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Seb. Thy cafe, dear friend,

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Shall be my precedent; as thou gott'st Milan,

I'll come by Naples. Draw thy for A

Croke

Shall free thee from the tribute

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Enter Ariel, with mufick and fong.

Ari. My mafter through his art foresees the
danger

That you, his friend, are in; and sends me forth
(For elfe his project dies) to keep them living.
[Sings in Gonzalo's ear.

While you bere do snoring lie,
Open-ey'd confpiracy

His time doth take:
If of life you keep a care,
Shake off flumber, and beware:
Awake! awake!

Ant. Then let us both be sudden.
Gon. Now, good angels, preserve the king!

[They awake.

SCENE

II.

Another part of the island.

Enter Caliban with a burden of wood: A noise of thun

der beard.

Cal. All the infections that the fun fucks up From bogs, fens, flats, on Profper fall, and make

him

:

By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me,
And yet I needs must curse. But they'll not pinch,
Fright me with urchin shows, pitch me i' the mire,
Nor lead me, like a fire-brand, in the dark

30 Out of my way, unless he hid 'em; but
For every trifle they are fet upon me:
Sometime like apes, that moes and chatter at me,
And after, bite me; then like hedge-hogs, which
Lie tumbling in my bare-foot way, and mount
35 Their pricks at my foot-fall; sometime am I
All wound with adders, who, with cloven tongues,
Do hiss me into madness: - Lo! now! lo!

Enter Trinculo.

Here comes a spirit of his; and to torment me, 40 For bringing wood in slowly: I'll fall fiat; Perchance he will not mind me.

Trin. Here's neither bush nor shrub, to hear off any weather at all, and another storm brewing; I hear it finging i' the wind: yond' fame black 45 cloud, yond' huge one, looks like a foul bumbard that would shed his liquor. If it should thunder, as it did before, I know not where to hide my head: yond' fame cloud cannot chuse but fall by pailfuls. What have we here? a man or a fish?

Alon. Why, how now, ho! awake? Why are 50 Dead or alive? A fish he smells like a fish; a

you drawn?

Wherefore this ghaftly looking?
Gon. What's the matter?

Seb. Whiles we stood here fecuring your repose,

very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of, not of the newest, Poor-John. A strange fish! Were I in England now, (as once I was) and had but this fish painted, not a holiday-fool there but would

Even now, we heard a hollow burst of bellowing 55 give a piece of filver: there would this monster

Alon. I heard nothing.

Like bulls, or rather lions; did it not wake you?
It strook mine ear most terribly.

Ant. O, 'twas a din to fright a monster's ear; To make an earthquake! sure, it was the roar * Of a whole herd of lions.

i. e. that is, id eft. For ever. 3 A hint of villany. 4 Having your swords drawn. 5 Maka mouths. 6 Bumbard means, in this place, a large vessel for holding drink. 7 i.e. make a man's fortune; fimilar to Wickham's motto, Learning makes a man.

make a man'; any strange beast there makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to fee a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man! and his fins like 60 arms! Warm, o' my troth! I do now let loofe my opinion, hold it no longer; this is no fish, bus

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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: Comes Amen! I will pour some in thy other

Trin. Stephano,

an islander, that has lately fuffer'd by a thunder-
bolt. Alas! the storm is come again: my best
way is to creep under his gaberdine'; there is no
other shelter hereabout: Misery acquaints a man
with strange bedfellows: I will here shroud, till 5 mouth.
the dregs of the storm be paft.

Enter Stepbano finging, a bottle in bis band.

Ste. I shall no more to fea, to fea,

Here shall I dye a-fbere,

This is a very scurvy tune to fing at a man's funeral: 10
Well, here's my comfort.

[Drinks.

