<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN>
<h3 class = "extended">THE WORKS</h3>
<h6>OF</h6>
<h1>WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE</h1>
<h6>EDITED BY</h6>
<h4>WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A.</h4>
<h6 class = "close">
FELLOW AND TUTOR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND PUBLIC ORATOR<br/>
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE;</h6>
<h4 class = "smallcaps">and JOHN GLOVER, M.A.</h4>
<h6 class = "close">
LIBRARIAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.</h6>
<h5> <br/>
<i>VOLUME I.</i><br/>
</h5>
<h5><b>Cambridge and London:</b><br/>
<span class = "extended">MACMILLAN AND CO.</span><br/>
1863.</h5>
<hr class = "small page">
<table class = "contents" summary = "list of scenes">
<tr>
<td></td>
<td colspan = "2">
<SPAN href = "#cast">Dramatis Personæ</SPAN><br/>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Act I</td>
<td><SPAN href = "#sceneI_1">Scene 1</SPAN></td>
<td>On a ship at sea.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td><SPAN href = "#sceneI_2">Scene 2</SPAN></td>
<td>The island. Before Prospero’s cell.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Act II</td>
<td><SPAN href = "#sceneII_1">Scene 1</SPAN></td>
<td>Another part of the island.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td><SPAN href = "#sceneII_2">Scene 2</SPAN></td>
<td>Another part of the island.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Act III</td>
<td><SPAN href = "#sceneIII_1">Scene 1</SPAN></td>
<td>Before Prospero’s cell.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td><SPAN href = "#sceneIII_2">Scene 2</SPAN></td>
<td>Another part of the island.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td><SPAN href = "#sceneIII_3">Scene 3</SPAN></td>
<td>Another part of the island.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Act IV</td>
<td><SPAN href = "#sceneIV_1">Scene 1</SPAN></td>
<td>Before Prospero’s cell.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Act V</td>
<td><SPAN href = "#sceneV_1">Scene 1</SPAN></td>
<td>Before the cell of Prospero.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td colspan = "2">
<SPAN href = "#notes"> <br/>
Endnotes</SPAN></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td colspan = "2">
<SPAN href = "#apparatus">Critical Apparatus</SPAN> (“Linenotes”)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td colspan = "2">
<SPAN href = "#sources">Texts Used</SPAN> (from general preface)</td>
</tr>
</table>
<hr class = "small page">
<span class = "pagenum">1</span>
<SPAN name="page1" id = "page1"> </SPAN>
<h1 class = "extended">THE TEMPEST.</h1>
<hr class = "small page">
<span class = "pagenum">2</span>
<SPAN name="page2" id = "page2"> </SPAN>
<h3><SPAN name="cast" id = "cast"> DRAMATIS PERSONÆ</SPAN>.<SPAN class = "tag" name = "tag1" id = "tag1" href = "#note1">1</SPAN></h3>
<div class = "center">
<table summary = "list of characters">
<tr><td>
<p><span class = "charname">Alonso</span>, King of Naples.</p>
<p><span class = "charname">Sebastian</span>, his brother.</p>
<p><span class = "charname">Prospero</span>, the right Duke of
Milan.</p>
<p><span class = "charname">Antonio</span>, his brother, the usurping
Duke of Milan.</p>
<p><span class = "charname">Ferdinand</span>, son to the King of
Naples.</p>
<p><span class = "charname">Gonzalo</span>, an honest old
Counsellor.</p>
<table class = "bracket" summary = "bracketed names">
<tr>
<td class = "charname">Adrian,</td>
<td class = "bracket l2" rowspan = "2">Lords.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class = "charname">Francisco,</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p><span class = "charname">Caliban</span>, a savage and deformed
Slave.</p>
<p><span class = "charname">Trinculo</span>, a Jester.</p>
<p><span class = "charname">Stephano</span>, a drunken Butler.</p>
<p>Master of a Ship.</p>
<p>Boatswain.</p>
<p>Mariners.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class = "charname">Miranda</span>, daughter to Prospero.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class = "charname">Ariel</span>, an airy Spirit.</p>
<table class = "bracket" summary = "bracketed names">
<tr>
<td class = "charname">Iris,</td>
<td class = "bracket l5" rowspan = "5">
presented by<SPAN class = "tag" name = "tag2" id = "tag2" href =
"#note2">2</SPAN> Spirits.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class = "charname">Ceres,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class = "charname">Juno,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Nymphs,</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Reapers,</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p> </p>
<p class = "center">
Other Spirits attending on Prospero<SPAN class = "tag" name = "tag3" id =
"tag3" href = "#note3">3</SPAN>.</p>
</td></tr>
</table></div>
<h5 class = "scenedesc">
<span class = "smallcaps">Scene</span>—A ship at sea<SPAN class =
"tag" name = "tag4" id = "tag4" href = "#note4">4</SPAN>: an uninhabited
island.</h5>
<div class = "apparatus">
<p><SPAN name="note1" id = "note1" href = "#tag1">1.</SPAN>
<span class = "charname">Dramatis Personæ</span>] <span class =
"charname">Names of the actors</span> F<sub>1</sub> at the end of the
Play.</p>
<p><SPAN name="note2" id = "note2" href = "#tag2">2.</SPAN>
<i>presented by</i>] Edd.</p>
<p><SPAN name="note3" id = "note3" href = "#tag3">3.</SPAN>
<i>Other ... Prospero</i>] Theobald.</p>
<p><SPAN name="note4" id = "note4" href = "#tag4">4.</SPAN>
A ship at sea:] At sea: Capell.</p>
</div>
<div class = "text">
<hr class = "mid page">
<span class = "pagenum">3</span>
<SPAN name="page3" id = "page3"> </SPAN>
<h2>THE TEMPEST.</h2>
<hr class = "mid page">
<h3 class = "act"><SPAN name="actI" id = "actI">ACT I.</SPAN></h3>
<h4 class = "scene">
<SPAN name="sceneI_1" id = "sceneI_1" href = "#appI_1_0">
<span class = "scenenum">I. 1</span>
<span class = "smallcaps">Scene I.</span></SPAN> On a ship at sea: a
tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.</h4>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
<SPAN href = "#appI_1_0">Enter <em>a Ship-Master</em> and <em>a
Boatswain</em>.</SPAN></h5>
<p><i>Mast.</i> Boatswain!</p>
<p><i>Boats.</i> Here, master: what cheer?</p>
<p><i>Mast.</i>
<SPAN name="lineI_1_3" id = "lineI_1_3" href = "#appI_1_3">Good,</SPAN>
speak to the mariners: fall to’t, yarely, or we run ourselves aground:
bestir, bestir.
<span class = "exit">Exit.</span></p>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
Enter <em>Mariners</em>.</h5>
<p><span class = "linenum">5</span>
<i>Boats.</i> Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! yare, yare!
Take in the topsail. Tend to the master’s whistle. Blow, <SPAN name =
"lineI_1_7" id = "lineI_1_7" href = "#appI_1_7">till thou burst thy
wind</SPAN>, if room enough!</p>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
<SPAN name="lineI_1_8" id = "lineI_1_8" href = "#appI_1_8">Enter</SPAN>
<span class = "charname">Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, Ferdinand,
Gonzalo</span>, and others.</h5>
<p><i>Alon.</i> Good boatswain, have care. Where’s the master?
Play the men.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">10</span>
<i>Boats.</i> I pray now, keep below.</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineI_1_11" id = "lineI_1_11" href =
"#appI_1_11a"><i>Ant.</i></SPAN> Where is the master, <SPAN href =
"#appI_1_11">boatswain</SPAN>?</p>
<span class = "pagenum">4</span>
<SPAN name="page4" id = "page4"> </SPAN>
<p><i>Boats.</i> Do you not hear him? You mar our labour:
keep your cabins: you do assist the storm.</p>
<p><i>Gon.</i> Nay, good, be patient.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">15</span>
<i>Boats.</i> When the sea is. Hence! What <SPAN name="lineI_1_15" id =
"lineI_1_15" href = "#appI_1_15">cares</SPAN> these roarers for the name of
king? To cabin: silence! trouble us not.</p>
<p><i>Gon.</i> Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.</p>
<p><i>Boats.</i> None that I more love than myself. You are a
<span class = "linenum">20</span>
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
<span class = "linenum">I. 1. 25</span>
hearts! Out of our way, I say.
<span class = "exit">Exit.</span></p>
<p><i>Gon.</i> 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
<span class = "linenum">30</span>
little advantage. If he be not born to be hanged, our case
is miserable.
<SPAN name="lineI_1_31" id = "lineI_1_31" href = "#appI_1_31">
<span class = "exit">Exeunt.</span></SPAN></p>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
Re-enter <ins class = "correction" title = "printed in small capitals (as if a name)"><em>Boatswain</em></ins>.</h5>
<p><SPAN name="lineI_1_33" id = "lineI_1_33" href =
"#appI_1_33a"><i>Boats.</i></SPAN> Down with the topmast! yare! lower,
lower! <SPAN href = "#appI_1_33">Bring her to try</SPAN> with main-course.
[<i>A cry within.</i>] <SPAN name="lineI_1_34" id = "lineI_1_34" href =
"#appI_1_34">A plague upon this howling!</SPAN> they are louder than
the weather
<span class = "linenum">35</span>
or our office.</p>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
Re-enter <span class = "charname">Sebastian, Antonio</span>, and <span
class = "charname">Gonzalo</span>.</h5>
<p>Yet again! what do you here? Shall we give o’er, and
drown? Have you a mind to sink?</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous,
incharitable dog!</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">40</span>
<i>Boats.</i> Work you, then.</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> Hang, cur! hang, you whoreson, insolent noise-maker.
We are less afraid to be drowned than thou art.</p>
<span class = "pagenum">5</span>
<SPAN name="page5" id = "page5"> </SPAN>
<p><i>Gon.</i> I’ll warrant him <SPAN name="lineI_1_43" id = "lineI_1_43"
href = "#appI_1_43">for</SPAN> drowning; though the ship were no stronger
than a nutshell, and as leaky as an unstanched
<span class = "linenum">45</span>
wench.</p>
<p><i>Boats.</i> Lay her a-hold, a-hold! set her <SPAN name="lineI_1_46"
id = "lineI_1_46" href = "#appI_1_46">two courses off to sea</SPAN> again;
lay her off.</p>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
<SPAN name="lineI_1_46a" id = "lineI_1_46a" href = "#appI_1_46a">Enter
<em>Mariners</em> wet.</SPAN></h5>
<p><SPAN name="lineI_1_47" id = "lineI_1_47" href =
"#appI_1_47"><i>Mariners.</i></SPAN> All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all
lost!</p>
<p><i>Boats.</i> What, must our mouths be cold?</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">I. 1. 50</span>
<SPAN name="lineI_1_50" id = "lineI_1_50" href =
"#appI_1_50a"><i>Gon.</i></SPAN> The king and prince <SPAN href =
"#appI_1_50">at</SPAN> prayers! let’s assist them,</p>
<p>For our case is as theirs.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">
I’m out of patience.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Ant.</i> We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards:</p>
<p>This wide-chapp’d rascal,—would thou mightst lie drowning</p>
<p>The washing of ten tides!</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Gon.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">He’ll be hang’d yet,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">55</span>
Though every drop of water swear against it,</p>
<p>And gape at widest <SPAN name="lineI_1_56" id = "lineI_1_56" href =
"#appI_1_56">to glut</SPAN> him.</p>
</div>
<h5 class = "stagedir long">
<SPAN name="lineI_1_57" id = "lineI_1_57" href = "#appI_1_57">A confused
noise within</SPAN>: <em>“Mercy on us!”—“We split, we
split!”—“Farewell my wife and children!”—<SPAN name =
"lineI_1_59" id = "lineI_1_59" href = "#appI_1_59">“Farewell,
brother!”</SPAN>—“We split, we split, we split!”</em></h5>
<p><span class = "linenum">60</span>
<i>Ant.</i> Let’s all sink <SPAN name="lineI_1_60" id = "lineI_1_60" href
= "#appI_1_60">with the</SPAN> king.</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> Let’s take leave of him.
<SPAN name="lineI_1_61" id = "lineI_1_61" href = "#appI_1_61">
<span class = "exit">Exeunt Ant. and Seb.</span></SPAN></p>
<p><i>Gon.</i> Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for
an acre of barren ground, long heath, brown <SPAN name="lineI_1_63" id =
"lineI_1_63" href = "#appI_1_63">furze</SPAN>, any
thing. The wills above be done! but I would fain die a
<span class = "linenum">65</span>
dry death.
<SPAN name="lineI_1_65" id = "lineI_1_65" href = "#appI_1_65">
<span class = "exit">Exeunt.</span></SPAN></p>
<span class = "pagenum">6</span>
<SPAN name="page6" id = "page6"> </SPAN>
<h4 class = "scene"><SPAN name="sceneI_2" id = "sceneI_2">
<span class = "scenenum">I. 2</span>
<span class = "smallcaps">Scene II.</span> <i>The island. Before <span
class = "charname">Prospero’s</span> cell.</i></SPAN></h4>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
Enter <span class = "charname">Prospero</span> and <span class =
"charname">Miranda</span>.</h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Mir.</i> If by your art, my dearest father, you have</p>
<p>Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.</p>
<p>The sky, it seems, would pour down <SPAN name="lineI_2_3" id =
"lineI_2_3" href = "#appI_2_3">stinking</SPAN> pitch,</p>
<p>But that the sea, mounting to the welkin’s <SPAN name="lineI_2_4" id =
"lineI_2_4" href = "#appI_2_4">cheek</SPAN>,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">5</span>
Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffer’d</p>
<p>With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel,</p>
<p>Who had, no doubt, some noble <SPAN name="lineI_2_7" id = "lineI_2_7"
href = "#appI_2_7">creature</SPAN> in her,</p>
<p>Dash’d all to pieces. O, the cry did knock</p>
<p>Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perish’d!</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">10</span>
Had I been any god of power, I would</p>
<p>Have sunk the sea within the earth, or ere</p>
<p>It should the good ship so have swallow’d and</p>
<p>The <SPAN name="lineI_2_13" id = "lineI_2_13" href =
"#appI_2_13">fraughting</SPAN> souls within her.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Be collected:</p>
<p>No more amazement: tell your piteous heart</p>
<p>There’s no harm done.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><SPAN name="lineI_2_15" id = "lineI_2_15" href =
"#appI_2_15"><i>Mir.</i></SPAN></p>
<p class = "verse iamb2">O, woe the day!</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb4">
<span class = "linenum">15</span>
No harm.</p>
<p>I have done nothing but in care of thee,</p>
<p>Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who</p>
<p>Art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing</p>
<p>Of whence I am, nor that <SPAN name="lineI_2_19" id = "lineI_2_19"
href = "#appI_2_19">I am more better</SPAN></p>
<p><span class = "linenum">20</span>
Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,</p>
<p>And thy no greater father.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">More to know</p>
<p>Did never meddle with my thoughts.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb4">’Tis time</p>
<p>I should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand,</p>
<p>And pluck my magic garment from me.—So:
<SPAN name="lineI_2_24" id = "lineI_2_24" href = "#appI_2_24">
<span class = "exit">Lays down his mantle.</span></SPAN></p>
<span class = "pagenum">7</span>
<SPAN name="page7" id = "page7"> </SPAN>
<p><span class = "linenum">I. 2. 25</span>
Lie there, my art. Wipe thou thine eyes; have comfort.</p>
<p>The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch’d</p>
<p>The very virtue of compassion in thee,</p>
<p>I have with such <SPAN name="lineI_2_28" id = "lineI_2_28" href =
"#appI_2_28">provision</SPAN> in mine art</p>
<p>So safely order’d, that there is no <SPAN name="lineI_2_29" id =
"lineI_2_29" href = "#appI_2_29">soul</SPAN>,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">30</span>
No, not so much perdition as an hair</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineI_2_31" id = "lineI_2_31" href =
"#appI_2_31">Betid</SPAN> to any creature in the vessel</p>
<p>Which thou heard’st cry, which thou saw’st sink. Sit down;</p>
<p>For thou must now know farther.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">You have often</p>
<p>Begun to tell me what I am; but stopp’d,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">35</span>
<p>And left me to <SPAN name="lineI_2_35" id = "lineI_2_35" href =
"#appI_2_35">a</SPAN> bootless inquisition,</p>
<p>Concluding “Stay: not yet.”</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">The hour’s now come;</p>
<p>The very minute bids thee ope thine ear;</p>
<p>Obey, and be attentive. Canst <SPAN name="lineI_2_38" id =
"lineI_2_38" href = "#appI_2_38">thou</SPAN> remember</p>
<p>A time before we came unto this cell?</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">40</span>
I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineI_2_41" id = "lineI_2_41" href = "#appI_2_41">Out</SPAN>
three years old.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb2">Certainly, sir, I can.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> By what? by any other house or person?</p>
<p>Of any thing the image tell me that</p>
<p>Hath kept <SPAN name="lineI_2_44" id = "lineI_2_44" href =
"#appI_2_44">with</SPAN> thy remembrance.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">’Tis far off,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">45</span>
And rather like a dream than an assurance</p>
<p>That my remembrance warrants. Had I not</p>
<p>Four or five women once that tended me?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> Thou hadst, and more, Miranda. But how is it</p>
<p>That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">I. 2. 50</span>
In the dark backward and abysm of time?</p>
<p>If thou remember’st ought ere thou camest here,</p>
<p>How thou camest here thou mayst.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">But that I do not.</p>
<span class = "pagenum">8</span>
<SPAN name="page8" id = "page8"> </SPAN>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> <SPAN name="lineI_2_53" id = "lineI_2_53" href =
"#appI_2_53">Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year</SPAN> since,</p>
<p>Thy father was the Duke of Milan, and</p>
<p>A prince of power.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">
<span class = "linenum">55</span>
Sir, are not you my father?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and</p>
<p>She said thou wast my daughter; and thy father</p>
<p>Was Duke of Milan; <SPAN name="lineI_2_58" id = "lineI_2_58" href =
"#appI_2_58">and his only heir</SPAN></p>
<p>And princess, no worse issued.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">O the heavens!</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">60</span>
What foul play had we, that we came from thence?</p>
<p>Or blessed was’t we did?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Both, both, my girl:</p>
<p>By foul play, as thou say’st, were we heaved thence;</p>
<p>But blessedly <SPAN name="lineI_2_63" id = "lineI_2_63" href =
"#appI_2_63">holp</SPAN> hither.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3"><SPAN href = "#appI_2_63">O, my heart</SPAN> bleeds</p>
<p>To think o’ the teen that I have turn’d you to.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">65</span>
Which is from my remembrance! Please you, farther.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> My brother, and thy uncle, call’d Antonio,—</p>
<p>I pray thee, mark me,—that a brother should</p>
<p>Be so perfidious!—he whom, next thyself,</p>
<p>Of all the world I loved, and to him put</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">70</span>
The manage of my state; as, at that time,</p>
<p>Through all the signories it was the first,</p>
<p>And Prospero the prime duke, being so reputed</p>
<p>In dignity, and for the liberal arts</p>
<p>Without a parallel; those being all my study,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">I. 2. 75</span>
The government I cast upon my brother,</p>
<p>And to my state grew stranger, being transported</p>
<p>And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle—</p>
<p>Dost thou attend <SPAN name="lineI_2_78" id = "lineI_2_78" href =
"#appI_2_78">me</SPAN>?</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb2">Sir, most heedfully.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> Being once perfected how to grant suits,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">80</span>
How to deny them, <SPAN name="lineI_2_80" id = "lineI_2_80" href =
"#appI_2_80">whom to advance, and whom</SPAN></p>
<span class = "pagenum">9</span>
<SPAN name="page9" id = "page9"> </SPAN>
<p>To <SPAN name="lineI_2_81" id = "lineI_2_81" href =
"#appI_2_81">trash</SPAN> for over-topping, new created</p>
<p>The creatures that were mine, I say, or changed <SPAN name =
"lineI_2_82" id = "lineI_2_82" href = "#appI_2_82">’em</SPAN>,</p>
<p>Or else new form’d <SPAN href = "#appI_2_82">’em</SPAN>; having both the
key</p>
<p>Of officer and office, set all hearts <SPAN name="lineI_2_84" id =
"lineI_2_84" href = "#appI_2_84">i’ the state</SPAN></p>
<p><span class = "linenum">85</span>
To what tune pleased his ear; that now he was</p>
<p>The ivy which had hid my princely trunk,</p>
<p>And suck’d my verdure out on’t. Thou attend’st not.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><SPAN name="lineI_2_88" id = "lineI_2_88" href =
"#appI_2_88"><i>Mir.</i></SPAN> O, good sir, I do.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">I pray thee, mark me.</p>
<p>I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all <SPAN name="lineI_2_89" id =
"lineI_2_89" href = "#appI_2_89">dedicated</SPAN></p>
<p><span class = "linenum">90</span>
To closeness and the bettering of my mind</p>
<p>With that which, but by being <SPAN name="lineI_2_91" id =
"lineI_2_91" href = "#appI_2_91">so</SPAN> retired,</p>
<p>O’er-prized all popular rate, in my false brother</p>
<p>Awaked an evil nature; and my trust,</p>
<p>Like a good parent, did beget of him</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">95</span>
A falsehood in its contrary, as great</p>
<p>As my trust was; which had indeed no limit,</p>
<p>A confidence sans bound. He being thus <SPAN name="lineI_2_97" id =
"lineI_2_97" href = "#appI_2_97">lorded</SPAN>,</p>
<p>Not only with what my revenue yielded,</p>
<p>But what my power might else <SPAN name="lineI_2_99" id = "lineI_2_99"
href = "#appI_2_99">exact, like</SPAN> one</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">I. 2. 100</span>
Who <SPAN name="lineI_2_100" id = "lineI_2_100" href =
"#appI_2_100">having into truth, by telling of it</SPAN>,</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineI_2_101" id = "lineI_2_101" href = "#appI_2_101">Made
such a sinner of his memory</SPAN>,</p>
<p>To credit his own lie, he did believe</p>
<p>He was <SPAN name="lineI_2_103" id = "lineI_2_103" href =
"#appI_2_103">indeed the duke</SPAN>; out o’ the substitution,</p>
<p>And executing the outward face of royalty,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">105</span>
With all prerogative:—hence <SPAN name="lineI_2_105" id =
"lineI_2_105" href = "#appI_2_105">his ambition growing</SPAN>,—</p>
<span class = "pagenum">10</span>
<SPAN name="page10" id = "page10"> </SPAN>
<p>Dost thou <SPAN name="lineI_2_106" id = "lineI_2_106" href =
"#appI_2_106">hear</SPAN>?</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb2">Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> To have no screen between this part he play’d</p>
<p>And him he play’d it for, he needs will be</p>
<p>Absolute <SPAN name="lineI_2_109" id = "lineI_2_109" href =
"#appI_2_109">Milan</SPAN>. Me, poor man, my library</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">110</span>
Was dukedom large enough: of temporal royalties</p>
<p>He thinks me now incapable; confederates,</p>
<p>So dry he was for sway, <SPAN name="lineI_2_112" id = "lineI_2_112"
href = "#appI_2_112">wi’ the</SPAN> King of Naples</p>
<p>To give him annual tribute, do him homage,</p>
<p>Subject his coronet to his crown, and bend</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">115</span>
The dukedom, yet unbow’d,—alas, poor Milan!—</p>
<p>To <SPAN name="lineI_2_116" id = "lineI_2_116" href =
"#appI_2_116">most</SPAN> ignoble stooping.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">O the heavens!</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> Mark his condition, and th’ event; then tell me</p>
<p>If this might be a brother.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">I should sin</p>
<p>To think <SPAN name="lineI_2_119" id = "lineI_2_119" href =
"#appI_2_119">but</SPAN> nobly of my grandmother:</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineI_2_120" id = "lineI_2_120" href = "#appI_2_120">Good
wombs have borne bad sons.</SPAN></p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">
<span class = "linenum">120</span>
Now the condition.</p>
<p>This King of Naples, being an enemy</p>
<p>To me inveterate, <SPAN name="lineI_2_122" id = "lineI_2_122" href =
"#appI_2_122">hearkens</SPAN> my brother’s suit;</p>
<p>Which was, that he, in lieu o’ the premises,</p>
<p>Of homage and I know not how much tribute,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">I. 2. 125</span>
Should presently extirpate me and mine</p>
<p>Out of the dukedom, and confer fair Milan,</p>
<p>With all the honours, on my brother: whereon,</p>
<p>A treacherous army levied, one midnight</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineI_2_129" id = "lineI_2_129" href =
"#appI_2_129">Fated</SPAN> to the <SPAN href = "#appI_2_129">purpose</SPAN>, did
Antonio open</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">130</span>
The gates of Milan; and, i’ the dead of darkness,</p>
<p>The <SPAN name="lineI_2_131" id = "lineI_2_131" href =
"#appI_2_131">ministers</SPAN> for the purpose hurried thence</p>
<p>Me and thy crying self.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Alack, for pity!</p>
<p>I, not remembering how I cried <SPAN name="lineI_2_133" id =
"lineI_2_133" href = "#appI_2_133">out</SPAN> then,</p>
<span class = "pagenum">11</span>
<SPAN name="page11" id = "page11"> </SPAN>
<p>Will cry it o’er again: it is a hint</p>
<p>That wrings mine eyes <SPAN name="lineI_2_135" id = "lineI_2_135" href
= "#appI_2_135">to’t</SPAN>.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">
<span class = "linenum">135</span>
Hear a little further,</p>
<p>And then I’ll bring thee to the present business</p>
<p>Which now’s upon ’s; without the which, this story</p>
<p>Were most impertinent.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2"><SPAN name="lineI_2_138" id = "lineI_2_138" href =
"#appI_2_138">Wherefore</SPAN> did they not</p>
<p>That hour destroy us?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">Well demanded, wench:</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">140</span>
My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not,</p>
<p>So dear the love my people bore <SPAN name="lineI_2_141" id =
"lineI_2_141" href = "#appI_2_141">me</SPAN>; nor set</p>
<p>A mark so bloody on the business; but</p>
<p>With colours fairer painted their foul ends.</p>
<p>In few, they hurried us aboard a bark,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">145</span>
Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared</p>
<p>A rotten carcass of a <SPAN name="lineI_2_146" id = "lineI_2_146" href
= "#appI_2_146">boat</SPAN>, not rigg’d,</p>
<p>Nor tackle, <SPAN name="lineI_2_147" id = "lineI_2_147" href =
"#appI_2_147">sail</SPAN>, nor mast; the very rats</p>
<p>Instinctively <SPAN name="lineI_2_148" id = "lineI_2_148" href =
"#appI_2_148">have</SPAN> quit it: there they hoist us,</p>
<p>To cry to the sea that roar’d to us; to sigh</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">I. 2. 150</span>
To <SPAN name="lineI_2_150" id = "lineI_2_150" href = "#appI_2_150">the
winds</SPAN>, whose pity, sighing back again,</p>
<p>Did us but loving wrong.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Alack, what trouble</p>
<p>Was I then to you!</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">O, a cherubin</p>
<p>Thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile,</p>
<p>Infused with a fortitude from heaven,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">155</span>
When I have <SPAN name="lineI_2_155" id = "lineI_2_155" href =
"#appI_2_155">deck’d</SPAN> the sea with drops full salt,</p>
<p>Under my burthen groan’d; which raised in me</p>
<p>An undergoing stomach, to bear up</p>
<p>Against what should ensue.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">How came we ashore?</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> By Providence divine.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">160</span>
Some food we had, and some fresh water, that</p>
<span class = "pagenum">12</span>
<SPAN name="page12" id = "page12"> </SPAN>
<p>A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo,</p>
<p>Out of his charity, <SPAN name="lineI_2_162" id = "lineI_2_162" href =
"#appI_2_162">who</SPAN> being then appointed</p>
<p>Master of this design, did give us, with</p>
<p>Rich garments, linens, stuffs and necessaries,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">165</span>
Which since have steaded much; so, of his gentleness,</p>
<p>Knowing I loved my books, he furnish’d me</p>
<p>From mine own library with volumes that</p>
<p>I prize above my dukedom.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Would I might</p>
<p>But ever see that man!</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3"><SPAN name="lineI_2_169" id = "lineI_2_169" href =
"#appI_2_169">Now I arise</SPAN>:
<SPAN href = "#appI_2_169">
<span class = "exit">Resumes his mantle.</span></SPAN></p>
<p><span class = "linenum">170</span>
Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow.</p>
<p>Here in this island we arrived; and here</p>
<p>Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit</p>
<p>Than other <SPAN name="lineI_2_173" id = "lineI_2_173" href =
"#appI_2_173">princesses</SPAN> can, that have more time</p>
<p>For vainer hours, and tutors not so careful.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">I. 2. 175</span>
<i>Mir.</i> Heavens thank you for’t! And now, I pray you, sir,</p>
<p>For still ’tis beating in my mind, your reason</p>
<p>For raising this sea-storm?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Know thus far forth.</p>
<p>By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune,</p>
<p>Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">180</span>
Brought to this shore; and by my prescience</p>
<p>I find my zenith doth depend upon</p>
<p>A most auspicious star, whose influence</p>
<p>If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes</p>
<p>Will ever after droop. Here cease more questions:</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">185</span>
Thou art inclined to sleep; ’tis a good dulness,</p>
<p>And give it way: I know thou canst not choose.
