I swam, ere I could recover the shore, five-ana- this can sack, and drinking do. A murrain on thirty leagues, off and on, by this light.-Thou your monster, and the devil take your fingers! shalt be my lieutenant, monster, or my standard. Trin. Your lieutenant, if you list; he's no standard.

Ste. We'll not run, monsieur monster. Trin. Nor go neither: but you'll lie, like dogs; and yet say nothing neither.

Ste. Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a good moon-calf.

Cal. How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe;

F'll not serve him, he is not valiant.

Trin. Thou liest, most ignorant monster; I am in case to justle a constable: Why, thou debosh'd fish thou, was there ever man a coward, that hath drunk so much sack as I to-day? Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish, and half a monster?

Cal. Lo, how he mocks me! wilt thou let him, my lord ?

Trin. Lord, quoth he !—that a monster should be such a natural.

Cal. Ha, ha, ha!

Ste. Now, forward with your tale. Pr'ythee stand further off.

Cal. Beat him enough: after a little time,
I'll beat him too.
Stand further. Come, proceed.
Cal. Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with
him

Ste.

l' the afternoon to sleep: there thou may'st
brain him,

Having first seiz'd his books; or with a log
Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,
Or cut his weazand with thy knife: Remember,
First to possess his books; for without them
He's but a sot, as I am, nor hath not
One spirit to command: They all do hate him,
As rootedly as I: Burn but his books;
He has brave utensils, (for so he calls them,)
Which, when he has a house, he'll deck withal.
And that most deeply to consider, is
The beauty of his daughter; he himself

Cal Lo, lo, again! bite him to death, 1 pr'y-Calls her a nonpareil: I ne'er saw woman, thee.

Ste. Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head; if you prove a mutineer, the next treeThe poor monster's my subject, and he shall not suffer indignity.

Cal. I thank my noble lord. pleas'd

Wilt thou be

To hearken once again the suit I made thee? Ste. Marry will : kneel, and repeat it; I will stand, and so shall Trinculo.

Enter Ariel, invisible.

Cal. As I told thee

Before, I am subject to a tyrant;

A sorcerer, that by his cunning hath
Cheated me of this island.

Ari.

Thou liest.

Cal. Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thon!
I would, my valiant master would destroy thee:
I do not lie.

Ste. Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in his tale, by this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.

Trin. Why, I said nothing.

Ste. Mum then, and no more.- [To Caliban.]
Proceed.

Cal. I say, by sorcery he got this isle;
From me he got it. If thy greatness will
Revenge it on him-for, I know, thou dar'st;
But this thing dare not.

Ste. That's most certain.

Cal. Thou shalt be lord of it, and I'll serve thee.

Ste. How now shall this be compassed? Canst thou bring me to the party?

Cal. Yea, yea, my lord; I'll yield him thee
asleep,

Where thou may'st knock a nail into his head.
Ari. Thou liest, thou canst not.

Cal. What a pied ninny's this? Thou scurvy
patch!

I do beseech thy greatness, give him blows,
And take his bottle from him: when that's gone,
He shall drink nought but brine: for I'll not

show him

Where the quick freshes are.

But only Sycorax my dam, and she;
But she as far surpasseth Sycorax,
As greatest does least.
Ste.
Is it so brave a lass?
Cal. Ay, lord; she will become thy bed, 1
warrant,

And bring theé forth brave brood.

Ste. Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and I will be king and queen; (save our graces!) and Trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys-Dost thou like the plot, Trinculo? Trin. Excellent.

Ste. Give me thy hand; I am sorry I beat thee; but while thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head.

Cal. Within this half hour will he be asleep;
Wilt thou destroy him then?
Ste.
Ay, on mine honour.
Ari. This will I tell my master.
Cal. Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of
pleasure;

Let us be jocund: Will you troll the catch
You taught me but while-ere?

Ste. At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any reason: Come on, Trinculo, let us sing.

[Sings.

Flout 'em, and skout 'em; and skout 'em,
and flout 'em;
Thought is free.

Cal. That's not the tune.

[Ariel plays the tune on a Tabor and Pipe. Ste. What is this same?

Trin. This is the tune of our catch, played by the picture of No-body.

Ste. If thou beest a man, show thyself in thy likeness: if thou beest a devil, take't as thou list. Trin. O, forgive me my sins!

Ste. He that dies, pays all debts: I defy thee:-
Mercy upon us!

Cal. Art thou afeard?
Ste. No, monster, not I.

Cal. Be nct afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and

hurt not.

Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Ste Trinculo, run into no further danger: Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices, Interrupt the monster one word further, and,That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, by this hand, I'll turn my mercy out of doors, Will make me sleep again; and then in dreaming, and make a stock-fish of thee. The clouds, methought, would open, and show riches

Tri Why, what did 17 I did nothing: I'll go further off.