The mafter, the frwabber, the boatswain and I,
The gunner and bis mate,

Lov'd Mail, Meg, and Marian, and Margery,

But none of us car'd for Kate :

For fhe bad a tongue with a tang,

Would cry to a failor, Go, bang:

[itch:

She lov'd not the favour of tar nor of pitch,
Yet a taylor might scratch ber where-e'er she did

Then to fea, boys, and let ber go bang.

This is a scurvy tune too: But here's my comfort. [Drinks.

Cal. Do not torment me: Oh!

Ste. Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy! mercy! This is a devil, and no monster: I will leave him; I have no long spoon.

Trin. Stephano ! if thou beest Stephano, touch me, and speak to me; for I am Trinculo;-be not afraid, thy good friend Trinculo.

Ste. If thou beest Trinculo, come forth; I'll pull thee by the lesser legs: if any be Trinculo's 15 legs, these are they. Thou art very Trinculo, indeed: How cam'st thou to be the siege 7 of this moon-calf? can he vent Trinculos?

Trin. I took him to be kill'd with a thunderstroke: -But art thou not drown'd, Stephano? I 20 hope now, thou art not drown'd. Is the storm over-blown? I hid me under the dead moon-calf's gaberdine, for fear of the storm: And art thou living, Stephano? O Stephano, two Neapolitans 'scap'd!

Ste. What's the matter? have we devils here? Do you put tricks upon us with savages, and men 25 of Inde? Ha! I have not 'scap'd drowning to be afraid now of your four legs; for it hath been said, As proper a man as ever went upon four legs, cannot make him give ground: and it shall be faid so again, while Stephano breathes at noftrils.

Cal. The spirit torments me: Oh!

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Ste. This is some monster of the ifle, with four legs; who has got, as I take it, an ague: Where the devil should he learn our language? I will give him fome relief, if it be but for that: If I can re-35 cover him, and keep him tame, and get to Naples with him, he's a present for any emperor that ever trod on neats-leather.

Cal. Do not torment me, pr'ythee; I'll bring my wood home fafter.

Ste. He'sin his fit now; and does not talk after the wifeft: He shall taste of my bottle: if he never drunk wine afore, it will go near to remove

his fit: if I can recover him, and keep him tame,

Ste. Pr'ythee, do not turn me about; my stomach is not conftant.

thou, was sine things, an if they be not sprights. ath drunk so mud, and bears celestial liquor : I will constrous lie..

Ste. How did'st thou 'scape? How cam'st thou hither? swear, by this bottle, how thou cam'st hither. I escap'd upon a butt of sack, which the failors heav'd over-board, by this bottle! which I made of the bark of a tree, with mine own hands, fince I was caft a-shore.

Cal. I'll swear, upon that bottle, to be thy true fubject; for the liquor is not earthly.

Ste. Here; swear then, how escap'dst thou ?
Trin. Swom a-shore, man, like a duck; I can

40 swim like a duck, I'll be sworn.

Ste. Here, kiss the book: Though thou can'st
fwim like a duck, thou art made like a goose.
Trin. O Stephano, haft any more of this?
Ste. The whole butt, man: my cellar is in a

I will not take too much for him; he shall pay 45 rock by the fea-fide, where my wine is hid. How

for him that hath him, and that foundly.

Cal. Thou dost me yet but little hurt; thou wilt anon, I know it by thy trembling 3: Now Profper works upon thee.

Ste. Come on your ways; open your mouth; 50 here is that which will give language to you, 4 cat; open your mouth: this will shake your shaking, I can tell you, and that soundly: you cannot tell who's your friend; open your chaps again.

Tris. I should know that voice: It should be,- 55 But he's drown'd; and these are devils: O! defend me!

Ste. Four legs, and two voices; a most delicate monster! His forward voice now is to speak well

now, moon-calf? how does thine ague?

Cal. Haft thou not dropp'd from heaven ?

Ste. Out o' the moon, I do affure thee: I was the man in the moon, when time was.

Cal. I have seen thee in her, and I do adore thee: my mistress shew'd me thee, and thy dog and thy bush.

