst thou remember
267A time before we came unto this cell?
268I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not
269Out three years old.
270
271MIRANDA Certainly, sir, I can.
272
273PROSPERO By what? by any other house or person?
274Of any thing the image tell me that
275Hath kept with thy remembrance.
276
277MIRANDA 'Tis far off
278And rather like a dream than an assurance
279That my remembrance warrants. Had I not
280Four or five women once that tended me?
281
282PROSPERO Thou hadst, and more, Miranda. But how is it
283That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else
284In the dark backward and abysm of time?
285If thou remember'st aught ere thou camest here,
286How thou camest here thou mayst.
287
288MIRANDA But that I do not.
289
290PROSPERO Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since,
291Thy father was the Duke of Milan and
292A prince of power.
293
294MIRANDA                   Sir, are not you my father?
295
296PROSPERO Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and
297She said thou wast my daughter; and thy father
298Was Duke of Milan; and thou his only heir
299And princess no worse issued.
300
301MIRANDA O the heavens!
302What foul play had we, that we came from thence?
303Or blessed was't we did?
304
305PROSPERO Both, both, my girl:
306By foul play, as thou say'st, were we heaved thence,
307But blessedly holp hither.
308
309MIRANDA O, my heart bleeds
310To think o' the teen that I have turn'd you to,
311Which is from my remembrance! Please you, farther.
312
313PROSPERO My brother and thy uncle, call'd Antonio--
314I pray thee, mark me--that a brother should
315Be so perfidious!--he whom next thyself
316Of all the world I loved and to him put
317The manage of my state; as at that time
318Through all the signories it was the first
319And Prospero the prime duke, being so reputed
320In dignity, and for the liberal arts
321Without a parallel; those being all my study,
322The government I cast upon my brother
323And to my state grew stranger, being transported
324And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle--
325Dost thou attend me?
326
327MIRANDA Sir, most heedfully.
328
329PROSPERO Being once perfected how to grant suits,
330How to deny them, who to advance and who
331To trash for over-topping, new created
332The creatures that were mine, I say, or changed 'em,
333Or else new form'd 'em; having both the key
334Of officer and office, set all hearts i' the state
335To what tune pleased his ear; that now he was
336The ivy which had hid my princely trunk,
337And suck'd my verdure out on't. Thou attend'st not.
338
339MIRANDA O, good sir, I do.
340
341PROSPERO                   I pray thee, mark me.
342I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
343To closeness and the bettering of my mind
344With that which, but by being so retired,
345O'er-prized all popular rate, in my false brother
346Awaked an evil nature; and my trust,
347Like a good parent, did beget of him
348A falsehood in its contrary as great
349As my trust was; which had indeed no limit,
350A confidence sans bound. He being thus lorded,
351Not only with what my revenue yielded,
352But what my power might else exact, like one
353Who having into truth, by telling of it,
354Made such a sinner of his memory,
355To credit his own lie, he did believe
356He was indeed the duke; out o' the substitution
357And executing the outward face of royalty,
358With all prerogative: hence his ambition growing--
359Dost thou hear?
360
361MIRANDA                   Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
362
363PROSPERO To have no screen between this part he play'd
364And him he play'd it for, he needs will be
365Absolute Milan. Me, poor man, my library
366Was dukedom large enough: of temporal royalties
367He thinks me now incapable; confederates--
368So dry he was for sway--wi' the King of Naples
369To give him annual tribute, do him homage,
370Subject his coronet to his crown and bend
371The dukedom yet unbow'd--alas, poor Milan!--
372To most ignoble stooping.
373
374MIRANDA O the heavens!
375
376PROSPERO Mark his condition and the event; then tell me
377If this might be a brother.
378
379MIRANDA I should sin
380To think but nobly of my grandmother:
381Good wombs have borne bad sons.
382
383PROSPERO Now the condition.
384The King of Naples, being an enemy
385To me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit;
386Which was, that he, in lieu o' the premises
387Of homage and I know not how much tribute,
388Should presently extirpate me and mine
389Out of the dukedom and confer fair Milan
390With all the honours on my brother: whereon,
391A treacherous army levied, one midnight
392Fated to the purpose did Antonio open
393The gates of Milan, and, i' the dead of darkness,
394The ministers for the purpose hurried thence
395Me and thy crying self.
396
397MIRANDA Alack, for pity!
398I, not remembering how I cried out then,
399Will cry it o'er again: it is a hint
400That wrings mine eyes to't.
401
402PROSPERO Hear a little further
403And then I'll bring thee to the present business
404Which now's upon's; without the which this story
405Were most impertinent.
406
407MIRANDA Wherefore did they not
408That hour destroy us?
409
410PROSPERO Well demanded, wench:
411My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not,
412So dear the love my people bore me, nor set
413A mark so bloody on the business, but
414With colours fairer painted their foul ends.
415In few, they hurried us aboard a bark,
416Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared
417A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigg'd,
418Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats
419Instinctively had quit it: there they hoist us,
420To cry to the sea that roar'd to us, to sigh
421To the winds whose pity, sighing back again,
422Did us but loving wrong.
423
424MIRANDA Alack, what trouble
425Was I then to you!
426
427PROSPERO                   O, a cherubim
428Thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile.
429Infused with a fortitude from heaven,
430When I have deck'd the sea with drops full salt,
431Under my burthen groan'd; which raised in me
432An undergoing stomach, to bear up
433Against what should ensue.
434
435MIRANDA How came we ashore?
436
437PROSPERO By Providence divine.
438Some food we had and some fresh water that
439A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo,
440Out of his charity, being then appointed
441Master of this design, did give us, with
442Rich garments, linens, stuffs and necessaries,
443Which since have steaded much; so, of his gentleness,
444Knowing I loved my books, he furnish'd me
445From mine own library with volumes that
446I prize above my dukedom.
447
448MIRANDA Would I might
449But ever see that man!
450
451PROSPERO Now I arise:
452
453[Resumes his mantle]
454
455Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow.
456Here in this island we arrived; and here
457Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit
458Than other princesses can that have more time
459For vainer hours and tutors not so careful.
460
461MIRANDA Heavens thank you for't! And now, I pray you, sir,
462For still 'tis beating in my mind, your reason
463For raising this sea-storm?
464
465PROSPERO Know thus far forth.
466By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune,
467Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies
468Brought to this shore; and by my prescience
469I find my zenith doth depend upon
470A most auspicious star, whose influence
471If now I court not but omit, my fortunes
472Will ever after droop. Here cease more questions:
473Thou art inclined to sleep; 'tis a good dulness,
474And give it way: I know thou canst not choose.
475
476[MIRANDA sleeps]
477
478Come away, servant, come. I am ready now.
479Approach, my Ariel, come.
480
481[Enter ARIEL]
482
483ARIEL All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come
484To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly,
485To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride
486On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task
487Ariel and all his quality.
488
489PROSPERO Hast thou, spirit,
490Perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee?
491
492ARIEL To every article.
493I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak,
494Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin,
495I flamed amazement: sometime I'ld divide,
496And burn in many places; on the topmast,
497The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly,
498Then meet and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors
499O' the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary
500And sight-outrunning were not; the fire and cracks
501Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune
502Seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble,
503Yea, his dread trident shake.
504
505PROSPERO My brave spirit!
506Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil
507Would not infect his reason?
508
509ARIEL Not a soul
510But felt a fever of the mad and play'd
511Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners
512Plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel,
513Then all afire with me: the king's son, Ferdinand,
514With hair up-staring,--then like reeds, not hair,--
515Was the first man that leap'd; cried, 'Hell is empty
516And all the devils are here.'
517
518PROSPERO Why that's my spirit!
519But was not this nigh shore?
520
521ARIEL Close by, my master.
522
523PROSPERO But are they, Ariel, safe?
524
525ARIEL Not a hair perish'd;
526On their sustaining garments not a blemish,
527But fresher than before: and, as thou badest me,
528In troops I have dispersed them 'bout the isle.
529The king's son have I landed by himself;
530Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs
531In an odd angle of the isle and sitting,
532His arms in this sad knot.
533
534PROSPERO Of the king's ship
535The mariners say how thou hast disposed
536And all the rest o' the fleet.
537
538ARIEL Safely in harbour
539Is the king's ship; in the deep nook, where once
540Thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew
541From the still-vex'd Bermoothes, there she's hid:
542The mariners all under hatches stow'd;
543Who, with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour,
544I have left asleep; and for the rest o' the fleet
545Which I dispersed, they all have met again
546And are upon the Mediterranean flote,
547Bound sadly home for Naples,
548Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd
549And his great person perish.
550
551PROSPERO Ariel, thy charge
552Exactly is perform'd: but there's more work.
553What is the time o' the day?
554
555ARIEL Past the mid season.
556
557PROSPERO At least two glasses. The time 'twixt six and now
558Must by us both be spent most preciously.
559
560ARIEL Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains,
561Let me remember thee what thou hast promised,
562Which is not yet perform'd me.
563
564PROSPERO How now? moody?
565What is't thou canst demand?
566
567ARIEL My liberty.
568
569PROSPERO Before the time be out? no more!
570
571ARIEL I prithee,
572Remember I have done thee worthy service;
573Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served
574Without or grudge or grumblings: thou didst promise
575To bate me a full year.
576
577PROSPERO Dost thou forget
578From what a torment I did free thee?
579
580ARIEL No.
581
582PROSPERO Thou dost, and think'st it much to tread the ooze
583Of the salt deep,
584To run upon the sharp wind of the north,
585To do me business in the veins o' the earth
586When it is baked with frost.
587
588ARIEL I do not, sir.
589
590PROSPERO Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot
591The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy
592Was grown into a hoop? hast thou forgot her?
593
594ARIEL No, sir.
595
596PROSPERO      Thou hast. Where was she born? speak; tell me.
597
598ARIEL Sir, in Argier.
599
600PROSPERO                   O, was she so? I must
601Once in a month recount what thou hast been,
602Which thou forget'st. This damn'd witch Sycorax,
603For mischiefs manifold and sorceries terrible
604To enter human hearing, from Argier,
605Thou know'st, was banish'd: for one thing she did
606They would not take her life. Is not this true?
607
608ARIEL Ay, sir.
609
610PROSPERO This blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child
611And here was left by the sailors. Thou, my slave,
612As thou report'st thyself, wast then her servant;
613And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate
614To act her earthy and abhorr'd commands,
615Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,
616By help of her more potent ministers
617And in her most unmitigable rage,
618Into a cloven pine; within which rift
619Imprison'd thou didst painfully remain
620A dozen years; within which space she died
621And left thee there; where thou didst vent thy groans
622As fast as mill-wheels strike. Then was this island--
623Save for the son that she did litter here,
624A freckled whelp hag-born--not honour'd with
625A human shape.
626
627ARIEL                   Yes, Caliban her son.
628
629PROSPERO Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban
630Whom now I keep in service. Thou best know'st
631What torment I did find thee in; thy groans
632Did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts
633Of ever angry bears: it was a torment
634To lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax
635Could not again undo: it was mine art,
636When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape
637The pine and let thee out.
638
639ARIEL I thank thee, master.
640
641PROSPERO If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak
642And peg thee in his knotty entrails till
643Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.
644
645ARIEL Pardon, master;
646I will be correspondent to command
647And do my spiriting gently.
648
649PROSPERO Do so, and after two days
650I will discharge thee.
651
652ARIEL That's my noble master!
653What shall I do? say what; what shall I do?
654
655PROSPERO Go make thyself like a nymph o' the sea: be subject
656To no sight but thine and mine, invisible
657To every eyeball else. Go take this shape
658And hither come in't: go, hence with diligence!
659
660[Exit ARIEL]
661
662Awake, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well; Awake!
663
664MIRANDA      The strangeness of your story put
665Heaviness in me.
666
667PROSPERO                   Shake it off. Come on;
668We'll visit Caliban my slave, who never
669Yields us kind answer.
670
671MIRANDA 'Tis a villain, sir,
672I do not love to look on.
673
674PROSPERO But, as 'tis,
675We cannot miss him: he does make our fire,
676Fetch in our wood and serves in offices
677That profit us. What, ho! slave! Caliban!
