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(For, certes, these are people of the island)
Who tho' they are of monstrous shape, yet, note,
Their manners are more gentle-kind, than of
Our human generation you shall find

Many; nay, almost any.

PRO. Honeft lord,

Thou haft faid well; for fome of you there present
Are worse than devils.

ALON. I cannot too much mufe,

Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, expreffing
(Although they want the ufe of tongue) a kind
Of excellent dumb difcourfe.

PRO. Praife, in departing

FRAN. They vanish'd ftrangely.

SEB. No matter, fince

They've left their viands behind; for we have stomachs. Will't please you taste of what is here?

ALON. Not I.

GON. Faith, Sir, you need not fear. When we were boys,
Who would believe, that there were mountaineers
Dew-lapt like bulls, whofe throats had hanging at 'em
Wallets of flesh, or that there were fuch men,

Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find,
Each putter out on five for one will bring us
Good warrant of.

ALON. I will ftand to and feed,

Although my last; no matter, fince I feel
The best is past. Brother, my lord the duke,
Stand to, and do as we.

SCENE IV.

Thunder and lightning. Enter Ariel like a harpy, claps his wings upon the table, feems to feize upon the dishes, and with a quaint device the banquet vanishes.

ARI. You are three men of fin, whom destiny,
That hath to inftrument this lower world,
And what is in't, the never-furfeited fea
Hath caufed to belch up; and on this island
Where man doth not inhabit, you 'mong'st, men
Being most unfit to live. I have made

you

mad;

And ev❜n with fuch like valour men hang and drown

Their proper felves.

Ye fools! I and my fellows

[Alonfo, Sebastian, and the rest

Are minifters of fate; the elements,

[draw their fwords.

Of whom your fwords are temper'd, may as well
Wound the loud winds, or with bemockt-at ftabs
Kill the ftill-clofing waters, as diminish

One down that's in my plume: my fellow-minifters
Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,
Your fwords are now too maffy for your strengths,
And will not be uplifted. But remember,
(For that's my business to you) that you three
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 powr's, delaying not forgetting, have
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

You and your ways; whofe wrath to guard you from,
Which here in this moft defolate ifle elfe falls

Upon your head, is nothing but heart's forrow,

And a clear life ensuing.

He vanishes in thunder: then to foft mufick enter the

fhapes again, and dance with mops and mowes, and carrying out the table.

PRO. 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 hadst to fay; fo with good life, And obfervation strange, my meaner ministers Their feveral kinds have done. My high charms work, And these, mine enemies, are all knit up In their distractions: they are in my power; And in these fits I leave them, whilst I vifit

Young Ferdinand, whom they suppose is drown'd,

And his and my lov'd darling.

[Exit Profpero from above.

GON. I' th' name of fomething holy, Sir, why stand you

In this strange stare?

ALON. O, it is monftrous! monstrous!

Methought, the billows spoke, and told me of it;
The winds did fing it to me; and the thunder,
That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd
The name of Profper: it did bass my trespass.
Therefore, my son i'th' ooze is bedded; and
I'll feek him deeper than e'er plummet founded,
And with him there lye mudded.

[Exit.

SEB. But one fiend at a time,

I'll fight their legions o'er.

ANT. I'll be thy fecond.

[Exit.

GON. All three of them are desperate; their great guil,

Like poifon giv'n to work a great time after,

Now 'gins to bite the spirits. I do befeech you
That are of fuppler joints, follow them swiftly;
And hinder them from what this ecstasie

May now provoke them to.

ADRI. Follow, I pray you.

ACT IV.

[Exeunt.

SCENE I

Profpero's cell.

Enter Profpero, Ferdinand, and Miranda.

PROSPERO.

F I have too aufterely punish'd you,
Your compenfation makes amends: for
Have given you here a third of mine own life:
Or that for which I live; whom once again
I tender to thine hand: all thy vexations
Were but my trials of thy love, and thou
Haft ftrangely stood the test. Here, afore heaven,
I ratify this my rich gift: O Ferdinand,

Do not fimile at me, that I boast her off;

For thou shalt find, she will outstrip all praife,

And make it halt behind her.

FER. I believe it,

Against an oracle.

Pro. Then as my gift, and thine own acquifition

Worthily purchas'd, take my daughter. But
If thou doft break her virgin-knot, before
All fanctimonious ceremonies may
With full and holy rite be minister'd,
No sweet afperfions fhall the heav'ns let fall
To make this contract grow: but barren hate,
Sour-ey'd disdain, and discord fhall bestrew
The union of your bed with weeds so loathly,
That you shall hate it both: therefore take heed,
As Hymen's lamps fhall light you.

FER. As I hope

For quiet days, fair iffue, and long life,

With fuch love as 'tis now; the murkieft den,

The most opportune place, the ftrong'st suggestion
Our worfer Genius can, fhall never melt

Mine honour into luft; to take away

The edge of that day's celebration,

When I fhall think or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd,

Or night kept chain'd below.

PRO. Fairly spoke.

Sit then, and talk with her, fhe is thine own.

What, Ariel; my industrious fervant, Ariel

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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
In fuch another trick; go, bring the rabble,
O'er whom I give thee power, here to this place:

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