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Cal. That's not the tune.

[Ariel plays the tune on a tabor and pipe.

Ste. What is this fame?

Trin. This is the tune of our catch, play'd by the picture of nobody.

Ste. If thou beft a man, fhew thyfelf in thy likenefs; if thou be’st a devil, take't as thou list.

Trin. O, forgive me my fins!

Ste. He that dies, pays all debts: I defy thee. Mercy upon us!

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Cal. Art thou afraid?

Ste. No, monster, not I.

Cal. Be not afraid; the ifle is full of noises, Sounds, and fweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twanging inftruments Will hum about mine ears, and fometimes voices ; That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me fleep again; and then in dreaming, The clouds, methought, would open, and fhew riches Ready to drop upon me; that when I wak'd, I cry'd to dream again.

Ste. This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I fhall have my mufick for nothing.

Cal. When Profpero is destroy'd.

Ste. That fhall be by and by: I remember the 'ftory. Trin. The found is going away; let's follow it, and after do our work.

Ste. Lead, monfter; we'll follow. I would I could fee this taborer He lays it on.

Trin. Wilt come? I'll follow Stephano.

[Exeum. SCENE changes to another part of the Island.

Enter Alonfo, Sebaftian, Anthonio,-Gonzalo, Adrian,

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Francifco, &c.

Y'R lakin, I can go no further, Sir,

My old bones ake: here's a maze trod, indeed, Through forth-rights and meanders! by your patience I needs muft reft me.

Alon. Old Lord, I cannot blame thee,

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Who am myself attach'd with wearinefs,
To th' dulling of my fpirits: fit down and reft.
Ev'n here I will put off my hope, and keep it
No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd,"
Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks
Our fruftrate fearch on land. Well, let him go.
Ant. I am right glad that he's fo out of hope.
Do not, for one repulfe, forego the purpose
That you refolv'd t'effe&t.

Seb. The next advantage
Will we take thoroughly.

Ant. Let it be to-night;

For, now they are opprefs'd with travel, they
Will not, nor cannot, ufe fuch vigilance,
As when they're fresh.

Seb.. I lay, to-night: no more.

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Solemn and frange mufick; and Profpero on the top, invifiEnter feveral frange shapes, bringing in a banquet; and dance about it with gentle actions of faluta tian; and, inviting the King, &c. to eat, they depart. Alon. What harmony is this? my good friends, hark! Gon. Marvellous fweet mufick!

Alon. Give us kind keepers heaven; what were thefet Seb. A living drollery. Now I will believe,

That there are unicorns; that, in Arabia

There is one tree, the phoenix' throne; one phoenix At this hour reigning there.

Ant. I'll believe both :

And what does elfe want credit, come to me,

And I'll be worn 'tis true.

Travellers ne'er did lie,

Though fools at home condemn 'em.

Gon. If in Naples

I should report this now, would they believe me?
If I should fay, I faw fuch iflanders:

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

Who tho' they are of monftrous fhape, yet, note,
Their manners are more gentle-kind, than of
Our human generation you fhall find
Many; nay, almost any.

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Pro. Honest Lord,

Thou haft faid well; for fome of you there prefent

Are worse than devils.

Alon. I cannot too much mufe,

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

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, whose throats had hanging at 'em Wallets of flesh, or that there were fuch inen, Whofe heads ftood in their breafts? which now we find, Each putter out on five for one will bring us (22) Good warrant of.

Aion.