<SPAN name="lineI_2_186" id = "lineI_2_186" href = "#appI_2_186">
<span class = "exit">Miranda sleeps.</span></SPAN></p>
<p>Come away, servant, come. I am ready now.</p>
<p>Approach, my Ariel, come.</p>
</div>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
<SPAN name="lineI_2_189" id = "lineI_2_189" href = "#appI_2_189">Enter
<ins class = "correction" title = "printed in plain type"><span class =
"charname">Ariel</span></ins>.</SPAN></h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Ari.</i> All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come</p>
<span class = "pagenum">13</span>
<SPAN name="page13" id = "page13"> </SPAN>
<p><span class = "linenum">190</span>
To answer thy best pleasure; <SPAN name="lineI_2_190" id = "lineI_2_190"
href = "#appI_2_190">be’t</SPAN> to fly,</p>
<p>To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride</p>
<p>On the curl’d clouds, to thy strong bidding task</p>
<p>Ariel and all his <SPAN name="lineI_2_193" id = "lineI_2_193" href =
"#appI_2_193">quality</SPAN>.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Hast thou, spirit,</p>
<p>Perform’d to point the tempest that I bade thee?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">195</span>
<i>Ari.</i> To every article.</p>
<p>I boarded the king’s ship; now on the beak,</p>
<p>Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin,</p>
<p>I flamed amazement: <SPAN name="lineI_2_198" id = "lineI_2_198" href =
"#appI_2_198">sometime</SPAN> I’ld divide,</p>
<p>And burn in many places; on the topmast,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">I. 2. 200</span>
The yards and <SPAN name="lineI_2_200" id = "lineI_2_200" href =
"#appI_2_200">bowsprit</SPAN>, would I flame distinctly,</p>
<p>Then meet and join. Jove’s <SPAN name="lineI_2_201" id = "lineI_2_201"
href = "#appI_2_201">lightnings</SPAN>, the precursors</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineI_2_202" id = "lineI_2_202" href = "#appI_2_202">O’
the</SPAN> dreadful <SPAN href = "#appI_2_202">thunder-claps</SPAN>, more
momentary</p>
<p>And sight-outrunning were not: the fire and cracks</p>
<p>Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">205</span>
<SPAN name="lineI_2_205" id = "lineI_2_205" href = "#appI_2_205">Seem</SPAN>
to besiege, and make his bold waves tremble,</p>
<p>Yea, his <SPAN name="lineI_2_206" id = "lineI_2_206" href =
"#appI_2_206">dread</SPAN> trident shake.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3"><SPAN href = "#appI_2_206">My brave</SPAN> spirit!</p>
<p>Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil</p>
<p>Would not infect his reason?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ari.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Not a soul</p>
<p>But felt a fever of the <SPAN name="lineI_2_209" id = "lineI_2_209"
href = "#appI_2_209">mad</SPAN>, and play’d</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">210</span>
Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners</p>
<p>Plunged in the foaming brine, and quit <SPAN name="lineI_2_211" id =
"lineI_2_211" href = "#appI_2_211">the vessel,</SPAN></p>
<p><SPAN href = "#appI_2_211">Then all afire with me: the king’s son</SPAN>,
Ferdinand,</p>
<p>With hair up-staring,—then like reeds, not hair,—</p>
<p>Was the first man that leap’d; cried, “Hell is empty,</p>
<p>And all the devils are here.”</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">
<span class = "linenum">215</span>
Why, that’s my spirit!</p>
<p>But was not this nigh shore?</p>
</div>
<span class = "pagenum">14</span>
<SPAN name="page14" id = "page14"> </SPAN>
<p class = "float"><i>Ari.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">Close by, my master.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> But are they, Ariel, safe?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ari.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Not a hair perish’d;</p>
<p>On their <SPAN name="lineI_2_218" id = "lineI_2_218" href =
"#appI_2_218">sustaining</SPAN> garments not a blemish,</p>
<p>But fresher than before: and, as thou badest me,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">220</span>
In troops I have dispersed them ’bout the isle.</p>
<p>The king’s son have I landed by himself;</p>
<p>Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs</p>
<p>In an odd angle of the isle, and sitting,</p>
<p>His arms in this sad knot.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Of the king’s ship</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">I. 2. 225</span>
The mariners, say how thou hast disposed,</p>
<p>And all the rest o’ the fleet.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ari.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Safely in harbour</p>
<p>Is the king’s ship; in the deep nook, where once</p>
<p>Thou call’dst me up at midnight to fetch dew</p>
<p>From the still-vex’d <SPAN name="lineI_2_229" id = "lineI_2_229" href
= "#appI_2_229">Bermoothes</SPAN>, there she’s hid:</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">230</span>
The mariners all under hatches stow’d;</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineI_2_231" id = "lineI_2_231" href =
"#appI_2_231">Who</SPAN>, with a charm join’d to their suffer’d labour,</p>
<p>I have left asleep: and for the rest o’ the fleet,</p>
<p>Which I dispersed, they all have met again,</p>
<p>And <SPAN name="lineI_2_234" id = "lineI_2_234" href =
"#appI_2_234">are</SPAN> <SPAN href = "#appI_2_234">upon</SPAN> the Mediterranean
flote,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">235</span>
Bound sadly home for Naples;</p>
<p>Supposing that they saw the king’s ship wreck’d,</p>
<p>And his great person perish.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Ariel, thy charge</p>
<p>Exactly is perform’d: but there’s more work.</p>
<p>What is the time o’ the day?</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><SPAN name="lineI_2_239" id = "lineI_2_239" href =
"#appI_2_239"><i>Ari.</i></SPAN></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">Past the mid season.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">240</span>
<i>Pros.</i> At least two glasses. The time ’twixt six and now</p>
<p>Must by us both be spent most preciously.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Ari.</i> Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains,</p>
<p>Let me remember thee what thou hast promised,</p>
<span class = "pagenum">15</span>
<SPAN name="page15" id = "page15"> </SPAN>
<p>Which is not yet perform’d me.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3"><SPAN name="lineI_2_244" id = "lineI_2_244" href =
"#appI_2_244">How now? moody?</SPAN></p>
<p><SPAN name="lineI_2_245" id = "lineI_2_245" href =
"#appI_2_245">What</SPAN> is’t thou canst demand?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ari.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">
<span class = "linenum">245</span>
My liberty.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> Before the time be out? no more!</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ari.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb4">I prithee,</p>
<p>Remember I have done thee worthy service;</p>
<p>Told thee no lies, <SPAN name="lineI_2_248" id = "lineI_2_248" href =
"#appI_2_248">made thee</SPAN> no mistakings, served</p>
<p>Without or grudge or grumblings: thou <SPAN name="lineI_2_249" id =
"lineI_2_249" href = "#appI_2_249">didst</SPAN> promise</p>
<p>To bate me a full year.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">
<span class = "linenum">I. 2. 250</span>
Dost thou forget</p>
<p>From what a torment I did free thee?</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Ari.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb4">No.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> Thou dost; and think’st it much to tread the ooze</p>
<p>Of the salt deep,</p>
<p>To run upon the sharp wind of the north,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">255</span>
To do me business in the veins o’ the earth</p>
<p>When it is baked with frost.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Ari.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">I do not, sir.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot</p>
<p>The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy</p>
<p>Was grown into a hoop? hast thou forgot her?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Ari.</i> No, sir.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb1">
<span class = "linenum">260</span>
Thou hast. Where was she born? speak; tell me.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Ari.</i> Sir, in Argier.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">O, was she so? I must</p>
<p>Once in a month recount what thou hast been,</p>
<p>Which thou forget’st. This damn’d witch Sycorax,</p>
<p>For mischiefs manifold, <SPAN name="lineI_2_264" id = "lineI_2_264"
href = "#appI_2_264">and sorceries</SPAN> terrible</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">265</span>
To enter human hearing, from Argier,</p>
<p>Thou know’st, was banish’d: for one thing she did</p>
<p>They would not take her life. <SPAN name="lineI_2_267" id =
"lineI_2_267" href = "#appI_2_267">Is not this true?</SPAN></p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Ari.</i> Ay, sir.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> This blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child,</p>
<span class = "pagenum">16</span>
<SPAN name="page16" id = "page16"> </SPAN>
<p><span class = "linenum">270</span>
And here was left by the sailors. Thou, my slave,</p>
<p>As thou report’st thyself, <SPAN name="lineI_2_271" id = "lineI_2_271"
href = "#appI_2_271">wast then</SPAN> her servant;</p>
<p>And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate</p>
<p>To act her <SPAN name="lineI_2_273" id = "lineI_2_273" href =
"#appI_2_273">earthy</SPAN> and abhorr’d commands,</p>
<p>Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">I. 2. 275</span>
By help of her more potent ministers,</p>
<p>And in her most unmitigable rage,</p>
<p>Into a cloven pine; within which rift</p>
<p>Imprison’d thou didst painfully remain</p>
<p>A dozen years; within which space she died,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">280</span>
And left thee there; where thou didst vent thy groans</p>
<p>As fast as mill-wheels strike. Then was this island—</p>
<p>Save for the <SPAN name="lineI_2_282" id = "lineI_2_282" href =
"#appI_2_282">son</SPAN> that <SPAN href = "#appI_2_282">she</SPAN> did litter
here,</p>
<p>A freckled whelp hag-born—not honour’d with</p>
<p>A human shape.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Ari.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb2">Yes, Caliban her son.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">285</span>
<i>Pros.</i> Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban,</p>
<p>Whom now I keep in service. Thou best know’st</p>
<p>What torment I did find thee in; thy groans</p>
<p>Did make wolves howl, and penetrate the breasts</p>
<p>Of ever-angry bears: it was a torment</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">290</span>
To lay upon the damn’d, which Sycorax</p>
<p>Could not again undo: it was mine art,</p>
<p>When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape</p>
<p>The pine, and let thee out.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Ari.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">I thank thee, master.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> If thou more murmur’st, I will rend an oak,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">295</span>
And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till</p>
<p>Thou hast howl’d away twelve winters.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ari.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Pardon, master:</p>
<p>I will be correspondent to command,</p>
<p>And do my spiriting gently.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><SPAN name="lineI_2_298" id = "lineI_2_298" href =
"#appI_2_298"><i>Pros.</i></SPAN></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Do so; and after two days</p>
<p>I will discharge thee.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ari.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">That’s my noble master!</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">I. 2. 300</span>
What shall I do? say what; what shall I do?</p>
</div>
<span class = "pagenum">17</span>
<SPAN name="page17" id = "page17"> </SPAN>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> Go make thyself <SPAN name="lineI_2_301" id =
"lineI_2_301" href = "#appI_2_301">like</SPAN> a nymph o’ the sea:</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineI_2_302" id = "lineI_2_302" href = "#appI_2_302">Be
subject to</SPAN> no sight but <SPAN href = "#appI_2_302">thine and mine</SPAN>;
invisible</p>
<p>To every eyeball else. Go take this shape,</p>
<p>And hither come <SPAN name="lineI_2_304" id = "lineI_2_304" href =
"#appI_2_304">in’t</SPAN>: <SPAN href = "#appI_2_304">go, hence</SPAN> with
diligence!
<span class = "exit">Exit Ariel.</span></p>
<p><span class = "linenum">305</span>
Awake, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well;</p>
<p>Awake!</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb1">The strangeness of your story put</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineI_2_307" id = "lineI_2_307" href =
"#appI_2_307">Heaviness</SPAN> in me.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">Shake it off. Come on;</p>
<p>We’ll visit Caliban my slave, who never</p>
<p>Yields us kind answer.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">’Tis a villain, sir,</p>
<p>I do not love to look on.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">
<span class = "linenum">310</span>
But, as ’tis,</p>
<p>We cannot miss him: he does make our fire,</p>
<p>Fetch in our wood, and <SPAN name="lineI_2_312" id = "lineI_2_312"
href = "#appI_2_312">serves in offices</SPAN></p>
<p>That profit us. What, ho! slave! Caliban!</p>
<p>Thou earth, thou! speak.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Cal.</i> [<i>within</i>] There’s wood enough within.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">315</span>
<i>Pros.</i> Come forth, I say! there’s other business for thee:</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineI_2_316" id = "lineI_2_316" href = "#appI_2_316">Come,
thou tortoise!</SPAN> when?</p>
</div>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
Re-enter <span class = "charname">Ariel</span> like a water-nymph.</h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p>Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel,</p>
<p>Hark in thine ear.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Ari.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb2">My lord, it shall be done.
<span class = "exit">Exit.</span></p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">320</span>
Upon thy wicked dam, <SPAN name="lineI_2_320" id = "lineI_2_320" href =
"#appI_2_320">come forth!</SPAN></p>
</div>
<span class = "pagenum">18</span>
<SPAN name="page18" id = "page18"> </SPAN>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
<SPAN name="lineI_2_321" id = "lineI_2_321" href = "#appI_2_321">Enter
<span class = "charname">Caliban</span>.</SPAN></h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Cal.</i> As wicked dew as e’er my mother brush’d</p>
<p>With raven’s feather from unwholesome fen</p>
<p>Drop on you both! a south-west blow on ye</p>
<p>And blister you all o’er!</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">I. 2. 325</span>
<i>Pros.</i> For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps,</p>
<p>Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins</p>
<p>Shall, for that vast of night that they may work,</p>
<p>All exercise on thee; thou shalt be pinch’d</p>
<p>As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging</p>
<p>Than bees that made ’em.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Cal.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">
<span class = "linenum">330</span>
I must eat my dinner.</p>
<p>This island’s mine, by Sycorax my mother,</p>
<p>Which thou takest from me. When thou <SPAN name="lineI_2_332" id =
"lineI_2_332" href = "#appI_2_332">camest</SPAN> first,</p>
<p>Thou strokedst me, and <SPAN name="lineI_2_333" id = "lineI_2_333"
href = "#appI_2_333">madest</SPAN> much of me; wouldst give me</p>
<p>Water with berries in’t; and teach me how</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">335</span>
To name the bigger light, and how the less,</p>
<p>That burn by day and night: and then I loved thee,</p>
<p>And show’d thee all the qualities o’ th’ isle,</p>
<p>The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile:</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineI_2_339" id = "lineI_2_339" href =
"#appI_2_339">Curs’d be I that</SPAN> did so! All the charms</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">340</span>
Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!</p>
<p>For I am all the subjects that you have,</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineI_2_342" id = "lineI_2_342" href =
"#appI_2_342">Which</SPAN> first was mine own king: and here you sty me</p>
<p>In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me</p>
<p>The rest o’ th’ island.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">Thou most lying slave,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">345</span>
Whom stripes may move, not kindness! I have used thee,</p>
<p>Filth as thou art, with human care; and lodged <SPAN name =
"lineI_2_346" id = "lineI_2_346" href = "#appI_2_346">thee</SPAN></p>
<p>In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate</p>
<p>The honour of my child.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Cal.</i> O ho, O ho! <SPAN name="lineI_2_349" id = "lineI_2_349"
href = "#appI_2_349">would ’t</SPAN> had been done!</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">I. 2. 350</span>
Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else</p>
<span class = "pagenum">19</span>
<SPAN name="page19" id = "page19"> </SPAN>
<p>This isle with Calibans.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><SPAN name="lineI_2_351" id = "lineI_2_351" href =
"#appI_2_351"><i>Pros.</i></SPAN></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Abhorred slave,</p>
<p>Which any print of goodness <SPAN name="lineI_2_352" id =
"lineI_2_352" href = "#appI_2_352">wilt</SPAN> not take,</p>
<p>Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,</p>
<p>Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">355</span>
One thing or other: when thou <SPAN name="lineI_2_355" id = "lineI_2_355"
href = "#appI_2_355">didst not, savage,</SPAN></p>
<p><SPAN href = "#appI_2_355">Know</SPAN> thine own meaning, but <SPAN name =
"lineI_2_356" id = "lineI_2_356" href = "#appI_2_356">wouldst</SPAN> gabble
like</p>
<p>A thing most brutish, I endow’d thy purposes</p>
<p>With words that made them known. But thy vile race,</p>
<p>Though thou didst learn, had that in’t which good natures</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">360</span>
Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineI_2_361" id = "lineI_2_361" href =
"#appI_2_361">Deservedly confined into this rock,</SPAN></p>
<p><SPAN name="lineI_2_362" id = "lineI_2_362" href = "#appI_2_362">Who
hadst deserved more than a prison</SPAN>.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Cal.</i> You taught me language; and my profit on’t</p>
<p>Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you</p>
<p>For learning me your language!</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">
<span class = "linenum">365</span>
Hag-seed, hence!</p>
<p>Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, <SPAN name="lineI_2_366" id =
"lineI_2_366" href = "#appI_2_366">thou’rt</SPAN> best,</p>
<p>To answer other business. Shrug’st thou, malice?</p>
<p>If thou neglect’st, or dost unwillingly</p>
<p>What I command, I’ll rack thee with old cramps,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">370</span>
Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar,</p>
<p>That beasts shall tremble at thy din.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Cal.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">No, pray thee.</p>
<p>[<i>Aside</i>] I must obey: his art is of such power,</p>
<p>It would control my dam’s god, Setebos,</p>
<p>And make a vassal of him.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">So, slave; hence!
