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Salemn and strange mufic; and Prospero on the top, 10 And what is in 't) the never-furfeited fea

(That hath to instrument this lower world,

invisible. Enter several strange shapes, bringing in

a banquet; they dance about it with gentle actions of falutation; and, inviting the king, &c. to eat, they depart

Hath caused to belch up; and on this island
Where man doth not inhabit; you 'mongst men
Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad;
And even with fuch like valour men hang and drown

[draw their fwords.

An. What harmony is this? my good friends, 15 Their proper selves. [Alonso, Sebastian, and the raft Goz. Marvellous sweet music!

[hark! Alon. Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these ?

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

There is one tree, the phenix' throne; one phenix

At this hour reigning there.

Ast. I'll believe both;

And what does else want credit, come to me,

Ye fools! I and my fellows
Are minifters of fate; the elements

Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well
Wound the loud winds, or with bemock't-at stabs

20 Kill the still-closing 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 massy for your strengths,

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.

Gen. If in Naples

I should report this now, would they believe me?
If I should fay, I faw such islanders,

(For, certes, these are people of the island)

Who though they are of monstrous shape, yet note,
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of

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

30 Incens'd the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
Againft 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 froma
(Which here, in this most desolate ifle, else falls
Upon your heads) is nothing, but heart's forrow,
And a clear life enfuing.

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

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Pre. Praise in departing.

[Afide.

Fran. They vanish'd strangely.

Sch. No matter, since

[machs.

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He vanishes in thunder: then to foft music, enter the
shapes again, and dance with mops and moves,
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 instruction haft thou nothing 'bated,
In what thou hadft to say: so, with good life?,
And observation strange, my meaner ministers
Their several kinds have done: my high charms work,
And these, 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, whose throats had hanging at 50 And in these fits I leave them, whilst I visit

Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men, ['em
Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now

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

we find,

Each putter out on five for one 5, will bring us
Good warrant of.

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

Shows, called drolleries, were in Shakspeare's time performed by puppets only. 2 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." 5 This paffage alludes to an ancient forgotten custom, now very obscure, when it was customary 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. 6 Bailey, in his dictionary, says, that dowle is a feather, or rather the fingle particles of the down. 7 Blameless, innocent. * To mop and to mowe seem to have the fame meaning, i. e, to make mouths or wry faces. Mocks and mowes in Johnson's last edition.. • With honeft alacrity, or chearfulness.

Λίνα.

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Pro.

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SCENE

Profpero's cell.

Enter Profpero, Ferdinand, and Miranda.
F I have too austerely punish'd you,
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
Hast strangely stood the test: here, afore Heaven,
I ratify this my rich gift: O Ferdinand,
Do not fmile at me, that I boaft her off,

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

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Enter Ariel.

Ari. What would my potent master! 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 must
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, fo;

30 Each one, tripping on his toe,

Will be here with mop and moe:

Do you love me, master? no.

Pro. Dearly, my delicate Ariel: Do not approach, Till thou dost hear me call.

35 Ari. Well, I conceive.

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[Exir.

Pro. Look thou be true; do not give dalliance
Too much the rein; the strongest oaths are straw
To the fire i' the blood: be more abstemious,
Or elfe, good night, your vow!

Fer. I warrant you, fir;

The white, cold, virgin-snow upon my heart
Abates the ardour of my liver.

Pro. Well.

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* That is, told it me in a rough bass found. Ecstacy here fignifies alienation of mind. fion is here used in its primitive sense of sprinkling. 4 That is, bring more than are sufficient, rather than fail for want of numbers. Corollorary means furplus. 5 Stover, from Eftovers, a law word, fignifies an allowance in food or other necessaries of life. It is here used for provifion in general for animals. 6 Disappointed lovers are still faid to wear the willow, and in these lines broom groves are affigned to that unfortunate tribe for a retreat. This may allude to some old custom. 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 besom has been exhibited as a signal that the house was freed from uxorial restraint, and where the master might be confidered as a temporary bachelor. Broom groves may fignify brooms bushes.

Being lass-lorn; thy pole-clipt vineyard;

And thy fea-marge, steril, and rocky hard,
Where thou thyself do'st air: The queen o' the sky,

I have from their confines call'd to enact My present fancies.

