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[The island. Before Prosperos cell] Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA Mir. If by your art, my dearest father, you have | |
| Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them. | |
| The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, | |
| But that the sea, mounting to the welkins cheek, | 4 |
| Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffered | |
| With those that I saw suffer! A brave vessel, | |
| Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her, | |
| Dashd all to pieces! O, the cry did knock | 8 |
| Against my very heart. Poor souls, they perishd. | |
| Had I been any god of power, I would | |
| Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere | |
| It should the good ship so have swallowd and | 12 |
| The fraughting 1 souls within her. | |
| Pros. Be collected; | |
| No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart | |
| Theres no harm done. | 16 |
| Mir. O, woe the day! | |
| Pros. No harm. | |
| I have done nothing but in care of thee, | |
| Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who | 20 |
| Art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing | |
| Of whence I am, nor that I am more better | |
| Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell, | |
| And thy no greater father. | 24 |
| Mir. More to know | |
| Did never meddle with my thoughts. | |
| Pros. Tis time | |
| I should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand, | 28 |
| And pluck my magic garment from me. So, [Lays down his mantle.] | |
| Lie there, my art. Wipe thou thine eyes; have comfort. | |
| The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touchd | |
| The very virtue of compassion in thee, | 32 |
| I have with such provision in mine art | |
| So safely ordered that there is no soul | |
| No, not so much perdition as an hair | |
| Betid to any creature in the vessel | 36 |
| Which thou heardst cry, which thou sawst sink. Sit down; | |
| For thou must now know farther. | |
| Mir. You have often | |
| Begun to tell me what I am, but stoppd | 40 |
| And left me to a bootless inquisition, | |
| Concluding, Stay, not yet. | |
| Pros. The hours now come; | |
| The very minute bids thee ope thine ear. | 44 |
| Obey and be attentive. Canst thou remember | |
| A time before we came unto this cell? | |
| I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not | |
| Out three years old. | 48 |
| Mir. Certainly, sir, I can. | |
| Pros. By what? By any other house or person? | |
| Of anything the image tell me, that | |
| Hath kept with thy remembrance. | 52 |
| Mir. Tis far off | |
| And rather like a dream than an assurance | |
| That my remembrance warrants. Had I not | |
| Four or five women once that tended me? | 56 |
| Pros. Thou hadst, and more, Miranda. But how is it | |
| That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else | |
| In the dark backward and abysm 2 of time? | |
| If thou remembrest aught ere thou camst here, | 60 |
| How thou camst here thou mayst. | |
| Mir. But that I do not. | |
| Pros. Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since, | |
| Thy father was the Duke of Milan and | 64 |
| A prince of power. | |
| Mir. Sir, are not you my father? | |
| Pros. Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and | |
| She said thou wast my daughter; and thy father | 68 |
| Was Duke of Milan, and his only heir | |
| And princess no worse issued. | |
| Mir. O the heavens! | |
| What foul play had we, that we came from thence? | 72 |
| Or blessed was t we did? | |
| Pros. Both, both, my girl. | |
| By foul play, as thou sayst, were we heavd thence, | |
| But blessedly holp hither. | 76 |
| Mir. O, my heart bleeds | |
| To think o the teen 3 that I have turnd you to, | |
| Which is from my remembrance! Please you, farther. | |
| Pros. My brother and thy uncle, calld Antonio | 80 |
| I pray thee, mark methat a brother should | |
| Be so perfidious!he whom next thyself | |
| Of all the world I lovd, and to him put | |
| The manage 4 of my state; as at that time | 84 |
| Through all the signories 5 it was the first, | |
| And Prospero the prime duke, being so reputed | |
| In dignity, and for the liberal arts | |
| Without a parallel; those being all my study, | 88 |
| The government I cast upon my brother | |
| And to my state grew stranger, being transported | |
| And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle | |
| Dost thou attend me? | 92 |
| Mir. Sir, most heedfully. | |
| Pros. Being once perfected how to grant suits, | |
| How to deny them, who to advance and who | |
| To trash for overtopping, 6 new created | 96 |