678Thou earth, thou! speak.
679
680CALIBAN [Within]  There's wood enough within.
681
682PROSPERO Come forth, I say! there's other business for thee:
683Come, thou tortoise! when?
684
685[Re-enter ARIEL like a water-nymph]
686
687Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel,
688Hark in thine ear.
689
690ARIEL                   My lord it shall be done.
691
692[Exit]
693
694PROSPERO Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself
695Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!
696
697[Enter CALIBAN]
698
699CALIBAN As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd
700With raven's feather from unwholesome fen
701Drop on you both! a south-west blow on ye
702And blister you all o'er!
703
704PROSPERO For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps,
705Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins
706Shall, for that vast of night that they may work,
707All exercise on thee; thou shalt be pinch'd
708As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging
709Than bees that made 'em.
710
711CALIBAN I must eat my dinner.
712This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,
713Which thou takest from me. When thou camest first,
714Thou strokedst me and madest much of me, wouldst give me
715Water with berries in't, and teach me how
716To name the bigger light, and how the less,
717That burn by day and night: and then I loved thee
718And show'd thee all the qualities o' the isle,
719The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile:
720Cursed be I that did so! All the charms
721Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!
722For I am all the subjects that you have,
723Which first was mine own king: and here you sty me
724In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me
725The rest o' the island.
726
727PROSPERO Thou most lying slave,
728Whom stripes may move, not kindness! I have used thee,
729Filth as thou art, with human care, and lodged thee
730In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate
731The honour of my child.
732
733CALIBAN O ho, O ho! would't had been done!
734Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else
735This isle with Calibans.
736
737PROSPERO Abhorred slave,
738Which any print of goodness wilt not take,
739Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,
740Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour
741One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage,
742Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like
743A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes
744With words that made them known. But thy vile race,
745Though thou didst learn, had that in't which
746good natures
747Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou
748Deservedly confined into this rock,
749Who hadst deserved more than a prison.
750
751CALIBAN You taught me language; and my profit on't
752Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
753For learning me your language!
754
755PROSPERO Hag-seed, hence!
756Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou'rt best,
757To answer other business. Shrug'st thou, malice?
758If thou neglect'st or dost unwillingly
759What I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps,
760Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar
761That beasts shall tremble at thy din.
762
763CALIBAN No, pray thee.
764
765[Aside]
766
767I must obey: his art is of such power,
768It would control my dam's god, Setebos,
769and make a vassal of him.
770
771PROSPERO So, slave; hence!
772
773[Exit CALIBAN]
774
775[Re-enter ARIEL, invisible, playing and singing;
776FERDINAND following]
777
778ARIEL'S song.
779
780Come unto these yellow sands,
781And then take hands:
782Courtsied when you have and kiss'd
783The wild waves whist,
784Foot it featly here and there;
785And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.
786Hark, hark!
787
788[Burthen [dispersedly, within]  Bow-wow]
789
790The watch-dogs bark!
791
792[Burthen Bow-wow]
793
794Hark, hark! I hear
795The strain of strutting chanticleer
796Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow.
797
798FERDINAND Where should this music be? i' the air or the earth?
799It sounds no more: and sure, it waits upon
800Some god o' the island. Sitting on a bank,
801Weeping again the king my father's wreck,
802This music crept by me upon the waters,
803Allaying both their fury and my passion
804With its sweet air: thence I have follow'd it,
805Or it hath drawn me rather. But 'tis gone.
806No, it begins again.
807
808[ARIEL sings]
809
810Full fathom five thy father lies;
811Of his bones are coral made;
812Those are pearls that were his eyes:
813Nothing of him that doth fade
814But doth suffer a sea-change
815Into something rich and strange.
816Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell
817
818[Burthen Ding-dong]
819
820Hark! now I hear them,--Ding-dong, bell.
821
822FERDINAND The ditty does remember my drown'd father.
823This is no mortal business, nor no sound
824That the earth owes. I hear it now above me.
825
826PROSPERO The fringed curtains of thine eye advance
827And say what thou seest yond.
828
829MIRANDA What is't? a spirit?
830Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir,
831It carries a brave form. But 'tis a spirit.
832
833PROSPERO No, wench; it eats and sleeps and hath such senses
834As we have, such. This gallant which thou seest
835Was in the wreck; and, but he's something stain'd
836With grief that's beauty's canker, thou mightst call him
837A goodly person: he hath lost his fellows
838And strays about to find 'em.
839
840MIRANDA I might call him
841A thing divine, for nothing natural
842I ever saw so noble.
843
844PROSPERO [Aside] It goes on, I see,
845As my soul prompts it. Spirit, fine spirit! I'll free thee
846Within two days for this.
847
848FERDINAND Most sure, the goddess
849On whom these airs attend! Vouchsafe my prayer
850May know if you remain upon this island;
851And that you will some good instruction give
852How I may bear me here: my prime request,
853Which I do last pronounce, is, O you wonder!
854If you be maid or no?
855
856MIRANDA No wonder, sir;
857But certainly a maid.
858
859FERDINAND My language! heavens!
860I am the best of them that speak this speech,
861Were I but where 'tis spoken.
862
863PROSPERO How? the best?
864What wert thou, if the King of Naples heard thee?
865
866FERDINAND A single thing, as I am now, that wonders
867To hear thee speak of Naples. He does hear me;
868And that he does I weep: myself am Naples,
869Who with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld
870The king my father wreck'd.
871
872MIRANDA Alack, for mercy!
873
874FERDINAND Yes, faith, and all his lords; the Duke of Milan
875And his brave son being twain.
876
877PROSPERO [Aside] The Duke of Milan
878And his more braver daughter could control thee,
879If now 'twere fit to do't. At the first sight
880They have changed eyes. Delicate Ariel,
881I'll set thee free for this.
882
883[To FERDINAND]
884
885        A word, good sir;
886I fear you have done yourself some wrong: a word.
887
888MIRANDA Why speaks my father so ungently? This
889Is the third man that e'er I saw, the first
890That e'er I sigh'd for: pity move my father
891To be inclined my way!
892
893FERDINAND O, if a virgin,
894And your affection not gone forth, I'll make you
895The queen of Naples.
896
897PROSPERO Soft, sir! one word more.
898
899[Aside]
900
901They are both in either's powers; but this swift business
902I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
903Make the prize light.
904
905[To FERDINAND]
906
907One word more; I charge thee
908That thou attend me: thou dost here usurp
909The name thou owest not; and hast put thyself
910Upon this island as a spy, to win it
911From me, the lord on't.
912
913FERDINAND No, as I am a man.
914
915MIRANDA There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
916If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
917Good things will strive to dwell with't.
918
919PROSPERO Follow me.
920Speak not you for him; he's a traitor. Come;
921I'll manacle thy neck and feet together:
922Sea-water shalt thou drink; thy food shall be
923The fresh-brook muscles, wither'd roots and husks
924Wherein the acorn cradled. Follow.
925
926FERDINAND No;
927I will resist such entertainment till
928Mine enemy has more power.
929
930[Draws, and is charmed from moving]
931
932MIRANDA O dear father,
933Make not too rash a trial of him, for
934He's gentle and not fearful.
935
936PROSPERO What? I say,
937My foot my tutor? Put thy sword up, traitor;
938Who makest a show but darest not strike, thy conscience
939Is so possess'd with guilt: come from thy ward,
940For I can here disarm thee with this stick
941And make thy weapon drop.
942
943MIRANDA Beseech you, father.
944
945PROSPERO Hence! hang not on my garments.
946
947MIRANDA Sir, have pity;
948I'll be his surety.
949
950PROSPERO Silence! one word more
951Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What!
952An advocate for an imposter! hush!
953Thou think'st there is no more such shapes as he,
954Having seen but him and Caliban: foolish wench!
955To the most of men this is a Caliban
956And they to him are angels.
957
958MIRANDA My affections
959Are then most humble; I have no ambition
960To see a goodlier man.
961
962PROSPERO Come on; obey:
963Thy nerves are in their infancy again
964And have no vigour in them.
965
966FERDINAND So they are;
967My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up.
968My father's loss, the weakness which I feel,
969The wreck of all my friends, nor this man's threats,
970To whom I am subdued, are but light to me,
971Might I but through my prison once a day
972Behold this maid: all corners else o' the earth
973Let liberty make use of; space enough
974Have I in such a prison.
975
976PROSPERO [Aside]                It works.
977
978[To FERDINAND]
979
980                  Come on.
981Thou hast done well, fine Ariel!
982
983[To FERDINAND]
984
985                  Follow me.
986
987[To ARIEL]
988
989Hark what thou else shalt do me.
990
991MIRANDA Be of comfort;
992My father's of a better nature, sir,
993Than he appears by speech: this is unwonted
994Which now came from him.
995
996PROSPERO Thou shalt be free
997As mountain winds: but then exactly do
998All points of my command.
999
1000ARIEL To the syllable.
1001
1002PROSPERO Come, follow. Speak not for him.
1003
1004[Exeunt]
1005
1006
1007
1008
1009THE TEMPEST
1010
1011
1012ACT II
1013
1014
1015
1016SCENE I Another part of the island.
1017
1018
1019[Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO,
1020ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others]
1021
1022GONZALO Beseech you, sir, be merry; you have cause,
1023So have we all, of joy; for our escape
1024Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of woe
1025Is common; every day some sailor's wife,
1026The masters of some merchant and the merchant
1027Have just our theme of woe; but for the miracle,
1028I mean our preservation, few in millions
1029Can speak like us: then wisely, good sir, weigh
1030Our sorrow with our comfort.
1031
1032ALONSO Prithee, peace.
1033
1034SEBASTIAN He receives comfort like cold porridge.
1035
1036ANTONIO The visitor will not give him o'er so.
1037
1038SEBASTIAN Look he's winding up the watch of his wit;
1039by and by it will strike.
1040
1041GONZALO Sir,--
1042
1043SEBASTIAN One: tell.
1044
1045GONZALO When every grief is entertain'd that's offer'd,
1046Comes to the entertainer--
1047
1048SEBASTIAN A dollar.
1049
1050GONZALO Dolour comes to him, indeed: you
1051have spoken truer than you purposed.
1052
1053SEBASTIAN You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should.
1054
1055GONZALO Therefore, my lord,--
1056
1057ANTONIO Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!
1058
1059ALONSO I prithee, spare.
1060
1061GONZALO Well, I have done: but yet,--
1062
1063SEBASTIAN He will be talking.
1064
1065ANTONIO Which, of he or Adrian, for a good
1066wager, first begins to crow?
1067
1068SEBASTIAN The old cock.
1069
1070ANTONIO The cockerel.
1071
1072SEBASTIAN Done. The wager?
1073
1074ANTONIO A laughter.
1075
1076SEBASTIAN A match!
1077
1078ADRIAN Though this island seem to be desert,--
1079
1080SEBASTIAN Ha, ha, ha! So, you're paid.
1081
1082ADRIAN Uninhabitable and almost inaccessible,--
1083
1084SEBASTIAN Yet,--
1085
1086ADRIAN Yet,--
1087
1088ANTONIO He could not miss't.
1089
1090ADRIAN It must needs be of subtle, tender and delicate
1091temperance.
1092
1093ANTONIO Temperance was a delicate wench.
1094
1095SEBASTIAN Ay, and a subtle; as he most learnedly delivered.
1096
1097ADRIAN The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.
1098
1099SEBASTIAN As if it had lungs and rotten ones.
1100
1101ANTONIO Or as 'twere perfumed by a fen.
1102
1103GONZALO Here is everything advantageous to life.
1104
1105ANTONIO True; save means to live.
1106
1107SEBASTIAN Of that there's none, or little.
1108
1109GONZALO How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!
1110
1111ANTONIO The ground indeed is tawny.
1112
1113SEBASTIAN With an eye of green in't.
1114
1115ANTONIO He misses not much.
1116
1117SEBASTIAN No; he doth but mistake the truth totally.
1118
1119GONZALO But the rarity of it is,--which is indeed almost
1120beyond credit,--
1121
1122SEBASTIAN As many vouched rarities are.
