The king and queen there! that they were, I wish, Where my son lies. When did you lose your daughter? PRO. In this last tempeft. I perceive, these lords That they devour their reason; and scarce think, For 'tis a chronicle of day by day, Not a relation for a breakfast, nor Befitting this first meeting. Welcome, Sir, 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: 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. ALON. I am hers; But, oh, how oddly will it found, that I 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, 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 Beyond a common joy, and fet it down Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis; 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 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 Which to you fhall feem probable, of every Untie the fpell. How fares my gracious Sit 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! ANT. Very like; one of them Is a plain fish, and no doubt marketable. PRO. Mark but the badges of these men, my lords, That could controul the moon, mäke flows and ebbs, |