| The creatures that were mine, I say, or changd em, | |
| Or else new formd em; having both the key | |
| Of officer and office, set all hearts i the state | |
| To what tune pleasd his ear; that now he was | 100 |
| The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, | |
| And suckd my verdure out on t. Thou attendst not. | |
| Mir. O, good sir, I do. | |
| Pros. I pray thee, mark me. | 104 |
| I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated | |
| To closeness 7 and the bettering of my mind | |
| With that which, but by being so retird, | |
| Oer-prizd all popular rate, 8 in my false brother | 108 |
| Awakd an evil nature; and my trust, | |
| Like a good parent, did beget of him | |
| A falsehood, in its contrary as great | |
| As my trust was; which had indeed no limit, | 112 |
| A confidence sans 9 bound. He being thus lorded, | |
| Not only with what my revenue yielded, | |
| But what my power might else exact,like one | |
| Who having into truth, by telling of it, | 116 |
| Made such a sinner of his memory | |
| To credit his own lie,he did believe | |
| He was indeed the Duke. Out o the substitution, 10 | |
| And executing the outward face of royalty, | 120 |
| With all prerogative, hence his ambition growing | |
| Dost thou hear? | |
| Mir. Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. | |
| Pros. To have no screen between this part he playd | 124 |
| And him he playd it for, he needs will be | |
| Absolute Milan. Me, poor man!my library | |
| Was dukedom large enoughof temporal royalties | |
| He thinks me now incapable; confederates | 128 |
| So dry 11 he was for swaywi the King of Naples | |
| To give him annual tribute, do him homage, | |
| Subject his coronet to his crown, and bend | |
| The dukedom yet unbowdalas, poor Milan! | 132 |
| To most ignoble stooping. | |
| Mir. O the heavens! | |
| Pros. Mark his condition and the event, then tell me | |
| If this might be a brother. | 136 |
| Mir. I should sin | |
| To think but nobly of my grandmother. | |
| Good wombs have borne bad sons. | |
| Pros. Now the condition. | 140 |
| This King of Naples, being an enemy | |
| To me inveterate, hearkens my brothers suit; | |
| Which was, that he, in lieu o the premises 12 | |
| Of homage and I know not how much tribute, | 144 |
| Should presently extirpate me and mine | |
| Out of the dukedom, and confer fair Milan | |
| With all the honours on my brother; whereon, | |
| A treacherous army levied, one midnight | 148 |
| Fated to the purpose did Antonio open | |
| The gates of Milan; and, i the dead of darkness, | |
| The ministers for the purpose hurried thence | |
| Me and thy crying self. | 152 |
| Mir. Alack, for pity! | |
| I, not remembring how I cried out then, | |
| Will cry it oer again. It is a hint 13 | |
| That wrings mine eyes to t. | 156 |
| Pros. Hear a little further, | |
| And then Ill bring thee to the present business | |
| Which nows upon s, without the which this story | |
| Were most impertinent. 14 | 160 |
| Mir. Wherefore did they not | |
| That hour destroy us? | |
| Pros. Well demanded, wench; | |
| My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not | 164 |
| (So dear the love my people bore me) set | |
| A mark so bloody on the business; but | |
| With colours fairer painted their foul ends. | |
| In few, they hurried us aboard a bark, | 168 |
| Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared | |
| A rotten carcass of a butt, 15 not riggd, | |
| Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats | |
| Instinctively have quit it. There they hoist us, | 172 |
| To cry to the sea that roard to us, to sigh | |
| To the winds whose pity, sighing back again, | |
| Did us but loving wrong. | |
| Mir. Alack, what trouble | 176 |
| Was I then to you! | |
| Pros. O, a cherubin | |
| Thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile, | |
| Infused with a fortitude from heaven, | 180 |
| When I have deckd the sea with drops full salt, | |
| Under my burden groand; which raisd in me | |
| An undergoing 16 stomach, to bear up | |
| Against what should ensue. | 184 |
| Mir. How came we ashore? | |
| Pros. By Providence divine. | |
| Some food we had and some fresh water that | |
| A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo, | 188 |
| Out of his charity, who being then appointed | |
| Master of this design, did give us, with | |
| Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries, | |
| Which since have steaded much; 17 so, of his gentleness, | 192 |
| Knowing I lovd my books, he furnishd me | |
| From mine own library with volumes that | |
| I prize above my dukedom. | |
| Mir. Would I might | 196 |
