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| <H3>SCENE II. The island. Before PROSPERO'S cell.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1>If by your art, my dearest father, you have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffered</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>With those that I saw suffer: a brave vessel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>Against my very heart. Poor souls, they perish'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>Had I been any god of power, I would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>It should the good ship so have swallow'd and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>The fraughting souls within her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=14>Be collected:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>No more amazement: tell your piteous heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>There's no harm done.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=17>O, woe the day!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=18>No harm.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>I have done nothing but in care of thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>Art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>Of whence I am, nor that I am more better</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>And thy no greater father.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=25>More to know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>Did never meddle with my thoughts.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=27>'Tis time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>I should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>And pluck my magic garment from me. So:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Lays down his mantle</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=30>Lie there, my art. Wipe thou thine eyes; have comfort.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>The very virtue of compassion in thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>I have with such provision in mine art</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>So safely ordered that there is no soul--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>No, not so much perdition as an hair</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>Betid to any creature in the vessel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. Sit down;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>For thou must now know farther.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=39>You have often</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>Begun to tell me what I am, but stopp'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>And left me to a bootless inquisition,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>Concluding 'Stay: not yet.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=43>The hour's now come;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>The very minute bids thee ope thine ear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>Obey and be attentive. Canst thou remember</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>A time before we came unto this cell?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>Out three years old.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=49>Certainly, sir, I can.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=50>By what? by any other house or person?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>Of any thing the image tell me that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>Hath kept with thy remembrance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=53>'Tis far off</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>And rather like a dream than an assurance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>That my remembrance warrants. Had I not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>Four or five women once that tended me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=57>Thou hadst, and more, Miranda. But how is it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=59>In the dark backward and abysm of time?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>If thou remember'st aught ere thou camest here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=61>How thou camest here thou mayst.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=62>But that I do not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=63>Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=64>Thy father was the Duke of Milan and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>A prince of power.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=66> Sir, are not you my father?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=67>Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>She said thou wast my daughter; and thy father</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=69>Was Duke of Milan; and thou his only heir</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=70>And princess no worse issued.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=71>O the heavens!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=72>What foul play had we, that we came from thence?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=73>Or blessed was't we did?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=74>Both, both, my girl:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=75>By foul play, as thou say'st, were we heaved thence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=76>But blessedly holp hither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=77>O, my heart bleeds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=78>To think o' the teen that I have turn'd you to,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=79>Which is from my remembrance! Please you, farther.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=80>My brother and thy uncle, call'd Antonio--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=81>I pray thee, mark me--that a brother should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=82>Be so perfidious!--he whom next thyself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=83>Of all the world I loved and to him put</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=84>The manage of my state; as at that time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=85>Through all the signories it was the first</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=86>And Prospero the prime duke, being so reputed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=87>In dignity, and for the liberal arts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=88>Without a parallel; those being all my study,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=89>The government I cast upon my brother</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=90>And to my state grew stranger, being transported</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=91>And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=92>Dost thou attend me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=93>Sir, most heedfully.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=94>Being once perfected how to grant suits,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=95>How to deny them, who to advance and who</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=96>To trash for over-topping, new created</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=97>The creatures that were mine, I say, or changed 'em,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=98>Or else new form'd 'em; having both the key</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=99>Of officer and office, set all hearts i' the state</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=100>To what tune pleased his ear; that now he was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=101>The ivy which had hid my princely trunk,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=102>And suck'd my verdure out on't. Thou attend'st not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=103>O, good sir, I do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=104> I pray thee, mark me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=105>I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=106>To closeness and the bettering of my mind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=107>With that which, but by being so retired,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=108>O'er-prized all popular rate, in my false brother</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=109>Awaked an evil nature; and my trust,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=110>Like a good parent, did beget of him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=111>A falsehood in its contrary as great</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=112>As my trust was; which had indeed no limit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=113>A confidence sans bound. He being thus lorded,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=114>Not only with what my revenue yielded,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=115>But what my power might else exact, like one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=116>Who having into truth, by telling of it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=117>Made such a sinner of his memory,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=118>To credit his own lie, he did believe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=119>He was indeed the duke; out o' the substitution</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=120>And executing the outward face of royalty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=121>With all prerogative: hence his ambition growing--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=122>Dost thou hear?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=123> Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=124>To have no screen between this part he play'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=125>And him he play'd it for, he needs will be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=126>Absolute Milan. Me, poor man, my library</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=127>Was dukedom large enough: of temporal royalties</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=128>He thinks me now incapable; confederates--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=129>So dry he was for sway--wi' the King of Naples</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=130>To give him annual tribute, do him homage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=131>Subject his coronet to his crown and bend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=132>The dukedom yet unbow'd--alas, poor Milan!