Do not, for one repulfe, forego the purpose
That you refolv'd to effect.
Seb. The next advantage
Will we take thoroughly.

Ant. Let it be to-night;

For, now they are oppress'd with travel, they

Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance,

As when they are fresh.

Seb. I fay, to-night; no more.

Alon. I will stand to, and feed,

Although my last; no matter, fince I feel
The beft is paft :-Brother, my lord the duke,
Stand to, and do as we.

5 Thunder and lightning. Enter Ariel like a harpy; claps his wings upon the table, and, with a quaine device, the banquet vanishes.

Ari. You are three men of fin, whom destiny, (That hath to inftrument this lower world,

Solemn and strange mufic; and Profpero on the top, 10 And what is in 't) the never-furfeited fea
invifible. Enter feveral strange shapes, bringing in
a banquet; they dance about it with gentle actions
of falutation; and, inviting the king, Sc. to eat,
they depart

Alen. What harmony is this? my good friends,
Gon. Marvellous sweet music!
[hark!

Alon. Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were
thefe ?

Seb. A living drollery: Now I will believe,
That there are unicorns; that in Arabia

There is one tree, the phoenix' throne; one phoenix
At this hour reigning there.

Ant. I'll believe both;

And what does elfe want credit, come to me,

15

Hath caufed to belch up; and on this island
Where man doth not inhabit; you 'mongst men
Being moft unfit to live. I have made you mad;
And even with fuch like valour men hang and drown
Their proper felves. [Alonso, Sebastian, and the rest
Ye fools! I and my fellows [draw their fwords.

Are minifters of fate; the elements
Of whom your fwords are temper'd, may as well
Wound the loud winds, or with bemock't-at ftabs
20 Kill the ftill-clofing waters, as diminish

One dowle that's in my plume; my fellow-minifters
Are like invulnerable: if you could hurt,
Your fwords are now too maffy for your ftrengths,
And will not be uplifted: But remember,

And I'll be sworn 'tis true: Travellers ne'er did lie, 25 (For that's my business to you) that you three
Though fools at home condemn 'em.

Gon. If in Naples

Such shapes, fuch gesture, and such found expreffing (Although they want the use of tongue) a kind

Of excellent dumb difcourfe.

Pre. Praise in departing.

Fran. They vanish'd strangely.

Seb. No matter, fince

[Afide

[machs.

From Milan did fupplant good Profpero;
Expos'd unto the fea, which hath requit it,
Him, and his innocent child: for which foul deed
The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have

30 Incens'd the feas and fhores, yea, all the creatures,
Against your peace: Thee, of thy fon, Alonfo,
They have bereft ; and do pronounce by me,
Ling'ring perdition (worse than any death
Can be at once) shall step by step attend

35 You,and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from
(Which here, in this most desolate ifle, elfe falls
Upon your heads) is nothing, but heart's forrow,
And a clear 7 life enfuing.

40

They have left their viands behind; for we have sto-45
Will 't please you taste of what is here?

Aln. Not I.

[were boys,

He vanishes in thunder: then to foft mufic, enter the
fhapes again, and dance with mops and mores",
and carry out the table.

Pro.[Afide]Bravely the figure of this harpy haft thou
Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had devouring;
Of my inftruction haft thou nothing 'bated,
In what thou hadft to say: so, with good life",
And obfervation strange, my meaner minifters
Their feveral kinds have done: my high charms work,
And thefe, mine enemies, are all knit up
In their distractions: they now are in my power;

Gon. Faith, fir, you need not fear: When we
Who would believe that there were mountaineers,
Dew-lapp'd like bulls, whofe throats had hanging at 50 And in these fits I leave them, whilst I vifit

Wallets of flesh? or that there were fuch men, ['em
Whofe heads stood in their breafts+? which now

we find,

Each putter out on five for one, will bring us
Good warrant of.

Young Ferdinand (whom they suppose is drown'd)
And his and my lov'd darling.

[Exit Profpero from above.
Gon. I the name of fomething holy, fir, why
155 In this strange stare?
[stand you

2

5 This

Shows, called drolleries, were in Shakspeare's time performed by puppets only. Certainly. 3 Admire. 4 Our author might have had this intelligence from the tranflation of Pliny, b. V. ch. 8. "The Blemmyi, by report, have no heads, but mouth and eies both in their breast." paffage alludes to an ancient forgotten custom, now very obfcure, when it was cuftomary for those who engaged in long expeditions, to place out a fum of money on condition of receiving great interest for it at their return home. Bailey, in his dictionary, fays, that dowle is a feather, or rather the 7 Blameless, innocent. To mop and to mowe seem to have the fame meaning, i. e. to make mouths or wry faces. Macks and mowes in Johnson's last edition.. • With honeft alacrity, or chearfulness.

