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The Tt·mpt·st w.ts printed as the first corned,·, and conse- quenth· the first pla\', in the Folio of 1623.· It ma\' have been g.rnntcd such p~omincncc .1s the last non-coll;bora- tivc play Shakespeare wrote, hut it must in any event have been highly re~arded hy the publishers of the Folio, and by his former colle.t~ues John Hemmings and Henry Condell, who ,ouched for the authority and complete- ness of the \"<>lume, to appe.tr first in it. Its full, descrip- tive stage directiuns may ha\'c been .tmplified by the scribe Ralph Crane, who trnnscribed the manuscript copy used hy the printer. Its d.lte of composition is fixed as 1610-11 hy a performance .tt Court on 1 November 1611 and by its use of William Strnchey's account (dated from \"irginia on 15 July 1610 and known to have reached London no earlier than September) of the shipwreck of Sir \\'illiam Somers on Bermuda in the summer of 1609. The play may ha\'e been designed for the Blackfriars playhouse, hut no n·cord of performance there or at the Globe has sur\'i\'cd.

Like other plays from 1/amlt·t onwards, The Tempest reflects Shakespeare's knowledge of the Essays of ~lontaignc, in John Florio's English version (1602). The essay 'Of the Cannibals' underlies Gonzalo's vision of an ideal commonwealth, raises questions about the distinc- tion between civilization and barbarism and probably suggested C1lihan 's n.1me. \"irgil's .·fr11t'id is a further influence, while Prospero's renunciation of magic, 5.1.33-57, is closely modelled on .!\lcdca's invocation in Ovid's Metanwrplwst·s, 7.179-219.

Tilt! Tempt•st, in which Shakespeare observed the uni- ties of place an<l time for the first time since The Come,61

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of Errors, is a work of synthesis and retrospection. The controlling role of Prospero may recall the Duke in ,\ltas11re for Meas11re, who also prefers forgiveness to vin- dictive justice at the end. His magic harks back to Oberon in A Mids11mmer Night's Dreczm, just as Ariel's role recalls that of Puck. Its presentation of the pursuit of political power is equally reminiscent of the English histories and political tragedies. Stephano is the last, and most sinister, of Shakespeare's comic drunkards.

The Tempest was among the first of Shakespeare's plays to be adapted for the changed theatrical conditions of the Restoration. The version of it bv Drvden and Davenant (1667) supplied it with a busie; acti~n. which introduced sisters for Miranda and Caliban, a female counterpart for Ariel, and Hippolyto, a man who has never seen a woman (a travesty role for an actress). The dreamlike quality of its action and the mythic symmetries of its cast haYe led to a wide and increasingly various array of interpretations of The Tempest. Nineteenth- century interest found its focus in Prospero, who was increasingly identified with Shakespeare; in the late twen- tieth century, attention shifted towards Caliban and colo- nialism, or towards Miranda and the oppressions of patri- archy. The play has inspired many later literary and musi- cal compositions, among them Hector Berlioz's sym- phonic fantasy lelio ( 1832), Robert Browning's 'C.'lliban upon Setebos' (1864),Jean Sibelius's incidental music for the play, W. H. Auden's TlteSea and the ,Hirror(l9#) and Sir Michael Tippett's opera The K11ot G11rde11 ( 1969).

The 1999 Arden text is based on the 1623 First Folio.

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.\l:\STER Boats\\ ain! HO,\TS\\'.\I'.': I kn.· master. \\'hat cheer? .\l:\STER Good, spl·ak to th' m.1rincrs. Fall to't yarcly

or we run oursdn:s a~round. Bestir, bestir! Exit.

Dua \ larincrs.

BO,\TSW:\I:'\ I kii.d1, my hearts; cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! Yare! Yart·! Take in the topsail. Tend to the master's whistk! Ito th,· storm! Blow till thou burst thy wind, if room c.:nou~h.

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:\1.0:\SO Good boatswain, han: care. \\1herc's the master? Play the mt·n!

BO:\TSW.\t, I pray now. keep hclow! :\:\T0'.\:10 \\'here is the master, hoatsw;1in? BO:\TS\nt, Do you not hear him? You mar our labour.

Keep your cabins! You do assist the storm. Go:-.;z .. ,1.0 '.\:ay, good, he patient. B<HTS\\':\I:'\ \\.hl.'n thl.' SL';t is! Hence. What cares these

roarers for the name of kin~? To c.tbin! Silence! Trouble us not. ~

GOSZ:\I.O Good. yet remember whom thou lmst aboard. BOATS\\'.\!:'\ ;\;one that I more lo\'e than m,·sclf. You arc

a councillor; if you can comm.md thes~ clements to silence and work the peace of the present, we will not hand a rope more. Use \'our authorit\'! If you cannot, gi\'c thanks You haYc li,··cd so Ion•" a~d m.;ke voursclf ready in you·r cabin for the misch.~cc of the h~ur, if it so hap. - Cheerly, good hearts. - Out of our way, I say!

Exit. GO:--.;Z:\I.O I ha,·e great comfort from this fellow.

Methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him - his complexion is perfect gallows. St.me.I fast, good fate, to his hanging~ make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our own doth little ad\'antage. If he be not born to be hanged, our case is miserable. Exit.

Enter Boatswain.

BO:\TS\\':\I:\ Down with the topmast! Yare! Lower, lower! Bring her to try with main course. [.A cry within.] A plague upon this howling. They arc louder than the weather or our office.

Enter SEH:\STI:\;\;, .·\i':To:-.;10 t1l1d G01'ZALO.

Yet again? \\'hat <lo you here? Shall we gi\'e o'er and drown? Have you a mind to sink?

SEB:\STtA-...: A pox o'\'our throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharit;blc dog.

BOATSW·\l'.'i \Vork you, then. A:':TO'.'ilO Hang, cur! Hang, you whoreson, insolent

noise-maker! \Ve arc less afraid to he drowned than thou art.

GONZALO I'll warrant him for drowning, though the ship were no stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an unstanched wench.

BOATSWAIN Lay her a-hold, a-hold! Set her two courses off to sea again! Lay her off!

£mer Mariners, wet.

:\l:\RINERS All lost! To prayers, to prayers! All lost! BOATSWAIN What, must our mouths be cold? GONZALO The King and prince at prayers, let's assist

them, for our case is as theirs. SEBASTIAN I'm out of patience. ANTO;\IO We are merely cheated of our lives by

drunkards. This wide-chopped rascal - would thou mightst lie drowning the washing of ten tides!

GONZALO He'll be hanged yet, though e\'ery drop of water swear against it and gape at widest to glut him. [A co,ifi,sed 11oise wi1l1i11] Mercy on us! - \Ve split, we split! - Farewell my wife and children! - Farewell brother! - We split, we split, we split!

ANTONIO Let's all sink wi'th' King. SEU:\STIA~ Let's take leave of him. Exit mith A11to11io. GONZALO Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea

for an acre of barren ground - long heath, brown furze, anything. The wills above be done, but I would fain die a dry death. £xii.

1.2 Etuer PROSPERO am/ .MIRANDA.

.\IIRANDA Ifby your art, my dearest father, you ha\'c Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them. The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch But that the sea, mounting to th' welkin's check, Dashes the fire out. 0, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer - a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces. 0, the cry did knock

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Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished. Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere It should the good ship so have swallowed and The fraughting souls within her.

PROSPERO Be collected; No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.

:\URAND:\ 0 woe the day. PROSPERO No harm!

I have done nothing but in care of thee, Of thee, my dear one, thee my daughter, who Art ignorant of what thou art, naught knowing Of whence I am, nor that I am more better Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell, And thy no greater father.

.\IIRANDA :More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts.

PROSPERO 'Tis time I should inform thee further. Lend thy hand

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.\nd pluck m~ ma~ic ~armc:nt from me. S11. I .ie then: m~ art. \\.ipc thou rhinc c:H·-.. h.1,c comtorl. The direful ,pccradc of rhc ,, red; ,, luch rouchnl The vcr~ \ irr uc of t:ompa-. .. ion in I hcl.", I ha, c: ,, ith such prm i,ion in mine: arr So ... aid~ ordcrc:d, rhal rhc:rc: i, no ,oul '-..o, nor "" much pc:rdition ,1" an hair. Betid to any crc:aturc: in the ,c..,..,cl \\"hich thou heard'sr er~. which 1hou -.~m -., ,ink.

Sir down, For 1hou mu-.t no,, knrm further.

\Ill{ \'-.IJ\ You ha,c: often Bc~un to tell me ,, hat I am, hut ... topped .-\ml lch me to a bootless inqui-.ition, Condudin~. 'Stay, not ~ct'.

l'kC JSl'l·.IH > The: hour\ no,, come: The very minute hich rhec ope thine car. Obey and he anenti,e. Canst thou rcmcmhcr :\ time before we came unto this cell? I do nor think thou cama. for then thou ,,a-.1 11111 Out three ~cars old.

\Ilk·\'-' H Certainh, sir, I can. PROSPl·.kO By what? By an~ ot.her house or pcr-.on?

Of any thin~ the image, tell me, 1ha1 Hath kept with thy rememhrant:c.

\IJR\'-1>\ 'Tis for of{ .-\nd rather like a dream than an as ... urancc That my remembrance ,,arrants. Had I nor Four or fi,e women onc.:e, thar tended me?

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Thou hadst, and more, \liranda. But hm, i-. it That this li,·es in thy mind? \\'hat secst thou cJ..,e In the <lark had,,ar<l an<l ah\'sm of time? If rhou rememh'rcst aught e;e thou <.:am'sr hen:, Hem thou cam 'st here thou ma\'st.

\Ill{""-' · But that I do not. PROSPERO

Twch·c year sin<.:c, .\lirnnda, twcl,e , car since, Thy father was the Duke of .\lilan ,;ml :\ prince of power.

\IIR·\\.IJ\ Sir, arc not ,ou m, father? l'ROSPI· 'J'h · · . · . · : .RO ) mother was a piece of nrtuc, and

She said thou wast my daughter; an<l th\' father \\'as Duke of \lilan, and his onh· heir · .-\nd princes-., no worse issued. ·

\IIR \ '-' >\ 0, the hea,·cns! \\ hat foul play had we that ,,c came from thence? Or hlcs-.ed wast we did?

PR<>SPl·'._Ro Both, hoth, my girl. B) foul play, as thou sayst, were we hca,c<l them:e, But blessedly holp hither.

\IIR ,,n, 0, m,· heart bleeds To think o'th' teen that I ha,·e· turned ,·ou to \\I. ·h . · . - . ' 11<.: 1s from 111) rememhram:e. Please you, farther.

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Thl· I\\ "hith h.,d hid m~ princdy trunk \nd ,ul·ked Ill) ,ndurt· our on'r. Thou attend'stnot!

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I rhu, 11q.dcc1111µ \\orldl~ t·nds, ~111 dedicated To d11sL·nl·" .,nd t ht· ht•J tl·rin~ of my mine.I \\ irh th.11 ,, hich. hu1 h~ hl'in~ so rl'tire<l, ( >'er pri1.l·d .111 popular rart-, in my fitlse hrother \" akcd .111 n ii 11.11 url'. ;md my rrust, I .ikc .1 µ-oml parent. did hq!el of him \ fabt·hood in it, ninlrar~ as ~Tl',11 \-. 111~ 1 ru:-.1 ,, a:-.. ,, hich h;td indeed no limit, \ conlidt·nLT .... 111-. hound. I k hein~ thus lorded,

'-..or onl~ ,,ith ,,h.11 m~ rc,enue yielded But ,, har m~ JHI\\ t-r mi1 .. d11 ebe exal'.t, like one \\ ho, h.n in!,! into rruth hy telling of it, .\ladl' ,ud1 a sinner of his ml'mory To crt·di1 hi.., o\\ n lie, hl· did hdien: I le \\ as indeed t ht· duke, out o'th' substitution .-\ml e\ccuting th'outward face of royalty \\'ith all prcrng-atiH.:. I fence his ambition growing- I )ost thou hl'ar?

\IIR \'-I>\ Your tak, sir, would cure deafness.

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To ha,e no screen het,H·en this part he played :\nd him he playnl it for, ht· nt·eds will be .-\hsolutt· .\ lilan . .\ le, poor man, my library \\'as dukedom large enough. Of temporal royalties I k thinks lllL' nm, incap:1hk; confcderatc:s, So dry he was for sway, wi'th' King of Naples To gi, c him annual tribute, do him homage, Suhjl'l'I his coronet to his crm,n, and bl.'ml The dukedom y ct unho\\ed (alas, poor i\lilan) To most ignoble stooping.

\IIR \'\.I>, 0, the hc.t\'ens! PIH >SPl·.R< l

.\ lark. hi!-. condition and th\·, ent, then tell me If this might he a hror her.

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PROSPERO :'\ow the condition. This Kin:! of :--..;.iplcs, bein~ .m enemy To me im c1cr;1lt·. hl·arkens my brother's suit, \\'hich \\as tha1 he. in lieu o'th' premises Of hom.tgl·. and I kno,, not how much tribute, Should pre:-.cntl~ ntirpatc me and mine Out of the dukedom and confer fi.1ir ~lilan, \\'ith all the honours, on my brother. Whereon - :\ treacherous arm~ IC\ic:d - om· midnight Fated to th· purpose did :\ntonio open The ~.ucs of .\lilan and i'1h' de,1d of darkness The ministl.'rs for th· purpose hurried thence ~le and th~ cr~ in~ self

\IIR:\:---tn :\lack, for pity. I, not rememh'ring hm, I cried out then, \Viii cry it o'L·r a~ain. It is a hint That wrings mine eyes to 't.

PROSPERO Hear a little further, :\ml thl.'n I'll bring thee to the present business \\'hich now's upon's, without the which this story \\'ere most impL·rtinent.

\IIR:\'\.H\ \\'hl.'refore did they not That hour destroy us?

PROSPERO \\'ell demanded, wench: 1\ly talc provokes that 4uestion .. Dear, they durst not, So dear the lo\'e m~ people bore me, nor set A mark so bloody on the business, hut With colours fairer painted their foul ends. In few, they hurried us aboard a bark, Bore us some leagues to se.1, where they prepared :\ rotten carcass of .1 butt, not rigged, Nor tackle, sail, nor mast - the very rats Instin<.:ti,·cly ha\'C' quit it. There they hoist us To cry w th· sea that roared to us, to sigh To th' winds, whose pity, sighing back again, Did us hut )ming wrong.

.\IIRA:--.;D.-\ :\lack, what trouble \Vas I then to you?

PROSPERO 0, a cherubin Thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile, Infused with a fortitude from heaven, When I have decked the sea with drops full salt, Under my burden groaned, which raised in me An undergoing stomad1 to hear up Against what should ensue.

.\IIRA~D.-\ H,,w came we ashore? PROSPERO By providence divine.

Some food wt· had, and some fresh water, that A noble ;\;capolitan, Gonzalo, Out of his charity - who, being then .1ppointed !\laster of this design - did giYe us, with Rich garments, linens, stuffs and necessaries, \Vhich since ha\'C' stc.1dcd much; so of his gentleness,

Knowing I lo\'ed my books, he furnished me From mine O\\ n lihrnr~ with Yolumes that

I prize above my dukedom. ~IIR:\::-.;D:\ Would I might

But e\'er see that man! PROSPERO Now I arise.

Sit still and hear the last of our sea-sorrow. Herc in this island we arriYed, and here Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit Than other princes can that ha,·c more time For vainer hour~ and tutors not so careful.

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Heavens thank you for't. And now I pray you, sir, For still 'tis beating in my mind, your reason For raising this sea-storm?

PROSPERO Know thus far forth: By accident most strange, bountiful fortune (Now, my dear lady) hath mine enemies Brought to this shore; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop. Here cease more questions. Thou art inclined to sleep; 'tis a good dullness, And give it way. I know thou canst not choose. [to .-lrie/] Come away, servant, come; l am ready now. Approach, my Ariel. Come.

