When I arriv'd, and heard thee, that made gape! The fresh springs, brine-pits,barren place, and ferThe pine, and let thee out.

Curs't be 1, that I did so!-All the charms [tile; Ari. I thank thee, master.

(oak, Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you! Pro. If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an For I am all the subjects that you have, And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till 5 Who first was mine own king: and here you styme Thou hast howld away twelve winters.

In this hard rock, wbiles you do keep from me Ari. Pardon, master.

The rest of the island. I will be correspondent to command,

Pro. Thou most lying slave,

rus'd thee, And do my spriting gently

Whom stripes may move, not kindness; I have Pro. Do so; and after two days

10 Filthas thou art, with human care; and lodg’d thee I will discharge thee.

I mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate Ari. That's my noble master!

The honour of my child. What shall I do? say what? what shall I do? Cal. Oh ho, oh ho:-wou'd it had been done!

Pro. Go make thyselfliketoa nympho’the sea; Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else Be subject to no sight but thine andmine; invisible 15 This isle with Calibans. To every eye-ball else. Go, take this shape,

Pro. Abhorred slave, And hither come in it; go, hence, with diligence. Which any print of goodness will not take,

[Exit Ariel. Being capable of all ill; I pitied thee, [hour Awake, dear heart, au ake! thou hast slept well; Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each Awake!

20 One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage, Mira. The strangeness of your story put Know thyown meaning, but wouldst gabble like Heaviness in me.

A thing inore brutish, I endow'd thy purposes Pro. Shake it off: come on;

With words that made them known: But thy vile We'll visit Caliban, my slave, who never

race * Yields us kind answer.

|25 Though thou didst learn, had that in't which good Mira. 'Tis a villain, sir,

natures I do not love to look on.

Could not abide to be with: therefore wast thou Pro. But, as 'tis,

Deservedly contined into this rock, We cannot miss him: he does make our fire, Who hadsi deserv'd more than a prison. [on't Fetch in our wood; and serves in offices 301 Cal. You taught me language; and my profit That profit us. What ho! slave! Caliban! Is, I know how to curse; the red plague'rid you, Thou earth, thou! speak.

For learning me your language! Cal. [Within.] There's wood enough within. Pro. Ilag-seed, hence!

Pro. Come forth, I say; there's other business Fetch us in fuel, and be quick; thou wert best, Come, thou tortoise ! when? [for thee:35 Toanswerother business. Shrug'st thou, malice?

Enter Ariel like a water-nymph. If thou neglect'st, or dost unwillingly Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel,

What I command, I'll rack thee with oldcramps; Hark in thine ear.

Fill all thy bones with aches; make thee roar, Ari. My lord, it shall be done. [Erit. That beasts shall tremble at thy din.

Pro. Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil 40 Cal. No, pray thee! l'pon thy wicked dain, come forth! [himselt I must obey; his art is of such power, . [.Aside, Enter Caliban.

It would controul my dam’s god Setebos”,
Cal. Aswicked' dewas e'er my mother brush'd and make a vassal of him.
With raven's feather from unwholesome fen,

Pro. So, slave; hence! [Erit Caliban,
Drop on you both! a south-west blow on ye, 45
And blister you all o'er!

[cramps

Enter Ferdinand at the remotest part of the stage, Pro. For ihis, be sure, to-night thou shalt have

and Ariel invisible, playing and singing. Side-stitchesthat sball pen thy breath up; urchins

Ariel's Song. Shall for that vast of night that they may work, Come unto these yellow sands, All exercise on thee: thou shalt be pincha 50 And then take hands : As thick as honey-combs, each pinch more sting- Court'sied when you have, and kiss'd, Than bees that made 'em.

Ling (The toild wures whist?) Cal. I must eat my dinner.

Foot it teatly here and there; This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, (first, And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. Which thou tak'st froin me. When thou camest|55 Hark, hark! Thou stroak dst me, and mad'st much of me; Bur. Bawgh, wowgh. [dispersedly. would'st give me

The uulch-dogs bark: Water with berries in't; and teach me how

Bur. Bowgh, wowgh. [dispersedly. To name the bigger light, and how the less,

Hrk, hark! I hear
That burn by day and night: and then I lov'd thee, 160 The strain of strutting Chunticlere
And shew'd thee all the qualities o’the isle,

Cry, Cock-a-doodle-doo, Baneful. : Perhaps put here for fairies. • The dead waste, or middle of the night. • Race, in this place, seems to signify original disposition, inborn qualities. "The erysipelas. We learn from Magellan's voyage, that Setebos was the supreme God of the Patagons." Silent.