Enter Profpero, Ferdinand, and Miranda.
I have too aufterely

Pro. I your compenfation makes amends; for I

Have given you here a third of mine own life,
Or that for which I live; whom once again
I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations
Were but my trials of thy love, and thou

Haft ftrangely ftood the teft: here, afore Heaven,
I ratify this my rich gift: O Ferdinand,
Do not fmile at me, that I boast her off,

For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise,
And make it halt behind her.

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IV.

Enter Ariel.

Ari. What would my potent mafter! here I am.
Pro. Thou and thy meaner fellows your last service
Did worthily perform, and I must use you
20 In fuch another trick: go, bring the rabble,
O'er whom I give thee power, here, to this place;
Incite them to quick motion; for I muft
Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple
Some vanity of mine art; it is my promife,
25 And they expect it from me.
Ari. Presently?

Pro. Ay, with a twink.

Ari. Before you can say, Come, and go,
And breathe twice; and cry, fo, foi
30 Each one, tripping on his toe,
Will be here with mop and moe:

2

3 Alper

That is, told it me in a rough bass found. Ecftacy here fignifies alienation of mind. fion is here used in its primitive sense of sprinkling. 4 That is, bring more than are fufficient, rather than fail for want of numbers. Corollorary means furplus. 5 Stover, from Eftovers, a law word, fignifies an allowance in food or other neceffaries of life. It is here used for provifion in general for animals. Disappointed lovers are still faid to wear the willow, and in thefe lines broom groves are affigned to that unfortunate tribe for a retreat. This may allude to fome old cuftom. We ftill fay that a husband bangs out the broom when his wife goes from home for a short time; and on fuch occafions a broom befom has been exhibited as a fignal that the house was freed from uxorial restraint, and where the mafter might be confidered as a temporary bachelor. Broom groves may fignify broom bushes.

Cutting the clouds towards Paphos; and her fon
Dove-drawn with her: here thought they to have 30

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2 Woody.

faifon fignifying plenty. 4 That is, curling, winding.

"move the clouds above, which we call the rack, and are not perceived below, pass without noife."

Pro. Say again, where didft thou leave thefe to This is the mouth o' the cell; no noife, and enter:
Ari. I told you, fir, they were red hot with Do that good mifchief, which may make this island

drinking;

50 full of valour, that they smote the air
For breathing in their faces; beat the ground
For kiffing of their feet; yet always bending
Towards their project: Then I beat my tabor,
At which, like unback'd colts, they prick'd their

ears,

Advanc'd their eye-lids, lifted up their rofes,
As they fimelt mufick; fo I charm'd their ears,
That, calf-like, they my lowing follow'd, through
Tooth'd briers, fharp furzes, pricking gofs, and

thorns,

Which enter'd their frail fhins: at laft I left them
I' the filthy mantled pool beyond your cell,
There dancing up to the chins, that the foul lake
O'er-ftunk their feet.

Pro. This was well done, my bird:

Thy fhape invifible retain thou still:

The trumpery in my house, go, bring it hither,
For 3 ftale to catch thefe thieves.

Ari. I go, I go.

[Exit.

Pro. A devil, a born devil, on whose nature
Nurture 4 can never stick; on whom my pains,
Humanely taken, all, all loft, quite loft;
And as, with age, his body uglier grows,
So his mind cankers: I will plague them all,
Even to roaring:-Come, hang them on this line.
[Profpero remains invisible.

Enter Ariel loaden with glifiering apparel, &c.
Enter Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo, all wet.
Cal. Pray you, tread foftly, that the blind mole

may not

Hear a foot fall: we now are near his cell.

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30

35

40

Ste. Put off that gown, Trinculo; by this hand, I'll have that gown.

Trin. Thy grace fhall have it.

Cal. The dropfy drown this fool! What do you

mean,

To doat thus on fuch luggage? Let's along,.

And do the murder first: if he awake,

From toe to crown he'll fill our skin with pinches ;
Make us ftrange stuff.

Ste. Be you quiet, monfter.-Mistress line, is not this my jerkin? Now is the jerkin 7 under the line: Now, jerkin, you are like to lose your hair, and prove a bald jerkin.

Trin. Do, do: We fteal by line and level, and't like your grace.

Ste. I thank thee for that jeft; here's a garment for't: wit fhall not go unrewarded, while I am king of this country: Steal by line and level, is an excellent pafs of pate; there's another garment for't.

Trin. Monster, come, put fome lime upon your fingers, and away with the reft.

Cal. I will have none on't: we shall lofe our time,

Ste. Monster, your fairy, which, you fay, is a 45 And all be turn'd to barnacles, or to apes
harmless fairy, has done little better than play'd
the Jack with us 5.