| But ever see that man! | |
| Pros. Now I arise. [Puts on his robe.] | |
| Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow. | |
| Here in this island we arrivd; and here | 200 |
| Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit | |
| Than other princess can that have more time | |
| For vainer hours, and tutors not so careful. | |
| Mir. Heavens thank you for t! And now, I pray you, sir, | 204 |
| For still tis beating in my mind, your reason | |
| For raising this sea-storm? | |
| Pros. Know thus far forth. | |
| By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune, | 208 |
| Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies | |
| Brought to this shore; and by my prescience | |
| I find my zenith 18 doth depend upon | |
| A most auspicious star, whose influence | 212 |
| If now I court not but omit, my fortunes | |
| Will ever after droop. Here cease more questions. | |
| Thou art inclind to sleep; tis a good dulness, | |
| And give it way. I know thou canst not choose. [MIRANDA sleeps.] | 216 |
| Come away, servant, come; I am ready now. | |
| Approach, my Ariel; come. | |
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Enter ARIEL Ari. All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come | |
| To answer thy best pleasure, be t to fly, | 220 |
| To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride | |
| On the curld clouds. To thy strong bidding task | |
| Ariel and all his quality. 19 | |
| Pros. Hast thou, spirit, | 224 |
| Performd to point 20 the tempest that I bade thee? | |
| Ari. To every article. | |
| I boarded the kings ship; now on the beak, | |
| Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin, | 228 |
| I flamd amazement. Sometime Id divide, | |
| And burn in many places. On the topmast, | |
| The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, | |
| Then meet and join. Joves lightnings, the precursors | 232 |
| O the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary | |
| And sight-outrunning were not; the fire and cracks | |
| Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune | |
| Seem to besiege, and make his bold waves tremble, | 236 |
| Yea, his dread trident shake. | |
| Pros. My brave spirit! | |
| Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil 21 | |
| Would not infect his reason? | 240 |
| Ari. Not a soul | |
| But felt a fever of the mad, and playd | |
| Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners | |
| Plungd in the foaming brine and quit the vessel, | 244 |
| Then all afire with me. The Kings son, Ferdinand, | |
| With hair up-staring,then like reeds, not hair, | |
| Was the first man that leapd; cried, Hell is empty, | |
| And all the devils are here. | 248 |
| Pros. Why, thats my spirit! | |
| But was not this nigh shore? | |
| Ari. Close by, my master. | |
| Pros. But are they, Ariel, safe? | 252 |
| Ari. Not a hair perishd; | |
| On their sustaining garments not a blemish, | |
| But fresher than before; and, as thou badst me, | |
| In troops I have dispersd them bout the isle. | 256 |
| The Kings son have I landed by himself, | |
| Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs | |
| In an odd angle of the isle, and sitting, | |
| His arms in this sad knot. | 260 |
| Pros. Of the Kings ship | |
| The mariners say how thou hast disposd, | |
| And all the rest o the fleet. | |
| Ari. Safely in harbour | 264 |
| Is the Kings ship; in the deep nook, where once | |
| Thou calldst me up at midnight to fetch dew | |
| From the still-vexd Bermoothes, there shes hid; | |
| The mariners all under hatches stowd, | 268 |
| Who, with a charm joind to their suffred labour, | |
| I have left asleep; and for the rest o the fleet, | |
| Which I dispersd, they all have met again, | |
| And are upon the Mediterranean float 22 | 272 |
| Bound sadly home for Naples, | |
| Supposing that they saw the Kings ship wreckd | |
| And his great person perish. | |
| Pros. Ariel, thy charge | 276 |
| Exactly is performd; but theres more work. | |
| What is the time o the day? | |
| Ari. Past the mid season. | |
| Pros. At least two glasses. The time twixt six and now Must by us both be spent most preciously. | 280 |
| Ari. Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains, | |
| Let me remember thee what thou hast promisd, | |
| Which is not yet performd me. | |
| Pros. How now? moody? | 284 |
| What is t thou canst demand? | |
| Ari. My liberty. | |
| Pros. Before the time be out? No more! | |
| Ari. I prithee, | 288 |
| Remember I have done thee worthy service, | |
| Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, servd | |
| Without or grudge or grumblings. Thou did promise | |