Ste. Come, swear to that; kiss the book: I will furnish it anon with new contents: swear.

Trin. By this good light, this is a very shallow monster:-I afraid of him?-a very weak monster:-The man i' the moon?-a most poor credulous monfter :-Well drawn, monster, in good footh.

A gaberdine is properly the coarse frock or outward garment of a peasant, and is still worn by the peafants in Sussex. 2 i. e. any fum, or ever so much. 3 Tremor is always represented as the effect of being possess'd by the devil. + Alluding to an old proverb, that good liquor will make a cat fpeak. 5 Means, stop your draught. Alluding to the proverb, A long spoon to eat with the devil.

@gnifies tool in every fenfe of the word, and is here used in the dirtieft,

7 Siege

Cal.

Cal. I'll shew thee every fertile inch o' the isle; And I will kiss thy foot: I pr'ythee, be my god. Trin. By this light, a most perfidious and drunken monster; when his god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle. Cal. I'll kiss thy foot: I'll swear myself thy fub-5 Ste. Come on then; down, and swear. [ject. Trin. I shall laugh myself to death at this puppyheaded monster: A most scurvy monster! I could find in my heart to beat him,

Ste. Come, kiss.

Trin. -But that the poor monster's in drink: An abominable monster!

Cal. I'll shew thee the best springs; I'll pluck
thee berries;

I'll fish for thee, and get thee wood enough.
A plague upon the tyrant that I ferve!
I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee,
Thou wond'rous man.

Trin. A most ridiculous monster; to make a wonder of a poor drunkard.

Shew thee a jay's nest, and instruct thee how
To snare the nimble marmozet; I'll bring thee
To clust'ring filberds, and sometimes I'll get thee
Youngscamels from the rock: Wilt thou go
with me?

Ste. I pr'ythee now, lead the way, without any more talking. Trinculo, the king and all our company being drown'd, we will inherit here.Here; bear my bottle! Fellow Trinculo, we'll 1o fill him by and by again.

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Cal. [Sings drunkenly.] Farewell master; farewell,
farewell.

Trin. A howling monster; a drunken monster.
Cal. No more dams I'll make for fish;

Nor fetch in firing

At requiring,

Nor fcrape trencher, nor wash dish;
Ban' Ban', Ca-Caliban

Has a new master-Get a new man.

[grow; 20 Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! freedom, hey-day, freedom!

Cal. I pr'ythee, let me bring thee where crabs And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts;

Ste. O brave monster! lead the way. [Exeunt.

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Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone; and most poor matters
Point to rich ends. This my mean task

Would be as heavy to me, as odious; but

The mistress, which I serve, quickens what's dead,

And makes my labours pleasures: o, she is

III.

Fer. No, precious creature;

30 I had rather crack my finews, break my back, Than you should fuch dishonour undergo, While I fit lazy by.

Mira. It would become me

As well as it does you and I should do it

35 With much more ease, for my good will is to it, And yours it is against.

Pro. Poor worm! thou art infected;
This visitation shews it.

Mira. You look wearily.

with me,

Ten times more gentle, than her father's crabbed; 40 Fer. No, noble mistress; 'tis fresh morning

And he's compos'd of harsiness. I must remove

Some thousands of these logs, and pile them up,

Upon a fore injunction: My sweet mistress

Weeps when the fees me work; and says, such
Had ne'er like executor. I forget: [baseness 45
But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my la-
Moft bufy-lefs, when I do it.
[bours;

Enter Miranda, and Profpero at a distance.
Mira. Alas, now! pray you,

Work not fo hard; I would, the lightning had
Furnt up those logs, that you are enjoin'd to pile!
Pray; fot it down, and rest you: when this burns,
'Twill weep for having weary'd you : My father
Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself;
He's fafe for these three hours.

Fer. O most dear mistress,

The fun will fet before I shall discharge
What I must strive to do.

Mira. If you'll fit down,

When you are by at night. I do beseech you,
(Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers)
What is your name?

