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Wherein the acorn cradled. Follow. |
FERDINAND. No; |
I will resist such entertainment till |
Mine enemy has more power. |
[He draws, and is charmed from moving] |
MIRANDA. O dear father, |
Make not too rash a trial of him, for |
He's gentle, and not fearful. |
PROSPERO. What, I say, |
My foot my tutor? Put thy sword up, traitor; |
Who mak'st a show but dar'st not strike, thy conscience |
Is so possess'd with guilt. Come from thy ward; |
For I can here disarm thee with this stick |
And make thy weapon drop. |
MIRANDA. Beseech you, father! |
PROSPERO. Hence! Hang not on my garments. |
MIRANDA. Sir, have pity; |
I'll be his surety. |
PROSPERO. Silence! One word more |
Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What! |
An advocate for an impostor! hush! |
Thou think'st there is no more such shapes as he, |
Having seen but him and Caliban. Foolish wench! |
To th' most of men this is a Caliban, |
And they to him are angels. |
MIRANDA. My affections |
Are then most humble; I have no ambition |
To see a goodlier man. |
PROSPERO. Come on; obey. |
Thy nerves are in their infancy again, |
And have no vigour in them. |
FERDINAND. So they are; |
My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up. |
My father's loss, the weakness which I feel, |
The wreck of all my friends, nor this man's threats |
To whom I am subdu'd, are but light to me, |
Might I but through my prison once a day |
Behold this maid. All corners else o' th' earth |
Let liberty make use of; space enough |
Have I in such a prison. |
PROSPERO. [Aside] It works. [To FERDINAND] Come on.- |
Thou hast done well, fine Ariel! [To FERDINAND] Follow |
me. |
[To ARIEL] Hark what thou else shalt do me. |
MIRANDA. Be of comfort; |
My father's of a better nature, sir, |
Than he appears by speech; this is unwonted |
Which now came from him. |
PROSPERO. [To ARIEL] Thou shalt be as free |
As mountain winds; but then exactly do |
All points of my command. |
ARIEL. To th' syllable. |
PROSPERO. [To FERDINAND] Come, follow. [To MIRANDA] |
Speak not for him. Exeunt |
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ACT II. SCENE 1 |
Another part of the island |
Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and OTHERS |
GONZALO. Beseech you, sir, be merry; you have cause, |
So have we all, of joy; for our escape |
Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of woe |
Is common; every day, some sailor's wife, |
The masters of some merchant, and the merchant, |
Have just our theme of woe; but for the miracle, |
I mean our preservation, few in millions |
Can speak like us. Then wisely, good sir, weigh |
Our sorrow with our comfort. |
ALONSO. Prithee, peace. |
SEBASTIAN. He receives comfort like cold porridge. |
ANTONIO. The visitor will not give him o'er so. |
SEBASTIAN. Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by |
and by it will strike. |
GONZALO. Sir- |
SEBASTIAN. One-Tell. |
GONZALO. When every grief is entertain'd that's offer'd, |
Comes to th' entertainer- |
SEBASTIAN. A dollar. |
GONZALO. Dolour comes to him, indeed; you have spoken |
truer than you purpos'd. |
SEBASTIAN. You have taken it wiselier than I meant you |
should. |
GONZALO. Therefore, my lord- |
ANTONIO. Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue! |
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