<span class = "exit">Exit Caliban.</span></p>
<span class = "pagenum">20</span>
<SPAN name="page20" id = "page20"> </SPAN>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
<SPAN name="lineI_2_375" id = "lineI_2_375" href = "#appI_2_375">Re-enter
<span class = "charname">Ariel</span>, invisible, playing and singing;
<span class = "charname">Ferdinand</span> following.</SPAN></h5>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
<span class = "charname">Ariel’s</span> song.</h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "song2"><span class = "linenum">I. 2. 375</span>
Come unto these yellow sands,</p>
<p class = "song3">
And then take hands:</p>
<p class = "song2">
Courtsied when you have and kiss’d</p>
<p class = "song3">
<SPAN name="lineI_2_378" id = "lineI_2_378" href = "#appI_2_378">The wild
waves whist</SPAN>:</p>
<p class = "song2">
Foot it featly here and there;</p>
<p class = "song2"><span class = "linenum">380</span>
And, sweet sprites, <SPAN name="lineI_2_380" id = "lineI_2_380" href =
"#appI_2_380">the burthen bear</SPAN>.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "song1">
<SPAN name="lineI_2_381" id = "lineI_2_381" href =
"#appI_2_381"><i>Burthen</i> [<i>dispersedly</i>].</SPAN> Hark, hark!</p>
<p class = "song4">
Bow-wow.</p>
<p class = "song3">
The watch-dogs bark:</p>
<p class = "song4">
Bow-wow.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "song2">
<i>Ari.</i> Hark, hark! I hear
<p class = "song3"><span class = "linenum">385</span>
The strain of strutting chanticleer</p>
<p class = "song3">
Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Fer.</i> Where should this music be? <SPAN name="lineI_2_387" id =
"lineI_2_387" href = "#appI_2_387">i’ th’ air or th’ earth?</SPAN></p>
<p>It sounds no more: and, sure, it waits upon</p>
<p>Some god o’ th’ island. Sitting on a bank,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">390</span>
Weeping <SPAN name="lineI_2_390" id = "lineI_2_390" href =
"#appI_2_390">again</SPAN> the king my father’s wreck,</p>
<p>This music crept by me upon the waters,</p>
<p>Allaying both their fury and my passion</p>
<p>With its sweet air: thence I have follow’d it.</p>
<p>Or it hath drawn me rather. But ’tis gone.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">395</span>
No, it begins again.</p>
</div>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
<span class = "charname">Ariel</span> sings.</h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "song2">
Full fathom five thy father lies;</p>
<p class = "song3">
Of his bones are coral made;</p>
<p class = "song2">
Those are pearls that were his eyes:</p>
<p class = "song3">
Nothing of him that doth fade,</p>
<p class = "song2"><span class = "linenum">I. 2. 400</span>
But doth suffer a sea-change</p>
<p class = "song2">
Into something rich and strange.</p>
<p class = "song2">
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "song4">
<i>Burthen:</i> Ding-dong.</p>
</div>
<p class = "verse">
<p><i>Ari.</i> Hark! now I hear them,—Ding-dong, bell.</p>
<span class = "pagenum">21</span>
<SPAN name="page21" id = "page21"> </SPAN>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">405</span>
<i>Fer.</i> The ditty does remember my drown’d father.</p>
<p>This is no mortal business, nor no sound</p>
<p>That the earth <SPAN name="lineI_2_407" id = "lineI_2_407" href =
"#appI_2_407">owes</SPAN>:—I hear it now above me.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><SPAN name="lineI_2_408" id = "lineI_2_408" href =
"#appI_2_408"><i>Pros.</i></SPAN> The fringed curtains of thine eye
advance,</p>
<p>And say what thou seest yond.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">What is’t? a spirit?</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">410</span>
Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir,</p>
<p>It carries a brave form. But ’tis a spirit.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> No, wench; it eats and sleeps and hath such senses</p>
<p>As we have, such. This gallant which thou seest</p>
<p>Was in the wreck; and, but he’s something stain’d</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">415</span>
With grief, that’s beauty’s canker, thou mightst call him</p>
<p>A goodly person: he hath lost his fellows,</p>
<p>And strays about to find ’em.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">I might call him</p>
<p>A thing divine; for nothing natural</p>
<p>I ever saw so noble.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i> [<i>Aside</i>]</p>
<p class = "iamb3"><SPAN name="lineI_2_419" id = "lineI_2_419" href =
"#appI_2_419">It goes on, I see,</SPAN></p>
<p><span class = "linenum">420</span>
As my soul prompts it. Spirit, <SPAN name="lineI_2_420" id =
"lineI_2_420" href = "#appI_2_420">fine spirit!</SPAN> I’ll free thee</p>
<p>Within two days for this.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Fer.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Most sure, the goddess</p>
<p>On whom these airs attend! Vouchsafe my prayer</p>
<p>May know if you remain upon this island;</p>
<p>And that you will some good instruction give</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">I. 2. 425</span>
How I may bear me here: my prime request,</p>
<p>Which I do last pronounce, is, O you wonder!</p>
<p>If you be <SPAN name="lineI_2_427" id = "lineI_2_427" href =
"#appI_2_427">maid</SPAN> or no?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">No wonder, sir;</p>
<p>But certainly a maid.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Fer.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">My language! heavens!</p>
<p>I am the best of them that speak this speech,</p>
<p>Were I but where ’tis spoken.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">
<span class = "linenum">430</span>
How? the best?</p>
<p>What wert thou, if the King of Naples heard thee?</p>
</div>
<span class = "pagenum">22</span>
<SPAN name="page22" id = "page22"> </SPAN>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Fer.</i> A single thing, as I am now, that wonders</p>
<p>To hear thee speak of Naples. He does hear me;</p>
<p>And that he does I weep: myself am Naples,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">435</span>
Who with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld</p>
<p>The king my father wreck’d.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">Alack, for mercy!</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Fer.</i> Yes, faith, and all his lords; the Duke of Milan</p>
<p>And his brave son being twain.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i> [<i>Aside</i>]</p>
<p class = "iamb3">The Duke of Milan</p>
<p>And his more braver daughter could control thee,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">440</span>
If now ’twere fit to do’t. At the first sight</p>
<p>They have changed eyes. Delicate Ariel,</p>
<p>I’ll set thee free for this. [<i>To Fer.</i>] A word, good sir;</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineI_2_443" id = "lineI_2_443" href = "#appI_2_443">I
fear you have done yourself some wrong</SPAN>: a word.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Mir.</i> Why speaks my father so <SPAN name="lineI_2_444" id =
"lineI_2_444" href = "#appI_2_444">ungently</SPAN>? This</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">445</span>
Is the third man that e’er I saw; the first</p>
<p>That e’er I sigh’d for: pity move my father</p>
<p>To be inclined my way!</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Fer.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">O, if a virgin,</p>
<p>And your affection not gone forth, I’ll make you</p>
<p>The queen of Naples.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">Soft, sir! one word more.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">I. 2. 450</span>
[<i>Aside</i>] They are both in either’s powers: but this swift
business</p>
<p>I must uneasy make, <SPAN name="lineI_2_451" id = "lineI_2_451" href =
"#appI_2_451">lest</SPAN> too light winning</p>
<p>Make the prize light. [<i>To Fer.</i>] <SPAN name="lineI_2_452" id =
"lineI_2_452" href = "#appI_2_452">One</SPAN> word more; <SPAN href =
"#appI_2_452">I charge thee</SPAN></p>
<p>That thou attend me: thou dost here usurp</p>
<p>The name thou owest not; and hast put thyself</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">455</span>
Upon this island as a spy, to win it</p>
<p>From me, the lord on’t.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Fer.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb2">No, as I am a man.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Mir.</i> There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:</p>
<p>If the ill spirit have so fair a house,</p>
<p>Good things will strive to dwell with’t.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Follow me.</p>
<span class = "pagenum">23</span>
<SPAN name="page23" id = "page23"> </SPAN>
<p><span class = "linenum">460</span>
<SPAN name="lineI_2_460" id = "lineI_2_460" href = "#appI_2_460">Speak
not you for him; he’s a traitor. Come;</SPAN></p>
<p>I’ll manacle thy neck and feet together:</p>
<p>Sea-water shalt thou drink; thy food shall be</p>
<p>The fresh-brook muscles, wither’d roots, and husks</p>
<p>Wherein the acorn cradled. Follow.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Fer.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb4">No;</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">465</span>
I will resist such entertainment till</p>
<p>Mine enemy has more power.
<span class = "exit">Draws, and is charmed from moving.</span></p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">O dear father,</p>
<p>Make not too rash a trial of him, for</p>
<p>He’s gentle, <SPAN name="lineI_2_468" id = "lineI_2_468" href =
"#appI_2_468">and</SPAN> not fearful.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">What! I say,</p>
<p>My <SPAN name="lineI_2_469" id = "lineI_2_469" href =
"#appI_2_469">foot</SPAN> my tutor? Put thy sword up, traitor;</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">470</span>
Who <SPAN name="lineI_2_470" id = "lineI_2_470" href =
"#appI_2_470">makest</SPAN> a show, but darest not strike, thy
conscience</p>
<p>Is <SPAN name="lineI_2_471" id = "lineI_2_471" href =
"#appI_2_471">so</SPAN> possess’d with guilt: come from thy ward;</p>
<p>For I can here disarm thee with this stick</p>
<p>And make thy weapon drop.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">Beseech you, father.</p>
<p class = "verse">
<i>Pros.</i> Hence! hang not on my garments.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Sir, have pity;</p>
<p>I’ll be his surety.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">
<span class = "linenum">I. 2. 475</span>
Silence! one word more</p>
<p>Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What!</p>
<p>An advocate for an impostor! hush!</p>
<p>Thou think’st there <SPAN name="lineI_2_478" id = "lineI_2_478" href =
"#appI_2_478">is</SPAN> no more such shapes as he,</p>
<p>Having seen but him and Caliban: foolish wench!</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">480</span>
To the most of men this is a Caliban,</p>
<p>And they to him are angels.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">My affections</p>
<p>Are, then, most humble; I have no ambition</p>
<p>To see a goodlier man.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Come on; obey:</p>
<p>Thy nerves are in their infancy again,</p>
<p>And have no vigour in them.</p>
</div>
<span class = "pagenum">24</span>
<SPAN name="page24" id = "page24"> </SPAN>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Fer.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">
<span class = "linenum">485</span>
So they are:</p>
<p>My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up.</p>
<p>My father’s loss, the weakness which I feel,</p>
<p>The wreck of all my friends, <SPAN name="lineI_2_488" id =
"lineI_2_488" href = "#appI_2_488">nor</SPAN> this man’s threats,</p>
<p>To whom I am subdued, <SPAN name="lineI_2_489" id = "lineI_2_489" href
= "#appI_2_489">are</SPAN> but light to me,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">490</span>
Might I but through my prison once a day</p>
<p>Behold this maid: all corners else o’ th’ earth</p>
<p>Let liberty make use of; space enough</p>
<p>Have I in such a prison.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i> [<i>Aside</i>]</p>
<p class = "iamb3">It works. [<i>To Fer.</i>] Come on.</p>
<p>Thou hast done well, fine Ariel! [<i>To Fer.</i>] Follow me.</p>
<p>[<i>To Ari.</i>] Hark what thou else shalt do me.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">
<span class = "linenum">495</span>
Be of comfort;</p>
<p>My father’s of a better nature, sir,</p>
<p>Than he appears by speech: this is unwonted</p>
<p>Which now came from him.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">Thou shalt be as free</p>
<p>As mountain winds: but then exactly do</p>
<p>All points of my command.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ari.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">
<span class = "linenum">I. 2. 500</span>
To the syllable.</p>
</div>
<p><i>Pros.</i> Come, follow. Speak not for him.
<span class = "exit">Exeunt.</span></p>
<h3 class = "act"><SPAN name="actII" id = "actII">ACT II.</SPAN></h3>
<h4 class = "scene"><SPAN name="sceneII_1" id = "sceneII_1">
<span class = "scenenum">II. 1</span>
<span class = "smallcaps">Scene I.</span> <i>Another part of the
island.</i></SPAN></h4>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
Enter <span class = "charname">Alonso</span>, <span class =
"charname">Sebastian</span>, <span class = "charname">Antonio</span>,
<span class = "charname">Gonzalo</span>, <span class =
"charname">Adrian</span>, <span class = "charname">Francisco</span>, and
others.</h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Gon.</i> Beseech you, sir, be merry; you have cause,</p>
<p>So have we all, of joy; for our escape</p>
<p>Is much beyond our loss. Our <SPAN name="lineII_1_3" id = "lineII_1_3"
href = "#appII_1_3">hint</SPAN> of woe</p>
<p>Is common; every day, some sailor’s wife,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">5</span>
The <SPAN name="lineII_1_5" id = "lineII_1_5" href =
"#appII_1_5">masters</SPAN> of some merchant, and the merchant,</p>
<p>Have just our theme <SPAN name="lineII_1_6" id = "lineII_1_6" href =
"#appII_1_6">of woe</SPAN>; but for the miracle,</p>
<span class = "pagenum">25</span>
<SPAN name="page25" id = "page25"> </SPAN>
<p>I mean our preservation, few in millions</p>
<p>Can speak like us: then wisely, good sir, weigh</p>
<p>Our sorrow with our comfort.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Alon.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">Prithee, peace.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">10</span>
<i>Seb.</i> He receives comfort like cold porridge.</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineII_1_11" id = "lineII_1_11" href =
"#appII_1_11a"><i>Ant.</i></SPAN> The <SPAN href = "#appII_1_11">visitor</SPAN>
will not give <SPAN href = "#appII_1_11">him</SPAN> o’er so.</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> Look, he’s winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it
will strike.</p>
<p><i>Gon.</i> Sir,—</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">15</span>
<i>Seb.</i> <SPAN name="lineII_1_15" id = "lineII_1_15" href =
"#appII_1_15">One</SPAN>: tell.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Gon.</i> When every grief is <SPAN name="lineII_1_16" id =
"lineII_1_16" href = "#appII_1_16">entertain’d that’s offer’d,</SPAN></p>
<p><SPAN href = "#appII_1_16">Comes</SPAN> to the entertainer—</p>
</div>
<p><i>Seb.</i> A dollar.</p>
<p><i>Gon.</i> Dolour comes to him, indeed: you have spoken
<span class = "linenum">20</span>
truer than you purposed.</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should.</p>
<p><i>Gon.</i> Therefore, my lord,—</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!</p>
<p><i>Alon.</i> I prithee, spare.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">II. 1. 25</span>
<i>Gon.</i> Well, I have done: but yet,—</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> He will be talking.</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> Which, <SPAN name="lineII_1_27" id = "lineII_1_27" href =
"#appII_1_27">of he</SPAN> or Adrian, for a good wager, first begins to
crow?</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> The old cock.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">30</span>
<i>Ant.</i> The cockerel.</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> Done. The wager?</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> A laughter.</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> A match!</p>
<p><i>Adr.</i> Though this island seem to be desert,—</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">35</span>
<i>Seb.</i> <SPAN name="lineII_1_35" id = "lineII_1_35" href =
"#appII_1_35">Ha, ha, ha!—So, you’re paid</SPAN>.</p>
<p><i>Adr.</i> Uninhabitable, and almost inaccessible,—</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> Yet,—</p>
<p><i>Adr.</i> Yet,—</p>
<span class = "pagenum">26</span>
<SPAN name="page26" id = "page26"> </SPAN>
<p><i>Ant.</i> He could not miss’t.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">40</span>
<i>Adr.</i> It must needs be of subtle, tender and delicate
temperance.</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> Temperance was a delicate wench.</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> Ay, and a subtle; as he most learnedly delivered.</p>
<p><i>Adr.</i> The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">45</span>
<i>Seb.</i> As if it had lungs, and rotten ones.</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> Or as ’twere perfumed by a fen.</p>
<p><i>Gon.</i> Here is every thing advantageous to life.</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> True; save means to live.</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> Of that there’s none, or little.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">II. 1. 50</span>
<i>Gon.</i> How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> The ground, indeed, is tawny.</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> With an eye of green in’t.</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> He misses not much.</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> No; he doth but mistake the truth totally.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">55</span>
<i>Gon.</i> But the rarity of it is,—which is indeed almost beyond
credit,—</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> As many vouched rarities are.</p>
<p><i>Gon.</i> That our garments, being, as they were, drenched in the
sea, hold, notwithstanding, their freshness and glosses,
<span class = "linenum">60</span>
being rather new-dyed than stained with salt water.</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> If but one of his pockets could speak, would it
not say he lies?</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> Ay, or very falsely pocket up his report.</p>
<p><i>Gon.</i> Methinks our garments are now as fresh as when
<span class = "linenum">65</span>
we put them on first in Afric, at the marriage of the king’s fair
daughter Claribel to the King of Tunis.</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> ’Twas a sweet marriage, and we prosper well in our
return.</p>
<p><i>Adr.</i> Tunis was never graced before with such a paragon
<span class = "linenum">70</span>
to their queen.</p>
<p><i>Gon.</i> Not since widow Dido’s time.</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> Widow! a pox o’ that! How came that widow in? widow
Dido!</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> What if he had said ‘widower Æneas’ too? Good
<span class = "linenum">II. 1. 75</span>
Lord, how you take it!</p>
<p><i>Adr.</i> ‘Widow Dido’ said you? you make me study of that: she was
of Carthage, not of Tunis.</p>
<span class = "pagenum">27</span>
<SPAN name="page27" id = "page27"> </SPAN>
<p><i>Gon.</i> This Tunis, sir, was Carthage.</p>
<p><i>Adr.</i> Carthage?</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">80</span>
<i>Gon.</i> I assure you, Carthage.</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> <SPAN name="lineII_1_81" id = "lineII_1_81" href =
"#appII_1_81">His word is more than the miraculous harp; he hath raised
the wall, and houses too.</SPAN></p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> What impossible matter will he make easy next?</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> I think he will carry this island home in his
<span class = "linenum">85</span>
pocket, and give it his son for an apple.</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> And, sowing the kernels of it in the sea, bring forth
more islands.</p>
<p><i>Gon.</i> <SPAN name="lineII_1_88" id = "lineII_1_88" href =
"#appII_1_88">Ay.</SPAN></p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> Why, in good time.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">90</span>
<i>Gon.</i> Sir, we were talking that our garments seem now as fresh as
when we were at Tunis at the marriage of your daughter, who is now
queen.</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> And the rarest that e’er came there.</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">95</span>
<i>Ant.</i> O, widow Dido! ay, widow Dido.</p>
<p><i>Gon.</i> Is not, <SPAN name="lineII_1_96" id = "lineII_1_96" href =
"#appII_1_96">sir, my doublet</SPAN> as fresh as the first day I wore it? I
mean, in a sort.</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> That sort was well fished for.</p>
<p><i>Gon.</i> When I wore it at your daughter’s marriage?</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">II. 1. 100</span>
<i>Alon.</i> You cram these words into mine ears against</p>
<p>The stomach of my sense. Would I had never</p>
<p>Married my daughter there! for, coming thence,</p>
<p>My son is lost, and, in my rate, she too.</p>
<p>Who is so far from Italy removed</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">105</span>
I ne’er again shall see her. O thou mine heir</p>
<p>Of Naples and of Milan, what strange fish</p>
<p>Hath made his meal on thee?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Fran.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Sir, he may live:</p>
<p>I saw him beat the surges under him,</p>
<p>And ride upon their backs; he trod the water.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">110</span>
Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted</p>
<p>The surge most swoln that met him; his bold head</p>
<span class = "pagenum">28</span>
<SPAN name="page28" id = "page28"> </SPAN>
<p>’Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oar’d</p>
<p>Himself with his good arms in lusty <SPAN name="lineII_1_113" id =
"lineII_1_113" href = "#appII_1_113">stroke</SPAN></p>
<p>To the shore, that o’er his wave-worn basis bow’d,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">115</span>
As stooping to relieve him: I not doubt</p>
<p>He came alive to land.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Alon.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">No, no, he’s gone.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Seb.</i> Sir, you may thank yourself for this great loss,</p>
<p>That would not bless our Europe with your daughter,</p>
<p>But rather lose her to an African;</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">120</span>
Where she, at least, is banish’d from your eye,</p>
<p>Who hath cause to wet the grief on’t.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Alon.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">Prithee, peace.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Seb.</i> You were kneel’d to, and importuned otherwise,</p>
<p>By all of us; and the fair soul herself</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineII_1_124" id = "lineII_1_124" href =
"#appII_1_124">Weigh’d</SPAN> between loathness and obedience, <SPAN href =
"#appII_1_124">at</SPAN></p>
<p><span class = "linenum">II. 1. 125</span>
Which end <SPAN name="lineII_1_125" id = "lineII_1_125" href =
"#appII_1_125">o’ the</SPAN> beam <SPAN href = "#appII_1_125">should</SPAN> bow.