| To bate 23 me a full year. | 292 |
| Pros. Dost thou forget | |
| From what a torment I did free thee? | |
| Ari. No. | |
| Pros. Thou dost, and thinkst it much to tread the ooze | 296 |
| Of the salt deep, | |
| To run upon the sharp wind of the north, | |
| To do me business in the veins o the earth | |
| When it is bakd with frost. | 300 |
| Ari. I do not, sir. | |
| Pros. Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot | |
| The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy | |
| Was grown into a hoop? Hast thou forgot her? | 304 |
| Ari. No, sir. | |
| Pros. Thou hast. Where was she born? Speak; tell me. | |
| Ari. Sir, in Argier. 24 | |
| Pros. O, was she so? I must | 308 |
| Once in a month recount what thou hast been, | |
| Which thou forgetst. This damnd witch Sycorax, | |
| For mischiefs manifold and sorceries terrible | |
| To enter human hearing, from Argier, | 312 |
| Thou knowst, was banishd; for one thing she did | |
| They would not take her life. Is not this true? | |
| Ari. Ay, sir. | |
| Pros. This blue-eyd hag was hither brought with child, | 316 |
| And here was left by the sailors. Thou, my slave, | |
| As thou reportst thyself, was then her servant; | |
| And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate | |
| To act her earthy and abhorrd commands, | 320 |
| Refusing her grand hests, 25 she did confine thee, | |
| By help of her more potent ministers | |
| And in her most unmitigable rage, | |
| Into a cloven pine; within which rift | 324 |
| Imprisond thou didst painfully remain | |
| A dozen years; within which space she died | |
| And left thee there, where thou didst vent thy groans | |
| As fast as mill-wheels strike. Then was this island | 328 |
| Save for the son that she did litter here, | |
| A freckld whelp, hag-born,not honourd with | |
| A human shape. | |
| Ari. Yes, Caliban her son. | 332 |
| Pros. Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban | |
| Whom now I keep in service. Thou best knowst | |
| What torment I did find thee in; thy groans | |
| Did make wolves howl, and penetrate the breasts | 336 |
| Of ever angry bears. It was a torment | |
| To lay upon the damnd, which Sycorax | |
| Could not again undo. It was mine art, | |
| When I arrivd and heard thee, that made gape | 340 |
| The pine, and let thee out. | |
| Ari. I thank thee, master. | |
| Pros. If thou more murmurst, I will rend an oak | |
| And peg thee in his knotty entrails till | 344 |
| Thou hast howld away twelve winters. | |
| Ari. Pardon, master; | |
| I will be correspondent 26 to command | |
| And do my spiriting gently. | 348 |
| Pros. Do so, and after two days | |
| I will discharge thee. | |
| Ari. Thats my noble master! | |
| What shall I do? say what. What shall I do? | 352 |
| Pros. Go make thyself like a nymph o the sea; be subject | |
| To no sight but thine and mine, invisible | |
| To every eyeball else. Go take this shape | |
| And hither come in t. Go, hence with diligence! Exit ARIEL. | 356 |
| Awake, dear heart, awake! Thou hast slept well; | |
| Awake! | |
| Mir. The strangeness of your story put | |
| Heaviness in me. | 360 |
| Pros. Shake it off. Come on, | |
| Well visit Caliban my slave, who never | |
| Yields us kind answer. | |
| Mir. Tis a villain, sir, | 364 |
| I do not love to look on. | |
| Pros. But, as tis, | |
| We cannot miss him. He does make our fire, | |
| Fetch in our wood, and serves in offices | 368 |
| That profit us. What, ho! slave! Caliban! | |
| Thou earth, thou! speak. | |
| Cal. (Within.) Theres wood enough within. | |
| Pros. Come forth, I say! theres other business for thee. | 372 |
| Come, thou tortoise! when? | |
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Re-enter ARIEL like a water-nymph Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel, | |
| Hark in thine ear. | |
| Ari. My lord, it shall be done. Exit. | 376 |
| Pros. Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself | |
| Upon thy wicked dam, come forth! | |
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Enter CALIBAN Cal. As wicked dew as eer my mother brushd | |
| With ravens feather from unwholesome fen | 380 |
| Drop on you both! A south-west blow on ye | |
| And blister you all oer! | |
| Pros. For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps, | |
| Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins 27 | 384 |
| Shall, for that vast 28 of night that they may work, | |
| All exercise on thee; thou shalt be pinchd | |
| As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging | |
| Than bees that made em. | 388 |
| Cal. I must eat my dinner. | |
| This islands mine, by Sycorax my mother, | |
