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PROSPERO: |
Be collected: |
No more amazement: tell your piteous heart |
There's no harm done. |
MIRANDA: |
O, woe the day! |
PROSPERO: |
No harm. |
I have done nothing but in care of thee, |
Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who |
Art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing |
Of whence I am, nor that I am more better |
Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell, |
And thy no greater father. |
MIRANDA: |
More to know |
Did never meddle with my thoughts. |
PROSPERO: |
'Tis time |
I should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand, |
And pluck my magic garment from me. So: |
Lie there, my art. Wipe thou thine eyes; have comfort. |
The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd |
The very virtue of compassion in thee, |
I have with such provision in mine art |
So safely ordered that there is no soul-- |
No, not so much perdition as an hair |
Betid to any creature in the vessel |
Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. Sit down; |
For thou must now know farther. |
MIRANDA: |
You have often |
Begun to tell me what I am, but stopp'd |
And left me to a bootless inquisition, |
Concluding 'Stay: not yet.' |
PROSPERO: |
The hour's now come; |
The very minute bids thee ope thine ear; |
Obey and be attentive. Canst thou remember |
A time before we came unto this cell? |
I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not |
Out three years old. |
MIRANDA: |
Certainly, sir, I can. |
PROSPERO: |
By what? by any other house or person? |
Of any thing the image tell me that |
Hath kept with thy remembrance. |
MIRANDA: |
'Tis far off |
And rather like a dream than an assurance |
That my remembrance warrants. Had I not |
Four or five women once that tended me? |
PROSPERO: |
Thou hadst, and more, Miranda. But how is it |
That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else |
In the dark backward and abysm of time? |
If thou remember'st aught ere thou camest here, |
How thou camest here thou mayst. |
MIRANDA: |
But that I do not. |
PROSPERO: |
Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since, |
Thy father was the Duke of Milan and |
A prince of power. |
MIRANDA: |
Sir, are not you my father? |
PROSPERO: |
Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and |
She said thou wast my daughter; and thy father |
Was Duke of Milan; and thou his only heir |
And princess no worse issued. |
MIRANDA: |
O the heavens! |
What foul play had we, that we came from thence? |
Or blessed was't we did? |
PROSPERO: |
Both, both, my girl: |
By foul play, as thou say'st, were we heaved thence, |
But blessedly holp hither. |
MIRANDA: |
O, my heart bleeds |
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