1123
1124GONZALO That our garments, being, as they were, drenched in
1125the sea, hold notwithstanding their freshness and
1126glosses, being rather new-dyed than stained with
1127salt water.
1128
1129ANTONIO If but one of his pockets could speak, would it not
1130say he lies?
1131
1132SEBASTIAN Ay, or very falsely pocket up his report
1133
1134GONZALO Methinks our garments are now as fresh as when we
1135put them on first in Afric, at the marriage of
1136the king's fair daughter Claribel to the King of Tunis.
1137
1138SEBASTIAN 'Twas a sweet marriage, and we prosper well in our return.
1139
1140ADRIAN Tunis was never graced before with such a paragon to
1141their queen.
1142
1143GONZALO Not since widow Dido's time.
1144
1145ANTONIO Widow! a pox o' that! How came that widow in?
1146widow Dido!
1147
1148SEBASTIAN What if he had said 'widower AEneas' too? Good Lord,
1149how you take it!
1150
1151ADRIAN 'Widow Dido' said you? you make me study of that:
1152she was of Carthage, not of Tunis.
1153
1154GONZALO This Tunis, sir, was Carthage.
1155
1156ADRIAN Carthage?
1157
1158GONZALO I assure you, Carthage.
1159
1160SEBASTIAN His word is more than the miraculous harp; he hath
1161raised the wall and houses too.
1162
1163ANTONIO What impossible matter will he make easy next?
1164
1165SEBASTIAN I think he will carry this island home in his pocket
1166and give it his son for an apple.
1167
1168ANTONIO And, sowing the kernels of it in the sea, bring
1169forth more islands.
1170
1171GONZALO Ay.
1172
1173ANTONIO Why, in good time.
1174
1175GONZALO Sir, we were talking that our garments seem now
1176as fresh as when we were at Tunis at the marriage
1177of your daughter, who is now queen.
1178
1179ANTONIO And the rarest that e'er came there.
1180
1181SEBASTIAN Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido.
1182
1183ANTONIO O, widow Dido! ay, widow Dido.
1184
1185GONZALO Is not, sir, my doublet as fresh as the first day I
1186wore it? I mean, in a sort.
1187
1188ANTONIO That sort was well fished for.
1189
1190GONZALO When I wore it at your daughter's marriage?
1191
1192ALONSO You cram these words into mine ears against
1193The stomach of my sense. Would I had never
1194Married my daughter there! for, coming thence,
1195My son is lost and, in my rate, she too,
1196Who is so far from Italy removed
1197I ne'er again shall see her. O thou mine heir
1198Of Naples and of Milan, what strange fish
1199Hath made his meal on thee?
1200
1201FRANCISCO Sir, he may live:
1202I saw him beat the surges under him,
1203And ride upon their backs; he trod the water,
1204Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted
1205The surge most swoln that met him; his bold head
1206'Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oar'd
1207Himself with his good arms in lusty stroke
1208To the shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd,
1209As stooping to relieve him: I not doubt
1210He came alive to land.
1211
1212ALONSO No, no, he's gone.
1213
1214SEBASTIAN Sir, you may thank yourself for this great loss,
1215That would not bless our Europe with your daughter,
1216But rather lose her to an African;
1217Where she at least is banish'd from your eye,
1218Who hath cause to wet the grief on't.
1219
1220ALONSO Prithee, peace.
1221
1222SEBASTIAN You were kneel'd to and importuned otherwise
1223By all of us, and the fair soul herself
1224Weigh'd between loathness and obedience, at
1225Which end o' the beam should bow. We have lost your
1226son,
1227I fear, for ever: Milan and Naples have
1228More widows in them of this business' making
1229Than we bring men to comfort them:
1230The fault's your own.
1231
1232ALONSO So is the dear'st o' the loss.
1233
1234GONZALO My lord Sebastian,
1235The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness
1236And time to speak it in: you rub the sore,
1237When you should bring the plaster.
1238
1239SEBASTIAN Very well.
1240
1241ANTONIO And most chirurgeonly.
1242
1243GONZALO It is foul weather in us all, good sir,
1244When you are cloudy.
1245
1246SEBASTIAN Foul weather?
1247
1248ANTONIO Very foul.
1249
1250GONZALO Had I plantation of this isle, my lord,--
1251
1252ANTONIO He'ld sow't with nettle-seed.
1253
1254SEBASTIAN Or docks, or mallows.
1255
1256GONZALO And were the king on't, what would I do?
1257
1258SEBASTIAN 'Scape being drunk for want of wine.
1259
1260GONZALO I' the commonwealth I would by contraries
1261Execute all things; for no kind of traffic
1262Would I admit; no name of magistrate;
1263Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,
1264And use of service, none; contract, succession,
1265Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;
1266No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;
1267No occupation; all men idle, all;
1268And women too, but innocent and pure;
1269No sovereignty;--
1270
1271SEBASTIAN                   Yet he would be king on't.
1272
1273ANTONIO The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the
1274beginning.
1275
1276GONZALO All things in common nature should produce
1277Without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony,
1278Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine,
1279Would I not have; but nature should bring forth,
1280Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance,
1281To feed my innocent people.
1282
1283SEBASTIAN No marrying 'mong his subjects?
1284
1285ANTONIO None, man; all idle: whores and knaves.
1286
1287GONZALO I would with such perfection govern, sir,
1288To excel the golden age.
1289
1290SEBASTIAN God save his majesty!
1291
1292ANTONIO Long live Gonzalo!
1293
1294GONZALO                   And,--do you mark me, sir?
1295
1296ALONSO Prithee, no more: thou dost talk nothing to me.
1297
1298GONZALO I do well believe your highness; and
1299did it to minister occasion to these gentlemen,
1300who are of such sensible and nimble lungs that
1301they always use to laugh at nothing.
1302
1303ANTONIO 'Twas you we laughed at.
1304
1305GONZALO Who in this kind of merry fooling am nothing
1306to you: so you may continue and laugh at
1307nothing still.
1308
1309ANTONIO What a blow was there given!
1310
1311SEBASTIAN An it had not fallen flat-long.
1312
1313GONZALO You are gentlemen of brave metal; you would lift
1314the moon out of her sphere, if she would continue
1315in it five weeks without changing.
1316
1317[Enter ARIEL, invisible, playing solemn music]
1318
1319SEBASTIAN We would so, and then go a bat-fowling.
1320
1321ANTONIO Nay, good my lord, be not angry.
1322
1323GONZALO No, I warrant you; I will not adventure
1324my discretion so weakly. Will you laugh
1325me asleep, for I am very heavy?
1326
1327ANTONIO Go sleep, and hear us.
1328
1329[All sleep except ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, and ANTONIO]
1330
1331ALONSO What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes
1332Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts: I find
1333They are inclined to do so.
1334
1335SEBASTIAN Please you, sir,
1336Do not omit the heavy offer of it:
1337It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth,
1338It is a comforter.
1339
1340ANTONIO                   We two, my lord,
1341Will guard your person while you take your rest,
1342And watch your safety.
1343
1344ALONSO Thank you. Wondrous heavy.
1345
1346[ALONSO sleeps. Exit ARIEL]
1347
1348SEBASTIAN What a strange drowsiness possesses them!
1349
1350ANTONIO It is the quality o' the climate.
1351
1352SEBASTIAN Why
1353Doth it not then our eyelids sink? I find not
1354Myself disposed to sleep.
1355
1356ANTONIO Nor I; my spirits are nimble.
1357They fell together all, as by consent;
1358They dropp'd, as by a thunder-stroke. What might,
1359Worthy Sebastian? O, what might?--No more:--
1360And yet me thinks I see it in thy face,
1361What thou shouldst be: the occasion speaks thee, and
1362My strong imagination sees a crown
1363Dropping upon thy head.
1364
1365SEBASTIAN What, art thou waking?
1366
1367ANTONIO Do you not hear me speak?
1368
1369SEBASTIAN I do; and surely
1370It is a sleepy language and thou speak'st
1371Out of thy sleep. What is it thou didst say?
1372This is a strange repose, to be asleep
1373With eyes wide open; standing, speaking, moving,
1374And yet so fast asleep.
1375
1376ANTONIO Noble Sebastian,
1377Thou let'st thy fortune sleep--die, rather; wink'st
1378Whiles thou art waking.
1379
1380SEBASTIAN Thou dost snore distinctly;
1381There's meaning in thy snores.
1382
1383ANTONIO I am more serious than my custom: you
1384Must be so too, if heed me; which to do
1385Trebles thee o'er.
1386
1387SEBASTIAN                   Well, I am standing water.
1388
1389ANTONIO I'll teach you how to flow.
1390
1391SEBASTIAN Do so: to ebb
1392Hereditary sloth instructs me.
1393
1394ANTONIO O,
1395If you but knew how you the purpose cherish
1396Whiles thus you mock it! how, in stripping it,
1397You more invest it! Ebbing men, indeed,
1398Most often do so near the bottom run
1399By their own fear or sloth.
1400
1401SEBASTIAN Prithee, say on:
1402The setting of thine eye and cheek proclaim
1403A matter from thee, and a birth indeed
1404Which throes thee much to yield.
1405
1406ANTONIO Thus, sir:
1407Although this lord of weak remembrance, this,
1408Who shall be of as little memory
1409When he is earth'd, hath here almost persuade,--
1410For he's a spirit of persuasion, only
1411Professes to persuade,--the king his son's alive,
1412'Tis as impossible that he's undrown'd
1413And he that sleeps here swims.
1414
1415SEBASTIAN I have no hope
1416That he's undrown'd.
1417
1418ANTONIO O, out of that 'no hope'
1419What great hope have you! no hope that way is
1420Another way so high a hope that even
1421Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond,
1422But doubt discovery there. Will you grant with me
1423That Ferdinand is drown'd?
1424
1425SEBASTIAN He's gone.
1426
1427ANTONIO Then, tell me,
1428Who's the next heir of Naples?
1429
1430SEBASTIAN Claribel.
1431
1432ANTONIO She that is queen of Tunis; she that dwells
1433Ten leagues beyond man's life; she that from Naples
1434Can have no note, unless the sun were post--
1435The man i' the moon's too slow--till new-born chins
1436Be rough and razorable; she that--from whom?
1437We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again,
1438And by that destiny to perform an act
1439Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come
1440In yours and my discharge.
1441
1442SEBASTIAN What stuff is this! how say you?
1443'Tis true, my brother's daughter's queen of Tunis;
1444So is she heir of Naples; 'twixt which regions
1445There is some space.
1446
1447ANTONIO A space whose every cubit
1448Seems to cry out, 'How shall that Claribel
1449Measure us back to Naples? Keep in Tunis,
1450And let Sebastian wake.' Say, this were death
1451That now hath seized them; why, they were no worse
1452Than now they are. There be that can rule Naples
1453As well as he that sleeps; lords that can prate
1454As amply and unnecessarily
1455As this Gonzalo; I myself could make
1456A chough of as deep chat. O, that you bore
1457The mind that I do! what a sleep were this
1458For your advancement! Do you understand me?
1459
1460SEBASTIAN Methinks I do.
1461
1462ANTONIO                   And how does your content
1463Tender your own good fortune?
1464
1465SEBASTIAN I remember
1466You did supplant your brother Prospero.
1467
1468ANTONIO True:
1469And look how well my garments sit upon me;
1470Much feater than before: my brother's servants
1471Were then my fellows; now they are my men.
1472
1473SEBASTIAN But, for your conscience?
1474
1475ANTONIO Ay, sir; where lies that? if 'twere a kibe,
1476'Twould put me to my slipper: but I feel not
1477This deity in my bosom: twenty consciences,
1478That stand 'twixt me and Milan, candied be they
1479And melt ere they molest! Here lies your brother,
1480No better than the earth he lies upon,
1481If he were that which now he's like, that's dead;
1482Whom I, with this obedient steel, three inches of it,
1483Can lay to bed for ever; whiles you, doing thus,
1484To the perpetual wink for aye might put
1485This ancient morsel, this Sir Prudence, who
1486Should not upbraid our course. For all the rest,
1487They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk;
1488They'll tell the clock to any business that
1489We say befits the hour.