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:\RIEL All hail, great master; grave sir, hail! I come To answer thy best pleasure, be't to fly, To swim, to diYe into the fire, to ride On the curled clouds. To thy strong bidding, task Ariel and all his quality.

PROSPERO Hast thou, spirit, Performed to point the tempest that I bade thee?

:\RIEL To every article . I boarded the King's ship: now on the beak, Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin I flamed amazement. Sometime I'd divide And burn in many places - on the topmast, The yards and bowsprit would I flame distinctly, Then meet and join. Jove's lightning, the precursors O'th' dreadful thunderclaps, more momentary And sight-outrunning were not; the fire and cracks Of sulphurous roaring, the most mighty Neptune Seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble, Yea, his dread trident shake.

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Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil Would not infect his reason?

:\RIEL Not a soul But felt a fever of the mad and played Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners Plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel; Then all afire with me, the King's son Fcrc.linancl, With hair up-staring (then like reeds, not hair), Was the first man that leapt, cried 'Hell is empty, And all the devils arc here'.

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\RILi. Close hy, my master. PRC ,si>ER<, But arc they, .-\rid, safi.:?

\RILi. .\.'01 a hair peri'ihed: On their sustainin{! garmenls not a blemish, But fresher than before; and, as thou had's1 me, In troops I ha,·e dispersed them 'hour the isk. The King-'s son ha\'e I lande<l ll\· himself. \\'horn I left cool in!! of 1he air,~ ith ,i;d1s,

In an odd an!!le of the isle, an<l sitting, His arms in this sa<l knot.

PROSPERO Of the K.in!!'s ship, The mariners, say how thou hast disposed, :\ n<l all the rest o 'th' fleet.?

\RIEi. Saleh in harbour Is the K.ing-'s ship, in the deep ~ook where onc.:e Thou calle<l'st me up at midnight to fctc.:h dew From the still-\'excd Bermudas; there she's hid. The mariners all under hatches sl<med, \\'ho, with a charm joined to their suffered labour, I ha\'e left asleep. :\nd for the rest o 'th' fleet, Which I dispersed, the\' all ha\'c met again, And arc upon the .\lcditcrranean float: l~ound ~adly home for .\.'aplcs, Suppo~mg that they saw the King'.., ship wrecked :\nd hts great person perish.

PROSPERO . . . And, thy c.:har!!e

l·.xactly is performed; hut there's more work. \\'hat is the time o'th' <la,.?

\RIEL • Past the mid-scason. l'R<)Sl'ERC)

:\t least two glasses 'I'} · , · · .1 · · · · 1c time twixt six ,mu now \lust h, us hotJ .. hes . I

\RIEi. · · • • pcnt most precious y.

Is there more tc Vs· h . . H • • tncc t ou dost gt\'C me p.uns,

I .ct me rcmcmher th . . h h . . . . cc w at t ou hast promised, \\ h1ch is not yet pcrformcd me.

PR<)SPER<> How now? .\loody?

What is't thou canst demand?

\RIEi. .:\h lihcrtv. PROSPERO Before the time be out?. No m~rc! \RIEi. I . h

pnt cc Rememhcr I hav. d h . , . c one t cc worth,· serncc, I old thee no )i"cs <l h : . .. · , ma c t cc no m1stakmgs, sene<l \\ 1thout or {rru<l{rc I hi. l'h d'<l . , • e- c- ,r grum mgs. ou I pronusc f o hate me a full \'car

PR< )Sl'EIH) . . IJ h f' . ost t ou orget

l·rom what a tormcnt I did free thee? \RIEi.

.\.'o. l'RCJSPERO

Thou dost anti th· k' · I . · , ' m st It muc 1 to tread the ooze Of the salt deep,

To run upon the sharp wind of the north To do me business in the ,·cins o'rh' earth \\"hen it is baked with frost.

\RIEi. I <lo not, sir.

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Thou lit·,1. malq.manl 1h111!!: ha,1 1hou for!!ol The fi1ul ,,i1ch S~c11r;n, "h" \\1lh ,1!,!e and t·m·y \\ a, :,!ffl\\ n inlo a h11op? I Li-.1 !110u li>r!!ol her?

\RIii ~o. -.ir. l'RO..,l'I RO Thou ha-.1 ~ \\ here \\a, -.he horn? Speak; tell

me. WJ \KIi.i. Sir. in .-\l!!icr-..

l'HO..,l'I Ro O. \\ a, sht· so? I must ( )nn· in a month recounl \\ hat thou hast hecn,

\\ hid, thou for!,!cl \t. This damm:d witch Sycorax, For 111i-.d1id~ manifold and sorccrie, terrible To enter human hcarin!!, from ·\l!!icrs. 1f>S Thou knows!, was banished. For one 1hinµ- she did The~ "11uld nol 1;11...t· ha lift:; is not 1his !rue?

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Thi.., hlue-cH:d h;t!! ,, ;1, hi1hcr hrou!!ht with child, .\ nd hl're \\ ;ts left h~ I h' sailors. Thou, my sl;l\"e, 2;11 .\s thou rcport'st 1hysdf: ,,;..., then ht-r st-r,alll, .-\ml - for thou was! a spiril too tklicatc To act her cartln and ahhorrl'll commands, Refusing her !!r;;nd ht·s1s - she did confine thee, B~ help of hcr more potent minis1crs D~ .-\n<l in hcr most unmili!!ahlc ra!!e, Into a clm·en pinc, within whic.:h rift lmprisom:d thou didst painfully remain .-\ <lo1:cn \"cars, within \\hich space sht· <lied .-\ml left ;hec there, where 1hou didst n·nt thy groans 2/111 .\s fa-;1 as millwhecls strike. Then was rhis island (S,ne for the son that she tlid litttT here, :\ freckled whelp, ha!!-born) not honoured with

:\ human shape. \RIEi. Ycs, Caliban, her son. l'ROSPERo Dull thin!!, I s,1y so - he, that Caliban, 2S5

\\'hom now I keep in scnicc. Thou hl"st knowst \\"hat torment I did fin<l thee in: thy µ-roans Did make woh·es howl ;rnd penetrate the breasts

Of c\'cr-angry hears. It was a torment To lay upon the thrn111ed, '' hid,_ Sycornx 2lJll Could not again undo. ll was mme art, \Vhen I arrived and heard thee, that ma<le gape

The pine and let thee out. \RIEi. I thank thee, master.

PROSPERO If thou more murmur'st , I will rend an oak :\nd peg thee in his knotty entrni!s till 2tJ5 Thou hast howled away tweh-c wmters.

\RIEi. Pardon, master,

I will he correspondent to command And do my spriting gently.

PROSPERO Do so, and after two days I will discharge thee.

·\RIEi. That's my noble master. 3011

\\'hat shall I do? Sa\" wh,tt? What shall I do? l'lmSPERo Go make thvsclf like a nymph <>th' sea;

Be subject to no sigh; hut thine and mine, im·isiblc

To C\"cry eyehall else. Go t;tkc this shape

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(to. \lm111J,1 I \\\ .1\...c.:. lkar ht.·.1rt, ,1,,ake; thou hast slept well.

:\wake. ~UR.-\,1>\ The.: ,1r.1n~t.·ne,, of your story put

Hca\"ine.,... 111 int.·. PROSl'l·.R<, Slukt.· it off Come on,

\\·e'll , i ... it ( :.tlilun. m~ ,tn t.·, who nt.·vcr Yields u-. kmd .111,\\t.T.

\IIR:\,1>\ 'Ti, a , illain, sir. I <lo not lo, t.· to look on.

PROSPER<) But .ts 'tis, \\"c cannot nu-.-. hin1~ he tloc:s make: our fire, Fetch in ou1· ,, ood, and ..c..·n c:s in ollices That pro lit u,. \\ ha1 ho, sh1, e! Caliban, 'rhou earth. thou: ,pc.:;11..!

C:\I.IB.\"- 111•1//1111 I There's wood enough within. PROSJ>U{<>

Come forth I sa~. there's othcr business for thee. Come, thou tortoi,t·, ,, hen?

l:'1110- \RII I • hh· ,, 11•,lfa nymph.

Fine apparition. m~ quaint .-\rid, Hark in thine c:ar.

ARIEi. .\ 1~ lord. it sh.tll be done. Exit. PK<>SJ>ER< >

Thou poisonous slan:, ~ot hy the dc\"il himself Upon th~ wicked d.tm; come forth!

l:'111a < \I.Ill\,.

C:\LIB.·\' :\s "icknl dew as e'er nw mother brushed \\'ith ra, en's feather from unwh~lesomc fen Drop on you both. :\ southwest blow on ye An<l hlister you all o'er. ·

PKOSJ>ER<>

For this, he sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Sidc-stitd1es, th.u shall pen thy breath up; urchins Shall forth at ,·ast ofni1:tht that they may work All cxcn.:isc on thee; thou sh.tit be pinched As thick as honeycomb, cach pinch more stinging Than bees that made •cm.

C:\I.IB.-\'.' I must cat nw dinner. This island's mine by Sycorax, my mo~hcr, \Vhich thou tak'st from me. When thou cam'st first Thou strok'st mt· and m.1dc much ofmc; wouldst

gi\'c me \\later with berries in't, and teach me how To name the bigger light and how the less That hurn by day and ni1dn. :\nd then I lm·ed thee t\n<l showed thee all the qm,lities o'th' isle:

The fresh spring:s, brine pits, barren place and fertile. Cursed he I that did so! .-\II the charms Of Sycorax - toads, beetles, hats - light on you, For I am all the subjects that you have, \Vhich first was mine own king; and here you sty me In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me

The rest o'th' island. PROSPERO Thou most lying slave,

Whom snipes may move, not kindness; I have used thee

(Filth as thou art) with humane care and lodged thee In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate The honour of my child.

C:\LIB.\N O ho, 0 ho! Would't had been done; Thou didst prevent me, I had peopled else This isle with c.alibans.

~IIR:\NO..\ Abhorred sla\'e,

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Which any print of goodness wilt not take, Being capable of all ill; I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee e-ach hour One thing or other. When thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes With words that made them known. But thy vile race (Though thou didst learn) had that in't which good

natures Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou Deservedly confined into this rock, Who hadst deserved more than a prison.

C:\UBAN You taught me language, and my profit on 't Is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your language.

PROSPERO Hag-seed, hence: Fetch us in fuel, and be quick - thou 'rt best - To answer other business. Shrug'st thou, malice? If thou neglect'st, or dost unwillingly What I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps, Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar, That beasts shall tremble at thy din.

CALfflAN No, pray thee. [aside] I must obey; his art is of such power It would control my dam's god Setebos, And make a vassal of him.

PROSPERO So, slave, hence. Exit Cali/Ja11.

Enter FERDINAND, a11d ARIEL, im,isible, playing a11d si11gi11g .

ARIEL [Sings.]

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FERDINAND

Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands;

Curtsied when you have, and kissed The wild waves whist;

Foot it featly here and there, And sweet sprites bear

The burden. [Burden dispersedfr]

Hark, hark! Bow-wow, The watch dogs bark, bow-wow. Hark hark, I hear, The strain of strutting chanticleer Cry cock a diddle dow.

Where should this music he? l'th' air, or th'earth?

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It ,olm<l., no mon.:. and .,urc it waih upon Some !{o<l o'th' i"ilan<l. Sittin!! on a hank. \\.ccpin1-{ a!!ain the Kin!! m~ father',,, red. Thi., mu,it: t:rcpt h~ me upon the \\ ;lll·r.,, :\Ila~ in1-{ both their fury and m~ pa,-.ion \\"ith its .,,,cct air. Thcnt:c I ha,c foll,mcd it (Or it hath dr:rn n me. rather) hut 'ti-. t!onc. ~o, it hcµin-. again. ·

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Full fathom fi,c th~ father lie.,, < >f his hones arc u,ral made; Those arc pearls that \\ ere his c,c..,, \:othinµ of him that doth fade · But doth suffer a sca-t:ham~c Into somcthin1-{ rich and -.t~ant!c. Sl"a n~ mphs houri~ rin~ his k~ell.

I )ing don!,!. I lark, ncm I hear them.

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FJ-.JU JI\.\ \.IJ I )in!! Jonµ hell.

The ditty doc., remember rm <lnm nc<l father; This is no mortal business n~ir no sound That the earth owes. I hear it 11<m ahO\c me.

PROSPERO I 1o _ \I ,ra nda I The frin1-{cd curtains of thine c, c ,uh ancc, :\nd "3 Y what thou scc.,t ,ond. ·

\IIR \'-IH . \\.h . , ... · at 1s t. a -.p1nt:- I •0rd• how it looks ahout. Bclic,c me. sir, It carric., ·1 hra,·e ti 1 > , • . . · • • orm. >lit trs a sp1r11.

l'R< >Sl'l·.R< >

\:o, wench, it cats and sleeps and hath such senses .\s we ha,e • h ·1·1 · · . . - sue . 11s !!allant which thou sccst \\asmthe\\re•·k di h' 1· · d .. '" , an Jllt e s somct 1mg stamc \\ 1th grief (that' I • · 11

h . " 1eauty s t:ankcr) thou m1!{htst ca 1m

:\ gooc.lh 11crsc,n 11 h h I I · · · · · - c at ost 11s fellows :\nc.l strays ahout to find 'cm.

\IIR\',.J)\ . .\ h. . . I might t:all him · t. mg divmc, for nothing natural I c, er saw so nohlc.

PROSPERO lusidt•J I t goes un I sec . .\s m,· soul p . · .' . : . _ ..

, · . rcnnpts 1t. Ito Andi Spmt, lmc spmt, I ll free thee

\\"ithin two c.lavs for th·. • IS. FERDI',. \:\:I>

_· ~lost sure the goddess On \\ horn these · · a1rs attend! - Vouchsafe nw pnner .\ta, know if n . . · . . · · \

· • ,u I emam upon th1s island, _. nc.l that \'ou will · c.l · • • • some goo mstructlon g,nc How I ma, hca h . . . - r me ere. :\h· pnmc request, \\ hll:h I do hst : _ • · pronount:e, 1s (0, vou wonder!) If you he maic.l or no? ·

\IIK\"\I>\ . . . I\o won<lcr, sir,

But ccrtamly a maid. FERl)I'\ \',.J> !\.l •

:" y language~ Hc.n ens! I am the hcst of th. h . · cm t at speak this speed1, \\ere I hut where 'tis spoken.

r•ROSPl·.Ro I low? The best?

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\\ hat \\l"l"I 1h1111 11 the hm~ of '\aplc-. hcar<l thee? 11.1<1>1, \'-11 \ -.111~k 1'1111:-: •• i-. I .1m no,,. th.u \Hlllders

To hcar thn· -.pe.1k 11! '\.apk-.. I k doc-. hear me, \nd 1h.11 h,.- d11L·,. I ,,n.·p \l~,df .1111 ~apks. -m \\ h11. ,, it h mine n l''-. Ill"\ n ,inn· .11 ehh. beheld Thl' 1-.. in~ m~ fat ha "rn·knl.

,111< \'-I'\ \I.id. .. ti,r mcrc:y! 11 !{fll'-\'-ll

h·-.. f.1i1 h .. 111d all hi-. l11rd, I hl· I >ukc 111" .\ lil.m .\nd hi-. hr,l\e -.on hctrl:! l\\,1in.

l'f<1 ,..,pf 1{1, I ,o,./c"j Thl· I )ukl" of \lihm \nd hi, more hr.1, n d.1u!!htn could nmtrol thee -WI

If 1111\\ 't,HTl' lit to do't. .\t the lir,t ,i~.dll The, h.1H: chant.e:ed e, c-.. I'" . lndl DdicHl' :\ricl, I'll ,~t thn· frn· f~,r thi~. Ito 1-;•,-d111,111dl :\ \\ord, gcK>d sir; I fr.1r , ou h;1\ l" done ~ our.,df some \\ ronir. :\ ,,ord.