Ste. Didst thou not say he lied?

Ari. Thou liest.

Ste. Do I so 7 take thou that. [Strikes him.]
As you like this, give ine the lie another time.
Trin. I did not give the lie: Out o' your
wits, and hearing too?A pox o' your bottle!

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 musick 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 taborer: he lays it on.
Trin. Wilt come 7 I'll follow, Stephano.

[Exeunt.
SCENE III. Another Part of the Island.
Enter Alonzo, Sebastian, Antonio, Gonzalo,
Adrian, Francisco, and others.
Gon. By'r lakin, I can go no further, sir;
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,
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.

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

Wallets of flesh ? or that there were such men,
Whose heads stood in their breasts 7 which now
we find

Each putter-out on five for one, 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 to, 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 caus'd 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 mi-

nisters

Are like invulnerable; if you could hurt,
Your swords are now too massy for your
strengths,

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 And will not be uplifted; But, remember, Shapes, bringing in a Banquet; they dance (For that's my business to you.) that you three about it with gentle actions of salutation; From Milan did supplant good Prospero; and inviting the King, &c. to eat, they depart. Expos'd unto the sea, which hath requit it, Alon. What harmony is this? my good friends, Him, and his innocent child: for which foul deed The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have Incens'd the seas and shores, yea, all the crea

hark!

Gon. Marvellons sweet musick!

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

Seb. A living drollery: Now I will believe That there are unicorns: that, in Arabia There is one tree, the phoenix' throne; one phoenix At this hour reigning there.

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.

Pro.

Honest lord,

Thou hast said well; for some of you there present

Are worse than devils.

Alon.

[Aside.

tures,

Against your peace: Thee, of thy son, Alonzo,
They have bereft; and do pronounce by me,
Ling'ring 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 life ensuing.

He vanishes in Thunder: then, to soft musick enter the Shapes again, and dance with mops and moves, 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 had'st to say: so, with good life,
And observation strange, my meaner ministers
Their several kinds have done: my high charms
work,

And these, mine enemies, are all knit up In their distractions: they now are in my power: I cannot too much muse, And in these fits I leave them, whilst I visit Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, ex-Young Ferdinand, (whom they suppose is pressing

(Although they want the use of tongue) a kind
Of excellent dumb discourse.
Pro.
Praise in departing.
[Aside.
Fran. They vanish'd strangely.
Seb.
No matter, since
They have left their viands behind; for we have
stomachs.-

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,

drown'd),

And his and my loved darling.
[Erit Prospero from above.
Gon. I' the name of something holy, sir, why
stand you
In this strange stare?
Alon.
O, it is monstrous! monstrous
Methought, the billows spoke, and told me of it;
The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder,
That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'o
The name of Prosper; it did bass my trespass.
Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded; and
I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded,
And with him there lie mudded.
(Erit
Seb.

But one fiend at a time

When shall think, or Phoebus' steeds are Be not afraid: I met her deity

Spring come to you, at the farthest,
In the very hand of harvest!
Scarcity and want shall shun you;
Ceres' blessing so is on you.

Fer. This is a most majestic vision, and
Harmonious charmingly: May I be bold
To think these spirits?

Pro.

I thought to have told thee of it: but I fear'd,
Lest 1 might anger thee.

Pro. Say again, where didst thou leave these
varlets?

Ari. I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking:

So full of valour, that they smote the air
Spirits, which by mine art For kissing of their feet: yet always bending
For breathing in their faces; beat the ground

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."

Towards their project: then I beat my tabor,
At which, like unback'd colts, they prick'd their

ears,

Advanc'd their eyelids, lifted up their noses, [Juno and Ceres whisper, and send Iris That, calf-like, they my lowing follow'd, throug As they smelt music; so I charm'd their ears,

on employment.

Pro.
Sweet now, silence:
Juno and Ceres whisper seriously;
There's something else to do; hush, and he mute,
Or else our spell is marr'd.
Iris. You nymphs, called Naiads, of the wan-
d'ring brooks,

With your sedg'd crowns, and ever harmless

looks,

Leave your crisp channels, and on this green

land

Answer your summons; Juno does command:
Come, temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate
A contract of true love; be not too late.

Fer. This is strange: your father's in some passion

That works him strongly.

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 fabrick of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great grobe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve;
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind: We are such stuff
As dreams are made of, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.-Sir, I am vex'd;
Bear with my weakness; my old brain is trou.

bled.

Be not disturb'd with my infirmity:
If you be pleas'd, retire into my cell,
And there repose; a turn or two I'll walk,
To still my beating mind.