1490
1491SEBASTIAN Thy case, dear friend,
1492Shall be my precedent; as thou got'st Milan,
1493I'll come by Naples. Draw thy sword: one stroke
1494Shall free thee from the tribute which thou payest;
1495And I the king shall love thee.
1496
1497ANTONIO Draw together;
1498And when I rear my hand, do you the like,
1499To fall it on Gonzalo.
1500
1501SEBASTIAN O, but one word.
1502
1503[They talk apart]
1504
1505[Re-enter ARIEL, invisible]
1506
1507ARIEL My master through his art foresees the danger
1508That you, his friend, are in; and sends me forth--
1509For else his project dies--to keep them living.
1510
1511[Sings in GONZALO's ear]
1512
1513While you here do snoring lie,
1514Open-eyed conspiracy
1515His time doth take.
1516If of life you keep a care,
1517Shake off slumber, and beware:
1518Awake, awake!
1519
1520ANTONIO Then let us both be sudden.
1521
1522GONZALO Now, good angels
1523Preserve the king.
1524
1525[They wake]
1526
1527ALONSO Why, how now? ho, awake! Why are you drawn?
1528Wherefore this ghastly looking?
1529
1530GONZALO What's the matter?
1531
1532SEBASTIAN Whiles we stood here securing your repose,
1533Even now, we heard a hollow burst of bellowing
1534Like bulls, or rather lions: did't not wake you?
1535It struck mine ear most terribly.
1536
1537ALONSO I heard nothing.
1538
1539ANTONIO O, 'twas a din to fright a monster's ear,
1540To make an earthquake! sure, it was the roar
1541Of a whole herd of lions.
1542
1543ALONSO Heard you this, Gonzalo?
1544
1545GONZALO Upon mine honour, sir, I heard a humming,
1546And that a strange one too, which did awake me:
1547I shaked you, sir, and cried: as mine eyes open'd,
1548I saw their weapons drawn: there was a noise,
1549That's verily. 'Tis best we stand upon our guard,
1550Or that we quit this place; let's draw our weapons.
1551
1552ALONSO Lead off this ground; and let's make further search
1553For my poor son.
1554
1555GONZALO Heavens keep him from these beasts!
1556For he is, sure, i' the island.
1557
1558ALONSO Lead away.
1559
1560ARIEL Prospero my lord shall know what I have done:
1561So, king, go safely on to seek thy son.
1562
1563[Exeunt]
1564
1565
1566
1567
1568THE TEMPEST
1569
1570
1571ACT II
1572
1573
1574
1575SCENE II Another part of the island.
1576
1577
1578[Enter CALIBAN with a burden of wood. A noise of
1579thunder heard]
1580
1581CALIBAN All the infections that the sun sucks up
1582From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall and make him
1583By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me
1584And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch,
1585Fright me with urchin--shows, pitch me i' the mire,
1586Nor lead me, like a firebrand, in the dark
1587Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but
1588For every trifle are they set upon me;
1589Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me
1590And after bite me, then like hedgehogs which
1591Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount
1592Their pricks at my footfall; sometime am I
1593All wound with adders who with cloven tongues
1594Do hiss me into madness.
1595
1596[Enter TRINCULO]
1597
1598    Lo, now, lo!
1599
1600Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me
1601For bringing wood in slowly. I'll fall flat;
1602Perchance he will not mind me.
1603
1604TRINCULO Here's neither bush nor shrub, to bear off
1605any weather at all, and another storm brewing;
1606I hear it sing i' the wind: yond same black
1607cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul
1608bombard that would shed his liquor. If it
1609should thunder as it did before, I know not
1610where to hide my head: yond same cloud cannot
1611choose but fall by pailfuls. What have we
1612here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish:
1613he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-
1614like smell; a kind of not of the newest Poor-
1615John. A strange fish! Were I in England now,
1616as once I was, and had but this fish painted,
1617not a holiday fool there but would give a piece
1618of silver: there would this monster make a
1619man; any strange beast there makes a man:
1620when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame
1621beggar, they will lazy out ten to see a dead
1622Indian. Legged like a man and his fins like
1623arms! Warm o' my troth! I do now let loose
1624my opinion; hold it no longer: this is no fish,
1625but an islander, that hath lately suffered by a
1626thunderbolt.
1627
1628[Thunder]
1629
1630Alas, the storm is come again! my best way is to
1631creep under his gaberdine; there is no other
1632shelter hereabouts: misery acquaints a man with
1633strange bed-fellows. I will here shroud till the
1634dregs of the storm be past.
1635
1636[Enter STEPHANO, singing: a bottle in his hand]
1637
1638STEPHANO    I shall no more to sea, to sea,
1639Here shall I die ashore--
1640
1641This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's
1642funeral: well, here's my comfort. [Drinks]
1643
1644[Sings]
1645
1646The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I,
1647The gunner and his mate
1648Loved Mall, Meg and Marian and Margery,
1649But none of us cared for Kate;
1650For she had a tongue with a tang,
1651Would cry to a sailor, Go hang!
1652She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch,
1653Yet a tailor might scratch her where'er she did itch:
1654Then to sea, boys, and let her go hang!
1655
1656This is a scurvy tune too: but here's my comfort.
1657[Drinks]
1658
1659CALIBAN Do not torment me: Oh!
1660
1661STEPHANO What's the matter? Have we devils here? Do you put
1662tricks upon's with savages and men of Ind, ha? I
1663have not scaped drowning to be afeard now of your
1664four legs; for it hath been said, As proper a man as
1665ever went on four legs cannot make him give ground;
1666and it shall be said so again while Stephano
1667breathes at's nostrils.
1668
1669CALIBAN The spirit torments me; Oh!
1670
1671STEPHANO This is some monster of the isle with four legs, who
1672hath got, as I take it, an ague. Where the devil
1673should he learn our language? I will give him some
1674relief, if it be but for that. if I can recover him
1675and keep him tame and get to Naples with him, he's a
1676present for any emperor that ever trod on neat's leather.
1677
1678CALIBAN Do not torment me, prithee; I'll bring my wood home faster.
1679
1680STEPHANO He's in his fit now and does not talk after the
1681wisest. He shall taste of my bottle: if he have
1682never drunk wine afore will go near to remove his
1683fit. If I can recover him and keep him tame, I will
1684not take too much for him; he shall pay for him that
1685hath him, and that soundly.
1686
1687CALIBAN Thou dost me yet but little hurt; thou wilt anon, I
1688know it by thy trembling: now Prosper works upon thee.
1689
1690STEPHANO Come on your ways; open your mouth; here is that
1691which will give language to you, cat: open your
1692mouth; this will shake your shaking, I can tell you,
1693and that soundly: you cannot tell who's your friend:
1694open your chaps again.
1695
1696TRINCULO I should know that voice: it should be--but he is
1697drowned; and these are devils: O defend me!
1698
1699STEPHANO Four legs and two voices: a most delicate monster!
1700His forward voice now is to speak well of his
1701friend; his backward voice is to utter foul speeches
1702and to detract. If all the wine in my bottle will
1703recover him, I will help his ague. Come. Amen! I
1704will pour some in thy other mouth.
1705
1706TRINCULO Stephano!
1707
1708STEPHANO Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy, mercy! This is
1709a devil, and no monster: I will leave him; I have no
1710long spoon.
1711
1712TRINCULO Stephano! If thou beest Stephano, touch me and
1713speak to me: for I am Trinculo--be not afeard--thy
1714good friend Trinculo.
1715
1716STEPHANO If thou beest Trinculo, come forth: I'll pull thee
1717by the lesser legs: if any be Trinculo's legs,
1718these are they. Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How
1719camest thou to be the siege of this moon-calf? can
1720he vent Trinculos?
1721
1722TRINCULO I took him to be killed with a thunder-stroke. But
1723art thou not drowned, Stephano? I hope now thou art
1724not drowned. Is the storm overblown? I hid me
1725under the dead moon-calf's gaberdine for fear of
1726the storm. And art thou living, Stephano? O
1727Stephano, two Neapolitans 'scaped!
1728
1729STEPHANO Prithee, do not turn me about; my stomach is not constant.
1730
1731CALIBAN [Aside]  These be fine things, an if they be
1732not sprites.
1733That's a brave god and bears celestial liquor.
1734I will kneel to him.
1735
1736STEPHANO How didst thou 'scape? How camest thou hither?
1737swear by this bottle how thou camest hither. I
1738escaped upon a butt of sack which the sailors
1739heaved o'erboard, by this bottle; which I made of
1740the bark of a tree with mine own hands since I was
1741cast ashore.
1742
1743CALIBAN I'll swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject;
1744for the liquor is not earthly.
1745
1746STEPHANO Here; swear then how thou escapedst.
1747
1748TRINCULO Swum ashore. man, like a duck: I can swim like a
1749duck, I'll be sworn.
1750
1751STEPHANO Here, kiss the book. Though thou canst swim like a
1752duck, thou art made like a goose.
1753
1754TRINCULO O Stephano. hast any more of this?
1755
1756STEPHANO The whole butt, man: my cellar is in a rock by the
1757sea-side where my wine is hid. How now, moon-calf!
1758how does thine ague?
1759
1760CALIBAN Hast thou not dropp'd from heaven?
1761
1762STEPHANO Out o' the moon, I do assure thee: I was the man i'
1763the moon when time was.
1764
1765CALIBAN I have seen thee in her and I do adore thee:
1766My mistress show'd me thee and thy dog and thy bush.
1767
1768STEPHANO Come, swear to that; kiss the book: I will furnish
1769it anon with new contents swear.
1770
1771TRINCULO By this good light, this is a very shallow monster!
1772I afeard of him! A very weak monster! The man i'
1773the moon! A most poor credulous monster! Well
1774drawn, monster, in good sooth!
1775
1776CALIBAN I'll show thee every fertile inch o' th' island;
1777And I will kiss thy foot: I prithee, be my god.
1778
1779TRINCULO By this light, a most perfidious and drunken
1780monster! when 's god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle.
1781
1782CALIBAN I'll kiss thy foot; I'll swear myself thy subject.
1783
1784STEPHANO Come on then; down, and swear.
1785
1786TRINCULO I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed
1787monster. A most scurvy monster! I could find in my
1788heart to beat him,--
1789
1790STEPHANO Come, kiss.
1791
1792TRINCULO But that the poor monster's in drink: an abominable monster!
1793
1794CALIBAN I'll show thee the best springs; I'll pluck thee berries;
1795I'll fish for thee and get thee wood enough.
1796A plague upon the tyrant that I serve!
1797I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee,
1798Thou wondrous man.
1799
1800TRINCULO A most ridiculous monster, to make a wonder of a
1801Poor drunkard!
1802
1803CALIBAN I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow;
1804And I with my long nails will dig thee pignuts;
1805Show thee a jay's nest and instruct thee how
1806To snare the nimble marmoset; I'll bring thee
1807To clustering filberts and sometimes I'll get thee
1808Young scamels from the rock. Wilt thou go with me?
1809
1810STEPHANO I prithee now, lead the way without any more
1811talking. Trinculo, the king and all our company
1812else being drowned, we will inherit here: here;
1813bear my bottle: fellow Trinculo, we'll fill him by
1814and by again.
1815
1816CALIBAN [Sings drunkenly]
1817Farewell master; farewell, farewell!
1818
1819TRINCULO A howling monster: a drunken monster!
1820
1821CALIBAN    No more dams I'll make for fish
1822Nor fetch in firing
1823At requiring;
1824Nor scrape trencher, nor wash dish
1825'Ban, 'Ban, Cacaliban
1826Has a new master: get a new man.
1827
1828Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! freedom,
1829hey-day, freedom!
1830
1831STEPHANO O brave monster! Lead the way.
1832
1833[Exeunt]
1834
1835
1836
1837
1838THE TEMPEST
1839
1840
1841ACT III
1842
1843
1844
1845SCENE I Before PROSPERO'S Cell.
