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When I arriv'd, and heard thee, that made gape
The pine, and let thee out.

Ari. I thank thee, mafter.

Pro. If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak,

And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till

Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.

Ari. Pardon, master:

I will be correspondent to command,

And do my spiriting gently.

Pro. Do fo; and after two days

I will difcharge thee.

Ari. That's my noble master!

What shall I do? say what? what shall I do?

Pr. Go make thyself like to a nymph o' the sea;

The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place, and fertile;
Curs'd be I, that I did fo!-All the charms
Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!
For I am all the subjects that you have,

5 Who first was mine own king: and here you sty me
In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me
The rest of the island.

Pro. Thou most lying flave, [thee, Whom ftripes may move, not kindness; I have us'd 10 Filth as thou art, with human care; and lodg'd thee In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate The honour of my child.

Cal. Oh ho, oh ho!-wou'd it had been done!

Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else,

Be subject to no fight but thine and mine; invisible 15 This ifle with Calibans.

To every eye-ball else. Go, take this shape,

And hither come in it; go, hence, with diligence. [E Ariel

Awake, dear heart, awake! thou hast lept well;

Awake!

Mira. The strangeness of your story put Heaviness in me.

Pro. Shake it off: Come on;

We'll vifit Caliban, my slave, who never
Yields us kind answer.

Mira. 'Tis a villain, fir,

I do not love to look on.

Pro. But, as 'tis,

We cannot miss him: he does make our fire,
Fetch in our wood; and serves in offices

That profit us. What ho! flave! Caliban!
Thou earth, thou! speak.

Cal. [Within.] There's wood enough within.
Pr. Come forth, I say; there's other business for
Come, thou tortoise! when?

Enter Ariel like a water-nymph.

Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel,
Hark in thine ear.

Ari. My lord, it shall be done.

Pro. Abhorred slave,

Which any print of goodness will not take,
Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,
[hour
Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each
20 One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage,
Know thy own meaning, but wouldst gabble like
A thing more brutish, I endow'd thy purposes
With words that made them known: But thy

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Fetch us in fewel, and be quick; thou wert best,
[thee: 35 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 beafts shall tremble at thy din.

[Exit.

Pre. Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself 40

Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!

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45 Enter Ferdinand at the remoteft part of the stage, and Ariel invisible, playing and finging.

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Which thou tak'it from me. When thou camest first, 55

Thou ftroak'dst me, and mad'st much of me; wouldst

give me

Water with berries in't; and teach me how

To name the bigger light, and how the less,

That burn by day and night: and then I lov'd thee, 60

And shew'd thee all the qualities o' the isle,

* Baneful.

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3 The dead waste, or middle of the night.

2 Perhaps put here for fairies. in this place, seems to signify original disposition, inborn qualities. 5 The erysipelas. from Magellan's voyage, that Setebos was the fupreme God of the Patagons.

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7 Silent.

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4 Race, 6 We learn

Fer.

Fer. Where should this music be? i' the air, or the
It founds no more: and sure, it waits upon (earth?
Some god of the island. Sitting on a bank,
Weeping again the king my father's wreck,
This music crept by me upon the waters;
Allaying both their fury, and my passion,
With its sweet air: thence I have follow'd it,
Or it hath drawn me rather:-But 'tis gone.
No, it begins again.

Ariel's Song.

Full fathom five thy father lies,
Of bis bones are coral made;
Those are pearls, that were bis eyes:
Nothing of bim that dotb fade,

But doth fuffer a fea-change,
Into Something rich and ftrange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring bis knell.
Hark, now I bear them, -ding-dong bell.

[Burden, ding-dong.

[Milan,

Mira. Alack, for mercy!
Fer. Yes, faith, and all his lords; the duke of

And his brave son, being twain.
Pro. The duke of Milan,

5 And his more braver daughter, could controul2 thee,
If now 'twere fit to do't: At the first fight
[Afide to Ariel.

They have chang'd eyes: -Delicate Ariel,
I'll fet thee free for this. A word, good fir;
10 I fear you have done yourself some wrong: a
word-

Mira. Why speaks my father so ungently? This
Is the third man that I e'er faw; the first,
That e'er I figh'd for: pity, move my father

15 To be inclin'd my way!
Fer. O, if a virgin,

Fer. The ditty does remember my drown'd fa-20
This is no mortal business, nor no found [ther:-
That the earth owes: - I hear it now above me.
Pro. The fringed curtains of thine eye advance,
And fay, what thou feeft yond'.

Mira. What is't? a spirit?

Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, fir,
It carries a brave form:-But 'tis a spirit.

Pro. No, wench; it eats, and fleeps, and hath
fuch senses

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As we have, such: This gallant, which thou seest, 30
Was in the wreck; and, but he's fsomething stain'd

With grief, that's beauty's canker, thou might'ft

call him

A goodly person: he hath lost his fellows,

And strays about to find them.

Mira. I might call him

A thing divine; for nothing natural

I ever saw so noble.

Pro. It goes on, I see, [Afide.]

