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| <H3>SCENE I. Before PROSPERO'S cell.</H3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter PROSPERO in his magic robes, and ARIEL</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1>Now does my project gather to a head:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>My charms crack not; my spirits obey; and time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>Goes upright with his carriage. How's the day?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=4>On the sixth hour; at which time, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>You said our work should cease.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=6>I did say so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>When first I raised the tempest. Say, my spirit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>How fares the king and's followers?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=9>Confined together</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>In the same fashion as you gave in charge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>Just as you left them; all prisoners, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>In the line-grove which weather-fends your cell;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>They cannot budge till your release. The king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>His brother and yours, abide all three distracted</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>And the remainder mourning over them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>Brimful of sorrow and dismay; but chiefly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>Him that you term'd, sir, 'The good old lord Gonzalo;'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>His tears run down his beard, like winter's drops</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>From eaves of reeds. Your charm so strongly works 'em</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>That if you now beheld them, your affections</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>Would become tender.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=22>Dost thou think so, spirit?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=23>Mine would, sir, were I human.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=24>And mine shall.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>Of their afflictions, and shall not myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>One of their kind, that relish all as sharply,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>Yet with my nobler reason 'gaitist my fury</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>Do I take part: the rarer action is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>The sole drift of my purpose doth extend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>Not a frown further. Go release them, Ariel:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>And they shall be themselves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=37>I'll fetch them, sir.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=38>Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>And ye that on the sands with printless foot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>When he comes back; you demi-puppets that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>The pine and cedar: graves at my command</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>By my so potent art. But this rough magic</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>I here abjure, and, when I have required</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>Some heavenly music, which even now I do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>To work mine end upon their senses that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=59>This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=61>And deeper than did ever plummet sound</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=62>I'll drown my book.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Solemn music</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter ARIEL before: then ALONSO, with a frantic gesture, attended by GONZALO; SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO in like manner, attended by ADRIAN and FRANCISCO they all enter the circle which PROSPERO had made, and there stand charmed; which PROSPERO observing, speaks:</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=63>A solemn air and the best comforter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=64>To an unsettled fancy cure thy brains,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>Now useless, boil'd within thy skull! There stand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=66>For you are spell-stopp'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=67>Holy Gonzalo, honourable man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>Mine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=69>Fall fellowly drops. The charm dissolves apace,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=70>And as the morning steals upon the night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=71>Melting the darkness, so their rising senses</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=72>Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=73>Their clearer reason. O good Gonzalo,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=74>My true preserver, and a loyal sir</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=75>To him you follow'st! I will pay thy graces</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=76>Home both in word and deed. Most cruelly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=77>Didst thou, Alonso, use me and my daughter:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=78>Thy brother was a furtherer in the act.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=79>Thou art pinch'd fort now, Sebastian. Flesh and blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=80>You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=81>Expell'd remorse and nature; who, with Sebastian,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=82>Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=83>Would here have kill'd your king; I do forgive thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=84>Unnatural though thou art. Their understanding</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=85>Begins to swell, and the approaching tide</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=86>Will shortly fill the reasonable shore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=87>That now lies foul and muddy. Not one of them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=88>That yet looks on me, or would know me Ariel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=89>Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=90>I will discase me, and myself present</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=91>As I was sometime Milan: quickly, spirit;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=92>Thou shalt ere long be free.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>ARIEL sings and helps to attire him</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=93>Where the bee sucks. there suck I:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=94>In a cowslip's bell I lie;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=95>There I couch when owls do cry.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=96>On the bat's back I do fly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=97>After summer merrily.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=98>Merrily, merrily shall I live now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=99>Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=100>Why, that's my dainty Ariel! I shall miss thee:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=101>But yet thou shalt have freedom: so, so, so.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=102>To the king's ship, invisible as thou art:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=103>There shalt thou find the mariners asleep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=104>Under the hatches; the master and the boatswain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=105>Being awake, enforce them to this place,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=106>And presently, I prithee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=107>I drink the air before me, and return</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=108>Or ere your pulse twice beat.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>GONZALO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=109>All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=110>Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=111>Out of this fearful country!