1846
1847
1848[Enter FERDINAND, bearing a log]
1849
1850FERDINAND There be some sports are painful, and their labour
1851Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness
1852Are nobly undergone and most poor matters
1853Point to rich ends. This my mean task
1854Would be as heavy to me as odious, but
1855The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead
1856And makes my labours pleasures: O, she is
1857Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed,
1858And he's composed of harshness. I must remove
1859Some thousands of these logs and pile them up,
1860Upon a sore injunction: my sweet mistress
1861Weeps when she sees me work, and says, such baseness
1862Had never like executor. I forget:
1863But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours,
1864Most busy lest, when I do it.
1865
1866[Enter MIRANDA; and PROSPERO at a distance, unseen]
1867
1868MIRANDA Alas, now, pray you,
1869Work not so hard: I would the lightning had
1870Burnt up those logs that you are enjoin'd to pile!
1871Pray, set it down and rest you: when this burns,
1872'Twill weep for having wearied you. My father
1873Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself;
1874He's safe for these three hours.
1875
1876FERDINAND O most dear mistress,
1877The sun will set before I shall discharge
1878What I must strive to do.
1879
1880MIRANDA If you'll sit down,
1881I'll bear your logs the while: pray, give me that;
1882I'll carry it to the pile.
1883
1884FERDINAND No, precious creature;
1885I had rather crack my sinews, break my back,
1886Than you should such dishonour undergo,
1887While I sit lazy by.
1888
1889MIRANDA It would become me
1890As well as it does you: and I should do it
1891With much more ease; for my good will is to it,
1892And yours it is against.
1893
1894PROSPERO Poor worm, thou art infected!
1895This visitation shows it.
1896
1897MIRANDA You look wearily.
1898
1899FERDINAND No, noble mistress;'tis fresh morning with me
1900When you are by at night. I do beseech you--
1901Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers--
1902What is your name?
1903
1904MIRANDA                   Miranda.--O my father,
1905I have broke your hest to say so!
1906
1907FERDINAND Admired Miranda!
1908Indeed the top of admiration! worth
1909What's dearest to the world! Full many a lady
1910I have eyed with best regard and many a time
1911The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage
1912Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues
1913Have I liked several women; never any
1914With so fun soul, but some defect in her
1915Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed
1916And put it to the foil: but you, O you,
1917So perfect and so peerless, are created
1918Of every creature's best!
1919
1920MIRANDA I do not know
1921One of my sex; no woman's face remember,
1922Save, from my glass, mine own; nor have I seen
1923More that I may call men than you, good friend,
1924And my dear father: how features are abroad,
1925I am skilless of; but, by my modesty,
1926The jewel in my dower, I would not wish
1927Any companion in the world but you,
1928Nor can imagination form a shape,
1929Besides yourself, to like of. But I prattle
1930Something too wildly and my father's precepts
1931I therein do forget.
1932
1933FERDINAND I am in my condition
1934A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king;
1935I would, not so!--and would no more endure
1936This wooden slavery than to suffer
1937The flesh-fly blow my mouth. Hear my soul speak:
1938The very instant that I saw you, did
1939My heart fly to your service; there resides,
1940To make me slave to it; and for your sake
1941Am I this patient log--man.
1942
1943MIRANDA Do you love me?
1944
1945FERDINAND O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound
1946And crown what I profess with kind event
1947If I speak true! if hollowly, invert
1948What best is boded me to mischief! I
1949Beyond all limit of what else i' the world
1950Do love, prize, honour you.
1951
1952MIRANDA I am a fool
1953To weep at what I am glad of.
1954
1955PROSPERO Fair encounter
1956Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace
1957On that which breeds between 'em!
1958
1959FERDINAND Wherefore weep you?
1960
1961MIRANDA At mine unworthiness that dare not offer
1962What I desire to give, and much less take
1963What I shall die to want. But this is trifling;
1964And all the more it seeks to hide itself,
1965The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning!
1966And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!
1967I am your wife, it you will marry me;
1968If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow
1969You may deny me; but I'll be your servant,
1970Whether you will or no.
1971
1972FERDINAND My mistress, dearest;
1973And I thus humble ever.
1974
1975MIRANDA My husband, then?
1976
1977FERDINAND Ay, with a heart as willing
1978As bondage e'er of freedom: here's my hand.
1979
1980MIRANDA And mine, with my heart in't; and now farewell
1981Till half an hour hence.
1982
1983FERDINAND A thousand thousand!
1984
1985[Exeunt FERDINAND and MIRANDA severally]
1986
1987PROSPERO So glad of this as they I cannot be,
1988Who are surprised withal; but my rejoicing
1989At nothing can be more. I'll to my book,
1990For yet ere supper-time must I perform
1991Much business appertaining.
1992
1993[Exit]
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998THE TEMPEST
1999
2000
2001ACT III
2002
2003
2004
2005SCENE II Another part of the island.
2006
2007
2008[Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO]
2009
2010STEPHANO Tell not me; when the butt is out, we will drink
2011water; not a drop before: therefore bear up, and
2012board 'em. Servant-monster, drink to me.
2013
2014TRINCULO Servant-monster! the folly of this island! They
2015say there's but five upon this isle: we are three
2016of them; if th' other two be brained like us, the
2017state totters.
2018
2019STEPHANO Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee: thy eyes
2020are almost set in thy head.
2021
2022TRINCULO Where should they be set else? he were a brave
2023monster indeed, if they were set in his tail.
2024
2025STEPHANO My man-monster hath drown'd his tongue in sack:
2026for my part, the sea cannot drown me; I swam, ere I
2027could recover the shore, five and thirty leagues off
2028and on. By this light, thou shalt be my lieutenant,
2029monster, or my standard.
2030
2031TRINCULO Your lieutenant, if you list; he's no standard.
2032
2033STEPHANO We'll not run, Monsieur Monster.
2034
2035TRINCULO Nor go neither; but you'll lie like dogs and yet say
2036nothing neither.
2037
2038STEPHANO Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a
2039good moon-calf.
2040
2041CALIBAN How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe.
2042I'll not serve him; he's not valiant.
2043
2044TRINCULO Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in case to
2045justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish thou,
2046was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much
2047sack as I to-day? Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie,
2048being but half a fish and half a monster?
2049
2050CALIBAN Lo, how he mocks me! wilt thou let him, my lord?
2051
2052TRINCULO 'Lord' quoth he! That a monster should be such a natural!
2053
2054CALIBAN Lo, lo, again! bite him to death, I prithee.
2055
2056STEPHANO Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head: if you
2057prove a mutineer,--the next tree! The poor monster's
2058my subject and he shall not suffer indignity.
2059
2060CALIBAN I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleased to
2061hearken once again to the suit I made to thee?
2062
2063STEPHANO Marry, will I kneel and repeat it; I will stand,
2064and so shall Trinculo.
2065
2066[Enter ARIEL, invisible]
2067
2068CALIBAN As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a
2069sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island.
2070
2071ARIEL Thou liest.
2072
2073CALIBAN Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou: I would my
2074valiant master would destroy thee! I do not lie.
2075
2076STEPHANO Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in's tale, by
2077this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.
2078
2079TRINCULO Why, I said nothing.
2080
2081STEPHANO Mum, then, and no more. Proceed.
2082
2083CALIBAN I say, by sorcery he got this isle;
2084From me he got it. if thy greatness will
2085Revenge it on him,--for I know thou darest,
2086But this thing dare not,--
2087
2088STEPHANO That's most certain.
2089
2090CALIBAN Thou shalt be lord of it and I'll serve thee.
2091
2092STEPHANO How now shall this be compassed?
2093Canst thou bring me to the party?
2094
2095CALIBAN Yea, yea, my lord: I'll yield him thee asleep,
2096Where thou mayst knock a nail into his bead.
2097
2098ARIEL Thou liest; thou canst not.
2099
2100CALIBAN What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch!
2101I do beseech thy greatness, give him blows
2102And take his bottle from him: when that's gone
2103He shall drink nought but brine; for I'll not show him
2104Where the quick freshes are.
2105
2106STEPHANO Trinculo, run into no further danger:
2107interrupt the monster one word further, and,
2108by this hand, I'll turn my mercy out o' doors
2109and make a stock-fish of thee.
2110
2111TRINCULO Why, what did I? I did nothing. I'll go farther
2112off.
2113
2114STEPHANO Didst thou not say he lied?
2115
2116ARIEL Thou liest.
2117
2118STEPHANO Do I so? take thou that.
2119
2120[Beats TRINCULO]
2121
2122As you like this, give me the lie another time.
2123
2124TRINCULO I did not give the lie. Out o' your
2125wits and bearing too? A pox o' your bottle!
2126this can sack and drinking do. A murrain on
2127your monster, and the devil take your fingers!
2128
2129CALIBAN Ha, ha, ha!
2130
2131STEPHANO Now, forward with your tale. Prithee, stand farther
2132off.
2133
2134CALIBAN Beat him enough: after a little time
2135I'll beat him too.
2136
2137STEPHANO                   Stand farther. Come, proceed.
2138
2139CALIBAN Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him,
2140I' th' afternoon to sleep: there thou mayst brain him,
2141Having first seized his books, or with a log
2142Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,
2143Or cut his wezand with thy knife. Remember
2144First to possess his books; for without them
2145He's but a sot, as I am, nor hath not
2146One spirit to command: they all do hate him
2147As rootedly as I. Burn but his books.
2148He has brave utensils,--for so he calls them--
2149Which when he has a house, he'll deck withal
2150And that most deeply to consider is
2151The beauty of his daughter; he himself
2152Calls her a nonpareil: I never saw a woman,
2153But only Sycorax my dam and she;
2154But she as far surpasseth Sycorax
2155As great'st does least.
2156
2157STEPHANO Is it so brave a lass?
2158
2159CALIBAN Ay, lord; she will become thy bed, I warrant.
2160And bring thee forth brave brood.
2161
2162STEPHANO Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and I
2163will be king and queen--save our graces!--and
2164Trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys. Dost thou
2165like the plot, Trinculo?
2166
2167TRINCULO Excellent.
2168
2169STEPHANO Give me thy hand: I am sorry I beat thee; but,
2170while thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head.
2171
2172CALIBAN Within this half hour will he be asleep:
2173Wilt thou destroy him then?
2174
2175STEPHANO Ay, on mine honour.
2176
2177ARIEL This will I tell my master.
2178
2179CALIBAN Thou makest me merry; I am full of pleasure:
2180Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch
2181You taught me but while-ere?
2182
2183STEPHANO At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any
2184reason. Come on, Trinculo, let us sing.
2185
2186[Sings]
2187
2188Flout 'em and scout 'em
2189And scout 'em and flout 'em
2190Thought is free.
2191
2192CALIBAN That's not the tune.
2193
2194[Ariel plays the tune on a tabour and pipe]
2195
2196STEPHANO What is this same?
2197
2198TRINCULO This is the tune of our catch, played by the picture
2199of Nobody.
2200
2201STEPHANO If thou beest a man, show thyself in thy likeness:
2202if thou beest a devil, take't as thou list.
2203
2204TRINCULO O, forgive me my sins!
2205
2206STEPHANO He that dies pays all debts: I defy thee. Mercy upon us!
2207
2208CALIBAN Art thou afeard?
2209
2210STEPHANO No, monster, not I.
2211
2212CALIBAN Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
2213Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
2214Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
2215Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
2216That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
2217Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
2218The clouds methought would open and show riches
2219Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked,
2220I cried to dream again.
2221
2222STEPHANO This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall
2223have my music for nothing.
2224
2225CALIBAN When Prospero is destroyed.
2226
2227STEPHANO That shall be by and by: I remember the story.
2228
2229TRINCULO The sound is going away; let's follow it, and
2230after do our work.
2231
2232STEPHANO Lead, monster; we'll follow. I would I could see
2233this tabourer; he lays it on.
2234
2235TRINCULO Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano.
2236
2237[Exeunt]
2238
2239
2240
2241
2242THE TEMPEST
2243
2244
2245ACT III
2246
2247
2248
2249SCENE III Another part of the island.
2250
2251
2252[Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO,
2253ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others]
2254
2255GONZALO By'r lakin, I can go no further, sir;
2256My old bones ache: here's a maze trod indeed
2257Through forth-rights and meanders! By your patience,
2258I needs must rest me.
