Seb. Thy cafe, dear friend, 25 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 ft; Enter Ariel, with mufick and fong. Ari. My mafter through his art foresees the That you, his friend, are in; and sends me forth While you bere do snoring lie, His time doth take: Ant. Then let us both be sudden. [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, 30 Out of my way, unless he hid 'em; but 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? 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? 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 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- 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 [Drinks. The mafter, the frwabber, the boatswain and I, 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, 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! 30 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 ? 40 swim like a duck, I'll be sworn. Ste. Here, kiss the book: Though thou can'st 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 I'll fish for thee, and get thee wood enough. Trin. A most ridiculous monster; to make a wonder of a poor drunkard. Shew thee a jay's nest, and instruct thee how 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. 15 Cal. [Sings drunkenly.] Farewell master; farewell, Trin. A howling monster; a drunken monster. Nor fetch in firing At requiring, Nor fcrape trencher, nor wash dish; 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. Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness 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; 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 Enter Miranda, and Profpero at a distance. Work not fo hard; I would, the lightning had Fer. O most dear mistress, The fun will fet before I shall discharge Mira. If you'll fit down, When you are by at night. I do beseech you, Mira. Miranda :-O my father, Fer, Admir'd Miranda! Indeed, the top of admiration; worth 55 Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow'd, 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. More : 1 1 More that I may call men, than you, good friend, For. I am, in my condition, A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king; 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, Mira. I am a fool, To weep at what I am glad of. Pro. Fair encounter Of two moft rare affections! Heavens rain grace 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! I am your wife, if you will marry me; If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow1 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. Fer. A thousand, thousand! [farewell, Enter Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo, with a bottle. 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? 35 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; 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 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, Ari. Thou ly'st, thou canst not. [patch!-10 [him 15 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? 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, 25 Cal. Be not affeard; the isle is full of noises, 30 Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, 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 Gon. By'r lakin, I can go no further, fir; 50 Through forth-rights, and meanders! By your pa I needs must rest me. [tience, Alon. Old lord, I cannot blame thee, [rant, 55 Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it 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? 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, 3 The 4 i. e. Do |