We have lost your son,</p>
<p>I fear, for ever: Milan and Naples have</p>
<p>More widows in them of this business’ making</p>
<p>Than we bring men to comfort them:</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineII_1_129" id = "lineII_1_129" href =
"#appII_1_129">The fault’s your own</SPAN>.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Alon.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb2">So is the dear’st o’ the loss.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">130</span>
<i>Gon.</i> My lord Sebastian,</p>
<p>The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness,</p>
<p>And time to speak it in: you rub the sore,</p>
<p>When you should bring the plaster.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">Very well.</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> And most chirurgeonly.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">135</span>
<i>Gon.</i> It is foul weather in us all, good sir,</p>
<p>When you are cloudy.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb2">Foul weather?</p>
<p class = "float"><i>Ant.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">Very foul.</p>
<p class = "verse">
<i>Gon.</i> Had I <SPAN name="lineII_1_137" id = "lineII_1_137" href =
"#appII_1_137">plantation</SPAN> of this isle, my lord,—</p>
<p class = "verse">
<i>Ant.</i> He’ld sow’t with nettle-seed.</p>
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">Or docks, or mallows.</p>
<span class = "pagenum">29</span>
<SPAN name="page29" id = "page29"> </SPAN>
<p><i>Gon.</i> And were the king <SPAN name="lineII_1_139" id =
"lineII_1_139" href = "#appII_1_139">on’t</SPAN>, what would I do?</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">140</span>
<i>Seb.</i> ’Scape being drunk for want of wine.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Gon.</i> I’ the commonwealth I would by contraries</p>
<p>Execute all things; for no kind of traffic</p>
<p>Would I admit; no name of magistrate;</p>
<p>Letters should not be known; <SPAN name="lineII_1_144" id =
"lineII_1_144" href = "#appII_1_144">riches, poverty</SPAN>,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">145</span>
And use of service, none; <SPAN name="lineII_1_145" id = "lineII_1_145"
href = "#appII_1_145">contract, succession</SPAN>,</p>
<p>Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, <SPAN name="lineII_1_146" id =
"lineII_1_146" href = "#appII_1_146">none</SPAN>;</p>
<p>No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;</p>
<p>No occupation; all men idle, all;</p>
<p>And women too, but innocent and pure;</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">II. 1. 150</span>
No sovereignty;—</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb2">Yet he would be king on’t.</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the
beginning.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Gon.</i> All things in common nature should produce</p>
<p>Without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">155</span>
Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine,</p>
<p>Would I not have; but nature should bring forth,</p>
<p>Of <SPAN name="lineII_1_157" id = "lineII_1_157" href =
"#appII_1_157">its</SPAN> own kind, all foison, all abundance,</p>
<p>To feed my innocent people.</p>
</div>
<p><i>Seb.</i> No marrying ’mong his subjects?</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">160</span>
<i>Ant.</i> None, man; all idle; whores and knaves.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Gon.</i> I would with such perfection govern, sir,</p>
<p>To excel the golden age.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3"><SPAN name="lineII_1_162" id = "lineII_1_162"
href = "#appII_1_162">’Save</SPAN> his majesty!</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> Long live Gonzalo!</p>
<p class = "float"><i>Gon.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb2">And,—do you mark me, sir?</p>
<p><i>Alon.</i> Prithee, no more: thou dost talk nothing to me.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">165</span>
<i>Gon.</i> 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.</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> ’Twas you we laughed at.</p>
<p><i>Gon.</i> Who in this kind of merry fooling am nothing to
<span class = "linenum">170</span>
you: so you may continue, and laugh at nothing still.</p>
<span class = "pagenum">30</span>
<SPAN name="page30" id = "page30"> </SPAN>
<p><i>Ant.</i> What a blow was there given!</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> An it had not fallen flat-long.</p>
<p><i>Gon.</i> You are gentlemen of brave mettle; you would lift the
moon out of her sphere, if she would continue in it
<span class = "linenum">II. 1. 175</span>
five weeks without changing.</p>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
<SPAN name="lineII_1_175" id = "lineII_1_175" href = "#appII_1_175">Enter
<span class = "charname">Ariel</span> (invisible) playing solemn
music.</SPAN></h5>
<p><i>Seb.</i> We would so, and then go a bat-fowling.</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> Nay, good my lord, be not angry.</p>
<p><i>Gon.</i> No, I warrant you; I will not adventure my discretion so
weakly. Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very
<span class = "linenum">180</span>
heavy?</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> Go sleep, and hear us.</p>
<p class = "exit">
<SPAN name="lineII_1_181" id = "lineII_1_181" href = "#appII_1_181">All
sleep except Alon., Seb., and Ant.</SPAN></p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Alon.</i> What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineII_1_182" id = "lineII_1_182" href =
"#appII_1_182">Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts: I
find</SPAN></p>
<p>They are inclined to do so.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Please you, sir,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">185</span>
Do not omit the heavy offer of it:</p>
<p>It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth,</p>
<p>It is a comforter.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ant.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">We two, my lord,</p>
<p>Will guard your person while you take your rest,</p>
<p>And watch your safety.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Alon.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">Thank you.—Wondrous heavy.</p>
</div>
<p class = "exit">
Alonso sleeps. <SPAN name="lineII_1_189" id = "lineII_1_189" href =
"#appII_1_189">Exit Ariel.</SPAN></p>
<p><span class = "linenum">190</span>
<i>Seb.</i> What a strange drowsiness possesses them!</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> It is the quality o’ the climate.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb4">Why</p>
<p>Doth it not then our eyelids sink? I <SPAN name="lineII_1_192" id =
"lineII_1_192" href = "#appII_1_192">find not</SPAN></p>
<p>Myself disposed to sleep.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ant.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Nor I; my spirits are nimble.</p>
<span class = "pagenum">31</span>
<SPAN name="page31" id = "page31"> </SPAN>
<p>They fell together all, as by consent;</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">195</span>
They dropp’d, as by a thunder-stroke. What might,</p>
<p>Worthy Sebastian?—O, what might?—No more:—</p>
<p>And yet methinks I see it in thy face,</p>
<p>What thou shouldst be: the occasion speaks thee; and</p>
<p>My strong imagination sees a crown</p>
<p>Dropping upon thy head.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3"><span class = "linenum">II. 1. 200</span>
What, art thou waking?</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> Do you not hear me speak?</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">I do; and surely</p>
<p>It is a sleepy language, and thou speak’st</p>
<p>Out of thy sleep. What is it thou didst say?</p>
<p>This is a strange repose, to be asleep</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">205</span>
With eyes wide open; standing, speaking, moving,</p>
<p>And yet so fast asleep.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ant.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Noble Sebastian,</p>
<p>Thou let’st thy fortune sleep—die, rather; wink’st</p>
<p>Whiles thou art waking.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Thou dost snore distinctly;</p>
<p>There’s meaning in thy snores.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">210</span>
<i>Ant.</i> I am more serious than my custom: you</p>
<p>Must be <SPAN name="lineII_1_211" id = "lineII_1_211" href =
"#appII_1_211">so too, if heed</SPAN> me; which to do</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineII_1_212" id = "lineII_1_212" href =
"#appII_1_212">Trebles thee o’er</SPAN>.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb2">Well, I am standing water.</p>
<p><i>Ant.</i> I’ll teach you how to flow.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Do so: to ebb</p>
<p>Hereditary sloth instructs me.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ant.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb4">O,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">215</span>
If you but knew how you the purpose cherish</p>
<p>Whiles thus you mock it! how, in stripping it,</p>
<p>You more invest it! Ebbing men, indeed,</p>
<p>Most often do so near the bottom run</p>
<p>By their own fear or sloth.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Prithee, say on:</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">220</span>
The setting of thine eye and cheek proclaim</p>
<p>A matter from thee; and a birth, indeed,</p>
<span class = "pagenum">32</span>
<SPAN name="page32" id = "page32"> </SPAN>
<p>Which <SPAN name="lineII_1_222" id = "lineII_1_222" href =
"#appII_1_222">throes</SPAN> thee much to yield.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ant.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3"><SPAN href = "#appII_1_222">Thus, sir</SPAN>:</p>
<p>Although this lord of weak remembrance, this,</p>
<p>Who shall be of as little memory</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">II. 1. 225</span>
When he is earth’d, hath here almost persuaded,—</p>
<p>For <SPAN name="lineII_1_226" id = "lineII_1_226" href =
"#appII_1_226">he’s</SPAN> a spirit of persuasion, only</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineII_1_227" id = "lineII_1_227" href =
"#appII_1_227">Professes to persuade</SPAN>,—the king his son’s
alive,</p>
<p>’Tis as impossible that he’s undrown’d</p>
<p>As he that sleeps here swims.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">I have no hope</p>
<p>That he’s undrown’d.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ant.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2"><span class = "linenum">230</span>
O, out of that ‘no hope’</p>
<p>What great hope have you! no hope that way is</p>
<p>Another way so high a hope that even</p>
<p>Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond,</p>
<p>But <SPAN name="lineII_1_234" id = "lineII_1_234" href =
"#appII_1_234">doubt</SPAN> discovery there. Will you grant with me</p>
<p>That Ferdinand is drown’d?</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">He’s gone.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ant.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb4"><span class = "linenum">235</span>
Then, tell me,</p>
<p>Who’s the next heir of Naples?</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">Claribel.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Ant.</i> She that is queen of Tunis; she that dwells</p>
<p>Ten leagues beyond man’s life; she that from Naples</p>
<p>Can have no note, unless the sun were post,—</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">240</span>
The man i’ the moon’s too slow,—till new-born chins</p>
<p>Be rough and razorable; <SPAN name="lineII_1_241" id = "lineII_1_241"
href = "#appII_1_241">she that from whom</SPAN></p>
<p>We <SPAN name="lineII_1_242" id = "lineII_1_242" href =
"#appII_1_242">all</SPAN> were sea-swallow’d, though some cast again,</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineII_1_243" id = "lineII_1_243" href =
"#appII_1_243">And by that destiny, to perform</SPAN> an act</p>
<p>Whereof what’s past <SPAN name="lineII_1_244" id = "lineII_1_244" href
= "#appII_1_244">is</SPAN> prologue; what to come,</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineII_1_245" id = "lineII_1_245" href =
"#appII_1_245">In</SPAN> yours and my discharge.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3"><span class = "linenum">245</span>
What stuff is this! How say you?</p>
<span class = "pagenum">33</span>
<SPAN name="page33" id = "page33"> </SPAN>
<p>’Tis true, my brother’s daughter’s queen of Tunis;</p>
<p>So is she heir of Naples; ’twixt which regions</p>
<p>There is some space.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ant.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">A space whose every cubit</p>
<p>Seems to cry out, “How shall that Claribel</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">II. 1. 250</span>
Measure us back <SPAN name="lineII_1_250" id = "lineII_1_250" href =
"#appII_1_250">to</SPAN> Naples? <SPAN href = "#appII_1_250">Keep</SPAN> in
Tunis,</p>
<p>And let Sebastian <SPAN name="lineII_1_251" id = "lineII_1_251" href =
"#appII_1_251">wake.”</SPAN> Say, this were death</p>
<p>That now hath seized them; why, they were no worse</p>
<p>Than now they are. There be that can rule Naples</p>
<p>As well as he that sleeps; lords that can prate</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">255</span>
As amply and unnecessarily</p>
<p>As this Gonzalo; I myself could make</p>
<p>A chough of as deep chat. O, that you bore</p>
<p>The mind that I do! what a sleep were this</p>
<p>For your advancement! Do you understand me?</p>
</div>
<p><i>Seb.</i> Methinks I do.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ant.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2"><span class = "linenum">260</span>
And how does your content</p>
<p>Tender your own good fortune?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">I remember</p>
<p>You did supplant your brother Prospero.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ant.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb4">True:</p>
<p>And look how well my garments sit upon me;</p>
<p>Much feater than before: my brother’s servants</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">265</span>
Were then my fellows; now they are my men.</p>
</div>
<p><i>Seb.</i> But for your conscience.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><SPAN name="lineII_1_267" id = "lineII_1_267" href =
"#appII_1_267a"><i>Ant.</i></SPAN> Ay, sir; where lies that? if <SPAN href =
"#appII_1_267">’twere</SPAN> a kibe,</p>
<p>’Twould put me to my slipper: but I feel not</p>
<p>This deity in my bosom: <SPAN name="lineII_1_269" id = "lineII_1_269"
href = "#appII_1_269">twenty</SPAN> consciences,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">270</span>
That <SPAN name="lineII_1_270" id = "lineII_1_270" href =
"#appII_1_270">stand</SPAN> ’twixt me and Milan, <SPAN href =
"#appII_1_270">candied</SPAN> be they,</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineII_1_271" id = "lineII_1_271" href =
"#appII_1_271">And melt</SPAN>, ere they molest! Here lies your
brother,</p>
<p>No better than the earth he lies upon,</p>
<p>If he were that which now he’s <SPAN name="lineII_1_273" id =
"lineII_1_273" href = "#appII_1_273">like, that’s dead;</SPAN></p>
<span class = "pagenum">34</span>
<SPAN name="page34" id = "page34"> </SPAN>
<p><SPAN href = "#appII_1_273">Whom I, with</SPAN> this obedient steel, three
inches of it,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">II. 1. 275</span>
Can lay to bed for ever; <SPAN name="lineII_1_275" id = "lineII_1_275"
href = "#appII_1_275">whiles</SPAN> you, doing thus,</p>
<p>To the perpetual wink for aye might put</p>
<p>This ancient <SPAN name="lineII_1_277" id = "lineII_1_277" href =
"#appII_1_277">morsel</SPAN>, this Sir Prudence, who</p>
<p>Should not upbraid our course. For all the rest,</p>
<p>They’ll take suggestion as a cat laps milk;</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">280</span>
They’ll tell the clock to any <SPAN name="lineII_1_280" id =
"lineII_1_280" href = "#appII_1_280">business that</SPAN></p>
<p><SPAN href = "#appII_1_280">We say befits the hour.</SPAN></p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Thy case, dear friend,</p>
<p>Shall be my <SPAN name="lineII_1_282" id = "lineII_1_282" href =
"#appII_1_282">precedent</SPAN>; as thou got’st Milan,</p>
<p>I’ll come by Naples. Draw thy sword: one stroke</p>
<p>Shall free thee from the tribute which thou payest;</p>
<p>And I the king shall love thee.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ant.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3"><span class = "linenum">285</span>
Draw together;</p>
<p>And when I rear my hand, do you the like,</p>
<p>To fall it on Gonzalo.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3"><SPAN name="lineII_1_287" id = "lineII_1_287"
href = "#appII_1_287">O</SPAN>, but one word.
<SPAN href = "#appII_1_287">
<span class = "exit">They talk apart.</span></SPAN></p>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
<SPAN href = "#appII_1_287">Re-enter <span class = "charname">Ariel</span>
invisible.</SPAN></h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Ari.</i> My master through his art foresees the danger</p>
<p>That <SPAN name="lineII_1_289" id = "lineII_1_289" href =
"#appII_1_289">you, his friend</SPAN>, <SPAN name="lineII_1_290" id =
"lineII_1_290" href = "#appII_1_290">are in; and sends me
forth,—</SPAN></p>
<p><span class = "linenum">290</span>
<SPAN href = "#appII_1_290">For else his project dies,—to keep
them</SPAN> living.</p>
</div>
<p class = "exit">Sings in Gonzalo’s ear.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "song2">
While you here do snoring lie,</p>
<p class = "song2">
Open-eyed conspiracy</p>
<p class = "song3">
His time doth take.</p>
<p class = "song2">
If of life you keep a care,</p>
<p class = "song2"><span class = "linenum">295</span>
Shake off slumber, and beware:</p>
<p class = "song3">
Awake, awake!</p>
</div>
<p><i>Ant.</i> Then let us both be sudden.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Gon.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Now, good angels</p>
<p>Preserve the king!
<SPAN name="lineII_1_298" id = "lineII_1_298" href = "#appII_1_298">
<span class = "exit">They wake.</span></SPAN></p>
</div>
<span class = "pagenum">35</span>
<SPAN name="page35" id = "page35"> </SPAN>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Alon.</i> Why, how now? ho, awake!—Why are you drawn?</p>
<p>Wherefore <SPAN name="lineII_1_300" id = "lineII_1_300" href =
"#appII_1_300">this</SPAN> ghastly looking?</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Gon.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3"><span class = "linenum">II. 1. 300</span>
What’s the matter?</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Seb.</i> Whiles we stood here securing your repose,</p>
<p>Even now, we heard a hollow burst of bellowing</p>
<p>Like bulls, or rather lions: did’t not wake you?</p>
<p>It struck mine ear most terribly.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Alon.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">I heard nothing.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">305</span>
<i>Ant.</i> O, ’twas a din to fright a monster’s ear,</p>
<p>To make an earthquake! sure, it was the roar</p>
<p>Of a whole herd of lions.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Alon.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">Heard you this, <SPAN name="lineII_1_307" id =
"lineII_1_307" href = "#appII_1_307">Gonzalo</SPAN>?</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Gon.</i> Upon mine honour, sir, I heard a humming,</p>
<p>And that a strange one too, which did awake me:</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">310</span>
I shaked you, sir, and cried: as mine eyes open’d,</p>
<p>I saw their weapons drawn:—there was a noise,</p>
<p>That’s <SPAN name="lineII_1_312" id = "lineII_1_312" href =
"#appII_1_312">verily</SPAN>. ’Tis best we stand <SPAN href =
"#appII_1_312">upon our guard</SPAN>,</p>
<p>Or that we quit this place: let’s draw our weapons.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Alon.</i> Lead off this ground; and let’s make further search</p>
<p>For my poor son.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Gon.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2"><span class = "linenum">315</span>
Heavens keep him from these beasts!</p>
<p>For he is, sure, i’ th’ island.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Alon.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">Lead away.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Ari.</i> Prospero my lord shall know what I have done:</p>
<p>So, king, go safely on to seek thy son.
<span class = "exit">Exeunt.</span></p>
</div>
<h4 class = "scene"><SPAN name="sceneII_2" id = "sceneII_2">
<span class = "scenenum">II. 2</span>
<span class = "smallcaps">Scene II.</span> <i>Another part of the
island.</i></SPAN></h4>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
Enter <span class = "charname">Caliban</span> with a burden of wood. A
noise of thunder heard.</h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Cal.</i> All the infections that the sun sucks up</p>
<p>From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him</p>
<p>By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me,</p>
<p>And yet I needs must curse. But they’ll <SPAN name="lineII_2_4" id =
"lineII_2_4" href = "#appII_2_4">nor</SPAN> pinch,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">5</span>
Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i’ the mire,</p>
<p>Nor lead me, like a firebrand, in the dark</p>
<span class = "pagenum">36</span>
<SPAN name="page36" id = "page36"> </SPAN>
<p>Out of my way, unless he bid ’em: but</p>
<p>For every trifle are they set upon me;</p>
<p>Sometime like apes, that mow and chatter at me,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">10</span>
And after bite me; then like hedgehogs, which</p>
<p>Lie tumbling in my barefoot way, and mount</p>
<p>Their pricks at my footfall; sometime am I</p>
<p>All wound with adders, who with cloven tongues</p>
<p>Do hiss me into madness.</p>
</div>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
Enter <span class = "charname">Trinculo</span>.</h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "iamb3">Lo, now, lo!</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">15</span>
Here comes a spirit of his, <SPAN name="lineII_2_15" id = "lineII_2_15"
href = "#appII_2_15">and</SPAN> to torment me</p>
<p>For bringing wood in slowly. I’ll fall flat;</p>
<p>Perchance he will not mind me.</p>
</div>
<p><i>Trin.</i> Here’s neither bush nor shrub, to bear off any weather
at all, and another storm brewing; I hear it sing i’
<span class = "linenum">20</span>
the wind: yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a <SPAN name =
"lineII_2_21" id = "lineII_2_21" href = "#appII_2_21">foul</SPAN> bombard
that would shed his liquor. If it should thunder as it did before, I
know not where to hide my head: yond same cloud cannot choose but fall
by pailfuls. What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive?
A fish: he
<span class = "linenum">II. 2. 25</span>
smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of
not of the newest Poor-John. A strange fish! Were I in England now,
as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there
but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a man;
any strange
<span class = "linenum">30</span>
beast there makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a
lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legged like a
man! and his fins like arms! Warm o’ my troth! I do now let loose my
opinion; hold it no longer: this is no fish, but an islander, that hath
lately suffered
<span class = "linenum">35</span>
by a thunderbolt. <SPAN name="lineII_2_35" id = "lineII_2_35" href =
"#appII_2_35">[<i>Thunder.</i>]</SPAN> Alas, the storm is come again! my
best way is to creep under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter
hereabout: misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows. I will here
shroud till the <SPAN name="lineII_2_38" id = "lineII_2_38" href =
"#appII_2_38">dregs</SPAN> of the storm be past.</p>
<span class = "pagenum">37</span>
<SPAN name="page37" id = "page37"> </SPAN>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
<SPAN name="lineII_2_40" id = "lineII_2_40" href = "#appII_2_40">Enter
<span class = "charname">Stephano</span>, singing: a bottle in his
hand.</SPAN></h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "song1"><span class = "linenum">40</span>
<i>Ste.</i> I shall no more to sea, to sea,</p>
<p class = "song3">
Here shall I die a-shore,—</p>
</div>
<p>This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man’s funeral: well,
here’s my comfort.
<span class = "exit">Drinks.</span></p>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "song1">
[<i>Sings.</i> The master, the swabber, the boatswain, and I,</p>
<p class = "song3"><span class = "linenum">45</span>
The gunner, and his mate,</p>
<p class = "song2">
Loved Mall, Meg, <SPAN name="lineII_2_46" id = "lineII_2_46" href =
"#appII_2_46">and Marian</SPAN>, and Margery,</p>
<p class = "song3">
But none of us cared for Kate;</p>
<p class = "song3">
For she had a tongue with a tang,</p>
<p class = "song3">
Would cry to a sailor, Go hang!</p>
<p class = "song2"><span class = "linenum">II. 2. 50</span>
She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch;</p>
<p class = "song2">
Yet a tailor might scratch her where’er she did itch.</p>
<p class = "song3">
Then, to sea, boys, and let her go hang!</p>
</div>
<p>This is a scurvy tune too: but here’s my comfort.
<span class = "exit">Drinks.</span></p>
<p><i>Cal.</i> Do not torment me:—O!</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">55</span>
<i>Ste.</i> What’s the matter? Have we devils here? Do you put tricks
upon ’s with <SPAN name="lineII_2_56" id = "lineII_2_56" href =
"#appII_2_56">savages</SPAN> and men of Ind, ha? I have not scaped
drowning, to be afeard now of your four legs; for it hath been said, As
proper a man as ever went on four legs cannot make him give ground; and
it shall be
<span class = "linenum">60</span>
said so again, while Stephano breathes <SPAN name="lineII_2_60" id =
"lineII_2_60" href = "#appII_2_60">at’s nostrils</SPAN>.</p>
<p><i>Cal.</i> The spirit torments me:—O!</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> 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
<span class = "linenum">65</span>
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.</p>
<p><i>Cal.</i> Do not torment me, prithee; I’ll bring my wood home
faster.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">70</span>
<i>Ste.</i> He’s in his fit now, and does not talk after the wisest. He
shall taste of my bottle: if he have never drunk wine afore, it will go
near to remove his fit. If I can recover him, and keep him tame, I will
not take too much for him; he shall pay for him that hath him, and that
soundly.</p>
<span class = "pagenum">38</span>
<SPAN name="page38" id = "page38"> </SPAN>
<p><span class = "linenum">II. 2. 75</span>
<i>Cal.</i> Thou dost me yet but little hurt; thou wilt anon,
I know it by thy trembling: now Prosper works upon thee.</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Come on your ways; open your mouth; here is that which
will give language to <SPAN name="lineII_2_78" id = "lineII_2_78" href =
"#appII_2_78">you, cat</SPAN>: open your mouth; this will shake your
shaking, I can tell you, and that soundly:
<span class = "linenum">80</span>
you cannot tell who’s your friend: open your chaps again.</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> I should know that voice: it should be—but he is
drowned; and these are devils:—O defend me!</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Four legs and two voices,—a most delicate monster!
His forward voice, now, is to speak <SPAN name="lineII_2_84" id =
"lineII_2_84" href = "#appII_2_84">well</SPAN> of his friend;
<span class = "linenum">85</span>
his backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract. If all the
wine in my bottle will recover him, I will help his ague.