--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=133>To most ignoble stooping.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=134>O the heavens!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=135>Mark his condition and the event; then tell me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=136>If this might be a brother.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=137>I should sin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=138>To think but nobly of my grandmother:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=139>Good wombs have borne bad sons.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=140>Now the condition.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=141>The King of Naples, being an enemy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=142>To me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=143>Which was, that he, in lieu o' the premises</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=144>Of homage and I know not how much tribute,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=145>Should presently extirpate me and mine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=146>Out of the dukedom and confer fair Milan</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=147>With all the honours on my brother: whereon,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=148>A treacherous army levied, one midnight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=149>Fated to the purpose did Antonio open</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=150>The gates of Milan, and, i' the dead of darkness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=151>The ministers for the purpose hurried thence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=152>Me and thy crying self.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=153>Alack, for pity!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=154>I, not remembering how I cried out then,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=155>Will cry it o'er again: it is a hint</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=156>That wrings mine eyes to't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=157>Hear a little further</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=158>And then I'll bring thee to the present business</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=159>Which now's upon's; without the which this story</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=160>Were most impertinent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=161>Wherefore did they not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=162>That hour destroy us?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=163>Well demanded, wench:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=164>My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=165>So dear the love my people bore me, nor set</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=166>A mark so bloody on the business, but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=167>With colours fairer painted their foul ends.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=168>In few, they hurried us aboard a bark,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=169>Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=170>A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigg'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=171>Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=172>Instinctively had quit it: there they hoist us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=173>To cry to the sea that roar'd to us, to sigh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=174>To the winds whose pity, sighing back again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=175>Did us but loving wrong.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=176>Alack, what trouble</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=177>Was I then to you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=178> O, a cherubim</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=179>Thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=180>Infused with a fortitude from heaven,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=181>When I have deck'd the sea with drops full salt,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=182>Under my burthen groan'd; which raised in me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=183>An undergoing stomach, to bear up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=184>Against what should ensue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=185>How came we ashore?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=186>By Providence divine.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=187>Some food we had and some fresh water that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=188>A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=189>Out of his charity, being then appointed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=190>Master of this design, did give us, with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=191>Rich garments, linens, stuffs and necessaries,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=192>Which since have steaded much; so, of his gentleness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=193>Knowing I loved my books, he furnish'd me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=194>From mine own library with volumes that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=195>I prize above my dukedom.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=196>Would I might</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=197>But ever see that man!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=198>Now I arise:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Resumes his mantle</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=199>Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=200>Here in this island we arrived; and here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=201>Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=202>Than other princesses can that have more time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=203>For vainer hours and tutors not so careful.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=204>Heavens thank you for't! And now, I pray you, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=205>For still 'tis beating in my mind, your reason</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=206>For raising this sea-storm?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=207>Know thus far forth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=208>By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=209>Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=210>Brought to this shore; and by my prescience</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=211>I find my zenith doth depend upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=212>A most auspicious star, whose influence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=213>If now I court not but omit, my fortunes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=214>Will ever after droop. Here cease more questions:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=215>Thou art inclined to sleep; 'tis a good dulness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=216>And give it way: I know thou canst not choose.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>MIRANDA sleeps</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=217>Come away, servant, come. I am ready now.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=218>Approach, my Ariel, come.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter ARIEL</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=219>All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=220>To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=221>To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=222>On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=223>Ariel and all his quality.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=224>Hast thou, spirit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=225>Perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=226>To every article.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=227>I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=228>Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=229>I flamed amazement: sometime I'ld divide,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=230>And burn in many places; on the topmast,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=231>The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=232>Then meet and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=233>O' the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=234>And sight-outrunning were not; the fire and cracks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=235>Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=236>Seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=237>Yea, his dread trident shake.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=238>My brave spirit!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=239>Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=240>Would not infect his reason?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=241>Not a soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=242>But felt a fever of the mad and play'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=243>Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=244>Plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=245>Then all afire with me: the king's son, Ferdinand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=246>With hair up-staring,--then like reeds, not hair,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=247>Was the first man that leap'd; cried, 'Hell is empty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=248>And all the devils are here.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=249>Why that's my spirit!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=250>But was not this nigh shore?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=251>Close by, my master.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=252>But are they, Ariel, safe?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=253>Not a hair perish'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=254>On their sustaining garments not a blemish,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=255>But fresher than before: and, as thou badest me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=256>In troops I have dispersed them 'bout the isle.