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Mira. There's nothing ill can dwell in such a tem

ple:

If the ill spirit have so fair an house,

Good things will strive to dwell with't.

Pro.

Follow me.-[To Ferd.

Speak not you for him; he's a traitor.-Come.

I'll manacle thy neck and feet together:

Sea-water shalt thou drink, thy food shall be

The fresh-brook muscles, wither'd roots, and husks Wherein the acorn cradled: Follow.

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Make not too rash a trial of him, for

He's gentle, and not fearful.

Pro.

What, I say,

My foot my tutor!-Put thy sword up, traitor;

Who mak'st a shew, but dar'st not strike, thy con

science

Is so possess'd with guilt: come from thy ward;

For I can here disarm thee with this stick,

And make thy weapon drop.

Mira.

Pro. Hence! hang not on my garments.

Mira.

I'll be his surety.

Pro.

Beseech you, father!

Sir, have pity;

Silence: one word more

Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What! An advocate for an impostor? hush !

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Thou think'st, there are no more such shapes as he, Having seen but him and Caliban: Foolish wench! To the most of men this is a Caliban,

And they to him are angels.

Mira.

My affections

Are then most humble; I have no ambition

To see a goodlier man.

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My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up.
My father's loss, the weakness which I feel,
The wreck of all my friends, or this man's threats,
To whom I am subdu'd, are but light to me,
Might I but through my prison once a day
Behold this.maid: all corners else o' the earth
Let liberty make use of; space enough

Have I, in such a prison.

Pro.

It works:-Come on.

Thou hast done well, fine Ariel!-Follow me.

Hark, what thou else shalt do me.

Mira.

My father's of a better nature, sir,

[To Fer. and Mir.

[To Arici.

Be of comfort;

Than he appears by speech; this is unwonted,

Which now came from him.

Pro.

Thou shalt be as free

As mountain winds: but then exactly do
All points of my command.

Ari.

To the syllable.

Pro. Come, follow: speak not for him. [Exeunt.

ACT II. SCENE I.

Another Part of the Island.

Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO,
ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others.

Gon. 'Beseech you, sir, be merry: you
(So have we all) of joy; for our escape
Is much beyond our loss: Our hint of woe
Is common; every day, some sailor's wife,

have cause

The masters of some merchant, and the merchant,
Have just our theme of woe: but for the miracle,
I mean our preservation, few in millions

Can speak like us: then wisely, good sir, weigh
Our sorrow with our comfort.

Alon.

20 Pr'ythee, peace.

Seb. He receives comfort like cold porridge.
Ant. The visitor 21 will not give him o'er so.

Seb. Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit;

by and by it will strike.

Gon. Sir,

Seb. One-Tell.

Gon. When every grief is entertain'd, that's offer'd, Comes to the entertainer

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Gon. Dolour comes to him, indeed; you have spoken truer than you purpos'd.

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