2259
2260ALONSO Old lord, I cannot blame thee,
2261Who am myself attach'd with weariness,
2262To the dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
2263Even here I will put off my hope and keep it
2264No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd
2265Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks
2266Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go.
2267
2268ANTONIO [Aside to SEBASTIAN]  I am right glad that he's so
2269out of hope.
2270Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose
2271That you resolved to effect.
2272
2273SEBASTIAN [Aside to ANTONIO]  The next advantage
2274Will we take throughly.
2275
2276ANTONIO [Aside to SEBASTIAN]  Let it be to-night;
2277For, now they are oppress'd with travel, they
2278Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance
2279As when they are fresh.
2280
2281SEBASTIAN [Aside to ANTONIO]  I say, to-night: no more.
2282
2283[Solemn and strange music]
2284
2285ALONSO What harmony is this? My good friends, hark!
2286
2287GONZALO Marvellous sweet music!
2288
2289[Enter PROSPERO above, invisible. Enter several
2290strange Shapes, bringing in a banquet;
2291they dance about it with gentle actions of
2292salutation; and, inviting the King, &c. to
2293eat, they depart]
2294
2295ALONSO Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these?
2296
2297SEBASTIAN A living drollery. Now I will believe
2298That there are unicorns, that in Arabia
2299There is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one phoenix
2300At this hour reigning there.
2301
2302ANTONIO I'll believe both;
2303And what does else want credit, come to me,
2304And I'll be sworn 'tis true: travellers ne'er did
2305lie,
2306Though fools at home condemn 'em.
2307
2308GONZALO If in Naples
2309I should report this now, would they believe me?
2310If I should say, I saw such islanders--
2311For, certes, these are people of the island--
2312Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet, note,
2313Their manners are more gentle-kind than of
2314Our human generation you shall find
2315Many, nay, almost any.
2316
2317PROSPERO [Aside]              Honest lord,
2318Thou hast said well; for some of you there present
2319Are worse than devils.
2320
2321ALONSO I cannot too much muse
2322Such shapes, such gesture and such sound, expressing,
2323Although they want the use of tongue, a kind
2324Of excellent dumb discourse.
2325
2326PROSPERO [Aside] Praise in departing.
2327
2328FRANCISCO They vanish'd strangely.
2329
2330SEBASTIAN No matter, since
2331They have left their viands behind; for we have stomachs.
2332Will't please you taste of what is here?
2333
2334ALONSO Not I.
2335
2336GONZALO Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys,
2337Who would believe that there were mountaineers
2338Dew-lapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at 'em
2339Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men
2340Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find
2341Each putter-out of five for one will bring us
2342Good warrant of.
2343
2344ALONSO                   I will stand to and feed,
2345Although my last: no matter, since I feel
2346The best is past. Brother, my lord the duke,
2347Stand to and do as we.
2348
2349[Thunder and lightning. Enter ARIEL, like a
2350harpy; claps his wings upon the table; and,
2351with a quaint device, the banquet vanishes]
2352
2353ARIEL You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,
2354That hath to instrument this lower world
2355And what is in't, the never-surfeited sea
2356Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island
2357Where man doth not inhabit; you 'mongst men
2358Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad;
2359And even with such-like valour men hang and drown
2360Their proper selves.
2361
2362[ALONSO, SEBASTIAN &c. draw their swords]
2363
2364You fools! I and my fellows
2365Are ministers of Fate: the elements,
2366Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well
2367Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs
2368Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish
2369One dowle that's in my plume: my fellow-ministers
2370Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,
2371Your swords are now too massy for your strengths
2372And will not be uplifted. But remember--
2373For that's my business to you--that you three
2374From Milan did supplant good Prospero;
2375Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it,
2376Him and his innocent child: for which foul deed
2377The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have
2378Incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
2379Against your peace. Thee of thy son, Alonso,
2380They have bereft; and do pronounce by me:
2381Lingering perdition, worse than any death
2382Can be at once, shall step by step attend
2383You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from--
2384Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls
2385Upon your heads--is nothing but heart-sorrow
2386And a clear life ensuing.
2387
2388[He vanishes in thunder; then, to soft music
2389enter the Shapes again, and dance, with
2390mocks and mows, and carrying out the table]
2391
2392PROSPERO Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou
2393Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring:
2394Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated
2395In what thou hadst to say: so, with good life
2396And observation strange, my meaner ministers
2397Their several kinds have done. My high charms work
2398And these mine enemies are all knit up
2399In their distractions; they now are in my power;
2400And in these fits I leave them, while I visit
2401Young Ferdinand, whom they suppose is drown'd,
2402And his and mine loved darling.
2403
2404[Exit above]
2405
2406GONZALO I' the name of something holy, sir, why stand you
2407In this strange stare?
2408
2409ALONSO O, it is monstrous, monstrous:
2410Methought the billows spoke and told me of it;
2411The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder,
2412That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced
2413The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass.
2414Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded, and
2415I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded
2416And with him there lie mudded.
2417[Exit]
2418
2419SEBASTIAN But one fiend at a time,
2420I'll fight their legions o'er.
2421
2422ANTONIO I'll be thy second.
2423
2424[Exeunt SEBASTIAN, and ANTONIO]
2425
2426GONZALO All three of them are desperate: their great guilt,
2427Like poison given to work a great time after,
2428Now 'gins to bite the spirits. I do beseech you
2429That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly
2430And hinder them from what this ecstasy
2431May now provoke them to.
2432
2433ADRIAN Follow, I pray you.
2434
2435[Exeunt]
2436
2437
2438
2439
2440THE TEMPEST
2441
2442
2443ACT IV
2444
2445
2446
2447SCENE I Before PROSPERO'S cell.
2448
2449
2450[Enter PROSPERO, FERDINAND, and MIRANDA]
2451
2452PROSPERO If I have too austerely punish'd you,
2453Your compensation makes amends, for I
2454Have given you here a third of mine own life,
2455Or that for which I live; who once again
2456I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations
2457Were but my trials of thy love and thou
2458Hast strangely stood the test here, afore Heaven,
2459I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand,
2460Do not smile at me that I boast her off,
2461For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise
2462And make it halt behind her.
2463
2464FERDINAND I do believe it
2465Against an oracle.
2466
2467PROSPERO Then, as my gift and thine own acquisition
2468Worthily purchased take my daughter: but
2469If thou dost break her virgin-knot before
2470All sanctimonious ceremonies may
2471With full and holy rite be minister'd,
2472No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall
2473To make this contract grow: but barren hate,
2474Sour-eyed disdain and discord shall bestrew
2475The union of your bed with weeds so loathly
2476That you shall hate it both: therefore take heed,
2477As Hymen's lamps shall light you.
2478
2479FERDINAND As I hope
2480For quiet days, fair issue and long life,
2481With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den,
2482The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion.
2483Our worser genius can, shall never melt
2484Mine honour into lust, to take away
2485The edge of that day's celebration
2486When I shall think: or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd,
2487Or Night kept chain'd below.
2488
2489PROSPERO Fairly spoke.
2490Sit then and talk with her; she is thine own.
2491What, Ariel! my industrious servant, Ariel!
2492
2493[Enter ARIEL]
2494
2495ARIEL What would my potent master? here I am.
2496
2497PROSPERO Thou and thy meaner fellows your last service
2498Did worthily perform; and I must use you
2499In such another trick. Go bring the rabble,
2500O'er whom I give thee power, here to this place:
2501Incite them to quick motion; for I must
2502Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple
2503Some vanity of mine art: it is my promise,
2504And they expect it from me.
2505
2506ARIEL Presently?
2507
2508PROSPERO Ay, with a twink.
2509
2510ARIEL    Before you can say 'come' and 'go,'
2511And breathe twice and cry 'so, so,'
2512Each one, tripping on his toe,
2513Will be here with mop and mow.
2514Do you love me, master? no?
2515
2516PROSPERO Dearly my delicate Ariel. Do not approach
2517Till thou dost hear me call.
2518
2519ARIEL Well, I conceive.
2520
2521[Exit]
2522
2523PROSPERO Look thou be true; do not give dalliance
2524Too much the rein: the strongest oaths are straw
2525To the fire i' the blood: be more abstemious,
2526Or else, good night your vow!
2527
2528FERDINAND I warrant you sir;
2529The white cold virgin snow upon my heart
2530Abates the ardour of my liver.
2531
2532PROSPERO Well.
2533Now come, my Ariel! bring a corollary,
2534Rather than want a spirit: appear and pertly!
2535No tongue! all eyes! be silent.
2536
2537[Soft music]
2538
2539[Enter IRIS]
2540
2541IRIS Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas
2542Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats and pease;
2543Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,
2544And flat meads thatch'd with stover, them to keep;
2545Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims,
2546Which spongy April at thy hest betrims,
2547To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broom -groves,
2548Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,
2549Being lass-lorn: thy pole-clipt vineyard;
2550And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,
2551Where thou thyself dost air;--the queen o' the sky,
2552Whose watery arch and messenger am I,
2553Bids thee leave these, and with her sovereign grace,
2554Here on this grass-plot, in this very place,
2555To come and sport: her peacocks fly amain:
2556Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.
2557
2558[Enter CERES]
2559
2560CERES Hail, many-colour'd messenger, that ne'er
2561Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter;
2562Who with thy saffron wings upon my flowers
2563Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers,
2564And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown
2565My bosky acres and my unshrubb'd down,
2566Rich scarf to my proud earth; why hath thy queen
2567Summon'd me hither, to this short-grass'd green?
2568
2569IRIS A contract of true love to celebrate;
2570And some donation freely to estate
2571On the blest lovers.
2572
2573CERES Tell me, heavenly bow,
2574If Venus or her son, as thou dost know,
2575Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot
2576The means that dusky Dis my daughter got,
2577Her and her blind boy's scandal'd company
2578I have forsworn.
2579
2580IRIS                   Of her society
2581Be not afraid: I met her deity
2582Cutting the clouds towards Paphos and her son
2583Dove-drawn with her. Here thought they to have done
2584Some wanton charm upon this man and maid,
2585Whose vows are, that no bed-right shall be paid
2586Till Hymen's torch be lighted: but vain;
2587Mars's hot minion is returned again;
2588Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows,
2589Swears he will shoot no more but play with sparrows
2590And be a boy right out.
2591
2592CERES High'st queen of state,
2593Great Juno, comes; I know her by her gait.
2594
2595[Enter JUNO]
2596
2597JUNO How does my bounteous sister? Go with me
2598To bless this twain, that they may prosperous be
2599And honour'd in their issue.
2600
2601[They sing:]
2602
2603JUNO    Honour, riches, marriage-blessing,
2604Long continuance, and increasing,
2605Hourly joys be still upon you!
2606Juno sings her blessings upon you.
2607
2608CERES    Earth's increase, foison plenty,
2609Barns and garners never empty,
2610Vines and clustering bunches growing,
2611Plants with goodly burthen bowing;
2612Spring come to you at the farthest
2613In the very end of harvest!
2614Scarcity and want shall shun you;
2615Ceres' blessing so is on you.
2616
2617FERDINAND This is a most majestic vision, and
2618Harmoniously charmingly. May I be bold
2619To think these spirits?
2620
2621PROSPERO Spirits, which by mine art
2622I have from their confines call'd to enact
2623My present fancies.
2624
2625FERDINAND Let me live here ever;
2626So rare a wonder'd father and a wife
2627Makes this place Paradise.
2628
2629[Juno and Ceres whisper, and send Iris on
2630employment]
2631
2632PROSPERO Sweet, now, silence!
2633Juno and Ceres whisper seriously;
2634There's something else to do: hush, and be mute,
2635Or else our spell is marr'd.
2636
2637IRIS You nymphs, call'd Naiads, of the windring brooks,
2638With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks,
2639Leave your crisp channels and on this green land
2640Answer your summons; Juno does command:
2641Come, temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate
2642A contract of true love; be not too late.