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=257>The king's son have I landed by himself;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=258>Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=259>In an odd angle of the isle and sitting,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=260>His arms in this sad knot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=261>Of the king's ship</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=262>The mariners say how thou hast disposed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=263>And all the rest o' the fleet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=264>Safely in harbour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=265>Is the king's ship; in the deep nook, where once</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=266>Thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=267>From the still-vex'd Bermoothes, there she's hid:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=268>The mariners all under hatches stow'd;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=269>Who, with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=270>I have left asleep; and for the rest o' the fleet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=271>Which I dispersed, they all have met again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=272>And are upon the Mediterranean flote,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=273>Bound sadly home for Naples,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=274>Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=275>And his great person perish.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=276>Ariel, thy charge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=277>Exactly is perform'd: but there's more work.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=278>What is the time o' the day?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=279>Past the mid season.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=280>At least two glasses. The time 'twixt six and now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=281>Must by us both be spent most preciously.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=282>Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=283>Let me remember thee what thou hast promised,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=284>Which is not yet perform'd me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=285>How now? moody?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=286>What is't thou canst demand?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=287>My liberty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=288>Before the time be out? no more!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=289>I prithee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=290>Remember I have done thee worthy service;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=291>Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=292>Without or grudge or grumblings: thou didst promise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=293>To bate me a full year.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=294>Dost thou forget</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=295>From what a torment I did free thee?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=296>No.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=297>Thou dost, and think'st it much to tread the ooze</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=298>Of the salt deep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=299>To run upon the sharp wind of the north,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=300>To do me business in the veins o' the earth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=301>When it is baked with frost.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=302>I do not, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=303>Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=304>The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=305>Was grown into a hoop? hast thou forgot her?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=306>No, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=307> Thou hast. Where was she born? speak; tell me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=308>Sir, in Argier.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=309> O, was she so? I must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=310>Once in a month recount what thou hast been,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=311>Which thou forget'st. This damn'd witch Sycorax,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=312>For mischiefs manifold and sorceries terrible</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=313>To enter human hearing, from Argier,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=314>Thou know'st, was banish'd: for one thing she did</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=315>They would not take her life. Is not this true?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=316>Ay, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=317>This blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=318>And here was left by the sailors. Thou, my slave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=319>As thou report'st thyself, wast then her servant;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=320>And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=321>To act her earthy and abhorr'd commands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=322>Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=323>By help of her more potent ministers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=324>And in her most unmitigable rage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=325>Into a cloven pine; within which rift</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=326>Imprison'd thou didst painfully remain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=327>A dozen years; within which space she died</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=328>And left thee there; where thou didst vent thy groans</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=329>As fast as mill-wheels strike. Then was this island--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=330>Save for the son that she did litter here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=331>A freckled whelp hag-born--not honour'd with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=332>A human shape.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=333> Yes, Caliban her son.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=334>Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=335>Whom now I keep in service. Thou best know'st</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=336>What torment I did find thee in; thy groans</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=337>Did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=338>Of ever angry bears: it was a torment</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=339>To lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=340>Could not again undo: it was mine art,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=341>When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=342>The pine and let thee out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=343>I thank thee, master.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=344>If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=345>And peg thee in his knotty entrails till</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=346>Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=347>Pardon, master;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=348>I will be correspondent to command</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=349>And do my spiriting gently.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=350>Do so, and after two days</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=351>I will discharge thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=352>That's my noble master!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=353>What shall I do? say what; what shall I do?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=354>Go make thyself like a nymph o' the sea: be subject</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=355>To no sight but thine and mine, invisible</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=356>To every eyeball else. Go take this shape</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=357>And hither come in't: go, hence with diligence!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit ARIEL</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=358>Awake, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well; Awake!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=359> The strangeness of your story put</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=360>Heaviness in me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=361> Shake it off. Come on;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=362>We'll visit Caliban my slave, who never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=363>Yields us kind answer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=364>'Tis a villain, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=365>I do not love to look on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=366>But, as 'tis,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=367>We cannot miss him: he does make our fire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=368>Fetch in our wood and serves in offices</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=369>That profit us. What, ho! slave! Caliban!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=370>Thou earth, thou! speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>CALIBAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=371>[Within] There's wood enough within.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=372>Come forth, I say! there's other business for thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=373>Come, thou tortoise! when?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter ARIEL like a water-nymph</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=374>Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=375>Hark in thine ear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=376> My lord it shall be done.