Come:—Amen! I will pour some in thy other mouth.</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> Stephano!</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">90</span>
<i>Ste.</i> Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy, mercy! This is a devil,
and no monster: I will leave him; I have no long spoon.</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> Stephano! If thou beest Stephano, touch me, and speak to
me; for I am Trinculo,—be not afeard,—thy
<span class = "linenum">95</span>
good friend Trinculo.</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> If thou beest Trinculo, come forth: I’ll pull thee by the
lesser legs: if any be Trinculo’s legs, these are they. Thou art very
Trinculo indeed! How earnest thou to be the siege of this moon-calf? can
he vent Trinculos?</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">II. 2. 100</span>
<i>Trin.</i> I took him to be killed with a thunder-stroke. But art thou
not drowned, Stephano? I hope, now, thou art not drowned. Is the
storm overblown? I hid me under the dead moon-calf’s gaberdine for
fear of the storm. And art thou living, Stephano? O Stephano, two
Neapolitans
<span class = "linenum">105</span>
scaped!</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Prithee, do not turn me about; my stomach is not
constant.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Cal.</i> [<i>aside</i>] These be fine things, an if they be not
sprites.</p>
<p>That’s a brave god, and bears celestial liquor:</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">110</span>
I will kneel to him.</p>
</div>
<span class = "pagenum">39</span>
<SPAN name="page39" id = "page39"> </SPAN>
<p><i>Ste.</i> How didst thou ’scape? How camest thou hither?
swear, by this bottle, how thou camest hither. I escaped
upon a butt of sack, which the sailors heaved o’erboard, by
this bottle! which I made of the bark of a tree with mine
<span class = "linenum">115</span>
own hands, since I was cast ashore.</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineII_2_115" id = "lineII_2_115" href =
"#appII_2_115"><i>Cal.</i></SPAN> I’ll swear, upon that bottle, to be thy
true subject; for the liquor is not earthly.</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Here; <SPAN name="lineII_2_118" id = "lineII_2_118" href =
"#appII_2_118">swear, then, how thou escapedst</SPAN>.</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> <SPAN name="lineII_2_119" id = "lineII_2_119" href =
"#appII_2_119">Swum</SPAN> ashore, man, like a duck: I can swim
<span class = "linenum">120</span>
like a duck, I’ll be sworn.</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Here, kiss the book. Though thou canst swim like a duck,
thou art made like a goose.</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> O Stephano, hast any more of this?</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> The whole butt, man: my cellar is in a rock by
<span class = "linenum">II. 2. 125</span>
the sea-side, where my wine is hid. How now, moon-calf! how does thine
ague?</p>
<p><i>Cal.</i> Hast thou not dropp’d from heaven?</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Out o’ the moon, I do assure thee: I was the man
i’ the moon when time was.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">130</span>
<i>Cal.</i> I have seen thee in her, and I do adore thee: My mistress
show’d me thee, <SPAN name="lineII_2_131" id = "lineII_2_131" href =
"#appII_2_131">and thy dog, and thy bush</SPAN>.</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Come, swear to that; kiss the book: I will furnish it
anon with <SPAN name="lineII_2_133" id = "lineII_2_133" href =
"#appII_2_133">new</SPAN> contents: swear.</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> By this good light, this is a very shallow monster!
<span class = "linenum">135</span>
I afeard of him! A very <SPAN name="lineII_2_135" id =
"lineII_2_135" href = "#appII_2_135">weak</SPAN> monster! The man i’ the
moon! A most poor credulous monster! Well drawn, monster, in good
sooth!</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Cal.</i> I’ll show thee every fertile inch o’ th’ <SPAN name =
"lineII_2_138" id = "lineII_2_138" href = "#appII_2_138">island</SPAN>;</p>
<p>And I will kiss thy foot: I prithee, be my god.</p>
</div>
<p><span class = "linenum">140</span>
<i>Trin.</i> By this light, a most perfidious and drunken monster!
when’s god’s asleep, he’ll rob his bottle.</p>
<p><i>Cal.</i> I’ll kiss thy foot; I’ll swear myself thy subject.</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Come on, then; down, and swear.</p>
<span class = "pagenum">40</span>
<SPAN name="page40" id = "page40"> </SPAN>
<p><i>Trin.</i> I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed
monster. A most scurvy monster! I could find in <span class =
"linenum">145</span>
my heart to beat him,—</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Come, kiss.</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> But that the poor monster’s in drink: an abominable
monster!</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">II. 2. 150</span>
<SPAN name="lineII_2_150" id = "lineII_2_150" href =
"#appII_2_150"><i>Cal.</i></SPAN> I’ll show thee the best springs; I’ll
pluck thee berries;</p>
<p>I’ll fish for thee, and get thee wood enough.</p>
<p>A plague upon the tyrant that I serve!</p>
<p>I’ll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee,</p>
<p>Thou wondrous man.</p>
</div>
<p><i>Trin.</i> A most ridiculous monster, to make a wonder <span class
= "linenum">155</span>
of a poor drunkard!</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><SPAN name="lineII_2_157" id = "lineII_2_157" href =
"#appII_2_157"><i>Cal.</i></SPAN> I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs
grow;</p>
<p>And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts;</p>
<p>Show thee a jay’s nest, and instruct thee how</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">160</span>
To snare the nimble marmoset; I’ll bring thee</p>
<p>To clustering filberts, and sometimes I’ll get thee</p>
<p>Young <SPAN name="lineII_2_162" id = "lineII_2_162" href =
"#appII_2_162">scamels</SPAN> from the rock. Wilt thou go with me?</p>
</div>
<p><SPAN name="lineII_2_163" id = "lineII_2_163" href =
"#appII_2_163"><i>Ste.</i></SPAN> I prithee now, lead the way, without any
more talking. Trinculo, the king and all our company else being drowned,
<span class = "linenum">165</span>
we will inherit here: <SPAN name="lineII_2_165" id = "lineII_2_165" href
= "#appII_2_165">here; bear my bottle</SPAN>: fellow Trinculo, we’ll fill
him by and by again.</p>
<p><i>Cal. sings drunkenly.</i>] Farewell, master; farewell,
farewell!</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> A howling monster; a drunken monster!</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "song2">
<i>Cal.</i> No more dams I’ll make for fish;</p>
<p class = "song3"><span class = "linenum">170</span>
Nor fetch in firing</p>
<p class = "song3">
At requiring;</p>
<p class = "song2">
Nor scrape <SPAN name="lineII_2_172" id = "lineII_2_172" href =
"#appII_2_172">trencher</SPAN>, nor wash dish:</p>
<p class = "song3">
’Ban, ’Ban, Cacaliban</p>
<p class = "song3">
Has a new master:—get a new man.</p>
</div>
<p><span class = "linenum">II. 2. 175</span>
Freedom, <SPAN name="lineII_2_175" id = "lineII_2_175" href =
"#appII_2_175">hey-day</SPAN>! hey-day, freedom! freedom, hey-day,
freedom!</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> O brave monster! Lead the way.
<span class = "exit">Exeunt.</span></p>
<span class = "pagenum">41</span>
<SPAN name="page41" id = "page41"> </SPAN>
<h3 class = "act"><SPAN name="actIII" id = "actIII">ACT III.</SPAN></h3>
<h4 class = "scene"><SPAN name="sceneIII_1" id = "sceneIII_1">
<span class = "scenenum">III. 1</span>
<span class = "smallcaps">Scene I.</span> <i>Before <span class =
"charname">Prospero’s</span> cell.</i></SPAN></h4>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
Enter <span class = "charname">Ferdinand</span>, bearing a log.</h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Fer.</i> There be some sports are painful, <SPAN name="lineIII_1_1"
id = "lineIII_1_1" href = "#appIII_1_1">and</SPAN> their labour</p>
<p>Delight in them <SPAN name="lineIII_1_2" id = "lineIII_1_2" href =
"#appIII_1_2">sets</SPAN> off: some kinds of baseness</p>
<p>Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters</p>
<p>Point to rich ends. This <SPAN name="lineIII_1_4" id = "lineIII_1_4"
href = "#appIII_1_4">my mean task</SPAN></p>
<p><span class = "linenum">5</span>
<SPAN href = "#appIII_1_4">Would be as heavy to me as odious</SPAN>, but</p>
<p>The mistress which I serve quickens what’s dead,</p>
<p>And makes my labours pleasures: O, she is</p>
<p>Ten times more gentle than her father’s crabbed.</p>
<p>And he’s composed of harshness. I must <SPAN name="lineIII_1_9" id =
"lineIII_1_9" href = "#appIII_1_9">remove</SPAN></p>
<p><span class = "linenum">10</span>
Some thousands of these logs, and pile them up,</p>
<p>Upon a sore injunction: my sweet mistress</p>
<p>Weeps when she sees me work, and says, such baseness</p>
<p>Had never like executor. I forget:</p>
<p>But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my <SPAN name="lineIII_1_14"
id = "lineIII_1_14" href = "#appIII_1_14">labours</SPAN>,</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineIII_1_15" id = "lineIII_1_15" href =
"#appIII_1_15">Most busy lest</SPAN>, when I do it.</p>
</div>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
Enter <span class = "charname">Miranda</span>; and <span class =
"charname">Prospero</span> <SPAN href = "#appIII_1_15">at a distance,
unseen</SPAN>.</h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3"><span class = "linenum">15</span>
Alas, now, pray you,</p>
<p>Work not so hard: I would the lightning had</p>
<p>Burnt up those logs that <SPAN name="lineIII_1_17" id = "lineIII_1_17"
href = "#appIII_1_17">you are</SPAN> enjoin’d to pile!</p>
<p>Pray, set it down, and rest you: when this burns,</p>
<p>’Twill weep for having wearied you. My father</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">20</span>
Is hard at study; pray, now, rest yourself;</p>
<span class = "pagenum">42</span>
<SPAN name="page42" id = "page42"> </SPAN>
<p>He’s safe for these three hours.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Fer.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">O most dear mistress,</p>
<p>The sun will set before I shall discharge</p>
<p>What I must strive to do.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">If you’ll sit down,</p>
<p>I’ll bear your logs the while: pray, give me that;</p>
<p>I’ll carry it to the pile.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Fer.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3"><span class = "linenum">III. 1. 25</span>
No, precious creature;</p>
<p>I had rather crack my sinews, break my back,</p>
<p>Than you should such dishonour undergo,</p>
<p>While I sit lazy by.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">It would become me</p>
<p>As well as it does you: and I should do it</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">30</span>
With much more ease; for my good will is to it,</p>
<p>And yours <SPAN name="lineIII_1_31" id = "lineIII_1_31" href =
"#appIII_1_31">it is</SPAN> against.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">Poor worm, thou art infected!</p>
<p>This visitation shows it.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">You look wearily.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Fer.</i> No, noble mistress; ’tis fresh morning with me</p>
<p>When you are by at night. <SPAN name="lineIII_1_34" id =
"lineIII_1_34" href = "#appIII_1_34">I do beseech you,—</SPAN></p>
<p><span class = "linenum">35</span>
<SPAN href = "#appIII_1_34">Chiefly</SPAN> that I might set it in my
prayers,—</p>
<p>What is your name?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">Miranda.—O my father,</p>
<p>I have broke your hest to say so!</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Fer.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Admired Miranda!</p>
<p>Indeed the top of admiration! worth</p>
<p>What’s dearest to the world! Full many a lady</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">40</span>
I have eyed with best regard, and many a time</p>
<p>The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage</p>
<p>Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues</p>
<p>Have I liked several women; never any</p>
<p>With so full soul, but some defect in her</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">45</span>
Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed,</p>
<p>And put it to the foil: but you, O you,</p>
<p>So perfect and so peerless, are created</p>
<p>Of every creature’s best!</p>
</div>
<span class = "pagenum">43</span>
<SPAN name="page43" id = "page43"> </SPAN>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">I do not know</p>
<p>One of my sex; no woman’s face remember,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">III. 1. 50</span>
Save, from my glass, mine own; nor have I seen</p>
<p>More that I may call men than you, good friend,</p>
<p>And my dear father: how features are abroad,</p>
<p>I am skilless of; but, by my modesty,</p>
<p>The jewel in my dower, I would not wish</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">55</span>
Any companion in the world but you;</p>
<p>Nor can imagination form a shape,</p>
<p>Besides yourself, to like of. But I prattle</p>
<p>Something too wildly, and my father’s precepts</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineIII_1_59" id = "lineIII_1_59" href = "#appIII_1_59">I
therein do</SPAN> forget.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Fer.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">I am, in my condition,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">60</span>
A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king;</p>
<p>I would, not so!—and would no more endure</p>
<p>This <SPAN name="lineIII_1_62" id = "lineIII_1_62" href =
"#appIII_1_62">wooden</SPAN> slavery <SPAN href = "#appIII_1_62">than to</SPAN>
suffer</p>
<p>The flesh-fly blow my mouth. Hear my soul speak:</p>
<p>The very instant that I saw you, did</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">65</span>
My heart fly to your service; there resides,</p>
<p>To make me slave to it; and for your sake</p>
<p>Am I this patient log-man.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">Do you love me?</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Fer.</i> O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound,</p>
<p>And crown what I profess with kind event,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">70</span>
If I speak true! if hollowly, invert</p>
<p>What best is boded me to mischief! I,</p>
<p>Beyond all limit of <SPAN name="lineIII_1_72" id = "lineIII_1_72" href
= "#appIII_1_72">what else</SPAN> i’ the world,</p>
<p>Do love, prize, honour you.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">I am a fool</p>
<p>To weep at what I am glad of.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Fair encounter</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">III. 1. 75</span>
Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace</p>
<p>On that which breeds between ’em!</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Fer.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">Wherefore weep you?</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Mir.</i> At mine unworthiness, that dare not offer</p>
<p>What I desire to give; and much less take</p>
<span class = "pagenum">44</span>
<SPAN name="page44" id = "page44"> </SPAN>
<p>What I shall die to want. But this is trifling;</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">80</span>
And all the more it <SPAN name="lineIII_1_80" id = "lineIII_1_80" href =
"#appIII_1_80">seeks</SPAN> to hide itself,</p>
<p>The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning!</p>
<p>And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!</p>
<p>I am your wife, if you will marry me;</p>
<p>If not, I’ll die your maid: to be your fellow</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">85</span>
You may deny me; but I’ll be your servant,</p>
<p>Whether you will or no.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Fer.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">My mistress, dearest;</p>
<p>And I thus humble ever.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">My husband, then?</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Fer.</i> Ay, with a heart <SPAN name="lineIII_1_88" id =
"lineIII_1_88" href = "#appIII_1_88">as</SPAN> willing</p>
<p>As bondage e’er of freedom: here’s my hand.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">90</span>
<i>Mir.</i> And mine, with my heart in’t: and now farewell</p>
<p>Till half an hour hence.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Fer.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">A thousand thousand!</p>
<p class = "exit">
Exeunt Fer. and Mir. <SPAN name="lineIII_1_91" id = "lineIII_1_91" href =
"#appIII_1_91">severally</SPAN>.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> So glad of this as they I cannot be,</p>
<p>Who are surprised <SPAN name="lineIII_1_93" id = "lineIII_1_93" href =
"#appIII_1_93">withal</SPAN>; but my rejoicing</p>
<p>At nothing can be more. I’ll to my book;</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">95</span>
For yet, ere supper-time, must I perform</p>
<p>Much business appertaining.
<span class = "exit">Exit.</span></p>
</div>
<h4 class = "scene">
<SPAN name="sceneIII_2" id = "sceneIII_2" href = "#appIII_2_0">
<span class = "scenenum">III. 2</span>
<span class = "smallcaps">Scene II.</span></SPAN> <i>Another part of the
island.</i></h4>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
<SPAN href = "#appIII_2_0">Enter <span class = "charname">Caliban,
Stephano</span>, and <span class = "charname">Trinculo</span>.</SPAN></h5>
<p><i>Ste.</i> 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.</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> Servant-monster! the folly of this island! They
<span class = "linenum">5</span>
say there’s but five upon this isle: we are three of them; if th’ other
two be brained like us, the state totters.</p>
<span class = "pagenum">45</span>
<SPAN name="page45" id = "page45"> </SPAN>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee: thy eyes are
almost set in thy <SPAN name="lineIII_2_8" id = "lineIII_2_8" href =
"#appIII_2_8">head</SPAN>.</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> Where should they be set else? he were a brave
<span class = "linenum">10</span>
monster indeed, if they were set in his tail.</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> My man-monster hath drowned his tongue in sack: for my
part, the sea cannot drown me; I swam, ere I could recover the shore,
five-and-thirty leagues off and on. <SPAN name="lineIII_2_13" id =
"lineIII_2_13" href = "#appIII_2_13">By this light, thou</SPAN> shalt be my
lieutenant, monster, or my
<span class = "linenum">15</span>
standard.</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> Your lieutenant, if you list; he’s no standard.</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> We’ll not run, Monsieur Monster.</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> Nor go neither; but you’ll lie, like dogs, and yet say
nothing neither.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">20</span>
<i>Ste.</i> Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a good
moon-calf.</p>
<p><i>Cal.</i> How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe. I’ll not serve
him, he is not valiant.</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in case
<span class = "linenum">III. 2. 25</span>
to justle a constable. Why, thou <SPAN name="lineIII_2_25" id =
"lineIII_2_25" href = "#appIII_2_25">debauched</SPAN> fish, thou, was there
ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I to-day? Wilt thou
tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?</p>
<p><i>Cal.</i> Lo, how he mocks me! wilt thou let him, my lord?</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">30</span>
<i>Trin.</i> ‘Lord,’ quoth he! That a monster should be such a
natural!</p>
<p><i>Cal.</i> Lo, lo, again! bite him to death, I prithee.</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head: if you prove a
mutineer,—the next tree! The poor monster’s my
<span class = "linenum">35</span>
subject, and he shall not suffer indignity.</p>
<p><i>Cal.</i> I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleased to hearken
once again <SPAN name="lineIII_2_37" id = "lineIII_2_37" href =
"#appIII_2_37">to the suit I made to thee</SPAN>?</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Marry, will I: kneel and repeat it; I will stand, and so
shall Trinculo.</p>
<span class = "pagenum">46</span>
<SPAN name="page46" id = "page46"> </SPAN>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
Enter <span class = "charname">Ariel</span>, invisible.</h5>
<p><span class = "linenum">40</span>
<i>Cal.</i> As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant,
a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island.</p>
<p class = "verse">
<i>Ari.</i> Thou liest.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Cal.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb1">Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou:</p>
<p>I would my valiant master would destroy thee!</p>
<p>I do not lie.</p>
</div>
<p><span class = "linenum">45</span>
<i>Ste.</i> Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in’s tale, by this
hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> Why, I said nothing.</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Mum, then, and no more. Proceed.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Cal.</i> I say, by sorcery he got this isle;</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">III. 2. 50</span>
From me he got it. If thy greatness will</p>
<p>Revenge it on him,—for I know thou darest,</p>
<p>But this thing dare not,—</p>
</div>
<p><i>Ste.</i> That’s most certain.</p>
<p><i>Cal.</i> Thou shalt be lord of it, and I’ll serve thee.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">55</span>
<i>Ste.</i> How now shall this be compassed? Canst thou bring me to the
party?</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Cal.</i> Yea, yea, my lord: I’ll yield him thee asleep,</p>
<p>Where thou mayst knock a nail into his head.</p>
</div>
<p><i>Ari.</i> Thou liest; thou canst not.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">60</span>
<i>Cal.</i> <SPAN name="lineIII_2_60" id = "lineIII_2_60" href =
"#appIII_2_60">What a pied ninny’s this! Thou scurvy patch!</SPAN></p>
<p>I do beseech thy Greatness, give him blows,</p>
<p>And take his bottle from him: when that’s gone,</p>
<p>He shall drink nought but brine; for I’ll not show him</p>
<p>Where the quick freshes are.</p>
</div>
<p><span class = "linenum">65</span>
<i>Ste.</i> Trinculo, run into no further danger: interrupt the monster
one word further, and, by this hand, I’ll turn my mercy out o’ doors,
and make a stock-fish of thee.</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> Why, what did I? I did nothing. I’ll go <SPAN name =
"lineIII_2_68" id = "lineIII_2_68" href = "#appIII_2_68">farther</SPAN>
off.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">70</span>
<i>Ste.</i> Didst thou not say he lied?</p>
<p><i>Ari.</i> Thou liest.</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Do I so? take thou that. <SPAN name="lineIII_2_72" id =
"lineIII_2_72" href = "#appIII_2_72">[<i>Beats him.</i>]</SPAN> As you like
this, give me the lie another time.</p>
<span class = "pagenum">47</span>
<SPAN name="page47" id = "page47"> </SPAN>
<p><i>Trin.</i> I did not give the lie. Out o’ your wits, and
<span class = "linenum">III. 2. 75</span>
hearing too? A pox o’ your bottle! this can sack and drinking do.
A murrain on your monster, and the devil take your fingers!</p>
<p><i>Cal.</i> Ha, ha, ha!</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Now, forward with your tale.—Prithee, stand farther
<span class = "linenum">80</span>
off.</p>
<p><i>Cal.</i> Beat him enough: after a little time, I’ll beat him
too.</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Stand farther. Come, proceed.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Cal.</i> Why, as I told thee, ’tis a custom with him</p>
<p>I’ th’ afternoon to sleep: <SPAN name="lineIII_2_84" id =
"lineIII_2_84" href = "#appIII_2_84">there</SPAN> thou mayst brain him,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">85</span>
Having first seized his books; or with a log</p>
<p>Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,</p>
<p>Or cut his wezand with thy knife. Remember</p>
<p>First to possess his books; for without them</p>
<p>He’s but a sot, as I am, <SPAN name="lineIII_2_89" id = "lineIII_2_89"
href = "#appIII_2_89">nor</SPAN> hath not</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">90</span>
One spirit to command: they all do hate him</p>
<p>As rootedly as I. Burn but his books.</p>
<p>He has brave utensils,—for so he calls them,—</p>
<p>Which, when he has a house, he’ll <SPAN name="lineIII_2_93" id =
"lineIII_2_93" href = "#appIII_2_93">deck</SPAN> withal.</p>
<p>And that most deeply to consider is</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">95</span>
The beauty of his daughter; he himself</p>
<p>Calls her a nonpareil: <SPAN name="lineIII_2_96" id = "lineIII_2_96"
href = "#appIII_2_96">I never saw a woman</SPAN>,</p>
<p>But only Sycorax my dam and she;</p>
<p>But she as far surpasseth Sycorax</p>
<p>As <SPAN name="lineIII_2_99" id = "lineIII_2_99" href =
"#appIII_2_99">great’st does least</SPAN>.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Ste.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb2">Is it so brave a lass?</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">III. 2. 100</span>
<i>Cal.</i> Ay, lord; she will become thy bed, I warrant,</p>
<p>And bring thee forth brave brood.</p>
</div>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and I will be
king and queen,—save our Graces!—and Trinculo and thyself
shall be viceroys. Dost thou like the plot,
<span class = "linenum">105</span>
Trinculo?</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> Excellent.</p>
<span class = "pagenum">48</span>
<SPAN name="page48" id = "page48"> </SPAN>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Give me thy hand: I am sorry I beat thee; but, while thou
livest, keep a good tongue in thy head.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Cal.</i> Within this half hour will he be asleep:</p>
<p>Wilt thou destroy him then?</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Ste.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3"><span class = "linenum">110</span>
Ay, on mine honour.</p>
<p class = "verse">
<i>Ari.</i> This will I tell my master.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Cal.</i> Thou makest me merry; I am full of pleasure:</p>
<p>Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch</p>
<p>You taught me but while-ere?</p>
</div>
<p><span class = "linenum">115</span>
<SPAN name="lineIII_2_115" id = "lineIII_2_115" href =
"#appIII_2_115a"><i>Ste.</i></SPAN> At thy request, monster, I will do
reason, <SPAN href = "#appIII_2_115">any</SPAN> reason. —Come on.