2643
2644[Enter certain Nymphs]
2645
2646You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary,
2647Come hither from the furrow and be merry:
2648Make holiday; your rye-straw hats put on
2649And these fresh nymphs encounter every one
2650In country footing.
2651
2652[Enter certain Reapers, properly habited: they
2653join with the Nymphs in a graceful dance;
2654towards the end whereof PROSPERO starts
2655suddenly, and speaks; after which, to a
2656strange, hollow, and confused noise, they
2657heavily vanish]
2658
2659PROSPERO [Aside]  I had forgot that foul conspiracy
2660Of the beast Caliban and his confederates
2661Against my life: the minute of their plot
2662Is almost come.
2663
2664[To the Spirits]
2665
2666Well done! avoid; no more!
2667
2668FERDINAND This is strange: your father's in some passion
2669That works him strongly.
2670
2671MIRANDA Never till this day
2672Saw I him touch'd with anger so distemper'd.
2673
2674PROSPERO You do look, my son, in a moved sort,
2675As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, sir.
2676Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
2677As I foretold you, were all spirits and
2678Are melted into air, into thin air:
2679And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
2680The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
2681The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
2682Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve
2683And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
2684Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
2685As dreams are made on, and our little life
2686Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vex'd;
2687Bear with my weakness; my, brain is troubled:
2688Be not disturb'd with my infirmity:
2689If you be pleased, retire into my cell
2690And there repose: a turn or two I'll walk,
2691To still my beating mind.
2692
2693
2694FERDINAND |
2695|  We wish your peace.
2696MIRANDA |
2697
2698
2699[Exeunt]
2700
2701PROSPERO Come with a thought I thank thee, Ariel: come.
2702
2703[Enter ARIEL]
2704
2705ARIEL Thy thoughts I cleave to. What's thy pleasure?
2706
2707PROSPERO Spirit,
2708We must prepare to meet with Caliban.
2709
2710ARIEL Ay, my commander: when I presented Ceres,
2711I thought to have told thee of it, but I fear'd
2712Lest I might anger thee.
2713
2714PROSPERO Say again, where didst thou leave these varlets?
2715
2716ARIEL I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking;
2717So fun of valour that they smote the air
2718For breathing in their faces; beat the ground
2719For kissing of their feet; yet always bending
2720Towards their project. Then I beat my tabour;
2721At which, like unback'd colts, they prick'd
2722their ears,
2723Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses
2724As they smelt music: so I charm'd their ears
2725That calf-like they my lowing follow'd through
2726Tooth'd briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss and thorns,
2727Which entered their frail shins: at last I left them
2728I' the filthy-mantled pool beyond your cell,
2729There dancing up to the chins, that the foul lake
2730O'erstunk their feet.
2731
2732PROSPERO This was well done, my bird.
2733Thy shape invisible retain thou still:
2734The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither,
2735For stale to catch these thieves.
2736
2737ARIEL I go, I go.
2738
2739[Exit]
2740
2741PROSPERO A devil, a born devil, on whose nature
2742Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains,
2743Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost;
2744And as with age his body uglier grows,
2745So his mind cankers. I will plague them all,
2746Even to roaring.
2747
2748[Re-enter ARIEL, loaden with glistering apparel, &c]
2749
2750Come, hang them on this line.
2751
2752[PROSPERO and ARIEL remain invisible. Enter
2753CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO, all wet]
2754
2755CALIBAN Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not
2756Hear a foot fall: we now are near his cell.
2757
2758STEPHANO Monster, your fairy, which you say is
2759a harmless fairy, has done little better than
2760played the Jack with us.
2761
2762TRINCULO Monster, I do smell all horse-piss; at
2763which my nose is in great indignation.
2764
2765STEPHANO So is mine. Do you hear, monster? If I should take
2766a displeasure against you, look you,--
2767
2768TRINCULO Thou wert but a lost monster.
2769
2770CALIBAN Good my lord, give me thy favour still.
2771Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to
2772Shall hoodwink this mischance: therefore speak softly.
2773All's hush'd as midnight yet.
2774
2775TRINCULO Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool,--
2776
2777STEPHANO There is not only disgrace and dishonour in that,
2778monster, but an infinite loss.
2779
2780TRINCULO That's more to me than my wetting: yet this is your
2781harmless fairy, monster.
2782
2783STEPHANO I will fetch off my bottle, though I be o'er ears
2784for my labour.
2785
2786CALIBAN Prithee, my king, be quiet. Seest thou here,
2787This is the mouth o' the cell: no noise, and enter.
2788Do that good mischief which may make this island
2789Thine own for ever, and I, thy Caliban,
2790For aye thy foot-licker.
2791
2792STEPHANO Give me thy hand. I do begin to have bloody thoughts.
2793
2794TRINCULO O king Stephano! O peer! O worthy Stephano! look
2795what a wardrobe here is for thee!
2796
2797CALIBAN Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash.
2798
2799TRINCULO O, ho, monster! we know what belongs to a frippery.
2800O king Stephano!
2801
2802STEPHANO Put off that gown, Trinculo; by this hand, I'll have
2803that gown.
2804
2805TRINCULO Thy grace shall have it.
2806
2807CALIBAN The dropsy drown this fool I what do you mean
2808To dote thus on such luggage? Let's alone
2809And do the murder first: if he awake,
2810From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches,
2811Make us strange stuff.
2812
2813STEPHANO Be you quiet, monster. Mistress line,
2814is not this my jerkin? Now is the jerkin under
2815the line: now, jerkin, you are like to lose your
2816hair and prove a bald jerkin.
2817
2818TRINCULO Do, do: we steal by line and level, an't like your grace.
2819
2820STEPHANO I thank thee for that jest; here's a garment for't:
2821wit shall not go unrewarded while I am king of this
2822country. 'Steal by line and level' is an excellent
2823pass of pate; there's another garment for't.
2824
2825TRINCULO Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and
2826away with the rest.
2827
2828CALIBAN I will have none on't: we shall lose our time,
2829And all be turn'd to barnacles, or to apes
2830With foreheads villanous low.
2831
2832STEPHANO Monster, lay-to your fingers: help to bear this
2833away where my hogshead of wine is, or I'll turn you
2834out of my kingdom: go to, carry this.
2835
2836TRINCULO And this.
2837
2838STEPHANO Ay, and this.
2839
2840[A noise of hunters heard. Enter divers Spirits,
2841in shape of dogs and hounds, and hunt them about,
2842PROSPERO and ARIEL setting them on]
2843
2844PROSPERO Hey, Mountain, hey!
2845
2846ARIEL Silver I there it goes, Silver!
2847
2848PROSPERO Fury, Fury! there, Tyrant, there! hark! hark!
2849
2850[CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO, are
2851driven out]
2852
2853Go charge my goblins that they grind their joints
2854With dry convulsions, shorten up their sinews
2855With aged cramps, and more pinch-spotted make them
2856Than pard or cat o' mountain.
2857
2858ARIEL Hark, they roar!
2859
2860PROSPERO Let them be hunted soundly. At this hour
2861Lie at my mercy all mine enemies:
2862Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou
2863Shalt have the air at freedom: for a little
2864Follow, and do me service.
2865
2866[Exeunt]
2867
2868
2869
2870
2871THE TEMPEST
2872
2873
2874ACT V
2875
2876
2877
2878SCENE I Before PROSPERO'S cell.
2879
2880
2881[Enter PROSPERO in his magic robes, and ARIEL]
2882
2883PROSPERO Now does my project gather to a head:
2884My charms crack not; my spirits obey; and time
2885Goes upright with his carriage. How's the day?
2886
2887ARIEL On the sixth hour; at which time, my lord,
2888You said our work should cease.
2889
2890PROSPERO I did say so,
2891When first I raised the tempest. Say, my spirit,
2892How fares the king and's followers?
2893
2894ARIEL Confined together
2895In the same fashion as you gave in charge,
2896Just as you left them; all prisoners, sir,
2897In the line-grove which weather-fends your cell;
2898They cannot budge till your release. The king,
2899His brother and yours, abide all three distracted
2900And the remainder mourning over them,
2901Brimful of sorrow and dismay; but chiefly
2902Him that you term'd, sir, 'The good old lord Gonzalo;'
2903His tears run down his beard, like winter's drops
2904From eaves of reeds. Your charm so strongly works 'em
2905That if you now beheld them, your affections
2906Would become tender.
2907
2908PROSPERO Dost thou think so, spirit?
2909
2910ARIEL Mine would, sir, were I human.
2911
2912PROSPERO And mine shall.
2913Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling
2914Of their afflictions, and shall not myself,
2915One of their kind, that relish all as sharply,
2916Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art?
2917Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick,
2918Yet with my nobler reason 'gaitist my fury
2919Do I take part: the rarer action is
2920In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,
2921The sole drift of my purpose doth extend
2922Not a frown further. Go release them, Ariel:
2923My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore,
2924And they shall be themselves.
2925
2926ARIEL I'll fetch them, sir.
2927
2928[Exit]
2929
2930PROSPERO Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves,
2931And ye that on the sands with printless foot
2932Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him
2933When he comes back; you demi-puppets that
2934By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make,
2935Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime
2936Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice
2937To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid,
2938Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd
2939The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,
2940And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault
2941Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder
2942Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak
2943With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory
2944Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up
2945The pine and cedar: graves at my command
2946Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth
2947By my so potent art. But this rough magic
2948I here abjure, and, when I have required
2949Some heavenly music, which even now I do,
2950To work mine end upon their senses that
2951This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
2952Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
2953And deeper than did ever plummet sound
2954I'll drown my book.
2955
2956[Solemn music]
2957
2958[Re-enter ARIEL before: then ALONSO, with a
2959frantic gesture, attended by GONZALO;
2960SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO in like manner,
2961attended by ADRIAN and FRANCISCO   they all
2962enter the circle which PROSPERO had made,
2963and there stand charmed; which PROSPERO
2964observing, speaks:]
2965
2966A solemn air and the best comforter
2967To an unsettled fancy cure thy brains,
2968Now useless, boil'd within thy skull! There stand,
2969For you are spell-stopp'd.
2970Holy Gonzalo, honourable man,
2971Mine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine,
2972Fall fellowly drops. The charm dissolves apace,
2973And as the morning steals upon the night,
2974Melting the darkness, so their rising senses
2975Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
2976Their clearer reason. O good Gonzalo,
2977My true preserver, and a loyal sir
2978To him you follow'st! I will pay thy graces
2979Home both in word and deed. Most cruelly
2980Didst thou, Alonso, use me and my daughter:
2981Thy brother was a furtherer in the act.
2982Thou art pinch'd fort now, Sebastian. Flesh and blood,
2983You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,
2984Expell'd remorse and nature; who, with Sebastian,
2985Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong,
2986Would here have kill'd your king; I do forgive thee,
2987Unnatural though thou art. Their understanding
2988Begins to swell, and the approaching tide
2989Will shortly fill the reasonable shore
2990That now lies foul and muddy. Not one of them
2991That yet looks on me, or would know me Ariel,
2992Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell:
2993I will discase me, and myself present
2994As I was sometime Milan: quickly, spirit;
2995Thou shalt ere long be free.
2996
2997[ARIEL sings and helps to attire him]
2998
2999Where the bee sucks. there suck I:
3000In a cowslip's bell I lie;
3001There I couch when owls do cry.
3002On the bat's back I do fly
3003After summer merrily.
3004Merrily, merrily shall I live now
3005Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
3006
3007PROSPERO Why, that's my dainty Ariel! I shall miss thee:
3008But yet thou shalt have freedom: so, so, so.
3009To the king's ship, invisible as thou art:
3010There shalt thou find the mariners asleep
3011Under the hatches; the master and the boatswain
3012Being awake, enforce them to this place,
3013And presently, I prithee.
3014
3015ARIEL I drink the air before me, and return
3016Or ere your pulse twice beat.
3017
3018[Exit]
3019
3020GONZALO All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement
3021Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us
3022Out of this fearful country!
3023
3024PROSPERO Behold, sir king,
3025The wronged Duke of Milan, Prospero:
3026For more assurance that a living prince
3027Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body;
3028And to thee and thy company I bid
3029A hearty welcome.