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=377>Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=378>Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CALIBAN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>CALIBAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=379>As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=380>With raven's feather from unwholesome fen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=381>Drop on you both! a south-west blow on ye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=382>And blister you all o'er!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=383>For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=384>Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=385>Shall, for that vast of night that they may work,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=386>All exercise on thee; thou shalt be pinch'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=387>As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=388>Than bees that made 'em.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>CALIBAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=389>I must eat my dinner.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=390>This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=391>Which thou takest from me. When thou camest first,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=392>Thou strokedst me and madest much of me, wouldst give me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=393>Water with berries in't, and teach me how</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=394>To name the bigger light, and how the less,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=395>That burn by day and night: and then I loved thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=396>And show'd thee all the qualities o' the isle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=397>The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=398>Cursed be I that did so! All the charms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=399>Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=400>For I am all the subjects that you have,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=401>Which first was mine own king: and here you sty me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=402>In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=403>The rest o' the island.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=404>Thou most lying slave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=405>Whom stripes may move, not kindness! I have used thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=406>Filth as thou art, with human care, and lodged thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=407>In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=408>The honour of my child.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>CALIBAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=409>O ho, O ho! would't had been done!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=410>Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=411>This isle with Calibans.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=412>Abhorred slave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=413>Which any print of goodness wilt not take,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=414>Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=415>Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=416>One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=417>Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=418>A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=419>With words that made them known. But thy vile race,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=420>Though thou didst learn, had that in't which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=421>good natures</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=422>Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=423>Deservedly confined into this rock,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=424>Who hadst deserved more than a prison.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>CALIBAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=425>You taught me language; and my profit on't</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=426>Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=427>For learning me your language!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=428>Hag-seed, hence!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=429>Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou'rt best,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=430>To answer other business. Shrug'st thou, malice?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=431>If thou neglect'st or dost unwillingly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=432>What I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=433>Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=434>That beasts shall tremble at thy din.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>CALIBAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=435>No, pray thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=436>I must obey: his art is of such power,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=437>It would control my dam's god, Setebos,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=438>and make a vassal of him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=439>So, slave; hence!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit CALIBAN</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter ARIEL, invisible, playing and singing; FERDINAND following</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=440>ARIEL'S song.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=441>Come unto these yellow sands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=442>And then take hands:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=443>Courtsied when you have and kiss'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=444>The wild waves whist,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=445>Foot it featly here and there;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=446>And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=447>Hark, hark!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Burthen [dispersedly, within</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=448>The watch-dogs bark!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Burthen Bow-wow</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=449>Hark, hark! I hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=450>The strain of strutting chanticleer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=451>Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=452>Where should this music be? i' the air or the earth?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=453>It sounds no more: and sure, it waits upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=454>Some god o' the island. Sitting on a bank,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=455>Weeping again the king my father's wreck,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=456>This music crept by me upon the waters,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=457>Allaying both their fury and my passion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=458>With its sweet air: thence I have follow'd it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=459>Or it hath drawn me rather. But 'tis gone.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=460>No, it begins again.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>ARIEL sings</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=461>Full fathom five thy father lies;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=462>Of his bones are coral made;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=463>Those are pearls that were his eyes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=464>Nothing of him that doth fade</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=465>But doth suffer a sea-change</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=466>Into something rich and strange.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=467>Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Burthen Ding-dong</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=468>Hark! now I hear them,--Ding-dong, bell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=469>The ditty does remember my drown'd father.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=470>This is no mortal business, nor no sound</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=471>That the earth owes. I hear it now above me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=472>The fringed curtains of thine eye advance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=473>And say what thou seest yond.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=474>What is't? a spirit?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=475>Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=476>It carries a brave form. But 'tis a spirit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=477>No, wench; it eats and sleeps and hath such senses</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=478>As we have, such. This gallant which thou seest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=479>Was in the wreck; and, but he's something stain'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=480>With grief that's beauty's canker, thou mightst call him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=481>A goodly person: he hath lost his fellows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=482>And strays about to find 'em.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=483>I might call him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=484>A thing divine, for nothing natural</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=485>I ever saw so noble.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=486>[Aside] It goes on, I see,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=487>As my soul prompts it. Spirit, fine spirit! I'll free thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=488>Within two days for this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=489>Most sure, the goddess</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=490>On whom these airs attend! Vouchsafe my prayer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=491>May know if you remain upon this island;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=492>And that you will some good instruction give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=493>How I may bear me here: my prime request,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=494>Which I do last pronounce, is, O you wonder!