\ 111< \ , , ) \ I "·'/.Id \\ h~ speak-. m~ fot lwr ,o ungcnll~? This H5 J., the third man th.it l·\-r I -.;rn. thl· fir.,, That e'er I -.i!{hl"d ti,r. Pit~ 111ml" my fathcr To hc inclined m~ "a~.

1 I.RI'" \'-I, O. if a , iq.dn. .\ml ~our arti.:ction not !!om· forth. I'll makc you

Thl" Q_Ul-Cfl of \.apks. l'l{O",l'llt< 1 Soft, ,ir, one \\11rd more. •1511

l,Ndt'j Thcy arc both in eithl·r's pm,l-rs, hut this

"' ifl hu ... inc,., ) must uncas, makc. lest 1011 light ,, inning \lake: thc pri.zc lil!ht. Ito l~·rilm,111./I 0nc word more.

I chan~c thl'l' That th,:u ,1ttcnd me. Thou dost hlTl' usurp The namc thou o,, 'st not and hast put thyself HS

L" pon this island as a sp~. to '' in it From nH:, thl" lord on '1.

1-1·.t<l>l'-\'-I> \;11, as I ,1111,1 man.

\IIR \'-I>\

There's nothing ill can dwell in sud1 a temple. If the ill spirit ha,-c: so fair a house.' Good things will stri,e to dwell Wi th 't.

PROSPERO I /o f·'crtli111111tll Follow me. - -¼htl Speak not mu for him; he's a traitor. - Come, I'll manad~ tin neck and feet tog-ether; Sea water shal; thou drink; thy food shall be The fresh-brook mussels, withered roots, and husks Wherein the .1corn cradlcd. Follow!

1·1.RDl\;:\"-D :\:o, -1115 I will resist such l'ntcrtainmcnt rill .\line cncmv has more power. I/fr dra11's 11.11d is d1am1cdji·,un moring.]

\IIR\:"\IJ·\ 0 dear father, \fake not too rash a trial of him, for He's gentle and not tearful.

PROSPERO What, I say, .\l, foot m, tutor? Put thy sword up, traitor, -¼iO Wim mak<i a show hut dar'st nor strike, thy conscience Is so possessed with guilt. Come from thy ward, For I t:an here disarm thee with this stick

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:\nd mal-L· tll\ \\Llpon drop. \IIR.\ ,1 > \ Beseech you, fathcr- PRosPUtc > I knL·l·. l1.1nµ not on m~ garments. \IIR \ '-' > \ Sir. h.we pity;

I'll he.· hi, ,un·t, PROSl'l·.R< 1 S1knn·' < >nl· ,,oHl more

Shall make.: m,: chide.· 1hn·. if not hate thee. \\"hat, .-\n a<.hoLltl· l11r .m impo-.tor? Hush. Thou think',1 therl.' i, no more.· such sh.1pc..-sash~ 1-1.n in~ ,n·n hu, h1111 and (. :.1lih.m. Foolish wench, To 1h • 11111,1 111 mL·n. tl11, i, .1 (. :;\lihan. .-\ml thn to him .ln: ,lll!-!c..+,.

.\IIR \'IH .\h .1ffcctions Arc.· thl·n 11111-..1 humble.-. I haH· ·no ambition To sec .1 1,!oodlil-r nun.

PROSPI.RC l I 111 l~·r./111,111,/1 (. :ome on, ohcv: Th~ ncn c..·-. .nc..· Ill t hl·ir inf.mn .1g.1in. .-\nd h.n c no , igour in them. · •

FERDI'- \ '-' > So thn .1rc! .\1y spirit-., a, in a drc..·am, .1re all bo~nd up. .\1~ fathcr', lo ....... till' \\l·.il-nl·ss which I fed, The wreck ol .1II m~ friends, nor this man's thre-Jts (To whom I .un ,uhducd) .m: hut light to me :\li~ht I hu1 throuµ-h m, prison one~ a dav ' Behold thi., maid . .-\ll c~>rncrs dsl' o'th' e~rth I.ct lihcrt~ make.· u,l. of; ,pal·c cnotu!h Have I in sm.-h a prison. •

PROS PE RC> 1,,.-,d,· I It \\ orks. I lo l~·rdi111111d) Come on. - Thou hast done \\ di, tinc .\rid. - Follow me; - Hark what thou dsc shalt llo me.

.\Im \'."\D \ I,,, f-~·rd111t111dl Be of comfort; ~ly fothc..•r's of ,l hettl·r n.uurc, sir, Than he.· appl·ars h~ speech. This is unwonted \Vhich no,, Gtme from him.

PROSPER<> I,,,. lndl Thou sh.th be as free As mountain \\ inds, hut then exacth· do .-\II points of my command. ·

.-\RIEi. To th' syllable. PROSPERO I to /-~·rdmc111dl

Come, fol Im,; - speak not fc.H" him. E.wmt.

2.1 1:·,,,cr ·\ 1.0,so, SEB.-\STL\:'\, :\:'\T0:'\10, Go,z \I.<>, .\I >RI\"-, FR.-,,usco and othas.

Go:,z.\l .CJ lks1.:cch ~ ou, sir, he merrv. You have cause (So ha,L.' \\Call) of joy, for our csc.~pe Is much he.:~ ond our loss. Our hint of woe Is common: c,er~ day some sailor's wife, The mastcrs of some merch,mt, .md the merchant, 1-Ia,e just our thL·me of woe. But for the miracle, I mean our prescnation, few in millions Can speak like us. ThL·n wisely, good sir, weigh Our sor-rm, with our comfort.

.-\1.o:--:so Prithee, peace. SEB.-\STI.\, I lo ·fnt,,11io I He receives comfort like cold

porridge.:. .\'."\To:--..10 I,,, Sd1,ts11,111 I The Yisitor will not gi\"e him

o'er so.

SEB:\STL-\N Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike -

GO:'<."ZALO [to A/011so] Sir - SER:\STI:\~ One. Tell. GO~'Z:\LO When e,·ery grief is entertained that's

offered, comes to th'entertainer - SF.B.-\STIAl': A dollar. GO:",;Z:\LO Dolour comes to him, indeed. You haYc

spoken truer than you purposed. SEBASTIAN You have taken it wiselier than I meant you

should. GONZ.-\LO Therefore, my lord - :\'.\TO:,,;JQ Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue! At.o:-.so I prith~ spare. GO'.'\ZALO Well, I ha\'e done; but yet - SEB.-\STIAN He \\ill be talking. .-\:'<.TONIO Which, of he or Adrian, for a good wager,

first begins to crow? SEB.-\STL-\.'i The old cock. .-\\TO'.'\IO The cockerel. SEB.-\STL\N Done! The wager? A\T0'.'-10 A laughter. SEBASTL-\I\ A match! ADRIA~ Though this island seem to be desert - .-\\'TONIO Ha, ha, ha. SEB.-\STIAN So, you 're paid. ADRI:\,'l Uninhabitable and almost inaccessible - SEBASTIA~ Yet- ADRIAN Yet- .-\~TOXIO He could not miss't.

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ADRIAN It must needs be of subtle, tender and delicate temperance.

:\l\TONIO Temperance was a delicate wench. SEB.-\STl:\N Ay, and a subtle, as he most learnedly

delivered. ADRIAN The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. SEBASTIAN As if it had lungs, and rotten ones. .-\NTONIO Or, as 'twere perfumed by a fen. GO:'\Z.-\LO Here is everything advantageous to life. .-\NTOi'l-1O True, save means to live. SEBASTIAN Of that there's none, or little. GO~Z.-\LO How lush and lusty the grass looks! How green! ANTONIO The ground indeed is tawny. SEBASTIAN With an eye of green in't. ANTONIO He misses not much. SEBASTIAN No; he doth but mistake the truth totally. GONZALO But the rarity of it is, which is indeed almost

beyond credit - SEBASTIAN As many vouched rarities are. GONZALO That our garments being, as they were,

drenched in the sea, hold notwithstanding their freshness and gloss, being rather new-dyed than stained with salt water .

ANTONIO If but one of his pockets could speak, would it not say he lies?

SEBASTIAN Ay, or very falsely pocket up his report. GONZALO Methinks our garments are now as fresh as

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when we put them on first in :\frica. ar rhL" marria~l· of the King's fair daughrcr Clarihcl to rhe "in~ of Tuni-...

Sl·.B \STI \ "\ 'Twas a SWL"ct marria~L". and \\ e prospL"r ,,ell in our rL"turn.

\DR/.\"- Tunis \\as ne,er grand before \\ ith -.uch a paragon to their ljUccn.

c ,O"\Z \I .O :\or since widow Di<lo', timL". \Yl"O"\IO \\'i<low? .-\ pox o'that. I low <.:amc that \\idrm

in? \\'i<lo,, Dido!

SJ·:B \STI ·\'\ \\'hat if he had said \\ i<lower .\cnc.:;t'i too~ Goo<l lor<l, how )OU take.: ir~

\IJRI\' \\"idem Dido, said ~ ou? You make me ,t ud~ of that. Sh<: ,,as of Carthage, nor of Tunis.

<,O"\Z:\I.O This Tunis, sir, was Carthag<:. \l)JU\"\ Carthage? uo,z,1.0 . \"\T0:'\10

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I assure you, Carthage.:. I Iis word is more than the miraculous harp .

He hath raised rhe wall, and houses too. \\'hat impossible m:lller will he make cas)

SEB \STJ.\'- I think he will earn rhis island home in his pocket and give it his son for. an apple.

\ '\T0:'\10 :\n<l s,m ing the kernels of it in the sea, bring forth more islands!

< iO'\Z \J.o I - \:\TO"\IO Why, in good time. CiO:\:Z.\1.0 Sir, we were talking that our garmems seem

now as fresh as when we were ar Tunis at rhe marriagc of your daughter, who is now Q_ueen.

·\"\TO"\IO :\nd the rarest rhat e'cr came there. SEB:\STL\"\ Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido. \:'\TO:'\lo 0, widow Dido? :\v, widow Dido. CiO"\Z:\I.O Is not, sir, m\· <lou.blet as fresh as the first

day I wore it? I mean: in a sort. \'-.TO'.\:JO That sort was well fished for. c;o:-,..;z.\1.0 \Vhen I wore it at your daughter's marriage. \1.0:--.so You cram these words into mine cars, against

The stomach of my sense. Would I had never .\larrie<l my daughter there, for coming thence .\ly son is lost and (in my rate) she too, \Vho is so far from ltalv remm'cd I ne'er again shall sec her. 0 thou mine heir Of ;\;aplcs and of .\lilan, what strange fish Hath made his meal on thee?

FR:\"\CISC:O Sir, he mav live. I saw him beat the surges under him · And ride upon their backs. He tmd the water, \\'hose enmity he flung aside, and breasted The surge most swoll'n that met him. His bol<l head 'Bo\'c the contentious waves he kept and oared Himself with his good arms in lust\· stroke To th' shore, that o'er his wave-wo~n hasis bowed, . \s stooping to relieve him. I not douht He came ,1live to land.

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SUHSTI\"\ No, no, he's gone.

Sir, you may thank yourself for this great loss,

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Thar \\ ould not hk,, our l·.uropl' \\ ith your <laughter Bur rather lrn,...l· her to an \frican. \\ hcrc ,hL" ,11 k.1-.1 i-. h.mi"'hl·d from ~our c~e, \\ ho harh l·,1u..,e to ,,er lhl· ~rid on'r.

\I,,,..,,, Prithee, peace.

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)ou ,,erc kncdnl 111 and importuned otherwise Jh ;ill of u, .. 111d rhe fair ,oul hen,df \\.ei1.dwd her,H·cn loarhm·,s and ohcdil'llt:l', ar \\ hi.ch cnd o'rh • hl·.tm ,l10uld ho\\. \h· luw lost your

'iOn, I fc.ir. for c,cr. \lil.m and :'\apks h,1n· \ lore ,, ido\\, in them of rhi, hu,iness' making Than \\C..: hrinµ mcn to c..:omforr lhl·m. The.: fauh', ,our o\Hl.

\10,so Soi~ thl· (k;ir'sl o'rh' loss. < ;o,z \ 1.<> .\I~ lord Scb;1stian,

The trurh , ou spl·ak dorh lack some ~entlcness, .-\nd time t.o spcak it in. You rub rhc son· \\ hen ~ou should hrin!! the pl;1slt'r.

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\'en "ell. · :\ml mosl chiniq!conly!

<,1 J'\.Z \I.<> It is foul weather in us all. ~nod sir, \\'hen n,u arc.: doudy.

Sl·.B\STI \~ Foul ,,cather? \'\.TO"\IO \"cry foul. <,o,z \I.O )fad I pl.1nt.11ion of this isk, my lord - \'-TO"\IO I le'd sow'r with nctlle-sl·ed. ~I.B\STI-\:\: ()r docks, or mallows. < ;c 1,z \I.O :\ml ,,ere the kin!! on't, \\ hat would I do? sEB \STIA\: 'Scape hein~ drunk. for w.mt of wine. c;o'-.Z\I.O J'th' commonwealth I would h~ contraries

Execute all thin!!s, for no kind of traffo: \\'ould I admit; no name of ma!!istrate; J ,euers should not be known; riches, pm·crty And use of sen·icc, none; l·ontr,H:t, succession, Bourn, hound of land, tilth, vineyard - none: 1\:o use of metal, corn, or wine or oil; l\o occupation, all men idle, all; And women, too, hut innocent and pure;

~o so\'ereignty - SEB·\STL\~ Yer he would he king on't. \'-T0"\10 The latter end of his commonwealth forgets

the beginning. <iO:'\Z \1.0

All things in common nature should producl· \Vithout sweat or endeavour; treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not ha\'e; hut nature should bring forth Of its own kind all foison, all abundance, To feed mv innocent people.

sEBASTI.\N No marrying 'mong his subjects? ·\\:TO"\IO !\ione, man, all idle - whores and kn,l\"CS . (iO:\:Z:\LO I would with such perfection !:(<>n:rn, sir,

T'cxcel the Golden Age. SEH:\STIY\ 'Save his majesty! \'\.TO'\IO I ,ong li,c Gonzalo!

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GO:":Z:\ 1.0 :\ nd do , ou m.1rk me, sir? - Al.o:--;so Prithee, no more.

'Thou dosl call- 1111chm!,! lo llll.'. GO:":Z.\I.<> I do \H·ll hl·lil·\ e your highness. and did it to

minis1cr ol·c1,11,11 111 thl . .,l. !,!l·mleml'n, who are of such sensible .md nimhk lungs th;it thl'y always use to laugh al not hin!,!.

:\:":T0:":10 'T,, ...... ~ OU \\L' LHl!!hl·d ~\[. GO:"\:Z:\I.O \\.ho. in chis lind of merry fooling, am

nothin~ to ~ ou, ,o ~ou m.1y continue and laugh at

nothin~ still. A:--;To:--;10 \\ har .1 hlcm ,,as then: gt\"cn! SEU.-\STJ..\' .-\n it lud 1101 f.1lkn flat-long. Go:-,,,;Z.-\1.0 You .ire !!l'ntll.·llll'll of hra\"c mettle. You

would lifr thl· moon c>Ul of her sphere, if she would continul· in it ti, l" \\ l.'l·ls ,, ithout changing.

1:·111a \Rll .1 pl.1yi11g so/mm musit.

SEB:\STI:\'.'. \\ l.' would so .• md then go a hat-fowling. :\:":TO:":I<> '.'\;a~. ~ood my lord, he not angry. GO:":Z.-\1.0 '.'\;o. 1 ".1rrant ~ nu, 1 will not ~1dventure my

discretion so \H.·al-.1~. Will you l.1Ugh me asleep, for I am \"cry hca, y.

:\:":T0:--;10 ( io slcl.'p, and hear us. [.·Ill sl,·t'P ,·.,·,·,·pt . ·llonso. S,·b,1s1w11 ,md .-l11l011io.)