Mira. Miranda :-O my father,
I have broke your hest to say so!

Fer, Admir'd Miranda!

Indeed, the top of admiration; worth
What's dearest to the world! Full many a lady
50 I have ey'd with best regard; and many a time
The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage
Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues
Have I lik'd several women; never any
With fo full foul, but some defect in her

55 Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow'd,
And put it to the foil: but you, o you,
So perfect, and so peerless, are created
Of every creature's best.
Mira. I do not know

I'll bear your logs the while: Pray, give me that; 60 One of my fex; no woman's face remember,

I'll carry it to the pile.

Save, from my glass, mine own; nor have I seen

■ Mr. Steevens supposes, that, by an error of the press, scamel has been here substituted for feamell, a species of bird mentioned by Willoughby. 2 For bebeft, or command.

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More that I may call men, than you, good friend,
And my dear father: how features are abroad,
I am skilless of; but, by my modesty,
(The jewel in my dower) I would not wish
Any companion in the world but you;
Nor can imagination form a shape,
Befides yourself, to like of: But I prattle
Something too wildly, and my father's precepts
I therein do forget.

For. I am, in my condition,

A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king;
(I would, not fo!) and would no more endure
This wooden slavery, than I would suffer [speak;
The flesh-fly blow my mouth :-Hear my foul
The very instant that I saw you, did

My heart fly to your service; there resides,

To make me flave to it; and, for your fake,

Am I this patient log-man.

Mira. Do you love me?

bear up, and board 'em: Servant-monster, drink

to me.

Trin. Servant-monster? the folly of this island! They say there's but five upon this ifle: we are 5 three of them; if the other two be brain'd like us, the ftate totters.

Ste. Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee : thy eyes are almost set in thy head.

Trin. Where should they be set else? he were a 10 brave monster indeed, if they were set in his tail. Ste. My man-monster hath drown'd his tongue in sack: for my part, the sea cannot drown me : I swam, ere I could recover the shore, five-andthirty leagues, off and on, by this light.

Thou

15 shalt be my lieutenant, monster, or my standard. Trin. Your lieutenant, if you list; he's no standard 2.

Ste. We'll not run, monfieur monster.

Trin. Nor go neither: but you'll lie, like dogs;

Fer. O heaven, o earth, bear witness to this found, 20 and yet say nothing neither.

And crown what I profess with kind event,

If I speak true; if hollowly, invert

What beft is boded me, to mischief! I,

Beyond all limit of what else i' the world,
Do love, prize, honour you.

Mira. I am a fool,

To weep at what I am glad of.

Pro. Fair encounter

Of two moft rare affections! Heavens rain grace
On that which breeds between them!

Fer. Wherefore weep you?

Mira. At mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I defire to give; and much less take,

What I shall die to want: But this is trifling;

And all the more it seeks to hide itself,

The bigger bulk it shews. Hence, bashful cunning!
And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!

I am your wife, if you will marry me;

If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow1
You may deny me; but I'll be your servant,
Whether you will or no.

Fer. My mistress, dearest,

And I thus humble ever.

Mira. My husband then?

Fer. Ay, with a heart as willing

As bondage e'er of freedom: here's my hand.
Mira. And mine with my heart in't: and now
Till half an hour hence.

Fer. A thousand, thousand!

[farewell,
[Exeunt.

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Enter Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo, with a bottle.
Ste. Tell not me;-when the butt is out, we

Ste. Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a good moon-calf.

Cal. How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe: I'll not serve him, he is not valiant.

25 Trin. Thou ly'st, most ignorant monster; I am in cafe to justle a conftable: Why, thou debofh'd 3 fish thou, was there ever a man a coward, that hath drunk so much sack as I to-day? Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish, and half

30 a monster?

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Cal. Lo, how he inocks me; wilt thou let him, my lord?

Trin. Lord, quoth he!-that a monster should be fuch a natural!

