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