:\1.0:":SO \\ hat, all so soon asleep? I wish mine eyes \Vould, with thcmsd,cs, shut up my thoughts. I find They arc indinl·d to do so.

SEB.-\STL\' Plc.1se you, sir, Do not omit thc he~ny offc.·r ofir. It seldom \'isits sorrow: when it doth, It is a comforter.

A:":T0:":10 \\·c two, my lord, \Viii ~uard your person while you tilke your rest, And watch your sakty.

ALO:":SO Thank you. Wondrous heavy. l- ·l/011so sleeps. Exit Ariel.]

SEBASTI:\' \\'hat a str.m~l' drowsiness possesses them! A:--JT0:\:10 It is the quality o'th' clim~llc. SEB:\STI:\, Why

Doth it not then our eyelids sink? I find not Ivlvsclf disposed to skcp.

ANn;,,o i':or I. My spirits arc nimble. The\' fell together all, ashy l:-onscnt; The~· dropped, as by a thunderstroke. What might, Wor~hy Schasrian, 0, "hat might - ? No more; And yet, methinks I sec it in thy focc What thou should st he. Th 'occasion speaks thee, and My stron~ im,tgination secs a crown Dropping upon thy head.

SEBASTI:\:--.: \\'hat, art thou waking? ANT0:'\110 Do you not hear me speak? SEBASTIA' I do, and surely

It is a sleepy langua~e, and thou speak'st Out of thy sleep. \\"hat is it thou didst say? This is a strange 1·cposc, to he asleep \Vi th eyes \\ idc open - standing, speaking, moving,

And yet so fast asleep. .\.1Xro~10 Noble Sebastian,

Thou let'st thy fortune sleep- die rather; wink'st Whiles thou art waking.

SEB.\STI.-\N Thou dost snore distinctly. There's meaning in thy snores.

.-\.\i'TO;-...'lo I am more serious than my custom. You Must be so too, if heed me, which to do Trebles thee o'er.

SEB.\STI.A.i'J Well, I am standing water. .\.'\'TONIO I'll teach you how to flow. SEB.\STI.:\N Do so. To ebb

Hereditary sloth instructs me. .-\.!\,,'TONIO 0,

If you but knew how you the purpose cherish Whiles thus you mock it, how in stripping it You more im·est it. Ebbing men. indeed, Most often do so near the bottom run By their own fear or sloth.

SEBASTlru'I Prithee, say on; The setting of thine eye and cheek proclaim A matter from thee, and a birth, indeed, Which throes thee much to yield.

:\ .. \'TONIO Thus, sir: Although this lord of weak remembrance - this Who shall be of as little memory When he is earthed - hath here almost persuaded (For he's a spirit of persuasion, only Professes to persuade) the King his son's alive, 'Tis as impossible that he's undrowned As he that sleeps here swims.·

SEBASTIAN I have no hope That he's unclrowned.

ANTONIO O, out of that 'no hope', What great hope have you! No hope that way is Another way so high a hope that even Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond, But doubt discovery there. Will you grant with me That Ferdinand is drowned?

SEB.-\STIA.i.'I He's gone. ANTONIO Then tell me,

Who's the next heir of Naples? SEBASTIAN Claribel.

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ANTONIO She that is Queen of Tunis; she that dwells Ten leagues beyond man's life; she that from Naples Can have no note unless the sun were post - The man i'th' moon's too slow - till newborn chins Be rough and razorable; she that from whom We all were sea-swallowed, though some cast again, And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge!

SEBASTIAN What stuff is this? How say you? 'Tis true my brother's daughter's Queen of Tunis, So is she heir of Naples, 'twixt which regions There is some space.

ANTONIO A space whose every cubit

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Seem!'. lo u~ out, 'I lo,, -.hall that Claribel \1easure us had. lo ,aplcs? Keep in Tuni,. :\ml let Sebastian ,,akc.' Sa~ thi-. ,,ere death That now hath seized them; ,,h,. the, ,,ere no '"ir,l· Than now they arc. There he th.at c1~ rule :'\.apk, :\swell as he that -.lccps; lords th.it can pr.ti(." :\s amph- an<l unnecessarih :\s this Gonzalo. I myself ~ould make :\ chough of as deep chat. CJ th.11 ,ou horc The mind that I <lo! \\"hat a sleep. \H:re rhi-. For your advarn:emcnt! Do ~ou understand me~

SEB.\STI.\, \-kthinks I do. \'-To,10 :\nd how docs ,our content

Tender your own good fortune? · Sl·.11:\STI.\:--. I remember

You <lid suppl.mt your brother Prm,pcro. .\vrc,,10 True:

:\nd look how well my garments sit upon me .\1uch feater than before .. \h brother's sen-ants \\"ere then my fellows; nm, ;he, arc m, men.

SEB:\STL\:'\ But for your conscie~cc? · :\VJ"o:--.m :\y, sir, where lies that? If 'twere a kihc

'Twould put me to my slipper, hut I feel not This deity in my hosom. Twcnt, conscienn:., That stand 'twixt me and .\lila~. candied he thn And melt ere they molest! Herc lies vour brothe~. ~o better than the earth he lies upo~. lfhe were that which now he's like (that'!-> dead) \\"horn I with this obedient steel - three inches of it •~ ~an lay to bed forever (whiles you, doing thus, ro the perpetual wink for aye might put

This ancient morsel, this Sir Prudence, who Should not upbraid our course) - for all the rest They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk; They'll tell the dock to anv business that We say befits the hour. ·

SEB:\STI:\'- Thy case, dear friend, Shall he my precedent. :\s thou got'st .\-lilan, I'll come by '.'iaplcs. Draw thv sword! One stroke Shall free t~ce from the tribu-tc which thou payest, And I the kmg shall love thee.

-\:-.;To:-.:m Oraw together, And when I rear my hand, do mu the like To fall it on Gonzalo. ·

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f:111t•r :\RIEi. n,ith 11111sic and soul{.

1'vly master through his art foresees the danger That you, his friend, arc in, and sends me forth (For else his project <lies) to keep them living.

[Sings in Gonzalo's ea,: I \Vhile you here <lo snoring lie, Open-eyed conspiracv His time doth take. · If of life you keep a care, Shake off slumber and beware.

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hL1kl·. ;l\\ akc:! \, 1 c 1"-1<, I hl·n ll·I lh hoth he sudden.

C ,CJ'\,/ \IC I I II.di, l :'\.m,. l,!oml ,111!.!l"I, pn-,enc the King!

\II,, .... , I I II 111:,·, I \\ h~. hem nm,. ho~ .\\\ ,1kc:! \\hy arc you drawn? \\ hn1.:l11n· tl11, :!h.1,tl~ lookin~:

< ,c •'-/\I,, What's the matter? ..,111 ,.., 11 ,, \\ hrlc:, \H' ,11111<l hc:rc securing your repose,

E H'n no,, ,, c hl·ard .1 hollo\\ hurst of bellowing, I .1kl' hull-.. or r.11 lwr lion-.. Did't not wake )'OU? It ,truck min(." l'ar ,rn,...c cc:rrihly.

\ 1 c ,, ..,, , I hc-.ird nothing. ,, 10,tCl o. ·1,,a, .1 din co fri~ht a monster'sear-

To makl· an l'arthquah·! Sure it was the roar C )I .1 \\ hok herd of lions.

\ 1 , ,, ..,, > I k.m.1 you this, Gonzalo? < ,, ,,z \I<, L pon mine honour, sir, I heard a humming,

\nd chat a stran1,!L' onL' too, which did awake me. I -.haknl ~ ou, sir, and cric:d. :\s mine eyes opened, I sa\\ thl'ir ,,capons drawn. There was a noise, That'!-> ,eril~. 'Tis hL'st wc:st.md upon our guard, Or th.it ,,l.' quit this pl,u:c. Lt.·c's draw our weapons.

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I xad off this ~round, and let's make further search For m~ poor son.

(io,z \I.O I ka,c:ns kc:cp him from these beasts, For hl.' i-., Slffe, i 'ch· island.

\I .o,so l.c,ld away. \RII.I. Prospero, m~ lord, shall know what I hare done;

So, h in~, ~o safely on to sec:k thy son. Exeunl.

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<. \I.IB \:'\ :\II tht· infrcrions that the sun sucks up From ho~s. fr·ns, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him By inchn1t·al a disc:asc:! I lis spirits hear me, :\nd yet I nl'eds must curse. But they'll nor pinch, Fright ffle with urchin-shows, pitch me i'th' mire, '.\:or lead me, like a firebrand in the dark, Out of my way unless he hid 'cm. But For c,·ery trifle arc thc:y set upon me: Sometime likl' apes that mow and chatter at me :\nd .1ftcr hire me, then like hedgehogs which T .ie lllmhling in my barefoot way and mount Their pricks at my footfall. Sometime am I :\II wound with adders, who with dovcn tongues Do hiss me into madness. Lo now, lo,

J::11/a TRl:\CUI.O.

I fen: comes a spirit of his, and to torment me For bringing wood in slowly. I'll fall flat; Perchance he \\ ill not mind me.

TR1:-.;c:u.o Herc's neither hush nor shrub to bear off any wc:athcr at all, and anotht.·r storm brewing; I hearitsing i'th' wind. Yond same: black doud, yond huge one,

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looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. If it should thundcr as it did before, I know not where to hide m~ head. Yond same cloud cannot choose but fall by pailfuls. ISc,·s C11libt111.] What ha\'e we here, a man or ;t fish? De.id or alive? :\ fish: he smells like a fish, a ,·cry ancient and fish-like smell, a kind of - not of the nl'wcst - poor-John.:\ strange fish! Were I in England now (.1s once I was) and had but this fish painted, not .1 holid;1y fool there but would gi\'e a piece of silver . There would this monster make a man; any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not gi\'e a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to sec a dead Indian. Legged like a man and his fins like arms! \\·.1rm, o'my troth! I do now let loose my opinion, hold it no longer: this is no fish, but an islandl'r that hath lately suffered by a thunderbolt. Alas, the storm is come again. My best way is to creep under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter hereabout. \lisery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows! I will here shroud till the dregs of the storm he past.

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Ema STEPI l:\NO si11git1g.

I shall no more to sea, to sea, Herc shall I die ashore.

This is a ,·cry scurvy tune to sing at a man's funeral. Well, here's my comfort. [Drinks anti then sings.]

The master, the sw.1hber, the boatswain and I; The gunner and his mate,

Lo\"ed !\fall, :\ leg, and .\1arian, and Margery, But none of us cared for Kate.

For she h.td a tongue with a tang, Would cry to a sailor, •Go hang!' She loYcd not the sarnur of tar nor of pitch, Yet a tailor might scratch her where'er she did itch. Then to sea, hoys, and let her go hang! This is a scun·y tune too, hut here's my comfort. [Dri11ks.]

C:\I.IB:\'.'l Do not torment me! 0! STEPI 1:\:-.:0 What's the matter? Have we devils here? Do

you put tricks upon's with savages and men of Ind? Ha! I have not 'scaped drowning to be afcard 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 said so again while Stephano breathes at' nostrils.

CAI.IB.-\N The spirit torments me! O! STEPI 1:\:\:0 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 hut 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 ncat's leather.

C::\I.IB:\:'\: Do not torment me, prithee. I'll bring my ,voo<l home faster.

STEPIH:\O He's in his fit now and docs not talk after the wisest. He shall taste of my bottle; if he have never

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drunk wine afor~ it will go near to remo\'e his fit. If I can recover him and keep him tame, I ,viii not take too much for him! He shall pay for him that hath him, and that soundly.

C-\LIBAN Thou dost me yet but little hurt. Thou wilt anon, I know it by thy trembling. Now Prosper works upon thee.

STEPH:\XO Corne on your ways; open your mouth. Here is that which will give language to you, cat. Open your mouth! This will shake your shaking, I can tell you, and that soundly. [Pours into Caliban's mouth.] You cannot tell who's your friend. Open your chaps again.

TRINCULO I should know that voice. It should be - but he is drowned, and these are devils. 0, defend me!

STEPHANO Four legs and two voices - a most delicate monster! His forward \'oice now is to speak well of his friend; his backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract. If all the wine in my bottle will recover him, I will help his ague. Come. Amen! I will pour some in thy other mouth.

TRINCULO Stephano! STEPHANO Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy,

mercy! This is a de\'il and no monster. I will leave him; I ha\'e no long spoon.

TRL~CULO Stephano? If thou be'st Stephano, touch me and speak to me, for I am Trinculo! Be not afeard - thy good friend Trinculo.

STEPHANO If thou be'st Trinculo, come forth. I'll pull thee by the lesser legs. If any be Trinculo's legs, these are they. [Pulls him from under the cloak.] Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How cam 'st thou to be the siege of this mooncalf? Can he vent Trinculos?

TRINCULO I took him to be killed with a thunderstrokc. But art thou not drowned, Stephano? I hope now thou art not drowned. Is the storm overblown? I hid me under the dead mooncalf's gaberdine for fear of the storm. And art thou living, Stephano? 0 Stephano, two Neapolitans 'scaped?

STEPHANO Prithee, do not turn me about; my stomach is not constant.

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These be fine things, an if they be not sprites; That's a brave god and bears celestial liquor. I will kneel to him.

STEPHANO How didst thou scape? How cam 'st thou hither? Swear by this bottle how thou cam'st hither. I escaped upon a butt of sack, which the sailors heaved o'erboard - by this bottle, which I made of the bark of a tree with mine own hands since I was cast ashore.

CALinAN I'll swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject, for the liquor is not earthly.

STEPHANO Here, swear then how thou cscaped'st. TRINCt.:I.O Swum ashore, man, like a duck. I can swim

like a duck, I'll be sworn. STEPHANO Herc, kiss the book. [ Trinculo drinks.]

Though thou canst swim like a duck, thou art made like a goose.

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TR1,c:L1.o O Stephano, hast any more of thi,~ ~,n.PI u,o The whole butt, man . .\ly cellar i, in a rock

hy th' seaside, where my wine is hi<l. I lo,\ n,J\\. mooncalf, how c.loes thine a~we~

L\I.IB:\:'-. Hast thou not dropped from hea~en? STl·.PIL\'.',;O Out <>th' moon, I <lo assure thee. I ,,a.., the

man i'th' moon when time ,,a ... L\I.IB:\:'\

I have seen thee in her, and I do adore thel:! ~ly mistress showec.l me thee, and th~ dog and 1h~

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STF.PI L\'.',;O Come, swear to that. Kis, the bool... ,, ill furnish it anon with new contents. Swear!

I Cahha11 drml..·.(. I TRl'.',;CLI.O By this goml light, this is a Hry shallm\

monster. I afear<l of him? :\ vcn weak monster. Thl: man i'th' moon? A most poor l:re.dulous monster! \\di <lrawn, monster, in good sooth.

L\I.IB.-\, I'll show thee every fertile inch o'th • island, :\nd I will kiss thy foot. I prithee, he my god.

TRl'.',;CLl.<J By this light, a most perfidious and drunken monster; when's god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle.

L\1.IBA:--.; I'll kiss thy foot. I'll swear myself thy subje<.:I. STEPI l:\,o Come on, then, c.lown and swear. TR1,cu.o I shall laugh myself to <leath at this puppy-

hea<led monster. :\ most sl:un·v monster. I could find in my heart to heat him - ·

STEP! l:\,o Come, kiss.

TR1:--.;c:c1.o But that the poor monster's m c.lrink. An abominable monster!

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I'll show thee the best springs; I'll pluck thee berries; I'll fish for thee, and get thee wood enough. A plague upon the tvrant that I serve! I'll bear him no mo;e stic.:ks but follow thee, Thou wondrous man.

TR1:--.;cL·1.o A most ric.liculous monster - to make a won<ler of a poor drunkard!