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=495>If you be maid or no?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=496>No wonder, sir;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=497>But certainly a maid.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=498>My language! heavens!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=499>I am the best of them that speak this speech,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=500>Were I but where 'tis spoken.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=501>How? the best?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=502>What wert thou, if the King of Naples heard thee?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=503>A single thing, as I am now, that wonders</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=504>To hear thee speak of Naples. He does hear me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=505>And that he does I weep: myself am Naples,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=506>Who with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=507>The king my father wreck'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech111><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=508>Alack, for mercy!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech112><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=509>Yes, faith, and all his lords; the Duke of Milan</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=510>And his brave son being twain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech113><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=511>[Aside] The Duke of Milan</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=512>And his more braver daughter could control thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=513>If now 'twere fit to do't. At the first sight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=514>They have changed eyes. Delicate Ariel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=515>I'll set thee free for this.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To FERDINAND</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=516>A word, good sir;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=517>I fear you have done yourself some wrong: a word.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech114><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=518>Why speaks my father so ungently? This</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=519>Is the third man that e'er I saw, the first</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=520>That e'er I sigh'd for: pity move my father</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=521>To be inclined my way!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech115><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=522>O, if a virgin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=523>And your affection not gone forth, I'll make you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=524>The queen of Naples.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech116><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=525>Soft, sir! one word more.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=526>They are both in either's powers; but this swift business</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=527>I must uneasy make, lest too light winning</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=528>Make the prize light.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To FERDINAND</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=529>One word more; I charge thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=530>That thou attend me: thou dost here usurp</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=531>The name thou owest not; and hast put thyself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=532>Upon this island as a spy, to win it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=533>From me, the lord on't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech117><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=534>No, as I am a man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech118><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=535>There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=536>If the ill spirit have so fair a house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=537>Good things will strive to dwell with't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech119><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=538>Follow me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=539>Speak not you for him; he's a traitor. Come;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=540>I'll manacle thy neck and feet together:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=541>Sea-water shalt thou drink; thy food shall be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=542>The fresh-brook muscles, wither'd roots and husks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=543>Wherein the acorn cradled. Follow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech120><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=544>No;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=545>I will resist such entertainment till</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=546>Mine enemy has more power.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Draws, and is charmed from moving</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech121><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=547>O dear father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=548>Make not too rash a trial of him, for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=549>He's gentle and not fearful.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech122><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=550>What? I say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=551>My foot my tutor? Put thy sword up, traitor;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=552>Who makest a show but darest not strike, thy conscience</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=553>Is so possess'd with guilt: come from thy ward,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=554>For I can here disarm thee with this stick</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=555>And make thy weapon drop.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech123><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=556>Beseech you, father.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech124><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=557>Hence! hang not on my garments.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech125><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=558>Sir, have pity;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=559>I'll be his surety.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech126><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=560>Silence! one word more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=561>Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=562>An advocate for an imposter! hush!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=563>Thou think'st there is no more such shapes as he,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=564>Having seen but him and Caliban: foolish wench!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=565>To the most of men this is a Caliban</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=566>And they to him are angels.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech127><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=567>My affections</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=568>Are then most humble; I have no ambition</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=569>To see a goodlier man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech128><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=570>Come on; obey:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=571>Thy nerves are in their infancy again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=572>And have no vigour in them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech129><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=573>So they are;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=574>My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=575>My father's loss, the weakness which I feel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=576>The wreck of all my friends, nor this man's threats,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=577>To whom I am subdued, are but light to me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=578>Might I but through my prison once a day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=579>Behold this maid: all corners else o' the earth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=580>Let liberty make use of; space enough</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=581>Have I in such a prison.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech130><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=582>[Aside] It works.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To FERDINAND</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=583>Come on.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=584>Thou hast done well, fine Ariel!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To FERDINAND</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=585>Follow me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To ARIEL</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=586>Hark what thou else shalt do me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech131><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=587>Be of comfort;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=588>My father's of a better nature, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=589>Than he appears by speech: this is unwonted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=590>Which now came from him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech132><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=591>Thou shalt be free</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=592>As mountain winds: but then exactly do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=593>All points of my command.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech133><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=594>To the syllable.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech134><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=595>Come, follow. Speak not for him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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