| Which thou takst from me. When thou camst first | |
| Thou strokdst me and made much of me, wouldst give me | 392 |
| Water with berries in t, and teach me how | |
| To name the bigger light, and how the less, | |
| That burn by day and night; and then I lovd thee | |
| And showd thee all the qualities o the isle, | 396 |
| The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile. | |
| Cursd be I that did so! All the charms | |
| Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you! | |
| For I am all the subjects that you have, | 400 |
| Which first was mine own king; and here you sty me | |
| In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me | |
| The rest o the island. | |
| Pros. Thou most lying slave, | 404 |
| Whom stripes may move, not kindness! I have usd thee, | |
| Filth as thou art, with human care, and lodgd thee | |
| In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate | |
| The honour of my child. | 408 |
| Cal. O ho, O ho! would t had been done! | |
| Thou didst prevent me; I had peopld else | |
| This isle with Calibans. | |
| [Pros.] Abhorred slave, | 412 |
| Which any print of goodness wilt not take, | |
| Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee, | |
| Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour | |
| One thing or other. When thou didst not, savage, | 416 |
| Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like | |
| A thing most brutish, I endowd thy purposes | |
| With words that made them known. But thy vile race, | |
| Though thou didst learn, had that in t which good natures | 420 |
| Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou | |
| Deservedly confind into this rock, | |
| Who hadst deservd more than a prison. | |
| Cal. You taught me language; and my profit on t | 424 |
| Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you | |
| For learning me your language! | |
| Pros. Hag-seed, hence! | |
| Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou rt best, | 428 |
| To answer other business. Shrugst thou, malice? | |
| If thou neglectst or dost unwillingly | |
| What I command, Ill rack thee with old cramps, | |
| Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar | 432 |
| That beasts shall tremble at thy din. | |
| Cal. No, pray thee. | |
| [Aside.] I must obey. His art is of such power | |
| It would control my dams god, Setebos, | 436 |
| And make a vassal of him. | |
| Pros. So, slave; hence! Exit CALIBAN | |
| |
Re-enter A RIEL, invisible, playing and singing; F ERDINAND [ following] | | ARIELS SONG |
| Come unto these yellow sands, |
| And then take hands. |
| Curtsied when you have, and kissd |
| The wild waves whist, 29 |
| Foot it featly 30 here and there, |
| And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. |
| |
| Burden (dispersedly). Hark, hark! | 440 |
| Bow-wow. | |
| The watch-dogs bark! | |
| Bow-wow. | |
Ari. Hark, hark! I hear| | The strain of strutting chanticleer |
| Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow. |
| 444 |
| Fer. Where should this music be? I the air or the earth? | |
| It sounds no more; and, sure, it waits upon | |
| Some god o the island. Sitting on a bank, | |
| Weeping again the King my fathers wreck, | 448 |
| This music crept by me upon the waters, | |
| Allaying both their fury and my passion | |
| With its sweet air; thence I have followd it, | |
| Or it hath drawn me rather. But tis gone. | 452 |
No, it begins again.
| | ARIELS SONG |
| Full fathom five thy father lies; |
| Of his bones are coral made; |
| Those are pearls that were his eyes: |
| Nothing of him that doth fade |
| But doth suffer a sea-change |
| Into something rich and strange. |
| Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: |
| |
| Burden Ding-dong. | |
| [Ari.] Hark! now I hear them,ding-dong, bell. | |
| Fer. The ditty does remember my drownd father. | 456 |
| This is no mortal business, nor no sound | |
| That the earth owes. I hear it now above me. | |
| Pros. The fringed curtains of thine eye advance | |
| And say what thou seest yond. | 460 |
| Mir. What is t? A spirit? | |
| Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir, | |
| It carries a brave form. But tis a spirit. | |
| Pros. No, wench; it eats and sleeps and hath such senses | 464 |
| As we have, such. This gallant which thou seest | |
| Was in the wreck; and, but hes something staind | |
| With grief, thats beautys canker, thou mightst call him | |
| A goodly person. He hath lost his fellows | 468 |
| And strays about to find em. | |
| Mir. I might call him | |
| A thing divine; for nothing natural | |
| I ever saw so noble. | 472 |
| Pros. [Aside.] It goes on, I see, | |
| As my soul prompts it. Spirit, fine spirit! Ill free thee | |