Fer,

Fer. Whereshouldthis music be?i’the air,or the Mina. Alack, for mercy!

[Milan, It sounds no more: and sure, it waits upon (earth: Fer. Yes, faith, and all his lords; the duke of Some god of the island. Sitting on a bank, And his brave son, being twain. Weeping again the king my father's wreck,

Pro. The duke of Milan,

[thee. This music crept by me upon the waters; 5 And his more braver daughter, could controul? Allaying both their fury, and my passion, If now 'twere fit to do't:-At the first sight With its sweet air: thence I have follow'd it,

[.4side to Ariel.] Or it hath drawn me rather:-But 'tis gone. They have changed eyes :- Delicate Ariel, No, it begins again.

I'll set thee free for this. -A word, good sir; Ariel's song.

101 fear you have done yourself some wrong: a Full fathom five thy father lies,

word

[This Of his bonos are coral made;

Mira. Why speaks my father so ungently? Those are pearls that were his eyes :

Is the third man that I e'er saw; the first
Nothing of him that doth fade,

That e'er I sigh’d for: pity move my father But doth suffer a sea-change,

15 To be inclin'd my way! Into something rich and strunge,

Fer. O, if a virgin, Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell

. And your attection not gone forth, I'll make you Hark, now I hear them,--ding-dong, bell. The queen of Naples.

[Burden, ding-dong. Pro. Soft, sir; one word more.Fer. The ditty does remember my drowned fa- 20 They are both in either's powers: but this swift This is no mortal business, no nor sound [ther:

business That the earth owes':- hear it now above me. I must uneasy make, lest too light winning Pro.Thef ingedcurtainsot thine eye advance,

[Aside. And say, what thou seest yond'.

Make the prize light.—One word more; Icharge Mira. What is't? a spirit?

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thee, Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir, That thou attend me: thou dost here usurp It carries a brave form:-But 'tis a spirit. The name thou owest not; and hast put thyself Pro. No, wench: it eats and sieeps, and hath Upon this island, as a spy, to win it such senses

From me, the lord on't. As we have, such: This gallant, which thou seest, 30 Fer. No, as I am a man. Was in the wreck; and, but he's something stain's Mira. There's nothing ill can dwell in such a With grief, that's beauty's canker, thou might'st

temple:
call him

If the ill spirit have so fair an house,
A goodly person: he hath lost his fellows, Good things will strive to dwell with 't.
And strays about to find them.

35 Pro. [To Ferd.] Follow me. Mir i. I might call him

Speak not you for him; he's a traitor.-Come, A thing divine; for nothing natural

Vil inanacle thy neck and feet together; I ever saw so noble.

Sea-water shalt thou drink, thy food shall be Pro. It goes on I see, [Aside.] [free theel The fresh-brook mussels, wither'd roots and husks As my soul prompts it:-Spirit, fine spirit, 11 40 Wherein the acorn cradled: Follow. Within two days for this.

Fer. No; Fér. Most sure, the goddess

I will resist such entertainment, till On whom these airs attend ! Vouchsafe, my Mine enemy has more power.

[He draws. prayer

Mira. O dear father,
May know, if you remain upon this island; 45 Make not too rash a trial of hin, for
And that you will co ne good instruction give, He's gentle, and not fearful '.
How I may bear me here: My prime request,

Pro. What, I say,
Which I do lat pronounce, is, O you wonder! My foot my tutor?--Put thy sword up, traitor;
If you be maid, or no?

who mak'st a shew, but dares not strike, thy Mira. No wonder, sir;

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conscience But, certainly a maid.

Isso possess'd with guilt; come from thy ward; F-r. My language! heavens!

For I can here disarm thee with this stick,
I am the best of them that speak this speech, And make thy weapon drop.
Were I but where 'tis spoken.

Mira. Beseech you, fatber!
Pro. Ilow? the best?

[thee: 55 Pro. Hence; hang not on my garments. What wert thou, if the king of Na;les heard Mira. Sir, have pity; Fer. A single thing, as I am now, that wonders

I'll be his surety. To hear thee speak of Naples: He doe-hear me: Pro, Silence: one word more And that he does, I weep: myself am Naples; Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee.Who with mine eyes, ne'er since at ebb, beheld 60 What, The king my father wreck'd.

