Juno. Honour, riches, marriage-blessing, Barns and garners never empty; Vines, with clust'ring bunches growing; Scarcity and want shall shun you; Fer. This is a most majestic vision, and Harmonious charmingly. May I be bold To think these spirits? Pro. Spirits, which by mine art I have from their confines call'd to enact My present fancies. Fer. Let me live here ever: So rare a wonder'd father, and a wife, Make this place Paradise. Pro. [JUNO and CERES whisper, and send IRIS on employment. Sweet now, silence! Juno and Ceres whisper seriously; There's something else to do: hush, and be mute, Or else our spell is marr'd, Iris. You nymphs, call'd Naiads, of the winding brooks, With your sedg'd crowns, and ever-harmless looks, Enter certain NYMPHS. You sun-burn'd sicklemen, of August weary, Enter certain Reapers, properly habited: they join with the Nymphs in a graceful dance; towards the end whereof PROSPERO starts suddenly, and speaks; after which, to a strange, hollow, and confused noise, they heavily vanish. Pro. [Aside.] I had forgot that foul conspiracy Of the beast Caliban, and his confederates, Against my life: the minute of their plot Is almost come.-[To the Spirits.] Well done;avoid, no more. Fer. This is strange: your father's in some pasThat works him strongly. [sion Mira. Never till this day, Saw I him touch'd with anger so distemper'd. Pro. You do look, my son, in a mov'd sort, As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, Sir. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff We must prepare to meet with Caliban. Ari. Ay, my commander: when I presented Ceres, I thought to have told thee of it; but I fear'd, Lest I might anger thee. [lets? Pro. Say again, where didst thou leave these var- Which enter'd their frail shins: at last I left them Pro. This was well done, my bird. Thy shape invisible retain thou still: Re-enter ARIEL, loaden with glistering apparel, &c. Cal. Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not Hear a foot fall: we now are near his cell. Ste. Monster, your fairy, which you say is a harmless fairy, has done little better than played the Jack with us. Trin. Monster, I do smell all horse-piss; at which my nose is in great indignation. Ste. So is mine.-Do you hear, monster? If I should take a displeasure against you, look you,-Trin. Thou wert but a lost monster. Cal. Good my lord, give me thy favour still. Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to Shall hoodwink this mischance: therefore speak All's hush'd as midnight yet. [softly; Trin. Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool,Ste. There is not only disgrace and dishonour in that, monster, but an infinite loss. Trin. That's more to me than my wetting: yet this is your harmless fairy, monster. Ste. I will fetch off my bottle, though I be o'er ears for my labour. Cal. Pr'ythee, my king, be quiet. Seest thou here, This is the mouth o' the cell: no noise, and enter. Do that good mischief, which may make this island Thine own for ever, and I, thy Caliban, For aye thy foot-licker. Ste. Give me thy hand. I do begin to have bloody thoughts. Trin. O king Stephano! O peer! O worthy Stephano! look, what a wardrobe here is for thee! Cal. Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash. Trin. O, ho, monster! we know what belongs to a frippery.-O king Stephano! Ste. Put off that gown, Trinculo: by this hand, I'll have that gown. Trin. Thy grace shall have it. Cal. The dropsy drown this fool! what do you mean, To doat thus on such luggage? Let's along, From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches, Ste. Be you quiet, monster.-Mistress line, is not this my jerkin? Now is the jerkin under the line: now, jerkin, you are like to lose your hair, and prove a bald jerkin. Trin. Do, do: we steal by line and level, and 't like your grace. Ste. I thank thee for that jest; here's a garment for 't; wit shall not go unrewarded, while I am king of this country. "Steal by line and level," is an excellent pass of pate; there's another garment for 't. Trin. Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and away with the rest. Cal. I will have none on 't: we shall lose our time, And all be turn'd to barnacles, or to apes Ste. Monster, lay to your fingers: help to bear this away, where my hogshead of wine is, or I'll turn you out of my kingdom. Go to; carry this. Trin. And this. Ste. Ay, and this. A noise of hunters heard. Enter divers Spirits, in shape of hounds, and hunt them about: PROSPERO and ARIEL setting them on. Pro. Hey, Mountain, hey! Ari. Silver! there it goes! Silver ! Pro. Fury, Fury! there Tyrant, there! hark, hark! [CAL., STE., and TRIN. are driven out. Go, charge my goblins that they grind their joints With dry convulsions; shorten up their sinews With aged cramps; and more pinch-spotted make them, Than pard, or cat o' mountain. Ari. Hark! they roar. ACT V. SCENE I.-Before the Cell of PROSPERO. Enter PROSPERO in his magic robes: and ARIEL. Pro. Now does my project gather to a head: My charms crack not; my spirits obey; and time Goes upright with his carriage. How's the day? Ari. On the sixth hour; at which time, my lord, You said our work should cease. Pro. I did say so, When first I rais'd the tempest. Say, my spirit, How fares the king and's followers? Ari. Confin'd together In the same fashion as you gave in charge; Just as you left them: all prisoners, Sir, In the lime-grove which weather-fends your cell; They cannot budge till your release. The king, His brother, and yours, abide all three distracted; And the remainder mourning over them, Brimful of sorrow and dismay; but chiefly Him that you term'd, Sir, "the good old lord Gonzalo:” His tears run down his beard, like winter's drops From eaves of reeds. Your charm so strongly works them, That if you now beheld them, your affections Pro. Dost thou think so, spirit? Ari. Mine would, Sir, were I human. Pro. And mine shall. Yet, with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury In virtue, than in vengeance: they being penitent, Ari. groves; And ye, that on the sands with printless foot And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, [Solemn music. Re-enter ARIEL: after him, 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 A solemn air, and the best comforter Now useless, boil'd within thy skull! There stand, Holy Gonzalo, honourable man, Mine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine, To him thou follow'st, I will pay thy graces You brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, [Exit ARIEL. I will dis-case me, and myself present, ARIEL re-enters, singing, and helps to attire PROSPERO. In a cowslip's bell I lie ; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer, merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. Alon. A daughter? O heavens! that they were living both in Naples, Pro. In this last tempest. I perceive, these lords At this encounter do so much admire, That they devour their reason, and scarce think Which was thrust forth of Milan; who most strangely Upon this shore, where you were wreck'd, was Not a relation for a breakfast, nor B 1 'Tis new to thee. Alon. What is this maid, with whom thou wast at play? Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours: Alon. I am hers. That swear'st grace o'erboard, not an oath on shore? Ari. [Aside to PRO.] Sir, all this service Pro. [Aside to ARI.] My tricksy spirit! Alon. These are not natural events; they strengthen From strange to stranger. - Say, how came you hither? Boats. If I did think, Sir, I were well awake, Ari. [Aside to PRO.] shalt be free. There, Sir, stop: Untie e spell. [Exit ARIEL.] How fares my gracious [Sir? I have inly wept, Let us not burden our remembrances With a heaviness that's gone. Gon. Or should have spoke.ere this.-Look down, you And on this couple drop a blessed crown! [gods, For it is you that have chalk'd forth the way, Which brought us hither. Alon. I say, Amen, Gonzalo! Gon. Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue Where he himself was lost; Prospero, his dukedom Alon. [To FER. and MIR.] Give me your hands: Gon. Be it so: Amen! Re-enter ARIEL, with the Master and Boatswain amazedly following. O look, Sir! look, Sir! here are more of us. I prophesied, if a gallows were on land, This fellow could not drown.-Now, blasphemy, Very like; one of them Is a plain fish, and, no doubt, marketable. Pro. Mark but the badges of these men, my lords, Then say, if they be true.-This mis-shapen knave,— His mother was a witch; and one so strong That could control the moon, make flows and ebbs, And deal in her command, without her power. These three have robb'd me; and this demi-devil (For he's a bastard one) had plotted with them To take my life: two of these fellows you Must know, and own; this thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine. |