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To think o' the teen that I have turn'd you to, |
Which is from my remembrance! Please you, farther. |
PROSPERO: |
My brother and thy uncle, call'd Antonio-- |
I pray thee, mark me--that a brother should |
Be so perfidious!--he whom next thyself |
Of all the world I loved and to him put |
The manage of my state; as at that time |
Through all the signories it was the first |
And Prospero the prime duke, being so reputed |
In dignity, and for the liberal arts |
Without a parallel; those being all my study, |
The government I cast upon my brother |
And to my state grew stranger, being transported |
And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle-- |
Dost thou attend me? |
MIRANDA: |
Sir, most heedfully. |
PROSPERO: |
Being once perfected how to grant suits, |
How to deny them, who to advance and who |
To trash for over-topping, new created |
The creatures that were mine, I say, or changed 'em, |
Or else new form'd 'em; having both the key |
Of officer and office, set all hearts i' the state |
To what tune pleased his ear; that now he was |
The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, |
And suck'd my verdure out on't. Thou attend'st not. |
MIRANDA: |
O, good sir, I do. |
PROSPERO: |
I pray thee, mark me. |
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated |
To closeness and the bettering of my mind |
With that which, but by being so retired, |
O'er-prized all popular rate, in my false brother |
Awaked an evil nature; and my trust, |
Like a good parent, did beget of him |
A falsehood in its contrary as great |
As my trust was; which had indeed no limit, |
A confidence sans bound. He being thus lorded, |
Not only with what my revenue yielded, |
But what my power might else exact, like one |
Who having into truth, by telling of it, |
Made such a sinner of his memory, |
To credit his own lie, he did believe |
He was indeed the duke; out o' the substitution |
And executing the outward face of royalty, |
With all prerogative: hence his ambition growing-- |
Dost thou hear? |
MIRANDA: |
Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. |
PROSPERO: |
To have no screen between this part he play'd |
And him he play'd it for, he needs will be |
Absolute Milan. Me, poor man, my library |
Was dukedom large enough: of temporal royalties |
He thinks me now incapable; confederates-- |
So dry he was for sway--wi' the King of Naples |
To give him annual tribute, do him homage, |
Subject his coronet to his crown and bend |
The dukedom yet unbow'd--alas, poor Milan!-- |
To most ignoble stooping. |
MIRANDA: |
O the heavens! |
PROSPERO: |
Mark his condition and the event; then tell me |
If this might be a brother. |
MIRANDA: |
I should sin |
To think but nobly of my grandmother: |
Good wombs have borne bad sons. |
PROSPERO: |
Now the condition. |
The King of Naples, being an enemy |
To me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit; |
Which was, that he, in lieu o' the premises |
Of homage and I know not how much tribute, |
Should presently extirpate me and mine |
Out of the dukedom and confer fair Milan |
With all the honours on my brother: whereon, |
A treacherous army levied, one midnight |
Fated to the purpose did Antonio open |
The gates of Milan, and, i' the dead of darkness, |
The ministers for the purpose hurried thence |
Me and thy crying self. |
MIRANDA: |
Alack, for pity! |
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