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I, not remembering how I cried out then, |
Will cry it o'er again: it is a hint |
That wrings mine eyes to't. |
PROSPERO: |
Hear a little further |
And then I'll bring thee to the present business |
Which now's upon's; without the which this story |
Were most impertinent. |
MIRANDA: |
Wherefore did they not |
That hour destroy us? |
PROSPERO: |
Well demanded, wench: |
My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not, |
So dear the love my people bore me, nor set |
A mark so bloody on the business, but |
With colours fairer painted their foul ends. |
In few, they hurried us aboard a bark, |
Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared |
A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigg'd, |
Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats |
Instinctively had quit it: there they hoist us, |
To cry to the sea that roar'd to us, to sigh |
To the winds whose pity, sighing back again, |
Did us but loving wrong. |
MIRANDA: |
Alack, what trouble |
Was I then to you! |
PROSPERO: |
O, a cherubim |
Thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile. |
Infused with a fortitude from heaven, |
When I have deck'd the sea with drops full salt, |
Under my burthen groan'd; which raised in me |
An undergoing stomach, to bear up |
Against what should ensue. |
MIRANDA: |
How came we ashore? |
PROSPERO: |
By Providence divine. |
Some food we had and some fresh water that |
A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo, |
Out of his charity, being then appointed |
Master of this design, did give us, with |
Rich garments, linens, stuffs and necessaries, |
Which since have steaded much; so, of his gentleness, |
Knowing I loved my books, he furnish'd me |
From mine own library with volumes that |
I prize above my dukedom. |
MIRANDA: |
Would I might |
But ever see that man! |
PROSPERO: |
Now I arise: |
Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow. |
Here in this island we arrived; and here |
Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit |
Than other princesses can that have more time |
For vainer hours and tutors not so careful. |
MIRANDA: |
Heavens thank you for't! And now, I pray you, sir, |
For still 'tis beating in my mind, your reason |
For raising this sea-storm? |
PROSPERO: |
Know thus far forth. |
By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune, |
Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies |
Brought to this shore; and by my prescience |
I find my zenith doth depend upon |
A most auspicious star, whose influence |
If now I court not but omit, my fortunes |
Will ever after droop. Here cease more questions: |
Thou art inclined to sleep; 'tis a good dulness, |
And give it way: I know thou canst not choose. |
Come away, servant, come. I am ready now. |
Approach, my Ariel, come. |
ARIEL: |
All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come |
To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, |
To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride |
On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task |
Ariel and all his quality. |
PROSPERO: |
Hast thou, spirit, |
Perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee? |
ARIEL: |
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