Jain advocate for an impostor? hush! "To owo, signifies here, as in many other places of our author's plays, to own. *Confute thee. Timorous.

Thou

Thou think'st, there are no more such shapes as

Behold this maid: all corners else o' the earth he,

Let liberty make use of; space enough
Having seen but him and Caliban: Foolish wench! Have I, in such a prison.
To the most of men this is a Caliban,

Pro. It works :

-Come on. And they to him ar angels.

5 [To Ariel.] Thou hast done well, fine Ariel! Mirü. My aifections

Follow me.
Are then most huinble; I have ro ambition Hark, what thou else shalt do me.
To see a goodlier man.

Mira. Be of comfort;
Pro. Come on; obey: [To Ferdinand.] My father's of a better nature, sir,
Thy nerves are in their infancy again, 10 Than he appears by speech; this is unwonted
And have no vigour in them.

Which now came from him.
Fer. So they are:

Pro. Thou shalt be as iree
My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up. As mountain winds, but then exactly do
My tather's loss, the weakness which I feel, All points of my command.
The wreck of all my friends, or this man's threats, 15 Ari. To the syllable.
To whom I ain subdu'd, are but ligiit to me, Pro. Come, follow: Speak not for him.
Miglit I but through my prison ouce a day

[Ereunt.

cause

SCENE I.

Seb. The old cock,

Ant. I ne cockrel.
Another part of ihe island.

Seb. Done: the wager?
Enter Alonzo, Sebastian, Anthonio, Gonzalo,

Ant. A laughter.
Adrian, Francisco, and others.

SC! A match.
Gonz. BESEECH you, sir, bemerry: you have 30 Adr. Though this island seem to be desert,--

Scb, Ha, ha na! (So have we all) of joy; for our escape

Ant. So, you've paid. Is much beyond our loss : Our hint of woe Adr. Uninhabitable, and alınost inaccessible,-Is common; every day, some sullor s w te, Seb. Yet, The master of some merchant, and ine merchant, 35 Adr. Yet Have just our theme of woe: but for the miracle, Ant. He could not miss't. I mean our preservation, few in millions

Adr. It must needs be of subtle, tender, and Can speak like us: then, wisely, good sir, weigh delicate temperance?. Our sorrow with our comfort.

Ant. Temperance was a delicate wench. Alon. Prythee, peace.

40 Seh. Ay, and a subtle, as he must learnedly Seb. He receives comfort like cold porridge. deliver Ant. The visitor will not give him o'er so. Aur.Th air brea: hes upon ushere most sweetly. $b. Look, he is winding up the watch of his Seb. As it it had lungs, and rotten enes. wit; by and by it will strike.

Ant. Or, as twere perfum'd by a fen. Gon. Sir,

145 Gon. Jiere is every thing adivaritagcous to life. Seb. One: Tell.

dni. True; save means to lwe. Gn. When ev'ry grief is entertained, that's Seb. Of that there's none, or little. offered, comes to tie entertainer

Gon. Flow lush'ana lusty the grass looks! how Seb. A dollar.

Gin. Dolour comes to himn indeed; you have 50 Ant. The ground, indeed, is tawny. spoken truer than you purpos'd.

Seb. With an eye of green n't: Stb. You have taken it wiselier than I meant Ant. He misses not inuch.

Seb. No; he doth but mistake the truth totally. Gon. Therefore, my lord, —

Gon. But the rarity of it is (which is, indeed, Ant. Fie, what a spend-thritt is he of his tongue! 35 almost beyond credit -Alon. I pr’ythee, :pare..

Stb. As many vouch'd rarities are. Gm. Well, I have done: But yet

Gon. That our garnichts, being, as they were, S h. He will be talking.

crench'd in the sea, hold not instanung thur Ant. Which of them, he, or Adrian, for a good treshness, a. dglosses being rather new ay'd, bun wager, first begins to crow?

160.stain d with salt water. * Hint is that which recals to the memory. The cause that fils our minds with grief is couron. Temperance here means temperature. In the puritanical times it v. as usual to c1:11 nokiren froin the titles of religious and mural virtues. ^i. e. of a dark full coluur, the opposite to pule alicijoints

green!

you should.

loss ;

Ant. If but one of his pocl.ets could speak,

Alon. No, no,

he's gone. would it not say, he lies?

Seb. Sir, you may thank yourself for this great Seb. Ay, or very falsely pocket up his report.