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=112>Behold, sir king,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=113>The wronged Duke of Milan, Prospero:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=114>For more assurance that a living prince</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=115>Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=116>And to thee and thy company I bid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=117>A hearty welcome.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>ALONSO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=118> Whether thou best he or no,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=119>Or some enchanted trifle to abuse me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=120>As late I have been, I not know: thy pulse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=121>Beats as of flesh and blood; and, since I saw thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=122>The affliction of my mind amends, with which,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=123>I fear, a madness held me: this must crave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=124>An if this be at all, a most strange story.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=125>Thy dukedom I resign and do entreat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=126>Thou pardon me my wrongs. But how should Prospero</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=127>Be living and be here?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=128>First, noble friend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=129>Let me embrace thine age, whose honour cannot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=130>Be measured or confined.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>GONZALO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=131>Whether this be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=132>Or be not, I'll not swear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=133>You do yet taste</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=134>Some subtilties o' the isle, that will not let you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=135>Believe things certain. Welcome, my friends all!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside to SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=136>But you, my brace of lords, were I so minded,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=137>I here could pluck his highness' frown upon you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=138>And justify you traitors: at this time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=139>I will tell no tales.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=140>[Aside] The devil speaks in him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=141>No.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=142>For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=143>Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=144>Thy rankest fault; all of them; and require</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=145>My dukedom of thee, which perforce, I know,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=146>Thou must restore.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>ALONSO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=147> If thou be'st Prospero,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=148>Give us particulars of thy preservation;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=149>How thou hast met us here, who three hours since</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=150>Were wreck'd upon this shore; where I have lost--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=151>How sharp the point of this remembrance is!--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=152>My dear son Ferdinand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=153>I am woe for't, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>ALONSO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=154>Irreparable is the loss, and patience</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=155>Says it is past her cure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=156>I rather think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=157>You have not sought her help, of whose soft grace</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=158>For the like loss I have her sovereign aid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=159>And rest myself content.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>ALONSO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=160>You the like loss!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=161>As great to me as late; and, supportable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=162>To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=163>Than you may call to comfort you, for I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=164>Have lost my daughter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>ALONSO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=165>A daughter?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=166>O heavens, that they were living both in Naples,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=167>The king and queen there! that they were, I wish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=168>Myself were mudded in that oozy bed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=169>Where my son lies. When did you lose your daughter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=170>In this last tempest. I perceive these lords</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=171>At this encounter do so much admire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=172>That they devour their reason and scarce think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=173>Their eyes do offices of truth, their words</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=174>Are natural breath: but, howsoe'er you have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=175>Been justled from your senses, know for certain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=176>That I am Prospero and that very duke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=177>Which was thrust forth of Milan, who most strangely</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=178>Upon this shore, where you were wreck'd, was landed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=179>To be the lord on't. No more yet of this;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=180>For 'tis a chronicle of day by day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=181>Not a relation for a breakfast nor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=182>Befitting this first meeting. Welcome, sir;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=183>This cell's my court: here have I few attendants</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=184>And subjects none abroad: pray you, look in.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=185>My dukedom since you have given me again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=186>I will requite you with as good a thing;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=187>At least bring forth a wonder, to content ye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=188>As much as me my dukedom.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Here PROSPERO discovers FERDINAND and MIRANDA playing at chess</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=189>Sweet lord, you play me false.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=190>No, my dear'st love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=191>I would not for the world.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=192>Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=193>And I would call it, fair play.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>ALONSO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=194>If this prove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=195>A vision of the Island, one dear son</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=196>Shall I twice lose.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=197>A most high miracle!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=198>Though the seas threaten, they are merciful;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=199>I have cursed them without cause.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Kneels</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>ALONSO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=200>Now all the blessings</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=201>Of a glad father compass thee about!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=202>Arise, and say how thou camest here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>MIRANDA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=203>O, wonder!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=204>How many goodly creatures are there here!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=205>How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=206>That has such people in't!