C:\1.IBA:--; l prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow, An<l I with my long nails will dig thee pignuts, Show thee a jay's nest, and instruct thee how To snare the nimble marmoset. I'll bring thee To dust'ring filberts, and sometimes I'll get thee Young scamcls from the rock. Wilt thou go with me?

STEP! IA:---o I prithee, now, lead the ,,,.ay without any more talking. Trinculo, the King and all our company else being drowned, we will inherit here. Herc, bear my bottle. Fellow Trinculo, we'll fill him by and by again.

c: \LIB:\'.\. lSl11Ks dru11ke11fr. J Farewell, master; farewell, farewell!

TRI:'\CL 1.0 A howling monster, a drunken monster! c. \LIB.-\:'\ ~o more dams I'll make for fish,

:'\or fetch in firing at requiring, ~or scrape trenchering, nor wash dish.

Ban' han' Ca-caliban, Has a new master, get a new man.

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hc:nl• 1111, h1:!h da,: l11!,!h-da~· freedom; freedom high- Ja,. lrc:nl11111.

...,., 1 1'1.1 \ ,, , () bra, l. 1111111,tlT, lead the way. Extant.

. U F111t·r I 110 11, \ '-l 1, bt·t1r111g a log .

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Thl·n· bl· ,onH· ,port, .1n· painful, .md their labour J klid11 in t hn11 ,l·t... off. Soml' kinds of baseness \re ;whh under!,!onc:: .rnd most poor matters

Point 111 ;·id1 l'IHk Thi, m~ mean task \\"ould IK ·"' hl·,1, ~ 111 llll' a, odious, hut Thl· mi,t,·l·,, "hidl I ,ern· qui<.:kens what's dead, \ml m.tkl·, m~ l.1h,•Lir.., pk·.1sures. 0, she is

Tl·n timl·, nwrl· ~l·ntk th;m her father's crabbed, \nd hl··, compo-,nl of har,hnl·ss. I must remove

Soml.' 1h11u,;1ml, 11f thl'"l' lo~-. ;md pile them up, Lpon ;t ,orT injundion. \ly s\\eet mistress \\.eep-. ,, hl·n ,Ill' -.n·, llll' \\orl.. and says such

ha ... l·nt·..,., I lad nc:, l.'J" like c:H·n1tor. I forl!t·t; But thc-.l· '.'>\H'el thou!,!hts do e,en refresh my labours .\ 111,t hu-,ilc:-.1 \\ hen I Jo it.

1:·111a \Ill{ \'-IH. 1111d PROSPERO at a dtst,11fft'. 1111s,·e11.

\IIR \'-1>\ :\las now, pray you, \\'orl.. not ..,o hard. I \\mild tht· lightning had Bumi up thosl' lo!,!'> that you ,m·_enjoin~d to pile! Pra, Sl't it dm, n and rest you. \\ hen thts burns, 'T\,:ill weep for h.n in!,! wearied you . .\ly father Is hard at stmh; pray nm\, rest yourself. I k's sak for ,l;l'Se thrt·e hours.

FI-.RI '" \" > 0 most dear mistress, The sun will st·t before I sh.ill discharge \\'hat I must stri,e to do.

\IIRY\IH If you'll sit down, I'll hear rnur logs the while. Pray give me that; I'll earn. it to the pile.

Fl·J{l)f:'\.\:'\I.> ~o, precious creature, I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, Than you should such dishonour undergo While I sit lazv lw.

.\IIR:\'.\il>:\ · · It ,,oul<l bl:come me As well as it docs you, and I should do it \\'ith much more case, for my good will is to it, .-\nd vour·s it is against.

PR<>SPl·:J{o I asiild Poor worm, thou art infected! This visitation shows it.

.\IIR.-\:\1>.\ You look wearily. FERl>l:'\:\:'\I)

:'.\Jo noble mistress, 'tis fresh morning with me \\'hen you arc by at night. I do beseech you - Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers - \Vhat is \'our name?

\IIR:\MH · .\liranda. - 0 my father, I have broke your hcst to say so!

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FERDI'.'\ \:'\I> Admired ivliranda! Indeed the top of ~1dmirntion, worth \\'hat's t.karL·st to the world! Full many a lady I have eyc:d with hest regard, and many a time Th' harmmw of their tongues hath into bondage Brotwht nw ·too diligent C:'lr. For several virtues t"" • ... Ha,·e I liked sevcr~11 women; never any \Vith so full soul hut some defect in her Did quarrd with the noblest grace she owed :\nd put it to the foil. But you, 0 you, So perfect and so peerless, are created Of every nc.1ture's best.

.\IIR.-\:'\I >\ I c.lo not know One of nw sex, no woman's face rcmcmbcr- Sm·e, frm~1 my glass, mine own. Nor have I seen .\lore that I mav call men th.m you, good friend, An<l my <.le.tr fa

thcr. How features arc abroad I am skillcss ot: hut lw mv modest,· (The jewel in my dm~er): I would

not wish Any companion in the world but you, Nor can imagination form .1 shape, Besides yoursclt: to like of. But I prattle Something too wildly, and my father's precepts I therein do ti:>rget.

FERl>J:'\.-\:'\I > I am, in my condition, A prince, .\lirnnd.1; I do think a king (I would not so!) and would no more endure This wooden sla\'cn· than to suffer The flesh-fly hlow ;....y mouth! Hear my soul speak: The very inst.tnt that I saw you did .Mv heart flv to vour sen·ice, there resides Tc; make m~ sla~·e to it, and for your sake Am I this patient log-man.

.\llR:\:'\IH Do you love me? FERUl:'\.-\:'\D

0 heaven, 0 earth, hear witness to this sound, And crown what I profess with kind event If I speak true; if hollowly, invert What best is boded me to mischief! I, Beyond all limit of what else i'th' world, Do lcn-e, prize, honour you.

.\tlR:\'.'\OA I am a fool To weep at what I am glad of.

PROSPERO l aside I Fair encounter Of two most rnre affections! Heavens rain grace On that which breeds between 'cm .

FERl>l!'\:\~D Wherefore weep you? .\tlR:\;\;D:\ At mine unworthiness that dare not offer

What I desire to give, and much less take \Vhat I shall die to want. But this is trifling, And all the more it seeks to hide itself, The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning, And prompt me, plain and holy innocence! l am your wife, if you will marry me; If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant

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Whether vou will or no. FERDINAND • My mistress, dearest,

And I thus humble ever. \llR:\ND:\ Mv husband, then? ~ERDINAND • Ay, with a heart as willing

As bondage e'er of freedom. Here's my hand. .\llR:\ND:\

And mine, with my heart in't. And now farewell Till half an hour hence.

FERDINAND A thousand thousand! Exe111lf 1Hira11da and Ferdina11d.

PROSPERO So glad of this as they I cannot be, Who are surprised withal, but my rejoicing At nothing can be more. I'll to my book, For vet ere suppertime must I perform l\fo~h business appertaining . Exit.

J.2 £11/er CALIB:\N, STEPH:\NO and TRINCULO.

STEPHANO Tell not me. When the butt is out, we will drink water; not a drop before. Therefore bear up and board 'em. Servant monster, drink to me. . .

TRINCCLO Servant monster? The folly of this island! They say there's but fi\'e upon ~his isl_e; we arc three of

h If th'other two be bramed hke us, the state t em. totters. .

STEPH:\NO Drink, servant monster, when I bid thee. Thy eyes are almost set in thy head.

TRii'\CULO Where should they be set cl~e? ~e ~vere a brave monster, indeed, if they were set m his_ tad.

STEPHANO My man-monster hath drowned his tongue in sack. For my part, the sea cannot drown m~. I swam, ere I could recover the shore, fo·c and thirty leagues off and on. By this light, thou shalt be my lieutenant, monster, or my standard.

TRINCULO Your lieutenant, if you list; he's no standard. STEPH:\:-:O We'll not run, l\lonsieur .Monster. TRINCULO Nor go, neither; but you'll lie like dogs and

yet say nothing, neither. STEPH:\NO Mooncalf, speak once in thy life, if thou

be'st a good mooncalf. . CALIBAN How docs thy honour? Let me hck thy shoe.

I'll not serve him; he is not valiant. . TRINCULO Thou licst, most ignorant monster. I am m

case to jostle a constable. Why thou deboshcd fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk ~o much sack as I today? Wilt thou tell a monstrous he,

being but half a fish and half a ~onstcr? . . ~ CALIBAN Lo, how he mocks me. Wilt thou let him, my lord. TRINCULO 'Lord', quoth he? That a monster should be

such a natural! CALIBAN Lo, lo again! Bite him to death, I prithee. . STEPHANO Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head. If

you prove a mutineer - the next tree! ~he_ p~or monster's my subject, and he shall not suffer mc.l1gmty.

C:\LIDAN I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleased to hearken once again to the suit I made to thee?

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STl-.1'11.\,o \tarry. ,, ill I. ~ned and repL";H it; I "111 stand, and so shall Trim:ulo.

1:·111a \IOU .. i1rus1Mt·.

L\I.JB\:--.. :\s I told thee before, I am suhjc.:l:t to a tyrant. :\ sorcerer, that hy his cunning hath Cheate<l me of the.: island.

\RIU -1111 Trinw/o 's nna I Thou lie!-.1. c. \I.IB\, Thou liest, thou jesting monl..c~. thou.

I would my valiant master would de"itrm thc.:c. I do not lie. ·

STl·.l'll\"-0 Trinculo, if you trouble him an~ more m·-. talc, hy this han<l, I will supplant soml: of ,our teeth.

TRl:--.:C:LI.O \\'hy, I said nothing. . STLl'I 1 .. ,,0 \lum, then, an<l no more. Prol:ec<.I. C:\I.IB.\, I say, hy sort:ery he got this isle.

From me he got it. If thy greatncs!-> ,, ill Revenge it on him - for I know thou dar'st, But this thing dare not -

STEPll.\:"-O That's mo!->t certain. C\I.IU.\'.': Thou shalt he lord of it, and I'll scrve thee. STJ·.Pll.\:"-0 How now shall this he compassed? Canst

thou bring me to the part,? C:\I.IB.\'.': Yea, yea, my lord: I'll yield him thee asleep.

\\'here thou mayst knock a nail into his head. \RIF.I. I i11 Trinado 's n,ia I Thou liest, thou canst not. c:.,1.m.,,

What a pied ninny's this? Thou scurvy patch! I do beseech thy greatness, give him blows, :\nd take h!s bottle from him. \\'hen that's gone, He shall drmk nought hut brine, for I'll not show him \Vhcrc the quick freshes arc.

STEPI 1.-\:-S:O Trinculo, run into no further danger. Interrupt the monster one word further, and h\' this hand I'll turn mv mercv out (,doors and m~ke a stock fish of thee. · ·

TR1,cc1.o \Vhy, what did I? I did nothing. I'll go farther off

STEPI 1.-\,o Didst thou not say he lied? .-\RIF.I. [iu Trinculo 's voice] Thou licst. STI·:PIH~O J?o I_so? Take thou that! [Hits Tri11culo. J .\s

you hke this, gn-e me the lie another time! TRI:-.:CLJ.O I did not give thee the lie. Out o'vour wits

and hearing too? A pox o'your bottle! This. can sack and drinking do. A murrain on your monster, and the devil take your fingers.

C.-\1.IB:\:-S: Ha, ha, ha! STEPI 1.-,:-,;o Now, forward with your talc. (to Trinmlo I

Prithee, stand farther off C:\I .IIJ\:--; Beat him enough; after a little time

I'll beat him too. '

STEPII:\V> (to Trinculoj Stand farther. Ito Caliba11J Come, proceed.

C:\I JB:\:-S: 'Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him I'th' afternoon to sleep. There thou mayst brain him, H,l\·ing first seized his books, or with a log Batter his skull, or paunch him ,,·ith a stake.

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< h n11 hi-. "~.-,,,ind \\ 1th th~ 1..nifi:. Remember f-'11· ... 1 111 p11..,..,l'..,._ l11s hooi..s. for \\ithout them I 1t.-· ... hu1 .1 ...c,1. ;1.., I .1111. nor h;llh not C hH: ... p,rit 111 l'om111.111d. The~ all do hate him \.., rootnlh .1-. I. Burn hu1 his hooks.

I k has hr.1H: utcrhil, (for ,o he calls them) \\ hid1. "hn1 ht· ha, a housl.'. he'll deck \\ithal. \ nd I h.11 11111,1 dn·ph to consider is

Tht· beaut~ of his dau~htl.'r; he himself ( .• 111-. her ;1 rwnpan:il. I lll'\t·r s.1w a woman But onl~ s~ 01r,1,. Ill~ d;tm. ;md she; But ..,ht· .1 ... far· ... urp.1 ... wth Sy<.:orax ·\-. ~rt·.11 ·..,, d11l'-. le.isl.

, 11 Pl 1, ,, > ls it so hr.1,·e a lass? 1 \I Ill\, .\~. lord. shL" ,, ill become thy bed, I warrant,

\nd hrinµ thn· forth bran: brood. ..., , 11'II \ ,Cl \ lonslcr, I \\ ill kill this man. His daughter

and I \\ ill he kin~ and quel'n - s.t\"c our graces -and Trinc.:ulo .tnd th~ self shall he viceroys. Dost thou like the plol. Trinculo?

tHl"ll.1> E,cdlc.:nt. ..,, ,n, ,,,, (ii,c me 1h~· hand. I .1m sorry I beat thee, hu 1 ,, hi le thou Ii, est, kl.'cp a ~uml tongue in thy head.

1 \I .Ill\, \\"ithin this half hour will he he asleep. \\ilt thou destro~ him then?

sTll'I I \ ,, > :\y. on mine honour. \1<11 .r. I 11srtld This "ill I tdl my m,1ster. c \I .IB \, Thou mak 'st me ml.'rry; I am full of pleasure.

Let us he jocund. \\ ill you troll the catch You taug-ht m<.· but ,, hilcre?

sTLl'I I\,,> :\t thy request. monster. I will do reason, any reason. Come on, Trinculo, let us sing. IS111.~s. J Flout 'cm an<l st:out 'cm,

.-\n<l Sl:Olll 'cm and nout 'cm, Thou~ht is free.

L\I .IB \ "\: That's not the tune. (.·/rid plays the tune 011 a ta/,or a11d p;pe.]

STl-.l'll ·\"\:O What is this same? TRl'.':Cll .o This is the tune of our catch, played by the

picture of Nobody. STEPII.·\ ,o If thou he'st a man, show thyself in thy

likeness. If thou hc'st a de\"il, take't as thou list. TRl','CU .o 0, forgin: me my sins! STEPll.\'-'O He that dies pays all debts. I defy thee.

\krcy upon us! c-\1.IB.\'-' :\rt thou afcanl? STEP! !ANO No, monster, not I. L-\1.IB:\l\: Be not afcard. The isle is full of noises,

Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments \Viii hum about mine cars; and sometimes voices, That if I then had waked after long sleep, Will m,tke me sleep again; and then in dreaming, Thl.' clouds, methought. would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream again.

sTEl'I I,,<> This ,, ill prmc a hrn\"e kingdom to me,

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whl.'re I shall haw my music for nothing. C:\I.IB.\'-. \\'hL'n Prospero is destroyed. STEPll.\:"-O Th.It shall he by and by. I remember the

story. TR1;,.;cu .o The sound is going away. Let's follow it, and

after do our work. STl'.l'I L\:-.;o Lc.1d. monster, we'll follow. I would I could

sec this tahort.·r; ht.· l.1ys it on. TRJ:--:cu .o I to Cc1/zba111 Wilt come? I'll follow Stephano.

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3.3 f:11/a \1.0'.',;SO, SEB.\STL•\:-., :\NTO;-.;JO, (iO:'\:Z.\1.0, .\DR!.\:',;, FR:\'.'\C:ISCO '""' otlrers.

uo,z.,1.0 By'r bl.in. I can ~o no further, sir; \ly old hunL's aches. Herc's a maze trod, indeed, Through forthrights am.I meanders! By your patience, I needs must rest me.