[free thee

And your affection not gone forth, I'll make you
The queen of Naples.

Pro. Soft, fir; one word more.
They are both in either's powers: but this swift
business

I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
[Afide.
Make the prize light. One word more; I charge
thee,

That thou attend me: thou doft here ufurp
The name thou ow'st not; and haft put thyself
Upon this island, as a spy, to win it
From me, the lord on't.

Fer. No, as I am a man.

Mira. There's nothing ill can dwell in such

temple:

If the ill spirit have so fair an house,
Good things will strive to dwell with 't.

35 Pro. [To Ferd.] Follow me.

Speak not you for him; he's a traitor. Come,
I'll manacle thy neck and feet together:
Sea-water shalt thou drink, thy food shall be
The fresh-brook mussels, wither'd roots, and husks

As my foul prompts it:-Spirit, fine spirit, I'll 40 Wherein the acorn cradled: Follow..

Within two days for this.

Fer. Most sure, the goddess

On whom these airs attend!-Vouchsafe, my

prayer

May know, if you remain upon this island;

And that you will fome good instruction give,
How I may bear me here: My prime request,
Which I do last pronounce, is, O you wonder!
If you be maid, or no?

Mira. No wonder, fir;

But, certainly a maid.

Fer. My language! heavens!-
I am the best of them that speak this speech,
Were I but where 'tis spoken.

Pro. How! the best?

What wert thou, if the king of Naples heard thee?

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Fer. A fingle thing, as I am now, that wonders
To hear thee speak of Naples: He does hear me';
And that he does, I weep: myself am Naples;
Who with mine eyes, ne'er since at ebb, beheld 60
The king my father wreck'd.

Mira. Sir, have pity;

I'll be his furety.

Pro, Silence: one word more
Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee..

What,

An advocate for an impostor? hush!

• To orve, fignifies here, as in many other places of our author's plays, to own. * Confute thee. 3 Timorous.

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Pro. Come, follow: Speak not for him.

[Exeunt.

The wreck of all my friends, or this man's threats, 15 Ari. To the syllable.

To whom I am fubdu'd, are but light to me,

Might I but through my prifon once a day

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Can speak like us: then, wisely, good fir, weigh
Our forrow with our comfort,

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Gon. Therefore, my lord,

Ant. He could not miss 't.

Adr. It must needs be of fubtle, tender, and

delicate temperance 2.

Ant. 3 Temperance was a delicate wench.

Seb. Ay, and a fubtle; as he most learnedly deliver'd,

Adr. The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.
Seb, Aş if it had lungs, and rotten ones.

Ant. Or, as 'twere perfum'd by a fen.

Gon. Here is every thing advantageous to life,
Ant. True; save means to live.

Seb. Of that there's none, or little.

Gon. How lush and lusty the grass looks? how

green?

Ant. The ground, indeed, is tawny.

Seb. With an eye of green in't.

Ant. He misses not much.

Seb. No; he doth but mistake the truth totally,

Gon. But the rarity of it is (which is, indeed,

Ant. Fie, what a spend-thrift is he of his tongue! 55 almost beyond credit)

Akn. I pr'ythee, spare.

Gon. Well, I have done: But yet

Seb. He will be talking.

Seb. As many vouch'd rarities are.

Gon. That our garments, being, as they were,

drench'd in the sea, hold notwithstanding their

160 stain'd with falt water.

Ant. Which of them, he, or Adrian, for a good freshness, and gloffes; being rather new dy'd, than

wager, first begins to crow ?

Hint is that which recals to the memory. The cause that fills our minds with grief is common. Temperance here means temperature. 3 In the puritanical times it was usual to christen children from the titles of religious and moral virtues. 4 i. e. of a dark full colour, the opposite to pale and faint.

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Ant. If but one of his pockets could speak,

- would it not say, he lies?

Seb. Ay, or very falsely pocket up his report.

Gon. Methinks, our garments are now as fresh

Alon. No, no, he's gone.

Seb. Sir, you may thank yourself for this great lofs; [daughter, That would not bless our Europe with your

as when we put them on first in Africk, at the 5 But rather lose her to an African;

marriage of the king's fair daughter Claribel to the

king of Tunis.

Seb. "Twas a sweet marriage, and we prosper

well in our return.

Where she, at least, is banish'd from your eye,

Who hath cause to wet the grief on't.

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Seb. You were kneel'd to, and importun'd

Adr. Tunis was never grac'd before with fuch 10 By all of us; and the fair foul herself a paragon to their queen.

Gon. Not fince widow Dido's time.

Ant. Widow? a pox o' that! How came that

widow in? Widow Dido!

Weigh'd, between lothness and obedience, at Which end the beam should bow. We have loft

your fon,

I fear, for ever: Milan and Naples have

Seb. What if he had said, widower Æneas too? 15 More widows in them of this business' making, good lord, how you take it!

Adr. Widow Dido, faid you? you make me study of that: She was of Carthage, not of Tunis. Gon. This Tunis, fir, was Carthage.

Adr. Carthage?

Gon. I affure you, Carthage.