Trinculo, let us sing.
<span class = "exit">Sings.</span></p>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "song1">
Flout ’em and <SPAN name="lineIII_2_117" id = "lineIII_2_117" href =
"#appIII_2_117">scout ’em, and scout ’em</SPAN> and flout ’em;</p>
<p class = "song2">
Thought is free.</p>
</div>
<p><i>Cal.</i> That’s not the tune.</p>
<p class = "exit">Ariel plays the tune on a tabor and pipe.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">120</span>
<i>Ste.</i> What is this same?</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> This is the tune of our catch, played by the picture
of Nobody.</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> If thou beest a man, show thyself in thy likeness:
if thou beest a devil, take’t as thou list.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">III. 2. 125</span>
<i>Trin.</i> O, forgive me my <SPAN name="lineIII_2_125" id =
"lineIII_2_125" href = "#appIII_2_125">sins</SPAN>!</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> He that dies pays all debts: I defy thee. Mercy
upon us!</p>
<p><i>Cal.</i> Art thou afeard?</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> No, monster, not I.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">130</span>
<i>Cal.</i> Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,</p>
<p>Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.</p>
<p>Sometimes a thousand <SPAN name="lineIII_2_132" id = "lineIII_2_132"
href = "#appIII_2_132">twangling</SPAN> instruments</p>
<p>Will hum about mine ears; and <SPAN name="lineIII_2_133" id =
"lineIII_2_133" href = "#appIII_2_133">sometime</SPAN> voices,</p>
<p>That, if I then had waked after long sleep,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">135</span>
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,</p>
<p>The clouds methought would open, and show riches</p>
<p>Ready to drop upon me; <SPAN name="lineIII_2_137" id = "lineIII_2_137"
href = "#appIII_2_137">that</SPAN>, when I waked,</p>
<p>I cried to dream again.</p>
</div>
<span class = "pagenum">49</span>
<SPAN name="page49" id = "page49"> </SPAN>
<p><i>Ste.</i> This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I
<span class = "linenum">140</span>
shall have my music for nothing.</p>
<p><i>Cal.</i> When Prospero is destroyed.</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> That shall be by and by: I remember the story.</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> The sound is going away; let’s follow it, and
after do our work.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">145</span>
<i>Ste.</i> Lead, monster; we’ll follow. I would I could see this
taborer; he lays it on.</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineIII_2_147" id = "lineIII_2_147" href =
"#appIII_2_147"><i>Trin.</i> Wilt come? I’ll follow, Stephano.</SPAN>
<span class = "exit">Exeunt.</span></p>
<h4 class = "scene"><SPAN name="sceneIII_3" id = "sceneIII_3">
<span class = "scenenum">III. 3</span>
<span class = "smallcaps">Scene III.</span> <i>Another part of the
island.</i></SPAN></h4>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
Enter <span class = "charname">Alonso</span>, <span class =
"charname">Sebastian</span>, <span class = "charname">Antonio</span>,
<span class = "charname">Gonzalo</span>, <span class =
"charname">Adrian</span>, <span class = "charname">Francisco</span>, and
others.</h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Gon.</i> By’r lakin, I can go no further, sir;</p>
<p>My old bones <SPAN name="lineIII_3_2" id = "lineIII_3_2" href =
"#appIII_3_2">ache</SPAN>: here’s a maze trod, indeed,</p>
<p>Through <SPAN name="lineIII_3_3" id = "lineIII_3_3" href =
"#appIII_3_3">forth-rights</SPAN> and meanders! By your patience,</p>
<p>I needs must rest me.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Alon.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">Old lord, I cannot blame thee,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">5</span>
Who am myself attach’d with weariness,</p>
<p>To the dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.</p>
<p>Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it</p>
<p>No longer for my <SPAN name="lineIII_3_8" id = "lineIII_3_8" href =
"#appIII_3_8">flatterer</SPAN>: he is drown’d</p>
<p>Whom thus we stray to find; and the sea mocks</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">10</span>
Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Ant.</i> [<i>Aside to Seb.</i>] I am right glad that he’s so out
of hope.</p>
<p>Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose</p>
<p>That you resolved to effect.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i> [<i>Aside to Ant.</i>]</p>
<p class = "iamb3">The next advantage</p>
<p>Will we take throughly.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ant.</i> [<i>Aside to Seb.</i>]</p>
<p class = "iamb2">Let it be to-night;</p>
<span class = "pagenum">50</span>
<SPAN name="page50" id = "page50"> </SPAN>
<p><span class = "linenum">15</span>
For, now they are oppress’d with travel, they</p>
<p>Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance</p>
<p>As when they are fresh.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i> [<i>Aside to Ant.</i>]</p>
<p class = "verse iamb2">I say, to-night: no more.</p>
<p class = "exit">Solemn and strange music.</p>
<p><i>Alon.</i> What harmony is this?—My good friends, hark!</p>
<p><i>Gon.</i> Marvellous sweet music!</p>
<h5 class = "stagedir long">
Enter <SPAN name="lineIII_3_17" id = "lineIII_3_17" href =
"#appIII_3_17"><span class = "charname">Prospero</span> above</SPAN>,
invisible. Enter several strange Shapes, bringing in a banquet: they
dance about it with gentle actions of salutation; and, inviting the
King, &c. to eat, they depart.</h5>
<p><span class = "linenum">20</span>
<i>Alon.</i> Give us kind keepers, heavens!—What <SPAN name =
"lineIII_3_20" id = "lineIII_3_20" href = "#appIII_3_20">were</SPAN>
these?</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Seb.</i> A living drollery. Now I will believe</p>
<p>That there are unicorns; that in Arabia</p>
<p>There is one tree, the phœnix’ throne; one phœnix</p>
<p>At this hour reigning there.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ant.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">I’ll believe both;</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">III. 3. 25</span>
And what does else want credit, come to me,</p>
<p>And I’ll be sworn <SPAN name="lineIII_3_26" id = "lineIII_3_26" href =
"#appIII_3_26">’tis true</SPAN>: travellers ne’er <SPAN href =
"#appIII_3_26">did lie</SPAN>,</p>
<p>Though fools at home condemn ’em.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Gon.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">If in Naples</p>
<p>I should report this now, would they believe me?</p>
<p>If I should say, I saw such <SPAN name="lineIII_3_29" id =
"lineIII_3_29" href = "#appIII_3_29">islanders</SPAN>,—</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">30</span>
For, certes, these are people of the island,—</p>
<p>Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet, note,</p>
<p>Their manners are more <SPAN name="lineIII_3_32" id = "lineIII_3_32"
href = "#appIII_3_32">gentle-kind</SPAN> than of</p>
<p>Our human generation you shall find</p>
<p>Many, nay, almost any.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i> [<i>Aside</i>]</p>
<p class = "iamb3">Honest lord,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">35</span>
Thou hast said well; for some of you there present</p>
<p>Are worse than devils.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Alon.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">I cannot too much <SPAN name="lineIII_3_36" id =
"lineIII_3_36" href = "#appIII_3_36">muse</SPAN></p>
<p>Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, expressing—</p>
<span class = "pagenum">51</span>
<SPAN name="page51" id = "page51"> </SPAN>
<p>Although they want the use of tongue—a kind</p>
<p>Of excellent dumb discourse.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i> [<i>Aside</i>]</p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">Praise in departing.</p>
<p><i>Fran.</i> They vanish’d strangely.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3"><span class = "linenum">40</span>
No matter, since</p>
<p>They have left their viands behind; for we have stomachs.—</p>
<p>Will’t please you taste of what is here?</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Alon.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb4">Not I.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Gon.</i> Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys,</p>
<p>Who would believe that there were mountaineers</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">45</span>
Dew-lapp’d like bulls, whose throats had hanging at ’em</p>
<p>Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men</p>
<p>Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find</p>
<p>Each putter-out <SPAN name="lineIII_3_48" id = "lineIII_3_48" href =
"#appIII_3_48">of five for one</SPAN> will bring us</p>
<p>Good warrant of.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><SPAN name="lineIII_3_49" id = "lineIII_3_49" href =
"#appIII_3_49"><i>Alon.</i></SPAN></p>
<p class = "iamb2">I will stand to, and feed,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">III. 3. 50</span>
Although my last: no matter, since I feel</p>
<p>The best is past. Brother, my lord the duke,</p>
<p>Stand to, and do as we.</p>
</div>
<h5 class = "stagedir long">
Thunder and lightning. <SPAN name="lineIII_3_53" id = "lineIII_3_53" href
= "#appIII_3_53">Enter <span class = "charname">Ariel</span></SPAN>, like a
harpy; claps his wings upon the table; and, with a quaint device, the
banquet vanishes.</h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Ari.</i> You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,—</p>
<p>That hath to <SPAN name="lineIII_3_54" id = "lineIII_3_54" href =
"#appIII_3_54">instrument</SPAN> this lower world</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">55</span>
And what is in’t,—the never-surfeited sea</p>
<p>Hath caused to <SPAN name="lineIII_3_56" id = "lineIII_3_56" href =
"#appIII_3_56">belch up you</SPAN>; and on this island,</p>
<p>Where man doth not inhabit,—you ’mongst men</p>
<p>Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad;</p>
<p>And even with such-like valour men hang and drown</p>
<p>Their proper selves.
<span class = "exit">Alon., Seb. &c. <SPAN name="lineIII_3_60" id =
"lineIII_3_60" href = "#appIII_3_60">draw their swords</SPAN>.</span></p>
<p class = "iamb2"><span class = "linenum">60</span>
You fools! I and my fellows <p>Are ministers of Fate: the elements,</p>
<span class = "pagenum">52</span>
<SPAN name="page52" id = "page52"> </SPAN>
<p>Of whom your swords are temper’d, may as well</p>
<p>Wound the loud winds, or with bemock’d-at stabs</p>
<p>Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">65</span>
One <SPAN name="lineIII_3_65" id = "lineIII_3_65" href =
"#appIII_3_65">dowle</SPAN> that’s in my <SPAN href =
"#appIII_3_65">plume</SPAN>: my fellow-ministers</p>
<p>Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,</p>
<p>Your swords are now too massy for your <SPAN name="lineIII_3_67" id =
"lineIII_3_67" href = "#appIII_3_67">strengths</SPAN>,</p>
<p>And will not be uplifted. But remember,—</p>
<p>For that’s my business to you,—that you three</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">70</span>
From Milan did supplant good Prospero;</p>
<p>Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it,</p>
<p>Him and his innocent child: for which foul deed</p>
<p>The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have</p>
<p>Incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">III. 3. 75</span>
Against your peace. Thee of thy son, Alonso,</p>
<p>They have bereft; and do pronounce by me:</p>
<p>Lingering perdition—worse than any death</p>
<p>Can be at once—shall step by step attend</p>
<p>You and your ways; whose <SPAN name="lineIII_3_79" id = "lineIII_3_79"
href = "#appIII_3_79">wraths</SPAN> to guard you from,—</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">80</span>
Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls</p>
<p>Upon your heads,—is nothing but <SPAN name="lineIII_3_81" id =
"lineIII_3_81" href = "#appIII_3_81">heart-sorrow</SPAN></p>
<p>And a clear life ensuing.</p>
</div>
<h5 class = "stagedir long">
He vanishes in thunder; then, to soft music, enter the Shapes again, and
dance, with <SPAN name="lineIII_3_82" id = "lineIII_3_82" href =
"#appIII_3_82">mocks</SPAN> and mows, and carrying out the table.</h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou</p>
<p>Perform’d, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring:</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">85</span>
Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated</p>
<p>In what thou hadst to say: so, with good <SPAN name="lineIII_3_86" id
= "lineIII_3_86" href = "#appIII_3_86">life</SPAN></p>
<p>And observation strange, my meaner ministers</p>
<p>Their several kinds have done. My high charms work,</p>
<p>And these mine enemies are all knit up</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">90</span>
In their distractions: they <SPAN name="lineIII_3_90" id = "lineIII_3_90"
href = "#appIII_3_90">now</SPAN> are in my power;</p>
<p>And in these fits I leave them, while I visit</p>
<span class = "pagenum">53</span>
<SPAN name="page53" id = "page53"> </SPAN>
<p>Young Ferdinand,—<SPAN name="lineIII_3_92" id = "lineIII_3_92"
href = "#appIII_3_92">whom</SPAN> they suppose is drown’d,—</p>
<p>And his and <SPAN name="lineIII_3_93" id = "lineIII_3_93" href =
"#appIII_3_93">mine</SPAN> loved darling.
<SPAN href = "#appIII_3_93">
<span class = "exit">Exit above.</span></SPAN></p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Gon.</i> I’ the name of <SPAN name="lineIII_3_94" id =
"lineIII_3_94" href = "#appIII_3_94">something holy, sir,</SPAN> why stand
you</p>
<p>In this strange stare?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Alon.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2"><span class = "linenum">95</span>
O, it is monstrous, monstrous!</p>
<p>Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it;</p>
<p>The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder,</p>
<p>That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced</p>
<p>The name of Prosper: it did <SPAN name="lineIII_3_99" id =
"lineIII_3_99" href = "#appIII_3_99">bass</SPAN> my trespass.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">III. 3. 100</span>
Therefore my son i’ th’ ooze is bedded; and</p>
<p>I’ll seek him deeper than e’er plummet sounded,</p>
<p>And with him there lie mudded.
<span class = "exit">Exit.</span></p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">But one fiend at a time,</p>
<p>I’ll fight their legions o’er.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ant.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">I’ll be thy second.</p>
</div>
<p class = "exit">
Exeunt Seb. and Ant.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Gon.</i> All three of them are desperate: their great guilt,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">105</span>
Like poison given to work a great time after,</p>
<p>Now ’gins to bite the spirits. I <SPAN name="lineIII_3_106" id =
"lineIII_3_106" href = "#appIII_3_106">do</SPAN> beseech you,</p>
<p>That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly,</p>
<p>And hinder them from what this ecstasy</p>
<p>May now provoke them to.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Adr.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Follow, I pray you.
<span class = "exit">Exeunt.</span></p>
</div>
<span class = "pagenum">54</span>
<SPAN name="page54" id = "page54"> </SPAN>
<h3 class = "act"><SPAN name="actIV" id = "actIV">ACT IV.</SPAN></h3>
<h4 class = "scene"><SPAN name="sceneIV_1" id = "sceneIV_1">
<span class = "scenenum">IV. 1</span>
<span class = "smallcaps">Scene I.</span> <i>Before <span class =
"charname">Prospero’s</span> cell.</i></SPAN></h4>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
Enter <span class = "charname">Prospero</span>, <span class =
"charname">Ferdinand</span>, and <span class =
"charname">Miranda</span>.</h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> If I have too austerely punish’d you,</p>
<p>Your compensation makes amends; for I</p>
<p>Have given you here a <SPAN name="lineIV_1_3" id = "lineIV_1_3" href =
"#appIV_1_3">third</SPAN> of mine own life,</p>
<p>Or that for which I live; <SPAN name="lineIV_1_4" id = "lineIV_1_4"
href = "#appIV_1_4">who</SPAN> once again</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">5</span>
I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations</p>
<p>Were but my trials of thy love, and thou</p>
<p>Hast strangely stood the <SPAN name="lineIV_1_7" id = "lineIV_1_7"
href = "#appIV_1_7">test</SPAN>: here, afore Heaven,</p>
<p>I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand,</p>
<p>Do not smile at me that I boast her <SPAN name="lineIV_1_9" id =
"lineIV_1_9" href = "#appIV_1_9">off</SPAN>,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">10</span>
For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise,</p>
<p>And make it halt behind her.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Fer.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">I <SPAN name="lineIV_1_11" id = "lineIV_1_11" href =
"#appIV_1_11">do</SPAN> believe it</p>
<p>Against an oracle.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> Then, as my <SPAN name="lineIV_1_13" id = "lineIV_1_13"
href = "#appIV_1_13">gift</SPAN>, and thine own acquisition</p>
<p>Worthily purchased, take my daughter: <SPAN name="lineIV_1_14" id =
"lineIV_1_14" href = "#appIV_1_14">but</SPAN></p>
<p><span class = "linenum">15</span>
If thou dost break her virgin-knot before</p>
<p>All sanctimonious ceremonies may</p>
<p>With full and holy rite be minister’d,</p>
<p>No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall</p>
<p>To make this contract grow; but barren hate,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">20</span>
Sour-eyed disdain and discord shall bestrew</p>
<p>The union of your bed with weeds so loathly</p>
<p>That you shall hate it both: therefore take heed,</p>
<p>As Hymen’s lamps shall light you.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Fer.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">As I hope</p>
<p>For quiet days, fair issue and long life,</p>
<span class = "pagenum">55</span>
<SPAN name="page55" id = "page55"> </SPAN>
<p><span class = "linenum">IV. 1. 25</span>
With such love as <SPAN name="lineIV_1_25" id = "lineIV_1_25" href =
"#appIV_1_25">’tis</SPAN> now, the murkiest den,</p>
<p>The most opportune place, the strong’st suggestion</p>
<p>Our worser Genius can, shall never melt</p>
<p>Mine honour into lust, to take away</p>
<p>The edge of that day’s celebration</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">30</span>
When I shall think, or <SPAN name="lineIV_1_30" id = "lineIV_1_30" href =
"#appIV_1_30">Phœbus’</SPAN> steeds are founder’d,</p>
<p>Or Night kept chain’d below.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Fairly spoke.</p>
<p>Sit, then, and talk with her; she is thine own.</p>
<p>What, Ariel! my industrious servant, Ariel!</p>
</div>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
<SPAN name="lineIV_1_34" id = "lineIV_1_34" href = "#appIV_1_34">Enter
<span class = "charname">Ariel</span>.</SPAN></h5>
<p class = "verse">
<i>Ari.</i> What would my potent master? here I am.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">35</span>
<i>Pros.</i> Thou and thy meaner fellows your last service</p>
<p>Did worthily perform; and I must use you</p>
<p>In such another trick. Go bring the rabble,</p>
<p>O’er whom I give thee power, here to this place:</p>
<p>Incite them to quick motion; for I must</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">40</span>
Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple</p>
<p>Some <SPAN name="lineIV_1_41" id = "lineIV_1_41" href =
"#appIV_1_41">vanity</SPAN> of mine art: it is my promise,</p>
<p>And they expect it from me.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Ari.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">Presently?</p>
<p class = "verse">
<i>Pros.</i> Ay, with a twink.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "song1">
<i>Ari.</i> Before you can say, ‘come,’ and ‘go,’</p>
<p class = "song1">
<span class = "linenum">45</span>
And breathe twice, and cry, ‘so, so,’</p>
<p class = "song1">
Each one, tripping on his toe,</p>
<p class = "song1">
Will be here with mop and mow.</p>
<p class = "song1">
Do you love me, master? <SPAN name="lineIV_1_48" id = "lineIV_1_48" href
= "#appIV_1_48">no?</SPAN></p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> Dearly, my delicate Ariel. Do not approach</p>
<p>Till thou dost hear me call.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ari.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3"><span class = "linenum">IV. 1. 50</span>
Well, I conceive.
<span class = "exit">Exit.</span></p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> Look thou be true; do not give dalliance</p>
<p>Too much the rein: the strongest oaths are straw</p>
<p>To the fire i’ the blood: be more <SPAN name="lineIV_1_53" id =
"lineIV_1_53" href = "#appIV_1_53">abstemious</SPAN>,</p>
<span class = "pagenum">56</span>
<SPAN name="page56" id = "page56"> </SPAN>
<p>Or else, good night your vow!</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Fer.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">I warrant you, sir;</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">55</span>
The white cold virgin snow upon my heart</p>
<p>Abates the ardour of my liver.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb4">Well.</p>
<p>Now come, my Ariel! bring a corollary,</p>
<p>Rather than want a spirit: appear, and pertly!</p>
<p>No tongue! all eyes! be silent.
<span class = "exit">Soft music.</span></p>
</div>
<div class = "poem">
<h5 class = "stagedir">
<SPAN name="lineIV_1_60" id = "lineIV_1_60" href = "#appIV_1_60">Enter
<span class = "charname">Iris</span>.</SPAN></h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">60</span>
<i>Iris.</i> Ceres, most bounteous lady, <SPAN href = "#appIV_1_60">thy</SPAN>
rich leas</p>
<p>Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats, and pease;</p>
<p>Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,</p>
<p>And flat meads thatch’d with stover, them to keep;</p>
<p>Thy banks with <SPAN name="lineIV_1_64" id = "lineIV_1_64" href =
"#appIV_1_64">pioned</SPAN> and <SPAN href = "#appIV_1_64">twilled</SPAN>
brims,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">65</span>
Which spongy April at thy best betrims,</p>
<p>To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy <SPAN name="lineIV_1_66" id
= "lineIV_1_66" href = "#appIV_1_66">broom-groves</SPAN>,</p>
<p>Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,</p>
<p>Being lass-lorn; thy <SPAN name="lineIV_1_68" id = "lineIV_1_68" href
= "#appIV_1_68">pole-clipt</SPAN> vineyard;</p>
<p>And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">70</span>
Where thou thyself dost air;—the queen o’ the sky,</p>
<p>Whose watery arch and messenger am I,</p>
<p>Bids thee leave these; <SPAN name="lineIV_1_72" id = "lineIV_1_72"
href = "#appIV_1_72">and with her sovereign grace</SPAN>,</p>
<p>Here on this grass-plot, in this very place,</p>
<p>To come and sport:—<SPAN name="lineIV_1_74" id = "lineIV_1_74"
href = "#appIV_1_74">her</SPAN> peacocks fly amain:</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">IV. 1. 75</span>
Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.</p>
</div>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
Enter <span class = "charname">Ceres</span>.</h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Cer.</i> Hail, many-colour’d messenger, that ne’er</p>
<p>Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter;</p>
<p>Who, with thy saffron wings, upon my flowers</p>
<p>Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers;</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">80</span>
And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown</p>
<p>My bosky acres and my unshrubb’d down,</p>
<p>Rich scarf to my proud earth;—why hath thy queen</p>
<p>Summon’d me hither, to this <SPAN name="lineIV_1_83" id =
"lineIV_1_83" href = "#appIV_1_83">short-grass’d</SPAN> green?</p>
</div>
<span class = "pagenum">57</span>
<SPAN name="page57" id = "page57"> </SPAN>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Iris.</i> A contract of true love to celebrate;</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">85</span>
And some donation freely to estate</p>
<p>On the blest lovers.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Cer.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">Tell me, heavenly bow,</p>
<p>If Venus or her son, as thou dost know,</p>
<p>Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot</p>
<p>The means that dusky Dis my daughter got,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">90</span>
Her and her blind boy’s scandal’d company</p>
<p>I have forsworn.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Iris.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">Of her society</p>
<p>Be not afraid: I met her Deity</p>
<p>Cutting the clouds towards Paphos, and her son</p>
<p>Dove-drawn with her. Here thought they to have done</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">95</span>
Some wanton charm upon this man and maid,</p>
<p>Whose vows are, that no <SPAN name="lineIV_1_96" id = "lineIV_1_96"
href = "#appIV_1_96">bed-right</SPAN> shall be paid</p>
<p>Till Hymen’s torch be lighted: but in vain;</p>
<p>Mars’s hot minion is returned again;</p>
<p>Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">IV. 1. 100</span>
Swears he will shoot no more, but play with sparrows,</p>
<p>And be a boy right out.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Cer.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3"><SPAN name="lineIV_1_101" id = "lineIV_1_101" href =
"#appIV_1_101">High’st</SPAN> queen of state,</p>
<p>Great Juno, comes; I know her by her gait.</p>
</div>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
<SPAN name="lineIV_1_102" id = "lineIV_1_102" href = "#appIV_1_102">Enter
<span class = "charname">Juno</span>.</SPAN></h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Juno.</i> How does my bounteous sister? Go with me</p>
<p>To bless this twain, that they may prosperous be,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">105</span>
And honour’d in their issue.
