The king and queen there! that they were, I wish,
Myself were mudded in that oozy bed,

Where my son lies. When did you lose your daughter?

PRO. In this last tempeft. I perceive, these lords
At this encounter do so much admire,

That they devour their reason; and scarce think,
Their eyes do offices of truth, their words
Are natural breath: but howfoe'er you have
Been juftled from your senses, know for certain,
That I am Profp'ro, and that very duke
Which was thrust forth of Milan; who most strangely
Upon this shore, where you were wreckt, was landed
To be the lord on't. No more yet of this;

For 'tis a chronicle of day by day,

Not a relation for a breakfast, nor

Befitting this first meeting. Welcome, Sir,
This cell's my court; here have I few attendants,
And fubjects none abroad. Pray you, look in;
My dukedom fince you've given me again,
I will requite you with as good a thing;
At least, bring forth a wonder to content ye,
As much as me my dukedom.

SCENE IV.

Opens to the entrance of the cell.

Here Profpero discovers Ferdinand and Mirands playing at chefs.

MIRA. Sweet lord, you play me false.

FER. No, my dear love,

I would not for the world.

MIRA. Yes, for a score of kingdoms. You should wrangle, And I would call it fair play.

ALON. If this prove

A vifion of the island, one dear fon

Shall I twice lofe.

SEB. A most high miracle!

FER. Though the feas threaten, they are merciful:
I've curs'd them without cause.

ALON. Now all the bleffings

Of a glad father compass thee about!

Arife, and fay how thou cam'ft here.

MIRA. O Wonder!

How many goodly creatures are there here?

[Ferd. kneels.

How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,

That has such people in't!

PRO. 'Tis new to thee.

ALON. What is this maid, with whom thou wast at play?

Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours :

Is fhe the goddess that hath fever'd us,

And brought us thus together?

FER. Sir, fhe's mortal;

But, by immortal providence, she's mine.
I chose her, when I could not ask my father
For his advice; nor thought I had one: she
Is daughter to this famous duke of Milan,
Of whom so often I have heard renown,
But never faw before; of whom I have
Receiv'd a second life, and second father
This lady makes him to me.

ALON. I am hers;

But, oh, how oddly will it found, that I
Must ask my child forgiveness!

PRO. There, Sir, stop;

Let us not burden our remembrance with

An heaviness that's gone.

GON. I've inly wept,

Or fhould have fpoke ere this. Look down, you gods,
And on this couple drop a blessed crown:

For it is you, that have chalk'd forth the way,

Which brought us hither!

ALON. Ifay, Amen, Gonzalo !

GON. Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue
Should become kings of Naples ! O rejoice

Beyond a common joy, and fet it down
In gold on lafting pillars; in one voyage

Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis;
And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife,
Where he himself was loft; Profpero his dukedom,
In a poor ifle; and all of us, ourselves,

When no man was his own.

ALON. Give me your hands :

Let grief and forrow still embrace his heart,

That doth not wish you joy!

GON. Be't fo, Amen!

SCENE V.

Enter Ariel, with the master and boatswain amazedly

following.

O look, Sir, look, Sir, here are more of us!

I prophefy'd, if a gallows were on land,

1

This fellow could not drown. Now, blafphemy,

That swear'it grace o'erboard, not an oath on shore?

Haft thou no mouth by land? what is the news? 2)

BOATS. The best news is, that we have safely found Our king and company; the next, our fhip,

Which but three glaffes fince we gave out split,

Is tight and yare, and bravely rigg'd, as when
We firft put out to fea.

ARI. Sir, all this fervice

Have I done fince I went.

PRO. My trickfy spirit!

ALON. These are not natural events; they strengthen, From ftrange to ftranger. Say, how came you hither? BOATS. If I did think, Sir, I were well awake, I'd strive to tell you. We were dead a-sleep, And, how we know not, all clapt under hatches, Where but ev'n now with strange and fev'ral noises Of roaring, fhrieking, howling, jingling chains, And more diverfity of founds, all horrible, We were awak'd; straightway at liberty: Where we, in all her trim, freshly beheld Our royal, good and gallant thip; our mafter Cap'ring to eye her; on a trice, so please you, Ev'n in a dream, were we divided from them, And were brought moping hither,

ARI. Was't well done?

PRO. Bravely, my diligence. Thou shalt be free. ALON. This is as ftrange a maze as e'er men trod, And there is in this business more than nature

Was ever conduct of; fome oracle

Must rectify our knowlege.

PRO. Sir, my Liege,

Do not infeft your mind with beating on
The strangeness of this business; at pickt leisure
(Which fhall be aboritly) fizigde I'll refolve you,..

Which to you fhall feem probable, of every
These happen'd accidents; till when be chearful,
And think of each thing well. Come hither, fpirit;
Set Caliban and his companions free:

Untie the fpell. How fares my gracious Sit
There are yet missing of your company
Some few odd lads, that you remember not.

SCENE VI.

[To Ariel.

Later Ariel, driving in Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo, in their stolen apparel.

STE. Every man fhift for all the reft, and let no man take care for himfelf; for all is but fortune; Coragio, bully-monfter, Coragio!

TRIN. If thefe be true fpies, which I wear in my head, here's a goodly fight.

CAL. O Setebos, thefe be brave spirits, indeed! How fine my master is! I am afraid,

He will chaftife me.

SEB. Ha, ha!

What things are thefe, my lord Anthonio!
Will money buy 'em?

ANT. Very like; one of them

Is a plain fish, and no doubt marketable.

PRO. Mark but the badges of these men, my lords,
Then fay, if they be trues this mil-fhap'd knave,
His mother was a witch, and one so strong

That could controul the moon, mäke flows and ebbs,
And deal in her command without her power.
These three have robb'd me; and this demny-devif
(For he's a battard one) had plotted with them