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PROSPERO: |
Dost thou forget |
From what a torment I did free thee? |
ARIEL: |
No. |
PROSPERO: |
Thou dost, and think'st it much to tread the ooze |
Of the salt deep, |
To run upon the sharp wind of the north, |
To do me business in the veins o' the earth |
When it is baked with frost. |
ARIEL: |
I do not, sir. |
PROSPERO: |
Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot |
The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy |
Was grown into a hoop? hast thou forgot her? |
ARIEL: |
No, sir. |
PROSPERO: |
Thou hast. Where was she born? speak; tell me. |
ARIEL: |
Sir, in Argier. |
PROSPERO: |
O, was she so? I must |
Once in a month recount what thou hast been, |
Which thou forget'st. This damn'd witch Sycorax, |
For mischiefs manifold and sorceries terrible |
To enter human hearing, from Argier, |
Thou know'st, was banish'd: for one thing she did |
They would not take her life. Is not this true? |
ARIEL: |
Ay, sir. |
PROSPERO: |
This blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child |
And here was left by the sailors. Thou, my slave, |
As thou report'st thyself, wast then her servant; |
And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate |
To act her earthy and abhorr'd commands, |
Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee, |
By help of her more potent ministers |
And in her most unmitigable rage, |
Into a cloven pine; within which rift |
Imprison'd thou didst painfully remain |
A dozen years; within which space she died |
And left thee there; where thou didst vent thy groans |
As fast as mill-wheels strike. Then was this island-- |
Save for the son that she did litter here, |
A freckled whelp hag-born--not honour'd with |
A human shape. |
ARIEL: |
Yes, Caliban her son. |
PROSPERO: |
Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban |
Whom now I keep in service. Thou best know'st |
What torment I did find thee in; thy groans |
Did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts |
Of ever angry bears: it was a torment |
To lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax |
Could not again undo: it was mine art, |
When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape |
The pine and let thee out. |
ARIEL: |
I thank thee, master. |
PROSPERO: |
If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak |
And peg thee in his knotty entrails till |
Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters. |
ARIEL: |
Pardon, master; |
I will be correspondent to command |
And do my spiriting gently. |
PROSPERO: |
Do so, and after two days |
I will discharge thee. |
ARIEL: |
That's my noble master! |
What shall I do? say what; what shall I do? |
PROSPERO: |
Go make thyself like a nymph o' the sea: be subject |
To no sight but thine and mine, invisible |
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