[daughter, Gon. Methinks, our garments are now as fresh That would not bless our Europe with your as when we put them on tirst in Africk, at the 5 But rather lose her to an African; marriage of the king's fair daughter Claribel to Where she, at least, is banish'd from your eye, the king of Tunis.

Who hath cause to wet the grief on't. S-b. "I'was a sweet marriage, and we prosper

Alon. Pr’ythee, peace,

[otherwise well in our return.

Seb. You were kneeld to, and importun'd Adr. Tunis was never graced before with such 10 By all of us; and the fair soul herself a paragon to their queen.

Weigh'd, between lothness and obedience, at Gon. Not since widow Dido's time.

Which end the beam should bow, We have lost Ant. Widow? a pox o' that! How came that

your son, widow in? Widow Dido!

I fear, for ever; Milan and Naples have Seb. What if he had said, widower Æneas too: 15 More widows in them of this business' making good lord, how you take it !

Than we bring men to comfort them; The fault's Alr. Widow Dido, said you? you make me Your own. study of that: She was of Carthage, not of Tunis. Alon. So is the dearest o' the loss. Gon. This Tunis, sir, was Carthage.

Gon. My lord Sebastian, Adr. Carthage?

20 The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness, Gon. I assure you, Carthage.

And time to speak it in: you rub the sore,
Ant. His word is more than the miraculous When you should bring the plaister.
harp

Seb. Very well.
S b. He hath rais'd the wall, and houses too. Ant. And most chirurgeonly.

Ant. What impossible matter will he makie 25 Gon. It is foul weather in us all, good sir, easy i ext?

When you are cloudy, Szb. I think, he will carry this island home in Scb. Foul weather! his pocket and give it his son for an apple. Ant. Very foul.

Ant. And, sowing the kernels of it in the sea, Gon. Haditheplantation ofthis isle, my lord, bring forth more islands.

301 Ant. He'd sow it with nettle-seed. Gon. Av?

Stb. Or docks, or mallows.

[do? Ant. Why, in good time.

Gon. And were the king of it, What would I Gon"Sir, we were talking, that our garments Seb. 'Scape being drunk, for want of wine. [ries seen now as fresh, as when we were at Tunis, at Gon.l' the commonwealth, I would by contra: the marriage of your daughter, who is now queen. 35 Execute all things; for no kind of traffick

Ant. And the rarest that e'er came there. Would I admit; no name of magistrate;
Seb. Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido. Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,
Ant. O, widow Dido; ay, widow Dido. And use of service, none; contract, succession,

Gon. Is not, sir, my doublet as fresh as the first Bourn’, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none: day I wore it? I mean, in a sort.

40 No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil: Ant. That sort was well fish'd for.

No occupation; all men idle, all, Gon. When I wore it at your daughter's mar- And women too, but innocent and pure: riage?

No sovereignty. Alon. You crani these words into mine ears, Seb. And yet he would be king on't. against

Ant. The latter end of his commonwealth for. The stomach of my sense!: Would I had never gets the beginning: Marry'd my daughter there! for, coming thence, Gon. All things in common nature should proMy son is lost; and, in my rate, she too,

duce Who is so far from Italy remov’d,

Without sweat or endeavour: Treason, felony, I ne'er again shall see her. Othou mine heir 50 Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Of Naples and of Milan, what straige fish Would I not have; but nature should bring forth, Hath inade his meal on thee?

Of its own kind, all foizon', all abundance Fran. Sir, he may live;

To feed my innocent people. I saw him beat the surges under him,

Seb. No marrying ʼmong his subjects ?
And ride upon their backs; he trod the water, 55 Ant. Vone, man: all idle; whores, and knaves.
Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted Gon. I would with such perfection govern, sir,
The surge most swoln that met him•his bold head To excel the golden age.
'Bove the contentious waves he kept, and var a Seb. 'Save his majesty!
Himse’f with his good arms in lusty stroak

Ant. Long live Gonzalo!
To the shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd 60 Gon. And, do you mark me, sir ?
As stooping to relieve him: I not doubt

Alon. Pr’ythee, no more; thou dost talk por He came alive to land.

thing to me. i

Or, of my reason and natural affection. ? A limit, a land-mark. : A French word signifying plenty.

Gon.

eyes

Gon. I do well believe your highness; and didl Trebles thee o'er.
it to minister occasion to these gentlemen, who Stb. Well, I am standing water.
are of such sensible and nimble lungs, that they Ant. I'll teach you how to flow.
always use to laugh at nothing.