3030
3031ALONSO                   Whether thou best he or no,
3032Or some enchanted trifle to abuse me,
3033As late I have been, I not know: thy pulse
3034Beats as of flesh and blood; and, since I saw thee,
3035The affliction of my mind amends, with which,
3036I fear, a madness held me: this must crave,
3037An if this be at all, a most strange story.
3038Thy dukedom I resign and do entreat
3039Thou pardon me my wrongs. But how should Prospero
3040Be living and be here?
3041
3042PROSPERO First, noble friend,
3043Let me embrace thine age, whose honour cannot
3044Be measured or confined.
3045
3046GONZALO Whether this be
3047Or be not, I'll not swear.
3048
3049PROSPERO You do yet taste
3050Some subtilties o' the isle, that will not let you
3051Believe things certain. Welcome, my friends all!
3052
3053[Aside to SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO]
3054
3055But you, my brace of lords, were I so minded,
3056I here could pluck his highness' frown upon you
3057And justify you traitors: at this time
3058I will tell no tales.
3059
3060SEBASTIAN [Aside]  The devil speaks in him.
3061
3062PROSPERO No.
3063For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother
3064Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive
3065Thy rankest fault; all of them; and require
3066My dukedom of thee, which perforce, I know,
3067Thou must restore.
3068
3069ALONSO                   If thou be'st Prospero,
3070Give us particulars of thy preservation;
3071How thou hast met us here, who three hours since
3072Were wreck'd upon this shore; where I have lost--
3073How sharp the point of this remembrance is!--
3074My dear son Ferdinand.
3075
3076PROSPERO I am woe for't, sir.
3077
3078ALONSO Irreparable is the loss, and patience
3079Says it is past her cure.
3080
3081PROSPERO I rather think
3082You have not sought her help, of whose soft grace
3083For the like loss I have her sovereign aid
3084And rest myself content.
3085
3086ALONSO You the like loss!
3087
3088PROSPERO As great to me as late; and, supportable
3089To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker
3090Than you may call to comfort you, for I
3091Have lost my daughter.
3092
3093ALONSO A daughter?
3094O heavens, that they were living both in Naples,
3095The king and queen there! that they were, I wish
3096Myself were mudded in that oozy bed
3097Where my son lies. When did you lose your daughter?
3098
3099PROSPERO In this last tempest. I perceive these lords
3100At this encounter do so much admire
3101That they devour their reason and scarce think
3102Their eyes do offices of truth, their words
3103Are natural breath: but, howsoe'er you have
3104Been justled from your senses, know for certain
3105That I am Prospero and that very duke
3106Which was thrust forth of Milan, who most strangely
3107Upon this shore, where you were wreck'd, was landed,
3108To be the lord on't. No more yet of this;
3109For 'tis a chronicle of day by day,
3110Not a relation for a breakfast nor
3111Befitting this first meeting. Welcome, sir;
3112This cell's my court: here have I few attendants
3113And subjects none abroad: pray you, look in.
3114My dukedom since you have given me again,
3115I will requite you with as good a thing;
3116At least bring forth a wonder, to content ye
3117As much as me my dukedom.
3118
3119[Here PROSPERO discovers FERDINAND and MIRANDA
3120playing at chess]
3121
3122MIRANDA Sweet lord, you play me false.
3123
3124FERDINAND No, my dear'st love,
3125I would not for the world.
3126
3127MIRANDA Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle,
3128And I would call it, fair play.
3129
3130ALONSO If this prove
3131A vision of the Island, one dear son
3132Shall I twice lose.
3133
3134SEBASTIAN A most high miracle!
3135
3136FERDINAND Though the seas threaten, they are merciful;
3137I have cursed them without cause.
3138
3139[Kneels]
3140
3141ALONSO Now all the blessings
3142Of a glad father compass thee about!
3143Arise, and say how thou camest here.
3144
3145MIRANDA O, wonder!
3146How many goodly creatures are there here!
3147How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
3148That has such people in't!
3149
3150PROSPERO 'Tis new to thee.
3151
3152ALONSO What is this maid with whom thou wast at play?
3153Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours:
3154Is she the goddess that hath sever'd us,
3155And brought us thus together?
3156
3157FERDINAND Sir, she is mortal;
3158But by immortal Providence she's mine:
3159I chose her when I could not ask my father
3160For his advice, nor thought I had one. She
3161Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan,
3162Of whom so often I have heard renown,
3163But never saw before; of whom I have
3164Received a second life; and second father
3165This lady makes him to me.
3166
3167ALONSO I am hers:
3168But, O, how oddly will it sound that I
3169Must ask my child forgiveness!
3170
3171PROSPERO There, sir, stop:
3172Let us not burthen our remembrance with
3173A heaviness that's gone.
3174
3175GONZALO I have inly wept,
3176Or should have spoke ere this. Look down, you god,
3177And on this couple drop a blessed crown!
3178For it is you that have chalk'd forth the way
3179Which brought us hither.
3180
3181ALONSO I say, Amen, Gonzalo!
3182
3183GONZALO Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue
3184Should become kings of Naples? O, rejoice
3185Beyond a common joy, and set it down
3186With gold on lasting pillars: In one voyage
3187Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis,
3188And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife
3189Where he himself was lost, Prospero his dukedom
3190In a poor isle and all of us ourselves
3191When no man was his own.
3192
3193ALONSO [To FERDINAND and MIRANDA]  Give me your hands:
3194Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart
3195That doth not wish you joy!
3196
3197GONZALO Be it so! Amen!
3198
3199[Re-enter ARIEL, with the Master and Boatswain
3200amazedly following]
3201
3202O, look, sir, look, sir! here is more of us:
3203I prophesied, if a gallows were on land,
3204This fellow could not drown. Now, blasphemy,
3205That swear'st grace o'erboard, not an oath on shore?
3206Hast thou no mouth by land? What is the news?
3207
3208Boatswain The best news is, that we have safely found
3209Our king and company; the next, our ship--
3210Which, but three glasses since, we gave out split--
3211Is tight and yare and bravely rigg'd as when
3212We first put out to sea.
3213
3214ARIEL [Aside to PROSPERO]  Sir, all this service
3215Have I done since I went.
3216
3217PROSPERO [Aside to ARIEL]  My tricksy spirit!
3218
3219ALONSO These are not natural events; they strengthen
3220From strange to stranger. Say, how came you hither?
3221
3222Boatswain If I did think, sir, I were well awake,
3223I'ld strive to tell you. We were dead of sleep,
3224And--how we know not--all clapp'd under hatches;
3225Where but even now with strange and several noises
3226Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling chains,
3227And more diversity of sounds, all horrible,
3228We were awaked; straightway, at liberty;
3229Where we, in all her trim, freshly beheld
3230Our royal, good and gallant ship, our master
3231Capering to eye her: on a trice, so please you,
3232Even in a dream, were we divided from them
3233And were brought moping hither.
3234
3235ARIEL [Aside to PROSPERO]          Was't well done?
3236
3237PROSPERO [Aside to ARIEL]  Bravely, my diligence. Thou shalt be free.
3238
3239ALONSO This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod
3240And there is in this business more than nature
3241Was ever conduct of: some oracle
3242Must rectify our knowledge.
3243
3244PROSPERO Sir, my liege,
3245Do not infest your mind with beating on
3246The strangeness of this business; at pick'd leisure
3247Which shall be shortly, single I'll resolve you,
3248Which to you shall seem probable, of every
3249These happen'd accidents; till when, be cheerful
3250And think of each thing well.
3251
3252[Aside to ARIEL]
3253
3254        Come hither, spirit:
3255Set Caliban and his companions free;
3256Untie the spell.
3257
3258[Exit ARIEL]
3259
3260How fares my gracious sir?
3261There are yet missing of your company
3262Some few odd lads that you remember not.
3263
3264[Re-enter ARIEL, driving in CALIBAN, STEPHANO
3265and TRINCULO, in their stolen apparel]
3266
3267STEPHANO Every man shift for all the rest, and
3268let no man take care for himself; for all is
3269but fortune. Coragio, bully-monster, coragio!
3270
3271TRINCULO If these be true spies which I wear in my head,
3272here's a goodly sight.
3273
3274CALIBAN O Setebos, these be brave spirits indeed!
3275How fine my master is! I am afraid
3276He will chastise me.
3277
3278SEBASTIAN Ha, ha!
3279What things are these, my lord Antonio?
3280Will money buy 'em?
3281
3282ANTONIO Very like; one of them
3283Is a plain fish, and, no doubt, marketable.
3284
3285PROSPERO Mark but the badges of these men, my lords,
3286Then say if they be true. This mis-shapen knave,
3287His mother was a witch, and one so strong
3288That could control the moon, make flows and ebbs,
3289And deal in her command without her power.
3290These three have robb'd me; and this demi-devil--
3291For he's a bastard one--had plotted with them
3292To take my life. Two of these fellows you
3293Must know and own; this thing of darkness!
3294Acknowledge mine.
3295
3296CALIBAN                   I shall be pinch'd to death.
3297
3298ALONSO Is not this Stephano, my drunken butler?
3299
3300SEBASTIAN He is drunk now: where had he wine?
3301
3302ALONSO And Trinculo is reeling ripe: where should they
3303Find this grand liquor that hath gilded 'em?
3304How camest thou in this pickle?
3305
3306TRINCULO I have been in such a pickle since I
3307saw you last that, I fear me, will never out of
3308my bones: I shall not fear fly-blowing.
3309
3310SEBASTIAN Why, how now, Stephano!
3311
3312STEPHANO O, touch me not; I am not Stephano, but a cramp.
3313
3314PROSPERO You'ld be king o' the isle, sirrah?
3315
3316STEPHANO I should have been a sore one then.
3317
3318ALONSO This is a strange thing as e'er I look'd on.
3319
3320[Pointing to Caliban]
3321
3322PROSPERO He is as disproportion'd in his manners
3323As in his shape. Go, sirrah, to my cell;
3324Take with you your companions; as you look
3325To have my pardon, trim it handsomely.
3326
3327CALIBAN Ay, that I will; and I'll be wise hereafter
3328And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass
3329Was I, to take this drunkard for a god
3330And worship this dull fool!
3331
3332PROSPERO Go to; away!
3333
3334ALONSO Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it.
3335
3336SEBASTIAN Or stole it, rather.
3337
3338[Exeunt CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO]
3339
3340PROSPERO Sir, I invite your highness and your train
3341To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest
3342For this one night; which, part of it, I'll waste
3343With such discourse as, I not doubt, shall make it
3344Go quick away; the story of my life
3345And the particular accidents gone by
3346Since I came to this isle: and in the morn
3347I'll bring you to your ship and so to Naples,
3348Where I have hope to see the nuptial
3349Of these our dear-beloved solemnized;
3350And thence retire me to my Milan, where
3351Every third thought shall be my grave.
3352
3353ALONSO I long
3354To hear the story of your life, which must
3355Take the ear strangely.
3356
3357PROSPERO I'll deliver all;
3358And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales
3359And sail so expeditious that shall catch
3360Your royal fleet far off.
3361
3362[Aside to ARIEL]
3363
3364    My Ariel, chick,
3365That is thy charge: then to the elements
3366Be free, and fare thou well! Please you, draw near.
3367
3368[Exeunt]
3369
3370
3371
3372
3373THE TEMPEST
3374
3375EPILOGUE
3376
3377
3378[Spoken by PROSPERO]
3379
3380PROSPERO Now my charms are all o'erthrown,
3381And what strength I have's mine own,
3382Which is most faint: now, 'tis true,
3383I must be here confined by you,
3384Or sent to Naples. Let me not,
3385Since I have my dukedom got
3386And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell
3387In this bare island by your spell;
3388But release me from my bands
3389With the help of your good hands:
3390Gentle breath of yours my sails
3391Must fill, or else my project fails,
3392Which was to please. Now I want
3393Spirits to enforce, art to enchant,
3394And my ending is despair,
3395Unless I be relieved by prayer,
3396Which pierces so that it assaults
3397Mercy itself and frees all faults.
3398As you from crimes would pardon'd be,
3399Let your indulgence set me free.