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=207>'Tis new to thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>ALONSO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=208>What is this maid with whom thou wast at play?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=209>Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=210>Is she the goddess that hath sever'd us,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=211>And brought us thus together?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>FERDINAND</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=212>Sir, she is mortal;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=213>But by immortal Providence she's mine:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=214>I chose her when I could not ask my father</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=215>For his advice, nor thought I had one. She</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=216>Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=217>Of whom so often I have heard renown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=218>But never saw before; of whom I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=219>Received a second life; and second father</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=220>This lady makes him to me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>ALONSO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=221>I am hers:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=222>But, O, how oddly will it sound that I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=223>Must ask my child forgiveness!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=224>There, sir, stop:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=225>Let us not burthen our remembrance with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=226>A heaviness that's gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>GONZALO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=227>I have inly wept,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=228>Or should have spoke ere this. Look down, you god,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=229>And on this couple drop a blessed crown!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=230>For it is you that have chalk'd forth the way</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=231>Which brought us hither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>ALONSO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=232>I say, Amen, Gonzalo!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>GONZALO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=233>Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=234>Should become kings of Naples? O, rejoice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=235>Beyond a common joy, and set it down</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=236>With gold on lasting pillars: In one voyage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=237>Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=238>And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=239>Where he himself was lost, Prospero his dukedom</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=240>In a poor isle and all of us ourselves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=241>When no man was his own.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>ALONSO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=242>[To FERDINAND and MIRANDA] Give me your hands:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=243>Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=244>That doth not wish you joy!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>GONZALO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=245>Be it so! Amen!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter ARIEL, with the Master and Boatswain amazedly following</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=246>O, look, sir, look, sir! here is more of us:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=247>I prophesied, if a gallows were on land,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=248>This fellow could not drown. Now, blasphemy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=249>That swear'st grace o'erboard, not an oath on shore?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=250>Hast thou no mouth by land? What is the news?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>Boatswain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=251>The best news is, that we have safely found</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=252>Our king and company; the next, our ship--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=253>Which, but three glasses since, we gave out split--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=254>Is tight and yare and bravely rigg'd as when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=255>We first put out to sea.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=256>[Aside to PROSPERO] Sir, all this service</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=257>Have I done since I went.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=258>[Aside to ARIEL] My tricksy spirit!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>ALONSO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=259>These are not natural events; they strengthen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=260>From strange to stranger. Say, how came you hither?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>Boatswain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=261>If I did think, sir, I were well awake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=262>I'ld strive to tell you. We were dead of sleep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=263>And--how we know not--all clapp'd under hatches;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=264>Where but even now with strange and several noises</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=265>Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling chains,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=266>And more diversity of sounds, all horrible,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=267>We were awaked; straightway, at liberty;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=268>Where we, in all her trim, freshly beheld</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=269>Our royal, good and gallant ship, our master</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=270>Capering to eye her: on a trice, so please you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=271>Even in a dream, were we divided from them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=272>And were brought moping hither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>ARIEL</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=273>[Aside to PROSPERO] Was't well done?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=274>[Aside to ARIEL] Bravely, my diligence. Thou shalt be free.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>ALONSO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=275>This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=276>And there is in this business more than nature</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=277>Was ever conduct of: some oracle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=278>Must rectify our knowledge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=279>Sir, my liege,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=280>Do not infest your mind with beating on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=281>The strangeness of this business; at pick'd leisure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=282>Which shall be shortly, single I'll resolve you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=283>Which to you shall seem probable, of every</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=284>These happen'd accidents; till when, be cheerful</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=285>And think of each thing well.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside to ARIEL</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=286>Come hither, spirit:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=287>Set Caliban and his companions free;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=288>Untie the spell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit ARIEL</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=289>How fares my gracious sir?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=290>There are yet missing of your company</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=291>Some few odd lads that you remember not.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter ARIEL, driving in CALIBAN, STEPHANO and TRINCULO, in their stolen apparel</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>STEPHANO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=292>Every man shift for all the rest, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=293>let no man take care for himself; for all is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=294>but fortune. Coragio, bully-monster, coragio!