Ant. His word is more than the miraculous harp.

Seb. He hath rais'd the wall, and houses too.

Than we bring men to comfort them: The fault's

Your own.

Alon. So is the dearest o' the lofs.

Gon. My lord Sebastian,

20 The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness, And time to speak it in: you rub the fore,

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Gon. And were the king of it, What would I
Seb. 'Scape being drunk, for want of wine. [ries
Gon. I' the commonwealth, I would by contra-

the marriage of your daughter, who is now queen. 35 Execute all things: for no kind of traffick

Ant. And the rarest that e'er came there.

Seb. Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido.

Ant. O, widow Dido; ay, widow Dido.

Gon. Is not, fir, my doublet as fresh as the first

day I wore it? I mean, in a fort.

Ant. That fort was well fish'd for.

Gon. When I wore it at your daughter's marriage?

Alon. You cram these words into mine ears, againft

The ftomach of my sense: Would I had never
Marry'd my daughter there! for, coming thence,
My son is loft; and, in my rate, she too,
Who is so far from Italy remov'd,

I ne'er again shall fee her. O thou mine heir
Of Naples and of Milan, what strange fish
Hath made his meal on thee!

Fran. Sir, he may live;

I saw him beat the furges under him,

And ride upon their backs; he trod the water,
Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted

The furge most swoln that met him: his bold head

'Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oar'd

Himself with his good arms in lusty stroke

Would I admit; no name of magistrate;

Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,
And use of fervice, none; contract, succession,
Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none :

40 No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil:
No occupation; all men idle, all,
And women too, but innocent and pure:
No fovereignty.

Seb. And yet he would be king on't. 45 Ant. The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the beginning.

Gon. All things in common nature should pro

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To the shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd 60 Gon. And, do you mark me, fir?

As stooping to relieve him: I not doubt

He came alive to land.

* Or, of my reason and natural affection. * A limit, a land-mark. 3 A French word fignifying plenty.

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Gon. I do well believe your highness; and did it to minifter occafion to these gentlemen, who are of fuch fenfible and nimble lungs, that they always ufe to laugh at nothing.

Ant. 'Twas you we laugh'd at.

Gan. Who, in this kind of merry fooling, am nothing to you; so you may continue, and laugh at nothing still.

Ant. What a blow was there given ?

Sed. An it had not fallen fiat-long.

Gon. You are gentlemen of brave metal; you would lift the moon out of her sphere, if she would continue in it five weeks without changing.

Enter. Ariel, playing folemn mufick.

So. We would fo, and then go a bat-fowling. Ant. Nay, my good lord, be not angry. Gin. No, I warrant you; I will not adventure my difcretion so weakly. Will you laugh me alleep, for I am very heavy?

Ant. Go, fleep, and hear us.

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Sel. What a strange drowsiness possesses them? 35
Ant. It is the quality o' the climate.

Sab. Why

Doth it not then our eye-lids fink? I find not
Myself difpos'd to fleер.

Ant. Nor I; my spirits are nimble.

They fell together all, as by consent;

They dropp'd, as by a thunder-stroke.

might,

What

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No

Another way so high an hope, that even

Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond,

That Ferdinand is drown'd?

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Can have no note, unless the fun were post, [chins
40 (The man i' the moon's too flow) till new-born
Be rough and razorable: she, from whom [again:
We were all fea-fwallow'd, though fome caft
And, by that destiny, to perform an act,
Whereof what's past is prologue; what to come,
In yours, and my discharge.

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Worthy Sebastian?-O, what might?
And yet, methinks, I fee it in thy face, [and 45
What thou should'st be: the occasion speaks thee;

My strong imagination fees a crown

Dropping upon thy head.

Sch. What, art thou waking?

As. Do you not hear me speak?

Set. I do; and, furely,

It is a fleepy language; and thou speak'st

Out of thy fleep: What is it thou didst say?

This is a ftrange repose, to be asleep

Seb. What stuff is this? - How fay you?
'Tis true, my brother's daughter's queen of Tunis;
So is she heir of Naples; 'twixt which regions
There is fome space.

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With eyes wide open; standing, speaking, moving; 55

And yet fo faft asleep.

Ant. Noble Sebaftian,

Thou let'ft thy fortune sleep, die rather; wink'st

Whiles thou art waking.

Sed. Thou dost snore distinctly;

There's meaning in thy snores.

Ant. I am more ferious than my custom; you

Must be fo too, if heed me; which to do,

Seems to cry out, How shall that Claribel
Measure us back to Naples ?-Keep in Tunis,
And let Sebastian wake!-Say, this were death

That now hath seiz'd them; why, they were no
[Naples,

worfe

Than now they are: There be, that can rule

As well as he that sleeps; lords, that can prate
As amply, and unnecessarily,

As this Gonzalo; I myself could make

60 A chough of as deep chat. O, that you bore The mind that I do! what a fleep were this

For your advancement? Do you understand me?

Seb. Methinks, I do.

• A chough is a bird of the jack-daw kind, chiefly in Cornwall.

Ant.

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