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Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments

Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices,
That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep,

Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds, methought, would open, and shew riches
Ready to drop upon me; that, when I wak'd,
I cry'd to dream again.

Ste. This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing.

Cal. When Prospero is destroyed.

Ste. That shall be by and by: I remember the story.

Trin. The sound is going away: let's follow it, and after, do our work.

Ste. Lead, monster; we'll follow.-I would, I could see this taborer7: he lays it on.

Trin. Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano. [Exeunt.

SCENE III. Another part of the Island. Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others.

sir;

Gon. By'r lakin1, I can go no further, My old bones ache; here's a maze trod, indeed, Through forth-rights, and meanders! by your patience, I needs must rest me.

Alon.

Old lord, I cannot blame thee,

7 "You shall heare in the ayre the sound of tabers and other instruments, to put the trauellers in feare, &c. by evill spirites that make these soundes, and also do call diuerse of the trauellers by their names, &c."-Trauels of Marcus Paulus, by John Frampton, 4to. 1579. To some of these circumstances Milton also alludes:

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calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire;

And aery tongues that syllable men's names

On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses."

1 By'r LAKIN is a contraction of By our LADYKIN, the diminutive of our lady.

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Who am myself attach'd with weariness,
To the dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it
No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd,
Whom thus we stray to find; and the sea mocks
Our frustrate search on land: Well, let him go.
Ant. I am right glad that he's so out of hope.

[Aside to SEBASTIAN.

Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose
That you resolv'd to effect.

Seb.

Will we take thoroughly.

Ant.

The next advantage

Let it be to-night:

For, now they are oppress'd with travel, they
Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance,
As when they are fresh.

Seb.

I say, to-night: no more.

Solemn and strange musick; and PROSPERO above, invisible. Enter several strange Shapes, bringing in a Banquet; they dance about it with gentle actions of salutation; and inviting the King, &c. to eat, they depart.

Alon. What harmony is this? my good friends, hark! Gon. Marvellous sweet music!

Alon. Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these?

Seb. A living drollery 2: Now I will believe That there are unicorns; that, in Arabia

There is one tree, the phoenix' throne3; one phoenix At this hour reigning there.

2 Shows, called Drolleries, were in Shakspeare's time performed by puppets only. From these our modern drolls, exhibited at fairs, &c. took their name. A living drollery," is therefore a drollery not by wooden but by living, personages.

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3 "I myself have heard straunge things of this kind of tree; namely, in regard of the bird Phoenix, which is supposed to have

Ant.

I'll believe both;

And what does else want credit, come to me,
And I'll be sworn 'tis true: Travellers ne'er did lie,
Though fools at home condemn them.

Gon.
If in Naples
I should report this now, would they believe me?
If I should say I saw such islanders,

(For, certes, these are people of the island,)
Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet note,
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of
Our human generation you shall find

Many, nay, almost any.

Honest lord,

Pro.
Thou hast said well; for some of

Are worse than devils.

you there present [Aside.

Alon. Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound,expressing (Although they want the use of tongue) a kind Of excellent dumb discourse.

I cannot too much muse 5,

Pro.

Praise in departing 6. [Aside.

No matter, since

Fran. They vanish'd strangely.

Seb.

They have left their viands behind; for we have sto

machs.

Will't please you taste of what is here?

Alon.
Not I.
Gon. Faith, sir, you need not fear: When we

were boys,

Who would believe that there were mountaineers,

taken that name of this date tree (called in Greek polvi); for it was assured unto me, that the said bird died with that tree, and revived of itselfe as the tree sprung againe."-Holland's Translation of Pliny, B. xiii, C. 4.

4 Certainly.

5 Wonder.

6 "Praise in departing," is a proverbial phrase signifying, Do not praise your entertainment too soon, lest you should have reason to retract your commendation.

Dew-lapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at them

Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men,

Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we

find,

Each putter-out on five for one7, will bring us
Good warrant of.

Alon.

I will stand to, and feed,

Although my last: no matter, since I feel
The best is past:-Brother, my lord the duke,
Stand too, and do as we.

Thunder and Lightning. Enter ARIEL like a Harpy; claps his wings upon the table, and, by a quaint device, the Banquet vanishes.

Ari. You are three men of sin, whom destiny, (That hath to instrument this lower world, And what is in't,) the never-surfeited sea Hath caused to belch up; and on this island Where man doth not inhabit; you 'mongst men Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad;

[Seeing ALON. SEB. &c. draw their swords. And even with such like valour, men hang and drown Their proper selves. You fools! I and my fellows Are ministers of fate; the elements

Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish

One dowle that's in my plume; my fellow ministers

7 "Each putter-out on five for one," i. e. each traveller; it appears to have been the custom to place out a sum of money upon going abroad to be returned with enormous interest if the party returned safe; a kind of insurance of a gambling nature.

8 Bailey, in his Dictionary, says that dowle is a feather or rather the single particles of the down. Coles, in his Latin Dictionary, 1679, interprets young dowle by Lanugo. And in a History of most Manual Arts, 1661, wool and dowl are treated as synonymous. Tooke contends that this word and others of the same form are nothing more than the past participle of deal; and

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Are like invulnerable: if you could hurt,
Your swords are now too massy for your strengths,
And will not be uplifted; But, remember,
(For that's my business to you), thát you
From Milan did supplant good Prospero;
Expos'd unto the sea, which hath requit it,
Him, and his innocent child: for which foul deed
The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have
Incens'd the seas and shores, yea all the creatures,
Against your peace: Thee, of thy son, Alonso,
They have bereft; and do pronounce by me,
Lingering perdition (worse than any death
Can be at once,) shall step by step attend
You, and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from
(Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls
Upon your heads,) is nothing, but heart's sorrow,
And a clear 9 life ensuing.

He vanishes in Thunder: then, to soft musick, enter the Shapes again, and dance with mops and mowes, and carry out the table.

Pro. [Aside.] Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou

Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring:
Of my instruction hast thou nothing 'bated,
In what thou hadst to say: so, with good life 10,
And observation strange, my meaner ministers
Their several kinds have done : my high charms work,
And these, mine enemies, are all knit up

Junius and Skinner both derive it from the same. I fully believe that Tooke is right; the provincial word dool is a portion of unploughed land left in a field; Coles, in his English Dictionary, 1701, has given dowl as a cant word, and interprets it deal. I must refer the reader to the Diversions of Purley for further proof.

9 A clear life; is a pure, blameless, life.

10 With good life, i. e. with the full bent and energy of mind. Mr. Henley says that the expression is still in use in the west of England.

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