Fer. Let me live here ever;

Whose watery arch, and messenger, am I,

So rare a wonder'd father, and a wife,

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Bids thee leave these; and with her sovereign grace, 5 Make this place paradise.
Here on this grass-plot, in this very place,
To come and sport: her peacocks fly amain;
Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.

Pro. Sweet now, filence:

Enter Ceres.

Juno, and Ceres, whisper seriously;
There's something else to do: hush, and be mute,
Or else our spell is marr'd.

Iris. You nymphs, call'd Naiads, of the wand'ring brooks,

:

Cer. Hail, many-colour'd messenger, that ne'er 10 [Juno and Ceres whisper, and send Iris on employment.] Doft disobey the wife of Jupiter;

Who, with thy saffron wings, upon my flowers
Diffuseft honey-drops, refreshing showers;
And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown
My botky acres, and my unshrubb'd down,
Rich scarf to my proud earth: Why hath thy queen
Summon'd me hither, to this short-grass'd green?
Iris. A contract of true love to celebrate;

And fome donation freely to estate
On the bless'd lovers.

Cer. Tell me, heavenly bow,

If Venus, or her fon, as thou do'st know,
Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot
The means, that dusky Dis my daughter got,
Her and her blind boy's scandal'd company
I have forfworn.

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With your sedg'd crowns, and ever harmless looks, Leave your crisp4 channels, and on this green land 15 Answer your summons; Juno does command: Come, temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate A contract of true love; be not too late.

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

done

Some wanton charm upon this man and maid,
Whose vows are, that no bed-rite shall be paid
Till Hymen's torch be lighted: but in vain;
Mars's hot minion is return'd again;
Her wafpith-headed son has broke his arrows,

Swears he will shoot no more, but play with

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Jun. How does my bounteous sister? Go with me, To bless this twain, that they may profperous be, And honour'd in their issue.

Jun. Honour, riches, marriage-bleffing,
Long continuance, and increasing,
Hourly joys be ftill upon you !
Juno fings ber bleffings on you.
Cer. Earth's increase, and foifon plenty 3;
Barns, and garners, never empty;
Vines, with cluftring bunches growing;
Plants, with goodly burden bowing;
Spring come to you, at the fartbeft,
In the very end of barvest!
Scarcity, and want, shall fhun you;
Ceres bleffing so is on you.

Far. This is a most majestic vifion, and
Harmonious charmingly: May I be bold
To think these spirits ?

Pre. Spirits, which by mine art

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Fer. This is strange: your father's in some That works him strongly.

Mira. Never till this day

Saw I him touch'd with anger so distemper'd.
40 Pro. You do look, my son, in a mov'd fort,
As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, fir:
Our revels now are ended: these our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:

45 And, like the baseless fabrick of this vision,
The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The folemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall diffolve;
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
50 Leave not a racks behind: We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a fleep. Sir, I am vex'd;
Bear with my weakness; my old brain is troubled:
Be not disturb'd with my infirmity:

55 If thou be pleas'd, retire into my cell,
And there repose; a turn or two I'll walk,
To still my beating mind.

Fer. Mira. We wish your peace.

[Exeunt Fcr. and Mira.

60 Pro. Come with a thought:-I thank thee:Ariel, come.

* That is, forsaken of his mistress. 2 Woody. 3 That is, plenty to the utmost abundance; fujor fignifying plenty. + That is, curling, winding. 5 "The winds," (says lord Bacon) " which anove the clouds above, which we call the rack, and are not perceived below, pass without noise."

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We must prepare to meet with Caliban. [Ceres,
Ari. Ay, my commander: when I presented
I thought to have told thee of it; but I fear'd,
Lest I might anger thee.

[varlets?

Tri. Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool,Ste. There is not only disgrace and dishonour in that, monster, but an infinite loss.

Trin. That's more to me than my wetting :

5 Yet this is your harmless fairy, monster.

Ste. I will fetch off my bottle, though I be o'er ears for my labour.