| Within two days for this. | |
| Fer. Most sure, the goddess | 476 |
| On whom these airs attend! Vouchsafe my prayer | |
| May know if you remain upon this island, | |
| And that you will some good instruction give | |
| How I may bear me here. My prime request, | 480 |
| Which I do last pronounce, is, O you wonder! | |
| If you be maid or no? | |
| Mir. No wonder, sir, | |
| But certainly a maid. | 484 |
| Fer. My language! heavens! | |
| I am the best of them that speak this speech, | |
| Were I but where tis spoken. | |
| Pros. How? the best? | 488 |
| What wert thou, if the King of Naples heard thee? | |
| Fer. A single thing, as I am now, that wonders | |
| To hear thee speak of Naples. He does hear me; | |
| And that he does I weep. Myself am Naples, | 492 |
| Who with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld | |
| The King my father wreckd. | |
| Mir. Alack, for mercy! | |
| Fer. Yes, faith, and all his lords; the Duke of Milan | 496 |
| And his brave son being twain. | |
| Pros. [Aside.] The Duke of Milan | |
| And his more braver daughter could control thee, | |
| If now twere fit to do t. At the first sight | 500 |
| They have changd eyes. Delicate Ariel, | |
| Ill set thee free for this. [To FER.] A word, good sir; | |
| I fear you have done yourself some wrong; a word. | |
| Mir. Why speaks my father so ungently? This | 504 |
| Is the third man that eer I saw, the first | |
| That eer I sighd for. Pity move my father | |
| To be inclind my way! | |
| Fer. O, if a virgin, | 508 |
| And your affection not gone forth, Ill make you | |
| The Queen of Naples. | |
| Pros. Soft, sir! one word more. | |
| [Aside.] They are both in eithers powers; but this swift business | 512 |
| I must uneasy make, lest too light winning | |
| Make the prize light. [To FER.] One word more; I charge thee | |
| That thou attend me. Thou dost here usurp | |
| The name thou owst not; and hast put thyself | 516 |
| Upon this island as a spy, to win it | |
| From me, the lord on t. | |
| Fer. No, as I am a man. | |
| Mir. Theres nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. | 520 |
| If the ill spirit have so fair a house, | |
| Good things will strive to dwell with t. | |
| Pros. Follow me. | |
| Speak not you for him; hes a traitor. Come, | 524 |
| Ill manacle thy neck and feet together. | |
| Sea-water shalt thou drink; thy food shall be | |
| The fresh-brook mussels, witherd roots and husks | |
| Wherein the acorn cradled. Follow. | 528 |
| Fer. No; | |
| I will resist such entertainment till | |
| Mine enemy has more power. He draws, and is charmed from moving. | |
| Mir. O dear father, | 532 |
| Make not too rash a trial of him, for | |
| Hes gentle and not fearful. 31 | |
| Pros. What! I say; | |
| My foot my tutor? Put thy sword up, traitor, | 536 |
| Who makst a show but darst not strike, thy conscience | |
| Is so possessd with guilt. Come from thy ward, | |
| For I can here disarm thee with this stick | |
| And make thy weapon drop. | 540 |
| Mir. Beseech you, father. | |
| Pros. Hence! hang not on my garments. | |
| Mir. Sir, have pity. | |
| Ill be his surety. | 544 |
| Pros. Silence! one word more | |
| Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What! | |
| An advocate for an impostor! hush! | |
| Thou thinkst there is no more such shapes as he, | 548 |
| Having seen but him and Caliban. Foolish wench! | |
| To the most of men this is a Caliban, | |
| And they to him are angels. | |
| Mir. My affections | 552 |
| Are then most humble; I have no ambition | |
| To see a goodlier man. | |
| Pros. Come on; obey. | |
| Thy nerves 32 are in their infancy again | 556 |
| And have no vigour in them. | |
| Fer. So they are. | |
| My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up. | |
| My fathers loss, the weakness which I feel, | 560 |
| The wreck of all my friends, nor this mans threats, | |
| To whom I am subdud, are but light to me, | |
| Might I but through my prison once a day | |
| Behold this maid. All corners else o the earth | 564 |
| Let liberty make use of; space enough | |
| Have I in such a prison. | |
| Pros. [Aside.] It works. [To FER.] Come on. | |
| Thou hast done well, fine Ariel! [To FER.] Follow me. | 568 |
| [To ARI.] Hark what thou else shalt do me. | |
| Mir. Be of comfort; | |
| My fathers of a better nature, sir, | |
| Than he appears by speech. This is unwonted | 572 |
| Which now came from him. | |
| Pros. [To ARI.] Thou shalt be as free | |
| As mountain winds; but then exactly do | |
| All points of my command. | 576 |
| Ari. To the syllable. | |
| Pros.[To MIR. and FER.] Come, follow. Speak not for him. Exeunt. | |