<span class = "exit">They sing:</span></p>
</div>
<div class = "song">
<p><i>Juno.</i> Honour, riches, marriage-blessing,</p>
<p>Long continuance, and increasing,</p>
<p>Hourly joys be still upon you!</p>
<p>Juno sings her blessings on you.</p>
</div>
<div class = "song">
<p><span class = "linenum">110</span>
<SPAN name="lineIV_1_110" id = "lineIV_1_110" href =
"#appIV_1_110"><i>Cer.</i></SPAN> Earth’s increase, <SPAN href =
"#appIV_1_110">foison</SPAN> plenty,</p>
<p>Barns and garners never empty;</p>
<p>Vines with clustering bunches growing;</p>
<p>Plants with goodly burthen bowing;</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineIV_1_114" id = "lineIV_1_114" href =
"#appIV_1_114">Spring</SPAN> come to you at the farthest</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">115</span>
In the very end of harvest!</p>
<p>Scarcity and want shall shun you;</p>
<p>Ceres’ blessing so is on you.</p>
</div>
</div> <!-- end div poem -->
<span class = "pagenum">58</span>
<SPAN name="page58" id = "page58"> </SPAN>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Fer.</i> This is a most majestic vision, and</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineIV_1_119" id = "lineIV_1_119" href =
"#appIV_1_119">Harmonious charmingly</SPAN>. May I be bold</p>
<p>To think these spirits?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2"><span class = "linenum">120</span>
Spirits, which by mine art</p>
<p>I have <SPAN name="lineIV_1_121" id = "lineIV_1_121" href =
"#appIV_1_121">from their</SPAN> confines call’d to enact</p>
<p>My present fancies.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Fer.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">Let me live here ever;</p>
<p>So rare a wonder’d father and a <SPAN name="lineIV_1_123" id =
"lineIV_1_123" href = "#appIV_1_123">wife</SPAN></p>
<p><SPAN name="lineIV_1_124" id = "lineIV_1_124" href =
"#appIV_1_124">Makes</SPAN> this place Paradise.</p>
</div>
<p class = "exit">
<SPAN name="lineIV_1_124a" id = "lineIV_1_124a" href =
"#appIV_1_124a">Juno and Ceres whisper, and send Iris on
employment.</SPAN></p>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3"><SPAN href = "#appIV_1_124">Sweet, now, silence</SPAN>!</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">IV. 1. 125</span>
Juno and Ceres whisper seriously;</p>
<p>There’s something else to do: hush, and be mute,</p>
<p>Or else our spell is marr’d.</p>
</div>
<div class = "poem">
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Iris.</i> You nymphs, call’d Naiads, of the <SPAN name =
"lineIV_1_128" id = "lineIV_1_128" href = "#appIV_1_128">windring</SPAN>
brooks,</p>
<p>With your <SPAN name="lineIV_1_129" id = "lineIV_1_129" href =
"#appIV_1_129">sedged</SPAN> crowns and ever-harmless looks,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">130</span>
Leave your crisp channels, and on this green land</p>
<p>Answer your summons; Juno does command:</p>
<p>Come, temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate</p>
<p>A contract of true love; be not too late.</p>
</div>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
Enter certain Nymphs.</h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p>You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">135</span>
Come hither from the furrow, and be merry:</p>
<p>Make <SPAN name="lineIV_1_136" id = "lineIV_1_136" href =
"#appIV_1_136">holiday</SPAN>; your rye-straw hats put on,</p>
<p>And these fresh nymphs encounter every one</p>
<p>In country footing.</p>
</div>
<h5 class = "stagedir long">
<SPAN name="lineIV_1_139" id = "lineIV_1_139" href = "#appIV_1_139">Enter
certain Reapers</SPAN>, properly habited: they join with the Nymphs in a
graceful dance; towards the end whereof <span class =
"charname">Prospero</span> starts
<span class = "pagenum">59</span>
<SPAN name="page59" id = "page59"> </SPAN>
suddenly, and speaks; after which, to a strange, hollow, and confused
noise, they heavily vanish.</h5></div> <!-- end div poem -->
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> [<i>Aside</i>] I had forgot that foul conspiracy</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">140</span>
Of the beast Caliban and his confederates</p>
<p>Against my life: the minute of their plot</p>
<p>Is almost come. [<i>To the Spirits.</i>] Well done! avoid; no
more!</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Fer.</i> <SPAN name="lineIV_1_143" id = "lineIV_1_143" href =
"#appIV_1_143">This is strange</SPAN>: your father’s in some passion</p>
<p>That works him strongly.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">Never till this day</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">145</span>
Saw I him touch’d with <SPAN name="lineIV_1_145" id = "lineIV_1_145" href
= "#appIV_1_145">anger</SPAN> so distemper’d.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> You <SPAN name="lineIV_1_146" id = "lineIV_1_146" href =
"#appIV_1_146">do</SPAN> look, my son, in a moved sort,</p>
<p>As if you were dismay’d: be cheerful, sir.</p>
<p>Our revels now are ended. These our actors,</p>
<p>As I foretold you, were all spirits, and</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">IV. 1. 150</span>
Are melted into air, into thin air:</p>
<p>And, like the baseless fabric of <SPAN name="lineIV_1_151" id =
"lineIV_1_151" href = "#appIV_1_151">this</SPAN> vision,</p>
<p>The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,</p>
<p>The solemn temples, the great globe itself,</p>
<p>Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">155</span>
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,</p>
<p>Leave not a <SPAN name="lineIV_1_156" id = "lineIV_1_156" href =
"#appIV_1_156">rack</SPAN> behind. We are such stuff</p>
<p>As dreams are made on; and our little life</p>
<p>Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vex’d;</p>
<p>Bear with my weakness; my old brain is troubled:</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">160</span>
Be not disturb’d with my infirmity:</p>
<p>If you be pleased, retire into my cell,</p>
<p>And there repose: a turn or two I’ll walk,</p>
<p>To still my beating mind.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Fer.</i> <i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">We wish <SPAN name="lineIV_1_163" id =
"lineIV_1_163" href = "#appIV_1_163">your</SPAN> peace.
<span class = "exit">Exeunt.</span></p>
<p class = "verse">
<i>Pros.</i> Come with a thought. <SPAN name="lineIV_1_164" id =
"lineIV_1_164" href = "#appIV_1_164">I thank thee, Ariel: come.</SPAN></p>
<span class = "pagenum">60</span>
<SPAN name="page60" id = "page60"> </SPAN>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
Enter <span class = "charname">Ariel</span>.</h5>
<p class = "verse">
<span class = "linenum">165</span>
<i>Ari.</i> Thy thoughts I cleave to. What’s thy pleasure?</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb4">Spirit,</p>
<p>We must prepare to meet with Caliban.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Ari.</i> Ay, my commander: when I presented Ceres,</p>
<p>I thought to have told thee of it; but I fear’d</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineIV_1_169" id = "lineIV_1_169" href =
"#appIV_1_169">Lest</SPAN> I might anger thee.</p>
</div>
<p class = "verse">
<span class = "linenum">170</span>
<i>Pros.</i> <SPAN name="lineIV_1_170" id = "lineIV_1_170" href =
"#appIV_1_170">Say again</SPAN>, where didst thou leave these varlets?</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Ari.</i> I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking;</p>
<p>So full of valour that they smote the air</p>
<p>For breathing in their faces; beat the ground</p>
<p>For kissing of their feet; yet always bending</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">IV. 1. 175</span>
Towards their project. Then I beat my tabor;</p>
<p>At which, like unback’d colts, they prick’d their ears,</p>
<p>Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses</p>
<p>As they smelt music: so I charm’d their ears,</p>
<p>That, calf-like, they my lowing follow’d through</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">180</span>
Tooth’d briers, sharp <SPAN name="lineIV_1_180" id = "lineIV_1_180" href
= "#appIV_1_180">furzes</SPAN>, pricking goss, and thorns,</p>
<p>Which enter’d their frail <SPAN name="lineIV_1_181" id =
"lineIV_1_181" href = "#appIV_1_181">shins</SPAN>: at last I left them</p>
<p>I’ the <SPAN name="lineIV_1_182" id = "lineIV_1_182" href =
"#appIV_1_182">filthy-mantled</SPAN> pool beyond your cell,</p>
<p>There dancing up to the chins, that the foul lake</p>
<p>O’erstunk their <SPAN name="lineIV_1_184" id = "lineIV_1_184" href =
"#appIV_1_184">feet</SPAN>.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">This was well done, my bird.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">185</span>
Thy shape invisible retain thou still:</p>
<p>The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither,</p>
<p>For stale to catch these thieves.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ari.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">I go, I go.
<span class = "exit">Exit.</span></p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> A devil, a born devil, on whose nature</p>
<p>Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">190</span>
Humanely taken, <SPAN name="lineIV_1_190" id = "lineIV_1_190" href =
"#appIV_1_190">all, all</SPAN> lost, quite lost;</p>
<p>And as with age his body uglier grows,</p>
<p>So his mind cankers. I will plague them all,</p>
<p>Even to roaring.</p>
</div>
<span class = "pagenum">61</span>
<SPAN name="page61" id = "page61"> </SPAN>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
Re-enter <span class = "charname">Ariel</span>, loaden with glistering
apparel, &c.</h5>
<p class = "verse iamb2">Come, hang <SPAN name="lineIV_1_193" id =
"lineIV_1_193" href = "#appIV_1_193">them on</SPAN> this line.</p>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
<SPAN name="lineIV_1_194" id = "lineIV_1_194" href = "#appIV_1_194"><span
class = "charname">Prospero</span> and <span class =
"charname">Ariel</span> remain, invisible. Enter <span class =
"charname">Caliban, Stephano</span>, and <span class =
"charname">Trinculo</span>, all wet.</SPAN></h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Cal.</i> Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">195</span>
Hear a foot fall: we now are near his cell.</p>
</div>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Monster, your fairy, which you say is a harmless fairy,
has done little better than played the Jack with us.</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> Monster, I do smell all horse-piss; at which my nose is
in great indignation.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">IV. 1. 200</span>
<i>Ste.</i> So is mine. Do you hear, monster? If I should take a
displeasure against you, look you,—</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> Thou wert but a lost monster.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Cal.</i> Good my lord, give me thy favour still.</p>
<p>Be patient, for the prize I’ll bring thee to</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">205</span>
Shall hoodwink this mischance: therefore speak softly.</p>
<p>All’s hush’d as midnight yet.</p>
</div>
<p><i>Trin.</i> Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool,—</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> There is not only disgrace and dishonour in that,
monster, but an infinite loss.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">210</span>
<i>Trin.</i> That’s more to me than my wetting: yet this is your
harmless fairy, monster.</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> I will fetch off my bottle, though I be o’er ears for my
labour.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Cal.</i> Prithee, my king, be quiet. See’st thou here,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">215</span>
This is the mouth o’ the cell: no noise, and enter.</p>
<p>Do that good mischief which may make this island</p>
<p>Thine own for ever, and I, thy Caliban,</p>
<p>For aye thy foot-licker.</p>
</div>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Give me thy hand. I do begin to have bloody
<span class = "linenum">220</span>
thoughts.</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> O King Stephano! O peer! O worthy Stephano! look what a
wardrobe here is for thee!</p>
<p><i>Cal.</i> Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash.</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> O, ho, monster! we know what belongs to a frippery.
<span class = "linenum">IV. 1. 225</span>
O King Stephano!</p>
<span class = "pagenum">62</span>
<SPAN name="page62" id = "page62"> </SPAN>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Put off that gown, Trinculo; by this hand, I’ll have that
gown.</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> Thy Grace shall have it.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Cal.</i> The dropsy drown this fool! what do you mean</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">230</span>
To dote thus on such luggage? <SPAN name="lineIV_1_230" id =
"lineIV_1_230" href = "#appIV_1_230">Let’s alone</SPAN>,</p>
<p>And do the murder first: if he awake,</p>
<p>From toe to crown he’ll fill our skins with pinches,</p>
<p>Make us strange stuff.</p>
</div>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Be you quiet, monster. Mistress line, is not this
<span class = "linenum">235</span>
my jerkin? Now is the jerkin under the line: now, jerkin, you are like
to lose your hair, and prove a bald jerkin.</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> Do, do: we steal by line and level, an’t like your
Grace.</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> I thank thee for that jest; here’s a garment for’t:
<span class = "linenum">240</span>
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.</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and away
with the rest.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">245</span>
<i>Cal.</i> I will have none on’t: we shall lose our time,</p>
<p>And all be turn’d to barnacles, or <SPAN name="lineIV_1_246" id =
"lineIV_1_246" href = "#appIV_1_246">to apes</SPAN></p>
<p>With foreheads villanous low.</p>
</div>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Monster, lay-to your fingers: help to bear this away
where my hogshead of wine is, or I’ll turn you out
<span class = "linenum">IV. 1. 250</span>
of my kingdom: go to, carry this.</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> And this.</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Ay, and this.</p>
<h5 class = "stagedir long">
A noise of hunters heard. Enter divers Spirits, in shape of dogs and
hounds, and hunt them about, <span class = "charname">Prospero</span>
and <span class = "charname">Ariel</span> setting them on.</h5>
<p><i>Pros.</i> Hey, Mountain, hey!</p>
<p><i>Ari.</i> Silver! there it goes, Silver!</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">255</span>
<i>Pros.</i> Fury, fury! there, Tyrant, there! hark, hark!</p>
<p class = "exit"><SPAN name="lineIV_1_255" id = "lineIV_1_255" href =
"#appIV_1_255">Cal., Ste., and Trin. are driven out.</SPAN></p>
<p>Go charge my goblins that <SPAN name="lineIV_1_256" id =
"lineIV_1_256" href = "#appIV_1_256">they</SPAN> grind their joints</p>
<span class = "pagenum">63</span>
<SPAN name="page63" id = "page63"> </SPAN>
<p>With dry convulsions; shorten up their sinews</p>
<p>With aged cramps; and more pinch-spotted make them</p>
<p>Then pard or cat o’ mountain.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Ari.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">Hark, they roar!</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">260</span>
<i>Pros.</i> Let them be hunted soundly. At this hour</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineIV_1_261" id = "lineIV_1_261" href =
"#appIV_1_261">Lie</SPAN> at my mercy all mine enemies:</p>
<p>Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou</p>
<p>Shalt have the air at freedom: for a little</p>
<p>Follow, and do me service.
<span class = "exit">Exeunt.</span></p>
</div>
<h3 class = "act"><SPAN name="actV" id = "actV">ACT V.</SPAN></h3>
<h4 class = "scene"><SPAN name="sceneV_1" id = "sceneV_1">
<span class = "scenenum">V. 1</span>
<span class = "smallcaps">Scene I.</span> <i>Before the cell of
Prospero.</i></SPAN></h4>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
Enter <span class = "charname">Prospero</span> in his magic robes, and
<span class = "charname">Ariel</span>.</h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> Now does my project gather to a head:</p>
<p>My charms crack not; my spirits obey; and time</p>
<p>Goes upright with his carriage. How’s the day?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Ari.</i> On the sixth hour; at which time, my lord,</p>
<p>You said our work should cease.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3"><span class = "linenum">5</span>
I did say so,</p>
<p>When first I raised the tempest. Say, my spirit,</p>
<p>How fares the king and’s followers?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ari.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Confined <SPAN name="lineV_1_7" id = "lineV_1_7" href
= "#appV_1_7">together</SPAN></p>
<p>In the same fashion as you gave in charge,</p>
<p>Just as you left them; <SPAN name="lineV_1_9" id = "lineV_1_9" href =
"#appV_1_9">all</SPAN> prisoners, sir,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">10</span>
In the <SPAN name="lineV_1_10" id = "lineV_1_10" href =
"#appV_1_10">line-grove</SPAN> which weather-fends your cell;</p>
<p>They cannot budge till <SPAN name="lineV_1_11" id = "lineV_1_11" href
= "#appV_1_11">your</SPAN> release. The king,</p>
<p>His brother, and yours, abide all three distracted,</p>
<p>And the remainder mourning over them,</p>
<p>Brimful of sorrow and dismay; but chiefly</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">15</span>
Him that you term’d, <SPAN name="lineV_1_15" id = "lineV_1_15" href =
"#appV_1_15">sir</SPAN>, “The good old lord, Gonzalo;”</p>
<span class = "pagenum">64</span>
<SPAN name="page64" id = "page64"> </SPAN>
<p>His tears <SPAN name="lineV_1_16" id = "lineV_1_16" href =
"#appV_1_16">run</SPAN> down his beard, like <SPAN href =
"#appV_1_16">winter’s</SPAN> drops</p>
<p>From eaves of reeds. Your charm so strongly works ’em,</p>
<p>That if you now beheld them, your affections</p>
<p>Would become tender.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb2">Dost thou think so, spirit?</p>
<p class = "verse">
<i>Ari.</i> Mine would, sir, were I human.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3"><span class = "linenum">20</span>
And mine shall.</p>
<p>Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling</p>
<p>Of their afflictions, and shall not myself,</p>
<p>One of their kind, that relish all as <SPAN name="lineV_1_23" id =
"lineV_1_23" href = "#appV_1_23">sharply,</SPAN></p>
<p><SPAN name="lineV_1_24" id = "lineV_1_24" href =
"#appV_1_24">Passion</SPAN> as they, be kindlier moved than thou art?</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">V. 1. 25</span>
Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick,</p>
<p>Yet with my nobler reason <SPAN name="lineV_1_26" id = "lineV_1_26"
href = "#appV_1_26">’gainst</SPAN> my fury</p>
<p>Do I take part: the rarer action is</p>
<p>In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,</p>
<p>The sole drift of my purpose doth extend</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">30</span>
Not a frown further. Go release them, Ariel:</p>
<p>My charms I’ll break, their senses I’ll restore,</p>
<p>And they shall be themselves.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ari.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">I’ll fetch them, sir.
<SPAN name="lineV_1_33" id = "lineV_1_33" href = "#appV_1_33"><span class
= "exit">Exit.</span></SPAN></p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and
groves;</p>
<p>And ye that on the sands with printless foot</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">35</span>
Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him</p>
<p>When he comes back; you demi-puppets that</p>
<p>By moonshine do the <SPAN name="lineV_1_37" id = "lineV_1_37" href =
"#appV_1_37">green sour</SPAN> ringlets make,</p>
<p>Whereof the ewe not bites; and you whose pastime</p>
<p>Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">40</span>
To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid—</p>
<p>Weak masters though ye be—I have bedimm’d</p>
<p>The noontide sun, call’d forth the mutinous winds.</p>
<p>And ’twixt the green sea and the azured vault</p>
<p>Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">45</span>
Have I given fire, and rifted Jove’s stout oak</p>
<span class = "pagenum">65</span>
<SPAN name="page65" id = "page65"> </SPAN>
<p>With his own bolt; the <SPAN name="lineV_1_46" id = "lineV_1_46" href
= "#appV_1_46">strong-based</SPAN> promontory</p>
<p>Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck’d up</p>
<p>The pine and cedar: graves at my command</p>
<p>Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let ’em forth</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">V. 1. 50</span>
By my so potent art. But this rough magic</p>
<p>I here abjure; and, when I have required</p>
<p>Some heavenly music,—which even now I do,—</p>
<p>To work mine end upon their senses, that</p>
<p>This airy charm is for, I’ll break my staff,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">55</span>
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,</p>
<p>And deeper than did ever plummet sound</p>
<p>I’ll drown my book.
