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