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>TRINCULO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=295>If these be true spies which I wear in my head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=296>here's a goodly sight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>CALIBAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=297>O Setebos, these be brave spirits indeed!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=298>How fine my master is! I am afraid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=299>He will chastise me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=300>Ha, ha!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=301>What things are these, my lord Antonio?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=302>Will money buy 'em?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=303>Very like; one of them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=304>Is a plain fish, and, no doubt, marketable.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=305>Mark but the badges of these men, my lords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=306>Then say if they be true. This mis-shapen knave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=307>His mother was a witch, and one so strong</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=308>That could control the moon, make flows and ebbs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=309>And deal in her command without her power.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=310>These three have robb'd me; and this demi-devil--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=311>For he's a bastard one--had plotted with them</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=312>To take my life. Two of these fellows you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=313>Must know and own; this thing of darkness!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=314>Acknowledge mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>CALIBAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=315> I shall be pinch'd to death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>ALONSO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=316>Is not this Stephano, my drunken butler?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=317>He is drunk now: where had he wine?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>ALONSO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=318>And Trinculo is reeling ripe: where should they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=319>Find this grand liquor that hath gilded 'em?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=320>How camest thou in this pickle?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>TRINCULO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=321>I have been in such a pickle since I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=322>saw you last that, I fear me, will never out of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=323>my bones: I shall not fear fly-blowing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=324>Why, how now, Stephano!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>STEPHANO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=325>O, touch me not; I am not Stephano, but a cramp.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=326>You'ld be king o' the isle, sirrah?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>STEPHANO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=327>I should have been a sore one then.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>ALONSO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=328>This is a strange thing as e'er I look'd on.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Pointing to Caliban</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=329>He is as disproportion'd in his manners</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=330>As in his shape. Go, sirrah, to my cell;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=331>Take with you your companions; as you look</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=332>To have my pardon, trim it handsomely.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>CALIBAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=333>Ay, that I will; and I'll be wise hereafter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=334>And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=335>Was I, to take this drunkard for a god</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=336>And worship this dull fool!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=337>Go to; away!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>ALONSO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=338>Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=339>Or stole it, rather.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=340>Sir, I invite your highness and your train</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=341>To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=342>For this one night; which, part of it, I'll waste</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=343>With such discourse as, I not doubt, shall make it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=344>Go quick away; the story of my life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=345>And the particular accidents gone by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=346>Since I came to this isle: and in the morn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=347>I'll bring you to your ship and so to Naples,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=348>Where I have hope to see the nuptial</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=349>Of these our dear-beloved solemnized;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=350>And thence retire me to my Milan, where</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=351>Every third thought shall be my grave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>ALONSO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=352>I long</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=353>To hear the story of your life, which must</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=354>Take the ear strangely.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>PROSPERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=355>I'll deliver all;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=356>And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=357>And sail so expeditious that shall catch</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=358>Your royal fleet far off.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside to ARIEL</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=359>My Ariel, chick,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=360>That is thy charge: then to the elements</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=361>Be free, and fare thou well! Please you, draw near.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=362>EPILOGUE</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=363>SPOKEN BY PROSPERO</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=364>Now my charms are all o'erthrown,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=365>And what strength I have's mine own,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=366>Which is most faint: now, 'tis true,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=367>I must be here confined by you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=368>Or sent to Naples. Let me not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=369>Since I have my dukedom got</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=370>And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=371>In this bare island by your spell;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=372>But release me from my bands</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=373>With the help of your good hands:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=374>Gentle breath of yours my sails</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=375>Must fill, or else my project fails,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=376>Which was to please. Now I want</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=377>Spirits to enforce, art to enchant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=378>And my ending is despair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=379>Unless I be relieved by prayer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=380>Which pierces so that it assaults</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=381>Mercy itself and frees all faults.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=382>As you from crimes would pardon'd be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=383>Let your indulgence set me free.</A><br> | |