.-\I.o:-.:so Old lord, I cannot blame thee, \\.ho am myself attached with weariness To th' dulling of my spirits. Sit down and rest. E\'cn herl.' I will put off my hope and keep it !'\:o longer for nw lfatterer. He is drowned \\·hom thus wc ~tray to find, and the sea mocks Our frustrnte searc.:h on hmd. Well, let him go.

.-\;,.;To:--:io [asidt· to Sd,astian] I am ri~ht glad that he's so out of hope. Do not. for one repulse, forgo the purpose That you resoh·e<l t'cffoct.

Sl·:B.-\STl:\:-S: l aside to . ·lnt011io] The next advantage Will Wl.' takl.' throughh-.

:\:'l.;TO'Io · Let it be tonight, For now they arc oppressed with travail; they \Viii not, nor cannot, use such vigilance As when they arc fresh.

SEIHSTL-\:-.; I say tonight. No more.

Sole11111 and strange music, a11d PROSPERO 011 the top, im.'isi/,/e. E111er serera/ strange shapes, /Jri11gi11g in a

hmu111et, and danu about it with gentle actions of salutations. a11d i11riti,1g tire King etc. to eat, tlrey depart.

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What harmony is this? ~vly good friends, hark! GOi\:ZAI .o ~1arYcllous sweet music! :\LO:'\:SO

Give us kind keepers, hea,·ens! What were these? SEB:\STIA'.\: A li\"ing drollery! Now I will believe

That there arc unicorns; that in Arabia There is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one phoenix At this hour reigning there.

:\:-.:To:-.;10 I'll believe both; And what <loes else want credit, come to me And I'll be sworn 'tis true. Travellers ne'er did lie, Though fools at home condemn 'cm.

Go:--;z .. ,1.0 If in Naples I should report this now, would they believe me? If I ~houltl say I saw such islanders

(For cerres, these are people of the island), Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet note Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find Many - nay, almost any.

PROSPERO [aside] Honest lord, Thou hast said well, for some of you there present Are worse than devils.

ALONSO I cannot too much muse Such shapes, such gesture and such sound, expressing (Although they want the use of tongue) a kind Of excellent dumb discourse.

PROSPERO [aside] Praise in departing. FRA\'JOSCO They vanished strangely! SEB:\STl:\N No matter, since

They have left their viands behind, for we have

stomachs. Will't please you taste of what is here?

AL0:'l:S0 Not I.

GO:--.ZALO Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys, Who would believe that there were mountaineers Dewlappcd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at 'em Wallets of flesh? Or that there were such men Whose heads stood in their breasts, which now we find Each putter-out of five for one ";n bring us Good warrant of?

ALONSO I will stand to and feed, Although my last; no matter, since I feel The best is past. Brother, my lord the Duke,

Stand to and do as we.

Tl11mder a11d figlr111i11g. E11ter ARIEL, like a lrarpy, daps his u,i11gs 11po11 tire table, and with a quai11t deria

the banquet 'l)a11islres.

:\RIEL You are three men of sin, whom destiny, That hath to instrument this lower world And what is in 't, the never-surfeited sea Hath caused to belch up you, and on this island Where man doth not inhabit - you 'mongst men Being most unfit to live - I have made you mad;

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And even with such-like valour, men hang and drown

Their proper selves. [Alo11so, Se/,astia11 a11d Antonio draw their swords.]

You fools! I and my fellows

Are ministers of fate. The elements Of whom your swords are tempered may as well Wound the loud winds, or with bemocked-at stabs Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish One dowl that's in my plume. My fellow ministers Arc like invulnerable. If vou could hurt, Your swords are now too. massy for your strengths And will not be uplifted. But remember (For that's my business to you) that you three From Milan did supplant good Prospero, Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it,

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I Jim an<l his innocent chil<l; for ,, hich li,ul dn·d. The powers delaying. not fi,rg1:ttin!!, haH: Incensed the se,10, and shorl", - ~ca. all the cn:atun:, :\gainsr your peace. Thee of tin -,on. :\lono,o. They ha,e hen.:fr. and do prom-,unn: h~ me I ,ing'ring perdition, ,,orsc than am dl",llh Can be at once. shall step hy step ,;ttcnd You and your way-,, \\ ho-,e \\fat ho, to guan.l ~ ou from Which here, in thi-. most desolate i,lc. cl-,c fall, Cpon your heads - is nothin~ hut hc,1rt\ sorr,m :\ml a dear life en-,uing. ·

/fr 1:1111isltt's i11 1/11111da. Tlto1. /11 .rn/i 111m11. oiler 1h,· slwp,·s t1K11i11 11111I dtJ11t"t' 11•11/i 11111, J..·J ,111tl 111111/'J, ,111tl

t"arr)' 1111/ 1/,,· 111/,/,·.

l'ROSl'J·:Ro Bravely the figure of this harpy ha,t thou Performed, my :\riel; a grace it had, de,ouring. Of my instruction hast thou nothin~ hated In what thou hadst to sa,. So, ,, ith ~ooJ lifr :\n<l observation strange·, my mean:r ministers Their several kinds ha,e done .. \ly high charms work. And these, mine enemies, arc all knit up In their distractions. They ncm arc in my po\\ 1:r; :\n<l in these fits I lca,·e them while I ,·isit Young Ferdinand (whom they suppose is drowned) And his, and mine, loved darling. En/.

(JC ,,z:\ I.< J l'th' name of something hoh, sir, win stand you In this strange stare? · ·

\LO-...:so 0, it is monstrous, monstrous~ . \lcthought the billows spoke an<l tol<l me of it; The winds <lid sing it to me, and the thunder - :1~hat deep and dreadful organpipe - pronounced _I he name of Prosper. It did hass my trespass. fherefore my son i'th' ooze is hcdded and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummc; sounded, And with him there lie mudded. /:'.r,/.

SEB:\STJ..\:'\: But one fiend at a time I'll fight their legions o'er. '

.\Vlu:--..;10 I'll be thy second.

l::.remu Sd,llslian and .·ln/fJmo. GO:\Z:\1.0

A~I thre~ of t~em arc desperate: their great guilt, Like p01son given co work a great time after Now 'gins to bite the spirits. I do beseech n:u That a_rc of suppler joints, follow them swi.ftly, And hmder them from what this ecstas, :Vlay now provoke them to. ·

·\I >RI·\' Follow, I pray you.

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4.1 Enter PROSPERO, Fl-:RDI1":\1\il) """ .\IIRAi\DA.

PROSPERO Lio Ferdinand! If I have too austerely punished vou Your compensation makes amcn~ls, for I Have given you here a third of mine own life,

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Ch 1h.11 l11r ,,t11d1 I lnL-, \\l10om:cagain I tl·11dc.:r 1., th~ 11.111d .. \II th~ ,c:xations \\ erL" hut 111, I n.il, of th~ lo,L". and thou I l.1,1 ,tr.lll!!l·h ,11111d thl· tL·,t. I lcrc. afore hea,-en, I r.111t~ 1h1, m, rn.:h !!•h. 0 FL-rdinan<l, I )o 11111 ,rrnk .11 llll" 1h.11 I ho.ts! her off, h,r r hou -,l1.1lt find ,hL' ,, ill ou1s1rip all pr:iise \nd 111.11-L· 11 h.111 hd1111d her.

I J.l<IJI, \ '-', I do hclie\"e it ·\)!,1111"11 ,Ill or.tdL·.

l'IH '""' R< 1 ThL"n ,h m~ !,!ifr .md thine own acquisition \\orrhil~ pun . .-ha-,l·d. takl· my daughter. But If thou do-,t hrc1I- her , ir!,!in-knot heforc ·\ II .... me1 i1111111ioth l·L-rL·moniL"s may \\ 11 h full .rnd lwl~ ,·ill' hl' ministered, :'\.o .,,, eL·I .hper-,ion shall the heavl'ns let fall To makL· 1 his l'unt LtL·t gnm; hut harren hate, Sour e~ L"d di-,dain and disl'ord shall bestrew Thl" union of~ our hed \\ ith weeds so loathly That ~1n1 shall hatL' it both. Therdi.>rc take heed, .·\.. I I~ tnl'll.!-. lamps ,hall light you.

fl 1<1,1, , ....... , :\.s I hope For quiel da~ s. E1ir issUL' and long lifo, \\ irh such Im l" a!'. 'tis now. the murkiest den, The mosl opp11r1unc plal'e, thl· strong'st suggestion ( )ur ,, orsL·r !;L'nius l'an, shall ne,·er melt .\ I inc honour into lust to takl' away The l'll!!L' of that day ·s celebration, \\"hen I !-.hall I hink or Phoehus' steeds arc foundered Or ni)-'hl kept chainl·d hdow.

l'IH >Sl'LR< > Fairly spoke. Sit then and talk with her: she is thine own. \\'hat, :\rid! .\ly industrious sen-ant Ariel!

/;'11/t'I" \RIEi..

\RIEi. \\'hat would my potent master? Herc I am. l'RC )SPERO

Thou .rnd thy meaner follows your last service Did worthily perform, an<l I must use you In such another trick. Go bring the rabble (O'er whom I gi\C thee power) here to this pince. Incite them to quid motion, for I must Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple Some ,·,miry of mine ,trt. It is my promise, And they expect it from me.

\RIEi. Presently? PROSPERO :\y, with a twink. •\RIEL Before you can say •come' and •go',

.-\n<l breathe twicc and cry 'so, so', Each one tripping on his toe, Will he here with mop and mow. I )o you IO\ c me, master? No?

1•ROSPERO Dearly, my dclicate Ariel. Do not approach Till thou dost hear me call.

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PROSPERO I lo Ft.·nli11mu/J Look thou he true. Do not give dalliance Too much 1hc rein. The strongest oaths are straw To th' tire i'th' blood. Be more abstemious Or else good night your vow!

FERDl'.'::\,n I warrant vou, sir, The white cold ,·irgin snow upon my h~rt Abates the ardour of my liver.

PROSPERO \Veil! -

Now come, my .-\ricl; bring a corollary Rather than want .1 spirit. Appear, and pertly.

[ Soft music.] >in ton~ue, all eyes. Be silent!

Ertta IRIS.

IRIS Ceres, most bounteous l:idv thv rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches: ~at~ and peas; Thy turfy mountains where live nibbling sheep, An<l flat mc~1ds thatched with stover them to keep; Thy hanks with pioncd and twilled brims, Which spongy :\pril at thy hest betrims To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy

broom groves Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves, Deing lass-lorn; thy pole-clipped vineyard, And thy sca-margc, sterile and rockv-hard, Where thou thyself dost air - the q~een o'th, sky, \Vhose watery arch ,llld messenger am I, Bi<ls thee leave these, and with her so\"ereign grace,

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Herc on this grass-plot, in this very place, To come and sport. Her peacocks fly amain. Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.

Enter CERES.

CERES Hail, many-coloured messenger, that ne'er Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter; \:Vho, with thy saffron wings, upon my flowers Diff usest honey-drops, refreshing showers, And with each end of thr blue bow dost crown l\i1y bosky acres and my ~nshrubbcd down, Rich scarf to my proud earth. Why hath thy queen Summoned me hither to this short-grassed green?

IRIS A contract of true love to celebrate, And some donation freely to estate On the blessed lovers.

CERl•:s Tell me, heavenly bow, If Venus or her son, .1s thou dost know, Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot The means that dusky Dis my daughter got, Her and her blind boy's scandaled company I have forsworn.

IRIS Of her societv Be not afraid. I met her dcitv· Cutting the douds towards Paphos, and her son Dove-drawn with her. Herc thought they to have done

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Some wanton charm upon this man and maid, Whose vows are that no bed-right shall be paid Till Hymen's torch be lighted, but in vain. Mars's hot minion is returned again; Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows, Swears he \\ill shoot no more, but play with sparrows And be a boy right out.

CERES Highest queen of state, Great Juno comes; I know her by her gait.

Jt;NO How does my bounteous sister? Go with me To bless this twain that they may prosperous be, And honoured in their issue.

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[Tltey sing.] Honour, riches, marriage-blessing, Long continuance and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you; Juno sings her blessings on you. Earth's increase, foison plenty, Barns and garners never empty. Vines with clustering bunches growing, Plants with goodly burden bowing; Spring come to you at the farthest, In the very end of harvest. Scarcity and want shall shun you, Ceres' blessing so is on you.

FERDINAND This is a most majestic vision, and Harmonious charmingly. May I be bold To think these spirits?

PROSPERO Spirits, which by mine art I have from their confines called to enact My present fancies.

FERDINAND Let me live here ever! So rare a wondered father and a wise Makes this place paradise. • [1uno and Ceres whisper. and send Iris on employment.]

PROSPERO Sweet now, silence! Juno and Ceres whisper seriously. There's something else to do. Hush and be mute, Or else our spell is marred.

IRIS

You nymphs, called naiads, of the windring brooks, With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks, Leave your crisp channels, and on chis green land Answe~ your summons; Juno docs command. Come, temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate A contract of true love. Be not too late.

Enter certain 11ymp'1s.

You sunburned sicklemen, of August weary, Come hither from the furrow and be merry; Make holiday! Your rye-straw hats put on, And these fresh nymphs encounter every one In country footing.

Enter certain reapers, propt•r~)' hahited. They joi11 1Pitlt 1/u· 11ymp'1s i11 a graceful da11ce, to1Pards t'1e end 11>hereof Prospero starts smltle11fr a11d speaks; after mhich, to a

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:h if ~ IJ U 1,crc.: d i.,ma1cd . Ile.: c h c.:c.:rful. -,ir. O u r r c.:1c.:I-, 11<!\\ arc.: ended. T hc.:-,e our ,JCI CJ r'>. :\ -. I fi,rc.:Jc,ld ~ou, \\er e.: a ll ,piri h a nd .\ re.: m c l! cd in 10 a ir, in 10 t h in .1ir: :\ n J - li l..c lh<.: ba,-cJc.:.,., fa b r ic o r 1hi -, \ i-, ioll

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The ,,oJcmn l<.:m plc.:-,, lh <.: g rc a l ;doh c.: ihc.:lf.

Yea , a ll 11 h ic h i1 inherit . ,, h a ll di.,.,o h c.:.

.\nd li ke t hi , imub,. ta11 1ia l p ageant fod c.:d .

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:\ nd thc.:r<.: re p"" '-'· :\ turn o r l\\ o I" ll \\ :d i.. To s till 111 ~ h<.:a t in g mi n J .

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Th) 1houg hb I c lca ,·c Ill. \\"h a t 's th) pka,-urc.:: l'ROSl'l·.R(J

Spi r it, \\"<.: mus t pre p a re l o meet \\ il h C al iban .

\R ll·.I. A~, m y commander. \ \'he n I p1·c ,-cn1cd Ccrc .. , I thoug ht to ha, c told 1hcc of" it , bu t I l"<.:arcd I ,es t I mig ht anger thee.

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S ay ag.1 in , \\"here didst thou lc.:a,·c these ,arlc 1,-: .\RIEi.

I told you , s ir, they \\ e re red- hot ,1 ith d r inkin!:(, So full of \"alour tha t they s mo1c the air

h,r breathing in their Eiccs, heal 1hc.: g round For kissing of" t h eir fee t, ,ct a l\\"a,·s h c.:ndin \!

T o \\ ards !heir projec t. Tl1cn I h~at 1111 tah~,r At \\"hic h like unbacked co l! s t he) pri~ kc d 1h.cir ca rs . :\ th-anc<.:d th<.:ir c1·c lids, li fted up t h eir noses

.·\ s they s melt mus ic; so I c harmed their cars

~l :hat calf- li ke they m y lo l\'in g follol\'c d , throug h

I oothcd h n ars, sh arp furzes, pricking gorse and thorn,-, \\ "hi c h entere d their frai l shins. :\t las t I lc.:f"I 1hun l 'th ' fi l th y-mantled pool b c nmd ,·ou,· cell

The re d a n c ing up Lo th' chins, th.at rh c li ,:d la ke O 'e rs ru nk the ir feet.