Trin. Monster, I do fmell all horfe-pifs; at
which my nofe is in great indignation.

Ste. So is mine. Do you hear, monfter? If 150
fhould take a displeasure against you; look you-
Trin. Thou wert but a loft monster.

Cal. Good my lord, give me thy favour still:
Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to [foftly;
Shall hood-wink this mifchance: therefore, fpeak 55
All's hush'd as midnight yet.

To cleave to is to unite with clafely. 2 To meet with is to counteract; to play ftratagem against stratagem. 3 Stale is a word in filing, and is used to mean a bait or decey to catch birds.

4 Education.

6 A

That is, has led us about like an ignis fatuus, by which travellers are decoyed into the mire. frippery was a fhop where old cloaths were fold. 7 Shakspeare feems to defign an equivoque between the equinoxial and the girdle of a woman. & Skinner fays barnacle is anfer Scoticus. The barnacle is a kind of fhell-fish growing on the bottoms of fhips, and which was anciently supposed, when broken off, to become one of thefe geefe; a vulgar error, which requires no ferious confutation.

Pro

Pro

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SCENE
Before the cell.

I.

ACT

Enter Profpero in bis magick robes, and Ariel.
WOW does my project gather to a head:
My charms crack not; my spirits obey,
and Time

Goes upright with his carriage. How's the day?
Ari. On the fixth hour; at which time, my lord,
You faid our work shall cease.

Pro. I did fay fo,

V.

15 Whereof the ewe not bites; and you, whofe

pastime

Is to make midnight mushrooms; that rejoice
To hear the folemn curfew; by whofe aid
(Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd
20 The noon-tide fun, call forth the mutinous winds,
And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault
Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder
Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak
With his own bolt: the ftrong-bas'd promontory

When first I rais'd the tempeft. Say, my fpirit, 25 Have I made shake; and by the spurs pluck'd up
How fares the king and his followers?

Ari. Confin'd together

In the fame fashion as you gave in charge;
Juft as you left them; all prifoners, fir,

In the lime-grove which weather-fends your cell;
They cannot budge, till you release. The king,
His brother, and yours, abide all three distracted;
And the remainder mourning over them,
Brim-full of forrow and difmay; but, chiefly,
Him that you term'd The good old lord, Gonzalo,
His tears run down his beard, like winter drops
From eaves of reeds: your charm fo ftrongly
works 'em,

That if you now beheld them, your affections
Would become tender.

Pro. Do'st thou think fo, fpirit?

Ari. Mine would, fir, were I human.

Pro. And mine shall.

Haft thou, which art but air, a touch', a feeling
Of their afflictions? and shall not myself,
One of their kind, that relish all as sharply,
Paffion as they, be kindlier mov'd than thou art?
Though with their high wrongs I am ftruck to
the quick,

Yet, with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury
Do I take part: the rarer action is

In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,
The fole drift of my purpose doth extend
Not a frown further: Go, release them, Ariel;
My charms I'll break, their fenfes I'll restore,
And they fhall be themselves.

The pine and cedar: graves, at my command, Have wak'd their sleepers; op'd, and let them forth By my fo potent art: But this rough magick I here abjure: and, when I have requir'd 30 Some heavenly musick, (which even now I do) To work mine end upon their fenfes, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet found, 35 I'll drown my book. Re-enter Ariel: after him Alenf with a frantick gfture, attended by Gonzalo. Sebaftian and Anth ni● in like manner, attended by Adrian and Francifco. They all enter the circle which Profpero bad made, and there ftand charm'd; which Profpero obferving, Speaks.

40

A folemn air, and the best comforter

[Seleman mufick.

To an unfettled fancy, cure thy brains,

Now ufelefs, boil'd within thy skull! there ftand, 45 For you are fpell-ftopp'd.

Holy Gonzalo, honourable man,

Mine eyes, even fociable to the fhew of thine,
Fall fellowly drops.-The charm diffolves apace;
And as the morning steals upon the night,
50 Melting the darkness, fo their rifing fenfes
Begin to chace the ignorant fumes that mantle
Their clearer reason.-O good Gonzalo,
My true preferver, and a loyal fir

To him thou follow'ft; I will pay thy graces
55 Home, both in word and deed.-Moft cruelly
Didft thou, Alonso, use me and my daughter:
Thy brother was a furtherer in the act ;-
Thou'rt pinch'd for't now, Sebaftian.-Flesh
and blood,

60 You brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, Expell'd remorfe, and nature; who, with Se

bastian,

(Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong)

Paffion is frequently ufd as a verb in Shakespeare.
C 2

Would