<span class = "exit">Solemn music.</span></p>
</div>
<h5 class = "stagedir long">
<SPAN name="lineV_1_58" id = "lineV_1_58" href = "#appV_1_58">Re-enter
<span class = "charname">Ariel</span> before</SPAN>: then <span class =
"charname">Alonso</span>, with a frantic gesture, attended by <span
class = "charname">Gonzalo</span>; <span class =
"charname">Sebastian</span> and <span class = "charname">Antonio</span>
in like manner, attended by <span class = "charname">Adrian</span> and
<span class = "charname">Francisco</span>: they all enter the circle
which <span class = "charname">Prospero</span> had made, and there stand
charmed; which <span class = "charname">Prospero</span> observing,
speaks:</h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p>A solemn air, <SPAN href = "#appV_1_58">and</SPAN> the best comforter</p>
<p>To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">60</span>
Now useless, <SPAN name="lineV_1_60" id = "lineV_1_60" href =
"#appV_1_60">boil’d</SPAN> within thy skull! There stand,</p>
<p>For you are spell-stopp’d.</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineV_1_62" id = "lineV_1_62" href = "#appV_1_62">Holy</SPAN>
Gonzalo, honourable man,</p>
<p>Mine eyes, even sociable to the <SPAN name="lineV_1_63" id =
"lineV_1_63" href = "#appV_1_63">show</SPAN> of thine,</p>
<p>Fall <SPAN name="lineV_1_64" id = "lineV_1_64" href =
"#appV_1_64">fellowly</SPAN> drops. The charm dissolves apace;</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">65</span>
And as the morning steals upon the night,</p>
<p>Melting the darkness, so their rising senses</p>
<p>Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle</p>
<p>Their clearer reason. <SPAN name="lineV_1_68" id = "lineV_1_68" href =
"#appV_1_68">O</SPAN> good Gonzalo,</p>
<p>My true preserver, and a loyal <SPAN name="lineV_1_69" id =
"lineV_1_69" href = "#appV_1_69">sir</SPAN></p>
<p><span class = "linenum">70</span>
To him thou follow’st! I will pay thy graces</p>
<p>Home both in word and deed. Most cruelly</p>
<span class = "pagenum">66</span>
<SPAN name="page66" id = "page66"> </SPAN>
<p><SPAN name="lineV_1_72" id = "lineV_1_72" href =
"#appV_1_72">Didst</SPAN> thou, Alonso, use me and my daughter:</p>
<p>Thy brother was a furtherer in the act.</p>
<p>Thou art pinch’d for’t now, <SPAN name="lineV_1_74" id = "lineV_1_74"
href = "#appV_1_74">Sebastian. Flesh and blood,</SPAN></p>
<p><span class = "linenum">V. 1. 75</span>
You, brother mine, that <SPAN name="lineV_1_75" id = "lineV_1_75" href =
"#appV_1_75">entertain’d</SPAN> ambition,</p>
<p>Expell’d remorse and nature; <SPAN name="lineV_1_76" id = "lineV_1_76"
href = "#appV_1_76">who</SPAN>, with Sebastian,—</p>
<p>Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong,—</p>
<p>Would here have kill’d your king; I do forgive thee,</p>
<p>Unnatural though thou art. Their understanding</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">80</span>
Begins to swell; and the approaching tide</p>
<p>Will shortly fill the reasonable shore,</p>
<p>That now <SPAN name="lineV_1_82" id = "lineV_1_82" href =
"#appV_1_82">lies</SPAN> foul and muddy. Not one of them</p>
<p>That yet looks on me, <SPAN name="lineV_1_83" id = "lineV_1_83" href =
"#appV_1_83">or</SPAN> would know me: Ariel,</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineV_1_84" id = "lineV_1_84" href = "#appV_1_84">Fetch me
the hat and rapier in my cell</SPAN>:</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">85</span>
I will discase me, and myself present</p>
<p>As I was sometime Milan: quickly, spirit;</p>
<p>Thou shalt ere long be free.</p>
</div>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
<span class = "charname">Ariel</span> sings and helps to attire
him.</h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "song2">
Where the bee sucks, there <SPAN name="lineV_1_88" id = "lineV_1_88" href
= "#appV_1_88">suck</SPAN> I:</p>
<p class = "song2">
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;</p>
<p class = "song2">
<span class = "linenum">90</span>
There I <SPAN name="lineV_1_90" id = "lineV_1_90" href =
"#appV_1_90">couch</SPAN> when owls do cry.</p>
<p class = "song2">
On the bat’s back I do fly</p>
<p class = "song2">
After <SPAN name="lineV_1_92" id = "lineV_1_92" href =
"#appV_1_92">summer</SPAN> merrily.</p>
<p class = "song1">Merrily, merrily shall I live now</p>
<p class = "song1">Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">95</span>
<i>Pros.</i> Why, that’s my dainty Ariel! I shall miss thee;</p>
<p>But yet thou shalt have freedom: so, so, so.</p>
<p>To the king’s ship, invisible as thou art:</p>
<p>There shalt thou find the mariners asleep</p>
<p>Under the hatches; the master and the boatswain</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">V. 1. 100</span>
Being awake, enforce them to this place,</p>
<span class = "pagenum">67</span>
<SPAN name="page67" id = "page67"> </SPAN>
<p>And presently, I prithee.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Ari.</i> I drink the air before me, and return</p>
<p>Or ere your pulse twice beat.
<span class = "exit">Exit.</span></p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Gon.</i> All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">105</span>
Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us</p>
<p>Out of this fearful country!</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3"><SPAN name="lineV_1_106" id = "lineV_1_106" href =
"#appV_1_106">Behold</SPAN>, sir king,</p>
<p>The wronged Duke of Milan, Prospero:</p>
<p>For more assurance that a living prince</p>
<p>Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body;</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">110</span>
And to thee and thy company I bid</p>
<p>A hearty welcome.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Alon.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2"><SPAN name="lineV_1_111" id = "lineV_1_111" href =
"#appV_1_111">Whether thou be’st</SPAN> he or no,</p>
<p>Or some enchanted <SPAN name="lineV_1_112" id = "lineV_1_112" href =
"#appV_1_112">trifle</SPAN> to abuse me,</p>
<p>As late I have been, I not know: thy pulse</p>
<p>Beats, as of flesh and blood; and, since I saw thee,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">115</span>
The affliction of my mind amends, with which,</p>
<p>I fear, a madness held me: this must crave—</p>
<p>An if this be at all—a most strange story.</p>
<p>Thy dukedom I resign, and do entreat</p>
<p>Thou pardon me <SPAN name="lineV_1_119" id = "lineV_1_119" href =
"#appV_1_119">my</SPAN> wrongs.—But how should Prospero</p>
<p>Be living and be here?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3"><span class = "linenum">120</span>
First, noble friend,</p>
<p>Let me embrace thine age, whose honour cannot</p>
<p>Be measured or confined.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Gon.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Whether this be</p>
<p>Or be not, I’ll not swear.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">You do yet taste</p>
<p>Some subtilties o’ the isle, that will <SPAN name="lineV_1_124" id =
"lineV_1_124" href = "#appV_1_124">not</SPAN> let you</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">V. 1. 125</span>
Believe things certain. Welcome, my friends all!</p>
<p>[<i>Aside to Seb. and Ant.</i>] But you, my brace of lords, were I so
minded,</p>
<p>I here could pluck his Highness’ frown upon you,</p>
<p>And justify you traitors: at this time</p>
<p>I will tell no tales.</p>
</div>
<span class = "pagenum">68</span>
<SPAN name="page68" id = "page68"> </SPAN>
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i> [<i>Aside</i>]</p>
<p class = "verse iamb2">The devil speaks in him.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb4">No.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">130</span>
For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother</p>
<p>Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive</p>
<p>Thy rankest <SPAN name="lineV_1_132" id = "lineV_1_132" href =
"#appV_1_132">fault</SPAN>,—all of them; and require</p>
<p>My dukedom of thee, which perforce, I know,</p>
<p>Thou must restore.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Alon.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">If thou be’st Prospero,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">135</span>
Give us particulars of thy preservation;</p>
<p>How thou hast met us here, <SPAN name="lineV_1_136" id = "lineV_1_136"
href = "#appV_1_136">who</SPAN> three hours since</p>
<p>Were wreck’d upon this shore; where I have lost—</p>
<p>How sharp the point of this remembrance is!—</p>
<p>My dear son Ferdinand.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">I am woe for’t, sir.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">140</span>
<i>Alon.</i> Irreparable is the loss; and patience</p>
<p>Says it is past her cure.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">I rather think</p>
<p>You have not sought her help, of whose soft grace</p>
<p>For the like loss I have her sovereign aid,</p>
<p>And rest myself content.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Alon.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">You the like loss!</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">145</span>
<i>Pros.</i> As great to me as late; <SPAN name="lineV_1_145" id =
"lineV_1_145" href = "#appV_1_145">and, supportable</SPAN></p>
<p>To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker</p>
<p>Than you may call to comfort you, for I</p>
<p>Have lost <SPAN name="lineV_1_148" id = "lineV_1_148" href =
"#appV_1_148">my</SPAN> daughter.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Alon.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2"><SPAN href = "#appV_1_148">A daughter</SPAN>?</p>
<p>O heavens, that they were living both in Naples,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">V. 1. 150</span>
The king and queen there! that they were, I wish</p>
<p>Myself were mudded in that oozy bed</p>
<p>Where my son lies. When did you lose <ins class = "correction" title
= "text unchanged: error for ‘your’?">you</ins> daughter?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> In this last tempest. I perceive, these lords</p>
<p>At this encounter do so much admire,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">155</span>
That they devour their reason, and scarce think</p>
<p>Their <SPAN name="lineV_1_156" id = "lineV_1_156" href =
"#appV_1_156">eyes</SPAN> do offices of truth, <SPAN href =
"#appV_1_156">their</SPAN> words</p>
<p>Are natural breath: but, howsoe’er you have</p>
<span class = "pagenum">69</span>
<SPAN name="page69" id = "page69"> </SPAN>
<p>Been justled from your senses, know for certain</p>
<p>That I am Prospero, and that very duke</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">160</span>
Which was thrust forth of Milan; who most strangely</p>
<p>Upon this shore, where you were wreck’d, was landed,</p>
<p>To be the Lord on’t. No more yet of this;</p>
<p>For ’tis a chronicle of day by day,</p>
<p>Not a relation for a breakfast, nor</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">165</span>
Befitting this first meeting. Welcome, sir;</p>
<p>This cell’s my court: here have I few attendants,</p>
<p>And subjects none abroad: pray you, look in.</p>
<p>My dukedom since you have given me again,</p>
<p>I will requite you with as good a thing;</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">170</span>
At least bring forth a wonder, to content ye</p>
<p>As much as me my dukedom.</p>
</div>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
<SPAN name="lineV_1_172a" id = "lineV_1_172a" href = "#appV_1_172a">Here
Prospero discovers <span class = "charname">Ferdinand</span> and <span
class = "charname">Miranda</span> playing at chess.</SPAN></h5>
<p class = "verse">
<i>Mir.</i> Sweet lord, you play me false.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Fer.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">No, my <SPAN name="lineV_1_172" id = "lineV_1_172"
href = "#appV_1_172">dear’st</SPAN> love,</p>
<p>I would not for the world.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Mir.</i> Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle,</p>
<p>And I would call it fair play.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Alon.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3"><span class = "linenum">V. 1. 175</span>
If this prove</p>
<p>A vision of the island, one dear son</p>
<p>Shall I twice lose.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb2">A most high miracle!</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Fer.</i> Though the seas threaten, they are merciful;</p>
<p>I have cursed them without cause.
<SPAN name="lineV_1_179" id = "lineV_1_179" href = "#appV_1_179"><span
class = "exit">Kneels.</span></SPAN></p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Alon.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Now all the blessings</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">180</span>
Of a glad father compass thee about!</p>
<p>Arise, and say how thou camest here.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Mir.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb4">O, wonder!</p>
<p>How many goodly creatures are there here!</p>
<p>How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,</p>
<span class = "pagenum">70</span>
<SPAN name="page70" id = "page70"> </SPAN>
<p>That has such people in’t!</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">’Tis new to thee.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">185</span>
<i>Alon.</i> What is this maid with whom thou wast at play?</p>
<p>Your eld’st acquaintance cannot be three hours:</p>
<p>Is she the goddess that hath sever’d us,</p>
<p>And brought us thus together?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Fer.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">Sir, she is mortal;</p>
<p>But by immortal Providence she’s mine:</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">190</span>
I chose her when I could not ask my father</p>
<p>For his <SPAN name="lineV_1_191" id = "lineV_1_191" href =
"#appV_1_191">advice</SPAN>, nor thought I had one. She</p>
<p>Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan,</p>
<p>Of whom so often I have heard renown,</p>
<p>But never saw before; of whom I have</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">195</span>
Received a second life; and second father</p>
<p>This lady makes him to me.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Alon.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">I am hers:</p>
<p>But, O, how oddly will it sound that I</p>
<p>Must ask my child forgiveness!</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3">There, sir, stop:</p>
<p>Let us not burthen our <SPAN name="lineV_1_199" id = "lineV_1_199"
href = "#appV_1_199">remembrances with</SPAN></p>
<p>A heaviness that’s gone.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Gon.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3"><span class = "linenum">V. 1. 200</span>
I have inly wept,</p>
<p>Or should have spoke ere this. Look down, you gods,</p>
<p>And on this couple drop a blessed crown!</p>
<p>For it is you that have chalk’d forth the way</p>
<p>Which brought us hither.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Alon.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">I say, Amen, Gonzalo!</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">205</span>
<i>Gon.</i> Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue</p>
<p>Should become kings of Naples? O, rejoice</p>
<p>Beyond a common joy! and set it down</p>
<p>With gold on lasting pillars: In one voyage</p>
<p>Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">210</span>
And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife</p>
<p>Where he himself was lost, Prospero his dukedom</p>
<p>In a poor isle, and all of us ourselves</p>
<p><SPAN name="lineV_1_213" id = "lineV_1_213" href =
"#appV_1_213">When</SPAN> no man was his own.</p>
</div>
<span class = "pagenum">71</span>
<SPAN name="page71" id = "page71"> </SPAN>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Alon.</i> [<i>to Fer. and Mir.</i>]</p>
<p class = "iamb3">Give me your hands:</p>
<p>Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart</p>
<p>That doth not wish you joy!</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Gon.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3"><span class = "linenum">215</span>
Be it so! Amen!</p>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
<SPAN name="lineV_1_216" id = "lineV_1_216" href = "#appV_1_216">Re-enter
<span class = "charname">Ariel</span>, with the <em>Master</em> and
<em>Boatswain</em> amazedly following.</SPAN></h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p>O, look, <SPAN href = "#appV_1_216">sir, look, sir</SPAN>! here <SPAN href =
"#appV_1_216">is</SPAN> more of us:</p>
<p>I prophesied, if a gallows were on land,</p>
<p>This fellow could not drown. Now, blasphemy,</p>
<p>That swear’st grace o’erboard, not an oath on shore?</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">220</span>
Hast thou no mouth by land? What is the news?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Boats.</i> The best news is, that we have <SPAN name="lineV_1_221"
id = "lineV_1_221" href = "#appV_1_221">safely</SPAN> found</p>
<p>Our king and company; the next, our ship—</p>
<p>Which, but three glasses since, we gave out split—</p>
<p>Is tight and yare and bravely rigg’d, as when</p>
<p>We first put out to sea.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><span class = "linenum">V. 1. 225</span>
<i>Ari.</i> [<i>Aside to Pros.</i>]</p>
<p class = "iamb3">Sir, all this service</p>
<p>Have I done since I went.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i> [<i>Aside to Ari.</i>]</p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">My tricksy spirit!</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Alon.</i> These are not natural events; they strengthen</p>
<p>From strange to stranger. Say, how came you hither?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Boats.</i> If I did think, sir, I were well awake,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">230</span>
I’ld strive to tell you. We were dead of <SPAN name="lineV_1_230" id =
"lineV_1_230" href = "#appV_1_230">sleep</SPAN>,</p>
<p>And—how we know not—all clapp’d under hatches;</p>
<p>Where, but even now, with strange and several noises</p>
<p>Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling chains,</p>
<p>And <SPAN name="lineV_1_234" id = "lineV_1_234" href =
"#appV_1_234">more</SPAN> diversity of sounds, all horrible,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">235</span>
We were awaked; straightway, at liberty;</p>
<p>Where we, in all <SPAN name="lineV_1_236" id = "lineV_1_236" href =
"#appV_1_236">her</SPAN> trim, freshly beheld</p>
<p>Our royal, good, and gallant ship; our master</p>
<p>Capering to eye her:—on a trice, so please you,</p>
<p>Even in a dream, were we divided from them,</p>
<p>And were brought moping hither.</p>
</div>
<p class = "float"><span class = "linenum">240</span>
<i>Ari.</i> [<i>Aside to Pros.</i>]</p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">Was’t well done?</p>
<span class = "pagenum">72</span>
<SPAN name="page72" id = "page72"> </SPAN>
<p class = "verse">
<i>Pros.</i> [<i>Aside to Ari.</i>] Bravely, my diligence. Thou shalt be
free.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><SPAN name="lineV_1_242" id = "lineV_1_242" href =
"#appV_1_242"><i>Alon.</i></SPAN> This is as strange a maze as e’er men
trod;</p>
<p>And there is in this business more than nature</p>
<p>Was ever conduct of: some oracle</p>
<p>Must rectify our knowledge.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb3"><span class = "linenum">245</span>
Sir, my liege,</p>
<p>Do not infest your mind with beating on</p>
<p>The strangeness of this business; at pick’d <SPAN name="lineV_1_247"
id = "lineV_1_247" href = "#appV_1_247">leisure</SPAN></p>
<p><SPAN name="lineV_1_248" id = "lineV_1_248" href = "#appV_1_248">Which
shall be shortly, single</SPAN> I’ll resolve you,</p>
<p>Which to you shall seem probable, of every</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">V. 1. 250</span>
These happen’d accidents; till when, be cheerful,</p>
<p>And think of each thing well. [<i>Aside to Ari.</i>] Come hither,
spirit:</p>
<p>Set Caliban and his companions free;</p>
<p>Untie the spell. <SPAN name="lineV_1_253" id = "lineV_1_253" href =
"#appV_1_253">[<i>Exit Ariel.</i>]</SPAN> How fares my gracious sir?</p>
<p>There are yet missing of your company</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">255</span>
Some few odd lads that you remember not.</p>
</div>
<h5 class = "stagedir">
<SPAN name="lineV_1_256" id = "lineV_1_256" href = "#appV_1_256">Re-enter
<span class = "charname">Ariel</span>, driving in <span class =
"charname">Caliban, Stephano</span>, and <span class =
"charname">Trinculo</span>, in their stolen apparel.</SPAN></h5>
<p><i>Ste.</i> Every man shift for all the rest, and let no man take
care for himself; for all is but fortune.—<SPAN name="lineV_1_258"
id = "lineV_1_258" href = "#appV_1_258">Coragio</SPAN>, bully-monster,
coragio!</p>
<p><i>Trin.</i> If these be true spies which I wear in my head,
<span class = "linenum">260</span>
here’s a goodly sight.</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Cal.</i> O Setebos, these be brave spirits indeed!</p>
<p>How fine my master is! I am afraid</p>
<p>He will chastise me.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Seb.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">Ha, ha!</p>
<p>What things are these, my lord Antonio?</p>
<p>Will money buy ’em?</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Ant.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2"><span class = "linenum">265</span>
Very like; one of them</p>
<p>Is a plain fish, and, no doubt, marketable.</p>
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<span class = "pagenum">73</span>
<SPAN name="page73" id = "page73"> </SPAN>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Pros.</i> Mark but the badges of these men, my lords,</p>
<p>Then say if they be true. This <SPAN name="lineV_1_268" id =
"lineV_1_268" href = "#appV_1_268">mis-shapen</SPAN> knave,</p>
<p>His mother was a witch; and one so strong</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">270</span>
That could control the moon, make flows and ebbs,</p>
<p>And deal in her <SPAN name="lineV_1_271" id = "lineV_1_271" href =
"#appV_1_271">command, without her power.</SPAN></p>
<p>These three have robb’d me; and this demi-devil—</p>
<p>For he’s a bastard one—had plotted with them</p>
<p>To take my life. Two of these fellows you</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">V. 1. 275</span>
Must know and own; this thing of darkness I</p>
<p>Acknowledge mine.</p>
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<p class = "float"><i>Cal.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb2">I shall be pinch’d to death.</p>
<p><i>Alon.</i> Is not this Stephano, my drunken butler?</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> He is drunk now: where had he wine?</p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Alon.</i> And Trinculo is reeling ripe: where should they
<span class = "linenum">280</span>
<p>Find this grand <SPAN name="lineV_1_280" id = "lineV_1_280" href =
"#appV_1_280">liquor</SPAN> that hath gilded ’em?—</p>
<p>How camest thou in this pickle?</p>
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<p><SPAN name="lineV_1_282" id = "lineV_1_282" href =
"#appV_1_282"><i>Trin.</i></SPAN> 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.</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">285</span>
<i>Seb.</i> Why, how now, Stephano!</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> O, touch me not;—I am not Stephano, but a
cramp.</p>
<p><i>Pros.</i> You’ld be king o’ the isle, sirrah?</p>
<p><i>Ste.</i> I should have been a sore one, then.</p>
<p><i>Alon.</i> <SPAN name="lineV_1_289" id = "lineV_1_289" href =
"#appV_1_289">This is a strange</SPAN> thing <SPAN href = "#appV_1_289">as
e’er I</SPAN> look’d on.
<SPAN href = "#appV_1_289">
<span class = "exit">Pointing to Caliban.</span></SPAN></p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">290</span>
<i>Pros.</i> He is as disproportion’d in his manners</p>
<p>As in his shape. Go, sirrah, to my cell;</p>
<p>Take with you your companions; as you look</p>
<p>To have my pardon, trim it handsomely.</p>
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<div class = "verse">
<p><i>Cal.</i> Ay, that I will; and I’ll be wise hereafter,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">295</span>
And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass</p>
<p>Was I, to take this drunkard for a god,</p>
<p>And worship this dull fool!</p>
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<span class = "pagenum">74</span>
<SPAN name="page74" id = "page74"> </SPAN>
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "verse iamb3">Go to; away!</p>
<p class = "verse">
<i>Alon.</i> Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it.</p>
<p><i>Seb.</i> Or stole it, rather.
<SPAN name="lineV_1_299" id = "lineV_1_299" href = "#appV_1_299">
<span class = "exit">Exeunt Cal., Ste., and Trin.</span></SPAN></p>
<div class = "verse">
<p><span class = "linenum">V. 1. 300</span>
<i>Pros.</i> Sir, I invite your Highness and your train</p>
<p>To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest</p>
<p>For this one night; which, part of it, I’ll waste</p>
<p>With such discourse as, I not doubt, shall make it</p>
<p>Go quick away: the story of my life,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">305</span>
And the particular accidents gone by</p>
<p>Since I came to this isle: and in the morn</p>
<p>I’ll bring you to your ship, and so to Naples,</p>
<p>Where I have hope to see the <SPAN name="lineV_1_308" id =
"lineV_1_308" href = "#appV_1_308">nuptial</SPAN></p>
<p><SPAN name="lineV_1_309" id = "lineV_1_309" href = "#appV_1_309">Of
these our dear-beloved solemnized</SPAN>;</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">310</span>
And thence retire me to my Milan, where</p>
<p>Every third thought shall be my grave.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Alon.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb4">I long</p>
<p>To hear the story of your life, which must</p>
<p>Take the ear strangely.</p>
</div>
<div class = "verse">
<p class = "float"><i>Pros.</i></p>
<p class = "iamb2">I’ll deliver all;</p>
<p>And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales,</p>
<p>And sail so expeditious, that shall catch</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">315</span>
Your royal fleet far off. [<i>Aside to Ari.</i>] My Ariel, chick,</p>
<p>That is thy charge: then to the elements</p>
<p>Be free, and fare thou well! Please you, draw near.</p>
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<p class = "exit">Exeunt.</p>
<span class = "pagenum">75</span>
<SPAN name="page75" id = "page75"> </SPAN>
<h3 class = "act"><SPAN name="epilogue" id = "epilogue"> EPILOGUE.</SPAN></h3>
<h5>SPOKEN BY PROSPERO.</h5>
<div class = "verse">
<p><SPAN name="line_epi_1" id = "line_epi_1" href = "#app_epi_1">Now</SPAN>
my charms are all o’erthrown,</p>
<p>And what strength I have’s mine own,</p>
<p>Which is most faint: <SPAN name="line_epi_3" id = "line_epi_3" href =
"#app_epi_3">now</SPAN>, ’tis true,</p>
<p>I must be here confined by you,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">5</span>
Or sent to Naples. Let me not,</p>
<p>Since I have my dukedom got,</p>
<p>And pardon’d the deceiver, dwell</p>
<p>In this bare island by your spell;</p>
<p>But release me from my bands</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">10</span>
With the help of your good hands:</p>
<p>Gentle breath of yours my sails</p>
<p>Must fill, or else my project fails,</p>
<p>Which was to please. <SPAN name="line_epi_13" id = "line_epi_13" href
= "#app_epi_13">Now</SPAN> I want</p>
<p>Spirits to enforce, art to enchant;</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">15</span>
And my ending is despair,</p>
<p>Unless I be relieved by prayer,</p>
<p>Which pierces so, that it assaults</p>
<p>Mercy itself, and frees all faults.</p>
<p>As you from crimes would pardon’d be,</p>
<p><span class = "linenum">20</span>
Let your indulgence set me free.</p>
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