Scb. Do so: to ebb,
Ant. 'Twas you we laugh'd at.

5 Hereditary sloth instructs me. Gon. Who, in this kind of merry fooling, am Ant. 0, nothing to you; so you may continue, and laugh! If you but knew, how you the purpose cherish, at nothing still.

Whilst thus you mock it! how, in stripping it, Ant. What a blow was there given !

You inore invest it! Ebbing men, indeed, Seb. An it had not fallen flat-long.

10 Most often, do so near the bottom run, Gon. You are gentlemen of brave metal; you By their own fear, or sloth. would lift the moon out of her sphere, if she would Seb. Prythee, say on : continue in it five weeks without changing. The setting of thine eye, and cheek, proclaim

Enter Ariel, playing solemn inusick. A matter from thee: and a birth indeed,
Seb. We would so, and then go a bat-fowling. 15 Which throes thee much to yield.
Ant. Nay, my good lord, be not angry.

Ant. Thus, sir : Gon. No, I warrant you; I will not adventure Although this lord of weak remembrance, this, my discretion so weakly. Will you laugh me (Who shall be of as little memory, asleep, tor I am very heavy?

When he is earth’d) hath here almost persuaded, Ant. Go, sleep, and hear us.

|20|(For he's a spirit of persuasion, only [Gonz. Adr. Fra. &c. sleep. Professes to persuade) the king, his son's alive; Alon. What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine 'Tis as impossible that he's undrowa’d,

[tind, As he, that sleeps here, swims. Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts: 1 Seb. I have no hope They are inclin'd to do so.

125 That he's undrown'd. sib. Please you, sir,

Ant. 0, out of that no hope, Do not omit the heavy offer of it:

What great hope have you ! no hope, that way, is It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth,

Another way so high an hope, that even It is a comforter.

Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond, [me, Ant. We two, my lord,

30 But doubts discovery there. Will you grant, with Will guard your person, while you take your rest, That Ferdinand is drown'd? And watch your safety,

Seb. He's gone.
Alon. Thank you: Wond'rous heavy-

Ant. Then, tell me,
[All sleep but Stb. and Ant. Who's the next heir of Naples ?
Seb. What a strange drowsiness possesses them ! 35 Seb. Claribel.

[dwells Ant. It is the quality o' the climate.

Ant. She that is queen of Tunis; she that Sch. Why

Ten leagues beyond man's life: she that from
Doth it not then our eye-lids sink? I find not

Naples
Myself di pos'd to sleep.

Can bave no note, unless the sun were post,[chins Ant. Nor I; my spirits are nimble. 40(The man i' the moon's too slow) till new-born They fell together all, as by consent;

Berough and razoiable: she, from whom [again: They dropp'd, as by a thunder-stroke -What We were all sea-swallow'd, though some cast. might,

(more: And, by that destiny, to perform an act, Worthy Sebastian? -0, what might?

-No Whereof what's past is prologue; what to come, And yet, metbinks, I see it in thy face, [an( 45 In yours, and my discharge. What thou should'st be: the occasion speaks thee; Šeb. What stuff is this --How say you? My strong imagination sees a crown

'Tis true my brother's daughter's queen of Tunis; Dropping upon thy head.

So is she heir of Naples; 'twixt which regions
Seb. What, art thou waking?

There is some space.
Ant. Do you not hear me speak?

50 Ant. A space, whose every cubit
Seb. I do; and, surely,

Seems to cry out, How shall that Claribel
It is a sleepy language; and thou speak’st 1 teasure us back to Naples ?-Keep in Tunis,
Out of thy sleep: What is it thou didst say? And let Sebastian wake!--Say this were death
This is a strange repose, to be asleep

That now hath seiz'd them; why, they were no
Witheyes wide open; standing, speaking, moving: 55

[Naples, And yet so fast asleep.

Than now they are: There be, that can rule
Ant. Noble Sebastian,

As well as he that sleeps ; lords, that can prate
Thou let'st thy fortune sleep, die rather; wink'st As amply, and unnecessarily,
Whiles thou art waking.

As this Gonzalo; I myse!f could make
Seb. Thou dost snore distinctly;

60 A chough' of as deep chat. O, that you bore There's meaning in thy snores.

The mind that I do! what a sleep were this
Ant. I am more serious than my custom; you For your advancement? Do you understand me?
Must be so too, if heed me; which to do, süb. Methinks, I do.
' A chough is a bird of the jack-daw kind, chiefly in Cornwal.

Ant.

worse