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1''-' ,-.1·1 " ', · 1 ·11" " .1-, \I di tlonc, my bird. I IH ,li.,pc· 11111,,hk rc.:1 .11 11 dwu ,ti ll.

·1lw1111n1pc.:n 111 m, hrnh c: ;:o b ring it hither, 1 ·111 ,1.rlc 111 c.11 d1 rhc·,c· 1hinc·s.

11<1 1 1 I !!O, I go. Em. 1•1(, ,,1·1 I{<, \ de·, ii • . 1 h11r 11 de.:, ii. on 11 hose nature

'\. 111 11 11 c· L,lll 11c·1 c-r .,, 1c·I..: 1111 "hum my pains

I l 111n.1 11c·h 1.1l..c· 11 .di. .d i 111,1. q ui te losll \nd . . 1, "11 h .1-.:t· h r, bud , ll!!l in g rm1s,

~ .. 111 , 11111,d c .1nl..n,. I 1, d i pl.t!!llc th t.:m all, I ., t·11 111 rc ,.1n11 µ. ( .11111c· . 11.111!! 1hem on thi line.

/"111,·1 II{ II I . ,,.,,,/,·11 11·11'1 ~,,,,.-ring 11pp11rd. (/(. / 111,·1 < II Ill\'-. , II l' l 11 '-' > ,111,/ TRl\:C:L"J.0. 111/ OYI.

< I I 111 I, l' r.11 , , ill I r c·.1d " " l"l h. tha t 1hc blind mole Oil \ '"' h c.:.1r .1 1111111.rl l. \\ c.: 11111\ ,ire IIL~11· his cell. ·

-. 1 1 1• 11 1 v, \ \1111 ,1cr. " •ll r fa ir~. 11 hich you s:ir is :a h.1r 111Jc,,., l.11n. h.h d une li11 lc heller 1han pb) t'd tht jac k 11 i1 h ll '-.

11<1 , , 1 1, , .\ \11n,,1cr. I do ,,m cll a ll hors<: p is, at which 11 1~ no,c i, in g r L·. 11 ind iµ-n;11 ion.

-. 1 I 1•11 1,1> S11 i-, mi ne.:. Do ~oll hear. monster: If [ ., Ji.,uld 1.11..t· .1 di,,pk.1, llrt· a !!a i11s1 )OU, look you!

I RI'-! I I<> T h o u 11 crt hll l a los t m onster. , II .IH I '- (joud Ill) l11rd ,!!i, c.: me 1hy fa\"0Ur still.

l k 1u1ic·n1 . 1, ,r 1hc· pri /.c I' ll bring 1he.: to

Shall hrn ,d\\ inl.. 1his m isch,mcc. Thercforcspcnk softh : . \ II', hll ,hed a, mid11i,: h1 , c t. .

11<1'-< .l I.< > :\\. hu1 10 lose our ho1tk s in the pool -

.., l"l·.1'1 1 I , ,, There i, 1101 on l~ dis;:racc and dishonour in

1ha1. lllfll h lc.: r. h lll .lll in fin il t' loss.

·1 I{ I'- ! L I .< > T h,11 ·, 11111 rc 10 me 1h,1n m y welling, yet this i, 111l1r lur m kss !"a ir). 11wns1cr.

-. 1 I 1•11 I" • I " il l fr 1c h off m,· ho11 lc.:. 1ho11gh I be o'er car, li,r ,n, la h11llr.

1. 11.1111, l' r i1h cc, 111) k ing . he qu iet. Secst thou here; T hi,- i:-. 1hc m oll th 0'1h' cell. i\o noise, and enter. I )o I h:11 ;:ood mi,ch icl" ,1 h ich ma~· make this isl:tnd

Thine 1J\1n li,rner, and I, thy Cali b:lll, 1:o r a _1 c I h ) li,ot - lic ker.

_-;·1 1-.1•11 \'-( > <i i, c m e rh) hand . I d o b.:gin rn hare blood) I huu 1:d11s.

TIU'-CLI.O !Sas 1/J,· .-!01/Jcs. I O King S tephano! 0 pt-er! 0 1, o rl ll\ S tepha no! I ,ooJ.. ,1·ha1 a wardrobe here L for 1hcc 1

<· 11.111 1., I .ct i1 alone, 1hou fool; it is but trash.

TRI'-< .L 1.1 > 0 ho. 111 o ns1cr; \I c kn ow what bclonb'S to ,1 f"rippcn 1 0 1,in !!" Stc phano 1 [P111s 111111 g11rmmt.]

STl-:l' I I\ , c > P ut off I h:H g;m1·n, Trineulo. By this hand, I' l l ha,-c 1h:11 !!"0" ·11.

T Rl'-Cl I.Cl 'I'll\ grace s ha ll ha,·c i1.

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The drops, drmn1 1his liml! \\'h:lt do you mean

To dol e 1hus on s uc h lug;gag;c? Lct't alone .-\nd do 1hc.: m u rd e r lirs t. If he awake, 1: rom 10c to c ro\\" n he'll fill our skins with pinches,

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STl·:1'11.\ :-- u lk ~ m r quie t, monster. \ l istrcss L inc. is not

this m~ jcrl.. in? :--..:m,· is t h e jerkin under the line! :'\low jcrl.. in ~ 11u a rc lil..c.: to lose your hair ,m d pro1·e a bald jerkin .

TRl:--CL 1.0 I )o. do. \ \"c steal by line and lercl, :m' t like ~ Oll i" ~ 1".H.:c .

STEl'I I \'-<> I 1h:111l.. t hee fo r that j.:s t; here's a garment for ' t. \\ "i t s hal l 110 1 !!O unrewarded whi le I am king of

th is coun try. 'Steal b y line :ind le,·cl' is an excellent p,1ss u l" p ,1tc. T here's another gar ment for'r.

TRl:-..t.L 1.1 > .\ lonstcr, come p ut some lime u pon your

fingers a nd a" ay w ith t he rest. C:.\1.1 11 ,:-- I 1, i ll h:11 e none on' t. \\"e shall los<: ou r tim<.:.

:\ m l al l h c turned IO bar n acles , o r to apes \\"i1h furch c.:ads 1·illa inous lo,,·.

STEl'I I 1:--c > .\ l o n s tcr, lay to yo u r fi ng<:rs. H elp to bear

this away where my h ogs h ead of win e is, or I'll turn ,·uu out o r my ki ngdom 1 Go to; carry th is.

T IU '\:C:L I.O :\nd th is .

STl' l'l l.\:--.o :\ ) . and th is.

. -I 1111ise 11('111 11/as limrd. £ 111cr din·rsc spirit, in sltapt o/ dogs 11 11d '101111cls. l111n1ing them 11/,0111. Prospero 1111d. ·/rid

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l'ROSl'ERO l le~ •. \ l oun l:tin. hcy1

.\ RIE i. Sih ·c r! There it goes, S ih ·c r '

l'ROSl'ERO Fury, F ury1 T here. Tyran t, there! H ark, hark!

1711<· spiri1., c/111s,· C11/iban. S1ep!t11110 11 11d Trinrnlo ,Jj)·s111ge.] Go, c har ge my ;:oblins that they g r ind their joints \\ "ith dr~ connilsions, s ho rten up their sinews

\\"ith aged cramps, and m ore p inch-s potted make them Than panl rn· ca t o ' mountain.

:\R IEi. H ark, they roar! l'ltOSl'Elm Let t hem be hun ted sou ndly. Ar th is hou r

L ies :H m~ mere) a ll mine enemies.

S h o n I~ shall a ll m y labo urs end, anti thou Sha lt ha\"c th<.: air a t freedom. f"o r a li ttle, Folio\\" and d o me sen·icc. E.rt:11111.

5.1 L'n1a l'ROSl'l'RO, in !tis 111agir robes, and :\RIEi..

l'ROSl'l·:1m . 1o\\" docs m y p roject ga t her to a head .

.\tl y c h a rms crack n ot; m y spir its obey; and time

G o es uprig;h 1 l\'ith h is carriage. H o\\"'s the day?

.\ RIEi . On the s ix t h ho ur, at wh ich rime, my lord, Yo u sa id our work s h ou ld cease.

l'JU)Sl'J-:RO I d id say so, \ Vhc n fi rst raised th e tempest. S ay, m y spirit , H ow fares the King and 's fol lol\'c rs?

IRIF.1. Con fi ned together In rhc sam e fas h ion as you ga,·c in charge, J us1 as yo u left t hem ; all prisoners, sir, In th e l ine gro,·e wh ic h weather-fends your cell .

The y can no1 b udge ri ll rnur release. The Kin g,

His brother an d yo urs abide a ll th ree d istracted , And rhc r emainde r m o urni ng: O\"cr them,

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H im th:1t you termed . s ir, the good old L ord G on zalo.

His 1cars run d o\\"n h is beard like winter 's d rops From caYcs of reeds. Your charm so s n·on gly works 'cm Thar, if yo u now beheld the m , your affection s

\\'ou ld become tender.

PROSPERO Dost thou th in k so, spirit? .-\RIEi. .\l ine would, s ir, were I h uman .

l'ROSPERO .-\nd m ine s h all. H ast thou, which art but air, a rouch, ,1 feelin g O f their afflic tio ns, an d shall not myself (One of thei r kind , rhat relish all as sh ar p ly.

Passion as they) be kin d lier m o,·cd t han thou a rt?

T hough \\"ith th eir high wro ngs I ,1111 struck ro th• quick, Yet with my nobler reason 'gains r m y fu r~·

D o I take part. The rarer action is In \"irtuc than in \'en geance. They bein g: pen itent,

T he sole d r ift of m y purpose doth extend Nor a frown further. Go, release them, Ari el. M y c harms I' ll b reak ; th eir senses I ' ll restore ;

And t hey s hall be themscl\"cs. •\RIEL I'll fet ch t hem, s ir. £xi i. PROSPERO [ Traces a circle.]

Ye eh ·cs of h ills, brooks, stan din g lakes and gro,·es,

:\nd ye thar on the sands \\"ith p rinrlcss foot

D o chase the ebb ing N ep t u ne, and do lly h im

W hen he comes back: you demi- puppets that By moonsh in e do the green sour ringlets m a ke, \ \"hereof rhe C\\"e no r b ites ; and you whose pas time ls to make midnig ht-mushrooms, that rejo ice

To hear the solemn curfe11·, by \\'hose aid - \\"cak masters t hough ye b e - I ha,·c bedim med T he noontide sun, called forth the mutinous winds.

.'\ nd 'twixt the green sea and th e azurcd ,·:JUlt

Set roaring war ; to the cl read-ra rrlin g t hunder

H a1·e I ~ri,·cn fi re an d rifted Jo,·e's stou t oak With his own b olt: the strong-based promontory Ha,·e I made shake, and by rhc s pu rs p luckcJ u p The pine and cedar; gr:11·cs a t m y command H ave waked their sleepers, o pe 'cl and let ' cm forth

By my so poten t art . B ur this rough m agic I here abjure; and when [ ha\"C required Some heaven ly music (which even 1101\' I do) T o work m ine en d upon th eir senses that

T his airy charm is for, I' ll break my staff, J3ury it certai n fathom s in th e earth,

And deeper than d id ever p lu mmet sounJ

I'll drown my book. LSu/e11111 11111sit-. I

1-frre ettlers .·IRIU hc!Jiire: then :\I.O:--.-so mi/It II jiw11ir f!l'."111"1', (ll/e11ded hy uo:,.iz,,1.0; SEB:\STI,\:,.; I/till .\:-:T0 '\:10 in li/..•1· 111t1n11a: ,JI/ended I~)' ,IDRI , :-: am/ FR:\ :-:CJSCO. Tit,'.)' all <'Iller t!te rirclc1 m!tic/1 Pruspao !tad 111t1dc ancl 1!terc: s1,111cl

r/111r111ed. m!tir/1 Prospero obsen-ing. spt:ah:

A solemn air and the bes t comforte r

To ,111 unscrt led fancy, cure thy brains (Now useless) boiled with in thy skull. T here stand,

For you arc s pell-stopped. -

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Holy Gonzalo, honourahle man, .\line eyes. e, 'n sociable lo 1he ,ho" of 1hine. Fall fellowly drops. f,Htd,·] The charm di-.-.oh l:'t

apat:e, .-\n<l as the morning ,real ... upon tht." ni;dll. .\leltin~ rhc darkness, so rht."ir ri,int! ,t."rhn Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantk Their dearer reason. - () goo<l ( ion/a lo. .\ly true prescncr an<l a ICJ\al ..,jr To him thou folio,, \t, I ,, i.11 pay 1h~ ;!rac.:e, Home, ho1h in word and deed. - .\Jr,.,t c.:rudl~ Didst thou, :\lonso, use me and nn dauc:htcr. Thy hrother was a furtherer in tllli act. ~ Thou art pinched for't now, Sebastian! -- Fle,h and

hlood, You, hrother mine, that cnh.:rtained amhition, Expelled remorse and nature. ,,hum with Seba,tian (\\"hose inward pinches rhcrcforc arc mosl -.iron~) \\'ould here h.l\e killed your king. I do for~i, e t ht:t:, L"nnatural though thou an. f asukJ Their understamlinl,! Begins lo swell, and the approachin~ tidt: Will short!~ fill the reasonable shore That now lies foul an<l muddv. ,01 one of rhem That yet looks on me or woui<l know me. - .-\ricl, Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell;

Ent .·Ind awl r,·111nH 1111mc,l,,11<'h'. I will disease me and myself present :\s I was sometime .\lilan. Q_uiddy, spirit, Thou shalt ere long be free.

\RIEL I Sing~ and h,:/ps ,,, t1flm: lum. J Where the bee suds, there suck I, In a cowslip's hell I lie; There I com:h when owls do cn. On the hat's hack I <lo lh . After summer merrilv. · i\-lerrily, merrily, shall I live now,

Under the blossom that hangs on the hough. PROSPJ-:RC>

Why, that's mv daintv Ariel! I shall miss thee, But yet thou s·halt ha~·e freedom. - So, so, so. - To the King's ship, invisible as thou art; There shalt thou find the mariners asleep l.:nder the hatches. The master and the boatswain Being awake, enforce them to this place, And presently, I prithee.

:\Rll·:1. I drink the air before me and return Or ere your pulse twice beat. En,.

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All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement Inhabits here. Some heavenly power guide us Out of this fearful countrv.

PR<~~PERo • Behold, sir King, I~ he wronged Duke of Milan, Prospero! For more assurance that a living prince Docs now speak to thee I embrace thv hodv And to thee and thy co~pany I hid · ·' A hearty welcome.

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\I c ,,.._1, \\ hl·\·r thou be'st he or no, < )r ,1 ,me l·rKh.tntnl trifle to ahuse me 1 \.., late: I haH· hn·n), I not know. Thy pulse lk.11, .1, nl tlc,h .111d hloml; and since I saw thee, Th',lltl11.:11un ul m, r111nd ,lml"nds, with which l.:S I IL-.ir .1 111.1drll·,, hdd ml· This must crave- \n II tl11, ht· at all a mosl s1r.mge story.

Th~ dukl'dom I rn1~n and do entreat Thou pardon nll· m~ "n,n~rs. But how should Prospero Be: Ii, 111µ. and he hl'rl'; U3

l'l<<J"'l'I RCJ 1111 (;1111.:.,tl11I First. noble friend, I xt nit: t·mhr.1n: t h1nl" .1gt·, ,, hose honour C1nnot lk mca,url·d or nmlinnl.

c ,, >'-/ ,1 , , \\'hl"lher this he ()r hl' nc,r. I'll not ',\\L·ar.

l'R« i~l'J H<, You <lo yet taste Soml· suhtktit·!-1 o'th' isle that will not let you ~ lklil·H· 1hi11!!" certain. \h·lcomc, my friends all; I ,,_..,d,· ,,, .\,·/,11 ,, ,,, 11 ,11,J lu1111110 I But you, my brace of

lord,. \\ lTl· 1 "" mindl'll, I hl·n· niuld pluc.:k his hi~hness' frown upon you . \llll just if~ ~11u traitors~ :\t 1his time I "ill ll·II no t;1k·s.