Cal. Pr'ythee, my king, be quiet: See'st thou here, Pro. Say again, where didit thou leave these to This is the mouth o' the cell; no noise, and enter: Ari. I told you, fir, they were red hot with

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Do that good mischief, which may make this island
Thine own for ever, and I, thy Caliban,

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Trin. O king Stephano! O peer! O worthy
Look what a wardrobe here is for thee!

Cal. Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash.
Trin. Oh, ho, menster; we know what belongs

20 to a frippery 6:-O, king Stephano!

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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 glistering apparel, &c.
Enter Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo, all wet.
Cal. Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole

may not

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

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

Trin. Thy grace shall have it.

Cal. The dropfy drown this fool! What do you

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

Cal. I will have none on't: we shall lose 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 horse-pifs; at which my nofe is in great indignation.

Ste. So is mine. Do you hear, monster? If 150 should take a displeasure against you; look youTrin. 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 [softly;

With foreheads villainous low.

Ste. Monster, lay to your fingers; help to bear this away, where my hogshead of wine is, or I'll turn you out of my kingdom: go to, carry this. Trin. And this.

Ste. Ay, and this.

A noise of bunters beard. Enter divers spirits in foafe of bounds, bunting them about; Profpero and Aril fetting them on.

Shall hood-wink this mischance: therefore, speak 55 Pro. Hey, Mountain, hey!

All's hush'd as midnight yet.

Ari. Silver / there it goes, Silver!

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* To cleave to is to unite with clofely. 2 To meet with is to counteralt; to play stratagem against ftratagem. 3 Stale is a word in fowling, and is used to mean a bait or decoy to catch birds. 4 Education. 5 That is, has led us about like an ignis fatuus, by which travellers are decoyed into the mire. frippery was a shop where old cloaths were fold. 7 Shakspeare seems to design an equivoque between the equinoxial and the girdle of a woman. & Skinner fays barnacle is anfer Scoticus. The barnacle is a kind of shell-fish growing on the bottoms of ships, and which was anciently supposed, when broken off, to become one of these geese; a vulgar error, which requires no ferious confutation.

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(Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd 20 The noon-tide fun, call forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green fea 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 strong-bas'd promontory

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

bi. Confin'd together

In the fame fashion as you gave in charge;

Just as you left them; all prifoners, fir,

The pine and cedar: graves, at my command,
Have wak'd their sleepers; op'd, and let them forth
By my so potent art: But this rough magick
I here abjure: and, when I have requir'd

In the lime-grove which weather-fends your cell; 30 Some heavenly musick, (which even now I do)

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 dismay; 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 so strongly works 'em,

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

Pro. Do'st thou think so, fpirit?

Ari. Mine would, fir, were I human.

Pro. And mine shall.

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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.

[Solemn mufick.

Re-enter Ariel: after bim Alonso with a frantick gefture, attended by Gonzalo. Sebaftian and Anth nie in like manner, attended by Adrian and Francifco. They all enter the circle which Profpero bad made, 40 and there stand charm'd; which Profpero obferving, Speaks.

A folemn air, and the best comforter

To an unfettled fancy, cure thy brains,

Now uselefs, boil'd within thy skull! there stand,

45 For you are spell-stopp'd.

Holy Gonzalo, honourable man,

Mine eyes, even sociable to the shew of thine,
Fall fellowly drops. The charm diffolves apace;

And as the morning steals upon the night,
50 Melting the darkness, so their rifing senses
Begin to chace the ignorant fumes that mantle
Their clearer reafon. O good Gonzalo,
My true preferver, and a loyal fir

To him thou follow'st; I will pay thy graces
55 Home, both in word and deed. Most cruelly
Didst thou, Alonso, use me and my daughter:
Thy brother was a furtherer in the act ;-
Thou'rt pinch'd for't now, Sebastian.-Fleshm

And they shall be themfelves.

Ari. I'll fetch them, fir.

[Exit.

Pr. Ye Elves, of hills, brooks, standing lakes,

and groves;

and blood,

And ye, that on the fands with printless foot
Do chafe the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him,
When he comes back; you demy-puppets, that
By moon-shine do the green four ringlets make,

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

(Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong)

* A touch is a fenfation. 2 Paffion is frequently used as a verb in Shakespeare.

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