Fer. Mira. We wish your peace. [Exeunt.
Pro. Come with a thought :-I thank you :-
Ariel, come.

Enter Ariel.

the filthy mantled pool beyond your cell,
Which enter'd their frail shins: at last I left ther
There dancing up to the chins, that the foul lak
Thy shape invisible retain thou still:
This was well done, my bird:

O'er-stunk their feet.

Pro.

Ari.

For stale to catch these thieves.
The trumpery in my house, go, bring it hither,
I go, I go. [Erit.
Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains,
Pro. A devil, a born devil, on whose nature
Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost;
And as, with age, his body uglier grows,
So his mind cankers: 1 will plague them all,
Re-enter Ariel, loaden with glistering Appa
rel, &c.

Even to roaring :-Come, hang them on this line.
Enter
Prospero and Ariel remain invisible.

Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo; all wet.
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 play'd
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. Thon wert but a lost monster.

Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to
Shall hood-wink this mischance; therefore,speak
softly,

Cal. Good my lord, give me thy favour still:

All's hush'd as midnight yet.

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 niouth of 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: for 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

Ari. Thy thoughts I cleave to: What's thy to a frippery :-O king Stephano!

To dote thus on such luggage? Let it alone,
And do the murder first: if he awake,
From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with
pinches ;

Make us strange stuff.

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.

Though with their high wrongsi am struck to
the quick,

Yet, with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury,
Do I take part: the rarer action is

In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,
The sole drift of my purpose doth extend
Not a frown further: Go, release them, Ariel;
My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore,
And they shall be themselves.
Ari.
I'll fetch them, sir. [Exit.
Pro. Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes,
and groves;

Ste. I thank thee for that jest; here's a gar-
ment for't: wit shall not go unrewarded, while And ye, that on the sands with printless foot
I am king of this country: Steal by line and le-Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him
vel, is an excellent pass of pate; there's another When he comes back; you demy-puppets, that
garment for't.
By moonshine do the green-sour ringlets make
Whereof the ewe not bites; and you, whose
pastime

Trin. Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and away with the rest.

Ca! I will have none on't: we shall lose our
time,

And all be turn'd to barnacles, or to apes
With foreheads villanous low.

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.

Anoise 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.
Pro. Let them be hunted soundly: At this hour
Lie at my mercy all mine enemies:

Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou
Shalt have the air at freedom: for a little,
Follow, and do me service.

ACT V.

[Exeunt.

SCENE 1. 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 his followers?
Ari. Confin'd together

In the same fashion as you gave in charge;
Just as you left them, sir; all prisoners
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,
Brim-full of sorrow, and dismay; but chiefly

Is to make midnight-mushrooms; that rejoice
To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid
(Weak masters though you be) I have be-dimm'd
The noon-tide sun, call'd forth the mutinous
winds,

And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault
Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder
Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak
With his own bolt: the strong-bas'd promontory
The pine, and cedar: graves, at my command,
Have I made shake; and by the spurs pluck'd up
Have wak'd their sleepers; op'd and let them
forth,

By my so potent art: But this rough magick
I here abjure: and, when I have required
Some heavenly musick, (which even now I do,)
To work mine end upon their senses, that
This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And, deeper than did ever plummet sound,
I'll drown my book.
[Solemn Musick.

tic

Re-enter Ariel: after him, Alonzo, with a fran-
gesture, attended by Gonzalo; Sebastian
and Antonio in like manner, attended by Adri-
an 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
To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains,
Now useless, boil'd within thy skull! There stand,
For you are spell-stopp'd.-
Mine eyes, even sociable to the shew of thine,
Holy Gonzalo, honourable man,
Fall fellowly drops.-The charm dissolves apace;
And as the morning steals upon the night,
Melting the darkness, so their rising senses
Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
Their clearer reason.-O my good Gonzalo,
My true preserver, and a loyal sir
To him thou follow'st; I will pay thy graces
Home, both in word and deed-Most cruelly
Didst thou, Alonzo, use me and my daughter:
Thy brother was a furtherer in the act ;-
Thou'rt pinch'd for't now, Sebastian.-Flesh
and blood,

You brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,
Expell'd remorse and nature; who with Sebastian
(Whose inward pinches therefore are most
strong,)

Him you term'd, sir, The good old lord, Gon-Would here have kill'd your king; I do forgive

zalo;

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
Would become tender.
Pro.

Dost thou think so, spirit?
Ari Mine would, sir, were I human.
Pro.
And mine shall.
Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling
Of their afflictions? and shall not myself,
One of their kind, that relish all as sharply,
Passion as they, be kindlier mov'd than thou art?