(22) Each putter out of five for one - By the variation of a Single letter, I think, I have fet the text right; and will therefore now proceed to explain it. I fresly confefs, that I once underflood this paffage thus; that every five travellers (or putters out) did bring authentic confirmation of thefe fto ies, for one that pretended to difpute the truth of them: but communicating my fenfe of the place to two ingenious friends. I found, I was not at the bottom of the meaning. Mr. Warburton obferv'd to me, that this was a fine piece of conceal'd fatire on the voyagers of that time, who had just d.fcover'd a new world; and, as was very natural, grew moft extravagant in difplaying the wonders of it. That, particularly, by each putter out of five for one, was meant the adventurers in the difcovery of the Weft Indies, who had for the money they advanc'd and contributed, 20 per cent. Dr Thirlby did not a little affift this explanation by his concurrence, and by instructing me, that it was afuel in those times for travellers to put out money, to receive a greater fum if they liv'd to return; and, for proof, he referr'd me to Morifan's Itinerary, part I. p. 198, &c. I cannot return my friends better thanks for the light they have given me upon this paffage, than by fubjoining a teftimony from a contemporary poet, that will put both their explanation, and my correction of the text, paft difpute.

B. Johnson's Every Man out of his Humour, in the character of Puntarvelu.

VOL. I.

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Alon. I will stand to, and feed,

Although my laft no matter, fince I feel

The belt is paft. Brother, my Lord the Duke,
Stand to, and do as we.

Thunder and lightning. Enter Ariel like a harpy, claps his wings upon the table, and with a queint device the banquet rianifbes.

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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 Ifland (23)
Where man doth not inhabit, you 'mongft men
Being moft unfit to live. I have made you mad:
And ev'n with fuch like valour men hang and drown
Their proper
felves. You fools! I and my fellows
Are minifters of fate; the elements,

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

One down that's in my plume:, my fellow-minifters

I do intend, this year, of Jubilee ecming on, to travel: And (becaufe I will not altogether go upon expence,) I am determin'd to put forth fome five thousand found, to be paid me five for one, upon the return of myself, my wife, and my dog, from the Turk's Court in Conftantinople. If all, or either of us mifcarry in the journey, 'iis gone; if we be fuccessful, aby, there will be five and twenty thousand pounds to entertain time withal.

If this was to be the return of the Knight's venture; 'tis obvious, he put out his money on five for one." Ben to heighten the ridicule of these projecting voyagers, makes Puntarvolo's wife averfe to accompany him and fo he is forc'd to put out his venture on the return of himself, his dog, and his cat.— Let me conclude with obferv ing on the different conduct of the two poets. Shakespeare (perhaps, out of a particular deference for Sir W. Raleigh) only fneers these adventurous voyagers obliquely, and, as it were, en paffant: The furly Ben, who would be tied up by no fuch serupulous regards, dreffes up the fashion in the most glaring colours of comic bumour; or, rather, brings down his fatire to the level of farcical ridicule.

(23) Hath caus'd to belch you up;] Thus, the whole fet of editions; but 'tis obvious to every reader, that the Grammar's faulty; and therefore I have cur'd it by throwing out you.

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Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt, ་།་
Your fwords are now too maffy for your ftrengths, dir
And will not be up-lifted. But remember,
(For that's my bufinefs to you) that you
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 powers delaying, not forgetting, have
Incens'd the feas and thores, yea, all the creatures,
Against your peace: thee of thy fon, Alonfo,
They have bereft; and do pronounce by me,
Ling'ring perdition, worfe than any death
Can be at once, fhall ftep by step attend

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You and your ways; whofe wrath to guard you from,
(Which here in this moft defolate Ifle elfe falls
Upon your heads,) is nothing but hearts' forrow,
And a clear life enfuing.

He vanishes in thunder: then, to foft mufic, Enter the f foapes again, and dance with mops and mores, and VÀ 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 say; fo with good life,
And obfervation ftrange, my meaner minifters
Their feveral kinds have done my high charms work,
And these, mine enemies, are all knit up
In their diftractions: they are in my power;
And in these fits I leave them, whilst I vifit

Young Ferdinand, (whom they fuppofe is drown'd,) com
And his and my lov'd darting. [Exit Profpero from above.
Gon. I' th' name of fomething holy, Sir, why fland you
In this ftrange ftare?

Alon. O, it is monftrous! monstrous !
Methoughts, the billows fpoke, 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 bafe my trefpafs.
Therefore, my fon i' th' ooze is bedded; and
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