.._,u,.., 11 \, Thc dc,il spc.1ks in him. 13;1 l'IH J"'l'I I{( I No.

For~ nu. mosl wickcd sir, whom to c-Jll brother \\ould t:,cn infcc.:t my rnouth, I <lo forgiYc Th~ rankt.·st fault - all of 1hcm; .m<l require .\ ly dukcdom of 1hcc, whi<:h perforce I know Thou mu!-.t restore.

,1.0,so If 1hou bc'st Prospero, U$ (ii,c us particulars of rhy prcserrntion, I low thou hast mct us here, whom three hours since \\'ere wrecked upon this shore, where I ha\·e lost ( How sharp 1hc point of this remembrance is!) .\ly dear son Ferdinand.

l'R( )Sl'ERC) I am wue for't, sir. Kl ,1.0,so I rreparnhle is the loss, and patience

Says it is past her cure. PRC >SPER< > I mt her think

You have not sou~ht her help, of whose soft grace For tht· like loss I h.,,c hcr so,·ercign aid :\nd rest myself 1:oncent.

\I .o,so You the like loss? m l'ROSl'ERO .-\s g:reac co me as late; and supportable

To mah• the dear loss ha,e I means much weaker Than you may call to comfort you, for I H.nc lost my daughtt·r.

\1.0:--.:so :\ daughter? 0 heavens, tlrnt they were living both in Naples, lEO The kin~ and queen there! That they were, I wish :\1 ,·self were mudded in that oozv bed Where my son lies. \\'hen did yo~ lose your daughter?

PROSPERO In this last tempest. - I perceive these lords . -\t this encounter do so much admire l~$ That they dnour their reason and scarce think Their l'Yl'S do offit.·cs of truth, their words

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:\re n;ttur.1I breath. - But howsoe'er you have Been jostled from your senses, know for certain That I am Prospero and that ,·cry duke \\'hicl1 was thrust forth of ~lilan, who most strangely Lpon this shore where you were wrecked, was

landed To he thc lord on't. No more yet of this, For 'tis ;\ chronicle of day by day, :'\:ot ., relation for a breakfast. nor Befitting this first meeting. - Welcome, sir. This cdl's my court; here have I few ancndants, :\nd subjects none abroad. Pray you, look in. :\ly dukedom since you have given me again, I will re4uite you with as good a thing, :\t least bring forth a wonder to content ye As much .1s me my dukedom.

Hat· Prospao tliscm:as Fc:rdi11aml a11d 1\1ira11da, playing at d1,·ss.

~IIR:\:--:D.-\ Sweet lord, you play me false. FERl>l:'\.-\\.:1 > No, my dearest lm·e,

I would not for the world. .\IIR.\:--:D:\

Yes, for .1 score of kingdoms you should wrangle, And I would call it fair play.

.-,1.0:--:so If this prove A vision of the ishmd, one dear son Shall I twice lose.

SEB.\STI.\:--: .-\ most high miracle! FERl>l:'\.\:'\I> !Sus .--1/rmso and the others.]

Though the seas thrc:tten, they arc merciful. I ha,·e cursed them without cause. [K11eels.]

:\I .o:-,;so Now all the blessings Of a glad father compass thee about! Arise and say how thou cam'st here.

~IIR:\:--:IH O wonder! I low many goodly creatures arc there here! How beauteous mankind is! 0 brave new world That has such people in'c.

PROSPERO 'Tis new to thee. .. ,1.0:--:so

\Vhat is this maid with whom thou wast at play? Your cld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours. ls she the goddess that hath severed us And brought us thus together?

Fl·:RI>I:--;:\:-..n Sir, she is mortal, But hy immortal providence she's mine; I chose her when I could not ask my father For his advice, nor thought I had one. She Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan - Of whom so often I have heard renown But never saw before - of whom I have Received a second life; and second father This lady makes him to me.

AI.O'\:SO I am hers. But 01 how oddly will it sound that I Must ask my child forgiveness.

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PROSPERO There, sir, stop. Let us not burden our remembrances with A hea,·iness that's gone.

Go;-..z:\LO I have inly wept, Or should have spoke ere this. Look down, you gods, And on this couple drop a blessed crown, For it is you that ha,·e chalked forth the way Which brought us hither.

.-\LO~SO I say 'amen', Gonzalo. GO'.\/Z:\LO Was Milan thrust from Milan that his issue

Should become kings of Naples? 0, rejoice Bcvond a common jov, and set it down With gold on lasting pillars: in one voyage Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis; And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife Where he himself was lost; Prospero his dukedom In a poor isle; and all of us ourselves, \Vhen no man was his own.

:\I.O:'liSO [to Ferdi11a11d a11d 1Hin11ula] Give me your hands.

Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart That doth not wish you joy .

GO:-.:ZALO Be it so; amen.

E111er :\RIEi., with rite ,Hasler (IIU/ Boatsn1ai11 amazt·dly jo/1011,i11g.

O look, sir, look, sir; here is more of us! I prophesied, if a gallows were on land This fellow could not drown. [to Boatswain] Now,

blasphemy, That swear'st grace o'erboard, not an oath on shore? Hast thou no mouth bv land? What is the news?

BOATSWAii'-: The best n~ws is that we have safely found Our King and company. The next: our ship, Which but three glasses since we gave out split, Is tight and yare and bra\'cly rigged as when We first put out to sea.

ARIEL [to Prospero] Sir, all this service Have I done since I went.

PROSPERO My tricksy spirit! ALo:--:so

These are not natural events; they strengthen From strange to stranger. Say, how came you hither?

BOATSWAIN If I did think, sir, I were well awake, I'd strive to tell vou. We were dead of sleep And - how we k.now not - all clapped under hatches, \Vhere but even now with strange and several noises Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling chains And more diversity of sounds, all horrible, We were awaked; straightway at liberty, \Vhcrc we, in all our trim, freshly beheld Our royal, good and gallant ship; our master C.'lp'ring to eye her. On a trice, so please you, Even in a dream, were we divided from them And were brought moping hither .

:\RIJ-:1, It<> Pn1spero] Was't well done? PROSPERO Bravely, my diligence. Thou shalr he free.

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\1 .0'-'>0 Thi!-. i, a, ,1 r ;Hl!!t: .1 m,l/L' .1, c cr mc·n trod.

:\nd thcn.: i, in thi, hu,inc,, m"rc 1h.1r1 nJlllrL" \\"a-.. c,L"r conduct of Some.: o rack

\lu,1 rcctif~ tJUr kn, mlc.:d!!c. l'l{(J,'-,1'1.f(() Sir. Ill~ liq!t:.

Do 1101 infc.:-..1 ~tJU r mind \\ilh bc.llin,! on Thc , 1 rang:c.:nc.:,, of thi, hu,inc,,. \ 1 p1l·kcd lci-.url'.

\\'hich -..hall h e.: , honl~. , ing:lc I ' ll rc.:,.,hc.: ~nu (\\ "hich l<i ~ou ,hall ,ccm proh,1hlc) of c,n,

Thc!-.c.: happc.:nc.:d accidcnt!-.. T ill "hc.:n. he.: l hc-crl u I :\nd think .. r cach thin g: \\c.:ll. [11sitle ,,, . Ind] Come.: hi1hn. , p1r11 . Set Caliban a nd h i, cc,mpanitJn -.. frc.:c.:: L'n 1ic 1hc.:,pc.:II. /: 111 In, /

[1,,. l /1111s11] I lo\\ fare.:, m , :.: raciou, -.ir.' Thcrc.: arc ~ct m i ...... ing: of ~•H;r ~-o mpan~ Som e fc.:" ,,<.Id lad<, 1ha 1 ~ lJll rc.:mcmhn 11111.

/ ;11/cr \J(JJ.I .. tlr11111/!. Ill ( \I.Ill\'- . '-,' I I.I ' l l \'-<) ,01,/

·1 R1, c.L 1./J 111 //ror .,111/0111pp11r,·I.

..,., 1·.1'11 \ '-<l l·:,·c.:n man -.. hift for all 1hc.: r c.:-..1. and lt:1 n "

man take ca re.: fi,r hi m,-,c.: lf. f,, r all i, hu1 f., r , unL·

<:11ragJ!.u1, hull~ 111on"tc r, , r,rag!!,11,. ·, IU '-C.Ll.o I f lhc.:,c.: he tru e.: , pie.:, "h icl1 I \\c.:a r in 111,

h cad . h e re.: '~ a g-oodh ,igh1 . C. \ I .IH\ '- 0 Sc.:tc.:ho,. 1hc.:-..c.: he.: hr;l\ c.: s pirits indc.:cd '

I I0\1 fine 111 , m a<,t c.: r j,-,1 I am afraid I l e.: " ill c.:ha~ti ,-,c.: me.

S l·.I! \'.-,TJ. \ '- I l a. ha1

\\'hat thin!!,-, a rc.: th c.:~e 111 , lord . \n1011itJ' \\"ill mone~ hu~ 'c.:m? ' ·

. \'-TO'-lo \ 'c.:n like.:. One.: ,,f thc.:n1

b a plain fi s h and n c, d o 1;bt 111arke1 ahk. l'l(OS J>J·.RO

.\lark hut the.: ba d ges of thc.:se men, m~ lord,-,, Then say if they be true. This m i,-,sh apc.:n kn,nc.:,

I !is mother \la,-, a \\"itch, and o ne so s trong

That could control the moon, make !lows and c.:hh ,-,,

~-nd deal in her command \\"ithout her power. l hese three ha\"e robbed mc, and 1hi,-, demi- de.:, ii

( For hc.:'s a bas tard one.:) had plouc.:d " ·irl, thc.:111 To tak<.: m y life. Two of th c.:sc.: fellows \ "()LI .\llus t kno\\" and O\\"!l ; thi s t h in!.( o f d a1\nc.:ss I Acknowlc.:dge m ine.:. '

<.\ I.I ll\' I shall be.: pin c.:hc.:d tu dc.:ath. \I .O \.SO ls !l<Jl th is Stc.:phano 1111· drunkc.: n b u 1Icr'

S l·.ll.\ STI •\ .'- I le.: is d r unk n o\\". \ ,\"i'1c.:rc.: h ad he.: w ine.:; \I.! l'-SO

-·:_nd Trinc ulo is rec.: li n g ripe' \\' h e1·c.: shou ld th e.:~ I· ind this g 1·and li4uor that hath g ilded 'cm; 1 loll" cam 'st thou in t h is pickle?

TH "-C:L" l.o I ha,·c been in s uch a pickle s ince I sa"· you last , that I fear 111c ll"i ll never out of m,· bones. I s h all not fi.:a r lly- blowin g. ·

Sl-.l l \ STJ \ '- \,\ihy, how no\\", Stephano;

STl-: PJ l :\ :\O O rouch m e not ; I am nol Stephano. but a cramp!

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,.,.,"' "'I(<, ).,u·d lw k111!! 0'1lll' i,le. s irrah?

, I I 1·11 \ , , > f ,h, ,uld h.1 , L' hcen a su re om: then. 11 , , ,-.,, ·1111, 1-.. .1 , 1r.111 ;.:l· thin )! ,i,-, e'er I looked on.

1•1<• ,-.1•1 1<<, I k ".rs d1 , pr11p11r1iu 11cd in his manners \, 111 111, ,h.1pc ( "'· ,irr.1h. 10 m~ cdl:

·1.,kc- " 11h '"ll ,.,ur L11mp.mi11,,.,. ·\ s , ou look ·1., h.11L· 1n, p.1nl,,11. 1rim i1 hand somely.

, 1111,1 , \ , . 1h.11 f "il l: .111 d I'll be ""i ·chcrc:1fter

\nd ' lTk l11r :.:r .1n· \\ h .11 .1 1hrin·-douhlca

\\.1 , I '" l.lkl· 1his tlrunk.1rd for :1 )!Od , \nd " " r,lnp this d ull fi 1111 1

I'){ ( '" I' I l{I I (;.,Ill, ,ma~·. ,1, ., .... , , , ,,, . .....-1,·r,h,,11,, ''"" ·r,.,,,, 11l0I

f knn· . . 111d h L",1 11\\ _111ur luµ-;.::1µ-l· whl-rC you found it. ,1 1: \'-II\'- ( )r ,1 11lc i1 . r:llhcr.

I I . 1 ,.,,,,r C:,r/1h1111. S1cplra110 1111d Trinrula.J 1'1(1 , -.1•1 H•, Si r. I 111, il l'·' 11ur hi ,!11111:ss :ind your tr.iin

T " Ill\ 11111 ,r ce ll, " hcrL· 111u s h:1ll 1,1~c your rest F11r 1hi , 1Jlll" 11i µ- h1 . 11 hi c h ( p;irt ofit ) I' ll waSlL'

\\ i1 h , u L· h disc·o1ir,c '"· I IH >l doubt. shall make it (in quick ,l\\a_, l h l' ,111n 11f m,· !iii: . \ nd I he p .1 r1 iL·t d:1r :1 cc i1kn1, µ-onc hy

Since f c.1n1 L· '" th i, i,k and in the morn I' ll h r in;.: ' "" 111 _,.,ur ,hip. :111 d sn to >la plcs. \\ here I fl.I\ c· h11pc· 111 ,cc I he nuptial ( )f ll1 L-,L· our de:1r- hclc11nl sokmnized; \nd 1hc11n· r,·1irc me.: to 111 _1 \lilan. where

I·:,en 1hird 1h11u,.d11 ,h,ill he m y ,;ra,·c.

\ 1.n, -.,o I long T11 hL";11· 1he ,111n 11t" _,11ur life. which must T:1kc I he.: c.:ar s l r:111µ-L·h.

I 'I( < J', I 'I . R< > I'll dcli1-cra ll . And pr11rnisc _,nu cilm seas. auspicious )!:tics \nd ,;ii i so c, p edi1i11us that s hall c:nch

) ·our ro, :1 I lkc.:1 l,1r of"!: [ asi,I<' l o . ·lrrd/ .\•Ly Arie.I, chick, T hat is ti" char)!c·. Then to the clements I k frc.:c. and fan: I hou 11·c.:ll1 [ lo llrt' oilier.<] Plc.:a~c you, dr:l\\ nea r.

1-: I' I I , 0 li U E spol·e11 /,)' l'IU>Sl'ERO

-...:011· m y char ms arc ,ill o'cr1h rown. :\nd "h:11 slrcn,nh I h;l\"c's mine own, \\"hicl, is mos t fain1. '-iow, ' tis true I must be hc.:rc confincd hy ~-ou,

Or s c.:11 1 10 '-.;aplcs . L <.: t me nut, Sincc I h,n·c m~ d u kedom g:ut :\nd pardoned thl· dccci\"er, dwell

In this hare island b1· you r spell;

llu1 rc.:lcasc me from 1111· hands

\\"it h tht· h c lp of ~-our g:ood hands. Gcntk breath of~ ours 111\" sa ils

.\ lus 1 fi ll . or c l,-,c nw project fails, \\"hicl1 " ·as 111 pleasc. J\-"ow I \\"ant Spirits 10 c.:nfi,rc c. ar t lO c.:nchant:

:\nd m, l·11<li11 µ: is des pair,

E.rerml 011111e;:,

Lnkss I he relic, cd h~ p rayer. \\"hicl, pil"l'Cl'S s11 1h:1t it assaults

.\lcrc , i1 ~dL and frees all fau lts .

.-\s , ou from crimes \\"Ould pardoned be, Lc1 ~ 11u r ind u l)!c.:11<.:c sct m<: free. E.ril.

The Tempest Ep.

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