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