Cal. Lo, lo, again: bite him to death, I pr'ythee.

Ste. Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head; if you prove a mutineer, the next treeThe poor monster's my subject, and he shall not 40 fuffer indignity.

Cal. I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleas'd to hearken once again to the suit I made to thee?

Ste. Marry will I: kneel, and repeat it; I will 45 stand, and so shall Trinculo.

Enter Ariel invifible.

Cal. As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant; a forcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island.

50 Ari. Thou ly'st.

Cal. Thou ly'st, thou jefting monkey, thou;
I would my valiant master would destroy thee :
I do not lie.

Ste. Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in 55 his tale, by this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.

Trin. Why, I faid nothing.

Ste. Mum then, and no more [To Caliban.]

Proceed.

will drink water; not a drop before: therefore 60 Cal. I say, by forcery he got this isse;

* Companion. 2 Meaning he is so much intoxicated, as not to be able to stand. The quibble between standard an ensign, and standard a fruit-tree, that grows without support, is evident. 3 Debauched,

From

From me he got it. If thy greatness will
Revenge it on him (for, I know, thou dar'st,
But this thing dare not-)

Ste. That's 'most certain.

Cal. Thou shalt be lord of it, and I'll serve thee. 5 Ste. How now shall this be compass'd? Canst thou bring me to the party?

Cal. Yea, yea, my lord; I'll yield him thee asleep,
Where thou may'st knock a nail into his head.

Ari. Thou ly'st, thou canst not. [patch!-10
Cal. What a py'd1 ninny's this? Thou scurvy
I do beseech thy greatness, give him blows,
And take his bottle from him: when that's gone,
He shall drink nought but brine; for I'll not shew
Where the quick freshes are.

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Ste. Trinculo, run into no further danger: interrupt the monfter one word further, and by this hand, I'll turn my mercy out of doors, and make a stock-fish of thee.

Trin. Why, what did I ? I did nothing; I'll go 20 further off.

Ste. Didst thou not say, he ly'd?

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Ste. Now, forward with your tale. Pr'ythee stand further off.

Cal. Beat him enough: after a little time, I'll beat him too.

Ste. Stand further.-Come, proceed.

Cal. Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him I' the afternoon to fleep: there thou may'st brain Having first seized his books; or with a log [him,

Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,

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25 Cal. Be not affeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments [not.
Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices,
That, if I then had wak'd after long fleep,

30 Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds, methought, would open, and shew riches
Ready to drop upon me; that, when I wak'd,
I cry'd to dream again.

Ste. This will prove a brave kingdom to me,

35 where I shall have my mufick for nothing.

Cal. When Profpero is destroy'd. [story. Ste. That shall be by and by: I remember the Trin. The found is going away: let's follow it, And after, do our work.

could fee this taborer: he lays it on.

Or cut his wezand with thy knife: Remember, 40 Ste. Lead, monster; we'll follow. I wou'd, I

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Gon. By'r lakin, I can go no further, fir;
My old bones ache: here's a maze trod, indeed,

50 Through forth-rights, and meanders! By your pa

I needs must rest me.

[tience,

Alon. Old lord, I cannot blame thee,
Who am myself attach'd with weariness,
To the dulling of my spirits: fit down and rest.

[rant, 55 Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it
No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd,
Whom thus we stray to find; and the fea mocks
Our frustrate search on land: Well, let him go.

Ste. Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and I will be king and queen; (fave our graces !) and Trinculo and thyself shall be vice-roys:-Doft thou like the plot, Trinculo?

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Ant. [Afide to Scbaftian.] I am right glad that he's fo out of hope.

* Alluding to the striped, or fool's coat worn by Trinculo, who in the ancient dramatis perfonæ is called a jefter, and not a failer. 2 Means probably to dismiss it trippingly from the tongue. provincial mode in Staffordshire and the adjoining counties of pronouncing the word afraid. The diminutive only of our lady, i. e. ladykin,

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