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MIRANDA. Sweet lord, you play me false. |
FERDINAND. No, my dearest love, |
I would not for the world. |
MIRANDA. Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle |
And I would call it fair play. |
ALONSO. If this prove |
A vision of the island, one dear son |
Shall I twice lose. |
SEBASTIAN. A most high miracle! |
FERDINAND. Though the seas threaten, they are merciful; |
I have curs'd them without cause. [Kneels] |
ALONSO. Now all the blessings |
Of a glad father compass thee about! |
Arise, and say how thou cam'st here. |
MIRANDA. O, wonder! |
How many goodly creatures are there here! |
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world |
That has such people in't! |
PROSPERO. 'Tis new to thee. |
ALONSO. What is this maid with whom thou wast at play? |
Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours; |
Is she the goddess that hath sever'd us, |
And brought us thus together? |
FERDINAND. Sir, she is mortal; |
But by immortal Providence she's mine. |
I chose her when I could not ask my father |
For his advice, nor thought I had one. She |
Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan, |
Of whom so often I have heard renown |
But never saw before; of whom I have |
Receiv'd a second life; and second father |
This lady makes him to me. |
ALONSO. I am hers. |
But, O, how oddly will it sound that I |
Must ask my child forgiveness! |
PROSPERO. There, sir, stop; |
Let us not burden our remembrances with |
A heaviness that's gone. |
GONZALO. I have inly wept, |
Or should have spoke ere this. Look down, you gods, |
And on this couple drop a blessed crown; |
For it is you that have chalk'd forth the way |
Which brought us hither. |
ALONSO. I say, Amen, Gonzalo! |
GONZALO. Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue |
Should become Kings of Naples? O, rejoice |
Beyond a common joy, and set it down |
With gold on lasting pillars: in one voyage |
Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis; |
And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife |
Where he himself was lost; Prospero his dukedom |
In a poor isle; and all of us ourselves |
When no man was his own. |
ALONSO. [To FERDINAND and MIRANDA] Give me your |
hands. |
Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart |
That doth not wish you joy. |
GONZALO. Be it so. Amen! |
Re-enter ARIEL, with the MASTER and BOATSWAIN |
amazedly following |
O look, sir; look, sir! Here is more of us! |
I prophesied, if a gallows were on land, |
This fellow could not drown. Now, blasphemy, |
That swear'st grace o'erboard, not an oath on shore? |
Hast thou no mouth by land? What is the news? |
BOATSWAIN. The best news is that we have safely found |
Our King and company; the next, our ship- |
Which but three glasses since we gave out split- |
Is tight and yare, and bravely rigg'd, as when |
We first put out to sea. |
ARIEL. [Aside to PROSPERO] Sir, all this service |
Have I done since I went. |
PROSPERO. [Aside to ARIEL] My tricksy spirit! |
ALONSO. These are not natural events; they strengthen |
From strange to stranger. Say, how came you hither? |
BOATSWAIN. If I did think, sir, I were well awake, |
I'd strive to tell you. We were dead of sleep, |
And-how, we know not-all clapp'd under hatches; |
Where, but even now, with strange and several noises |
Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling chains, |
And moe diversity of sounds, all horrible, |
We were awak'd; straightway at liberty; |
Where we, in all her trim, freshly beheld |
Our royal, good, and gallant ship; our master |
Cap'ring to eye her. On a trice, so please you, |
Even in a dream, were we divided from them, |
And were brought moping hither. |
ARIEL. [Aside to PROSPERO] Was't well done? |
PROSPERO. [Aside to ARIEL] Bravely, my diligence. Thou |
shalt be free. |
ALONSO. This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod; |
And there is in this business more than nature |
Was ever conduct of. Some oracle |
Must rectify our knowledge. |
PROSPERO. Sir, my liege, |
Do not infest your mind with beating on |
The strangeness of this business; at pick'd leisure, |
Which shall be shortly, single I'll resolve you, |
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