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I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak, |
Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin, |
I flamed amazement: sometime I'ld divide, |
And burn in many places; on the topmast, |
The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, |
Then meet and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors |
O' the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary |
And sight-outrunning were not; the fire and cracks |
Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune |
Seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble, |
Yea, his dread trident shake. |
PROSPERO: |
My brave spirit! |
Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil |
Would not infect his reason? |
ARIEL: |
Not a soul |
But felt a fever of the mad and play'd |
Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners |
Plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel, |
Then all afire with me: the king's son, Ferdinand, |
With hair up-staring,--then like reeds, not hair,-- |
Was the first man that leap'd; cried, 'Hell is empty |
And all the devils are here.' |
PROSPERO: |
Why that's my spirit! |
But was not this nigh shore? |
ARIEL: |
Close by, my master. |
PROSPERO: |
But are they, Ariel, safe? |
ARIEL: |
Not a hair perish'd; |
On their sustaining garments not a blemish, |
But fresher than before: and, as thou badest me, |
In troops I have dispersed them 'bout the isle. |
The king's son have I landed by himself; |
Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs |
In an odd angle of the isle and sitting, |
His arms in this sad knot. |
PROSPERO: |
Of the king's ship |
The mariners say how thou hast disposed |
And all the rest o' the fleet. |
ARIEL: |
Safely in harbour |
Is the king's ship; in the deep nook, where once |
Thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew |
From the still-vex'd Bermoothes, there she's hid: |
The mariners all under hatches stow'd; |
Who, with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour, |
I have left asleep; and for the rest o' the fleet |
Which I dispersed, they all have met again |
And are upon the Mediterranean flote, |
Bound sadly home for Naples, |
Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd |
And his great person perish. |
PROSPERO: |
Ariel, thy charge |
Exactly is perform'd: but there's more work. |
What is the time o' the day? |
ARIEL: |
Past the mid season. |
PROSPERO: |
At least two glasses. The time 'twixt six and now |
Must by us both be spent most preciously. |
ARIEL: |
Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains, |
Let me remember thee what thou hast promised, |
Which is not yet perform'd me. |
PROSPERO: |
How now? moody? |
What is't thou canst demand? |
ARIEL: |
My liberty. |
PROSPERO: |
Before the time be out? no more! |
ARIEL: |
I prithee, |
Remember I have done thee worthy service; |
Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served |
Without or grudge or grumblings: thou didst promise |
To bate me a full year. |
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