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Let liberty make use of; space enough
Have I in such a prison.

It works:-Come on.

Pro.
Thou hast done well, fine Ariel!-Follow me.-
[To FERD. and MIRA.

Be of comfort;
Hark, what thou else shalt do me. [To ARIEL.
Mira.

My father's of a better nature, sir,
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.
To the syllable.
Ari.

Pro. Come, follow: speak not for him.

ACT II.

KINE L. Another part of the island.
Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GON-

ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others.
Cm Beech you, sir, be merry: you have
But we zil) of joy; for our escape [cause
ma beyond our loss: Our hint of woe

; every day, some sailor's wife,

Adr. Yet

[Exeunt.

Ant. He could not miss it.
Adr. It must needs be of subtle, tender, and
delicate temperance •.

Ant. Temperance was a delicate wench. Seb. Ay, and a subtle; as he most learnedly delivered.

Adr. The air breathes upon us here most

mars of some merchant, and the mer-sweetly.

langur theme of woe: but for the miracle,

preservation, few in millions

a ake us: then wisely, good sir, weigh wow with our comfort. Las

Pr'ythee, peace. He receives comfort like cold porridge. im. The visitor will not give him o'er so. Look, he's winding up the watch of by and by it will strike.

Ach, Y:-Tell.

When every grief is entertain'd, that's [offer'd, Cette entertainerA dollar. Dior comes to him, indeed; you een truer than you purposed. I have taken it wiselier than I

Mat can should.

Tarfare, my lord,

Pe, what a spendthrift is he of his

A pythee, spare.

Well, I have done: But yet

de will be talking.

Wuch of them,.he, or Adrian, for a

pd wager, first begins to crow?

The old cock.

Am. The cuckrel.

se The wager?

Am à iughter.

b A much.

Ad Though this island seem to be desert,

D. Ha, ha, ha!

Seb. As if it had lungs, and rotten ones.
Ant. Or, as 'twere perfumed by a fen.
Gon. Here is every thing advantageous to life.
Ant. True; save means to live.

Seb. Of that there's none, or little.
Gon. How lash and lusty the grass looks!
how green!

Ant. The ground, indeed, is tawny.

Seb. With an eye of green in't.

Ant. He misses not much.

Seb. No; he doth but mistake the truth totally. Gon. But the rarity of it is (which is indeed almost beyond credit)

Seb. As many vouch'd rarities are.

Gon. That our garments, being, as they were, drenched in the sea, hold, notwithstanding, their freshness and glosses; being rather new dy'd than stain'd with salt water.

Ant. If but one of his pockets could speak, would it not say, he lies?

Seb. Ay, or very falsely pocket up his report. Gon. Methinks, our garments are now as fresh as when we put them on first in Afric, at the marriage of the king's fair daughter Claribel to the king of Tunis.

Seb. Twas a sweet marriage, and we prosper well in our return.

Adr. Tunis was never graced before with such a paragon to their queen.

Gon. Not since widow Dido's time.

Ant. Widow? a pox o' that! How came

that widow in? Widow Dido!

Seb. What if he had said, widower Æneas too? good lord, how you take it! [sible,- Adr. Widow Dido, said you? you make me Uninhabitable, and almost inacces-study of that: she was of Carthage, not of

I. So, you've pay'd.

Tunis.

• Temperature.

+ Rank.

Shade of colour.

Gon. This Tunis, sir, was Carthage.
Adr. Carthage?

Gon. I assure you, Carthage.

Ant. His word is more than the miraculous harp.

Seb. He hath rais'd the wall and houses too. Ant. What impossible matter will he make easy next?

Seb. I think he will carry this island home in his pocket, and give it his son for an apple. Ant. And sowing the kernels of it in the sea, bring forth more islands.

Gon. Ay?

Ant. Why, in good time.

Gon. Sir, we were talking that our garments seem now as fresh, as when we were at Tunis at the marriage of your daughter, who is now queen.

Ant. And the rarest that e'er came there. Seb. 'Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido. Ant. O, widow Dido; ay, widow Dido. Gon. Is not, sir, my doublet as fresh as the first day I wore it? I mean, in a sort*. Ant. That sort was well fish'd for.

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Seb. 'Scape being drunk, for want of Gon. I' the commonwealth I would by traries

Execute all things: for no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate Letters should not be known; no use of sei Of riches or of poverty; no contracts, Successions; bound of land,tilth, vineyard, No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil: No occupation; all men idle, all;

Gon. When I wore it at your daughter's And women too; but innocent and pure marriage? No sovereignty :

[against

Alon. You cram these words into mine ears, The stomach of my sense: 'Would I had never Married my daughter there! for, comingthence, My son is lost; and, in my rate, she too, Who is so far from Italy remov'd,

I ne'er again shall see her. O thou mine heir Of Naples and of Milan, what strange fish Hath made his meal on thee!

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Fran. Sir, he may live; I saw him beat the surges under him, And ride upon their backs; be trod the water, Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted The surge most swoln that met him: his bold head

'Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oar'd Himself with his good arms in lusty stroke To the shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd,

As stooping to relieve him: I not doubt,
He came alive to land.

Alon.

No, no, he's gone. Seb. Sir, you may thank yourself for this great loss; [daughter, That would not bless our Europe with your But rather lose her to an African; Where she, at least, is banish'd from your eye, Who hath cause to wet the grief on't. Alon.

Pr'ythee, peace. Seb. You were kneel'd to, and importun'd otherwise

By all of us; and the fair soul herself Weigh'd, between lothness and obedience, at Which end o' the beam she'd bow. We have

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Seb. And yet he would be king Ant. The latter end of his common to forgets the beginning. [pry

Gon. All things in common nature s Without sweat or endeavour: treason, Jen Sword, pike, knife, gun,or need of any enf Would I not have; but natureshould bring on

Of its own kind, all foizon, all abundan
To feed my innocent people..

Seb. No marrying 'mong his subjects!
Ant. None,man; all idle; whores and kn
Gon. I would with such perfection go
To excel the golden age.

Seb.

Save his maješ

Ant. Long live Gonzalo!
Gon.

And, do you mark me, Alon. Pr'ythee, no more: thou dost nothing to me.

Gon. I do well believe your lighness did it to minister occasion to these gentle. who are of such sensible and nimble 1 that they always use to laugh at nothing. Ant. 'Twas you we laugh'd at.

Gon. Who, in this kind of merry fooling nothing to you; so you may continue, laugh at nothing still.

Ant. What a blow was there given?
Seb. An it had not fallen flat-long.

Gon. You are gentlemen of brave me you would lift the moon out of her spher she would continue in it five weeks wit changing.

Enter ARIEL invisible, playing solem

music.

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Seb. We would so, and then go a bat-fowli Ant. Nay, good my lord, be not angry, Gon. No, I warrant you; I will not adv ture my discretion so weakly. Will you la me asleep, for I am very heavy ?

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Nor I; my spirits are nimble. The together all, as by consent; Tarpd, as by a thunder-stroke. What [more:y Sebastian -0, what might ?-No yemettanks, I see it in thy face, that should'st be: the occasion speaks Are; and

ng imagination sees a crown
upon thy head.

What, art thon waking? 4. Do you not hear me speak? I do; and, surely, egy language; and thou speak'st y seep: What is it thou didst say? Bet strange repose, to be asleep neys wide open; standing, speaking, yet so fast asleep. [moving, Noble Sebastian, are thy fortune sleep die rather; art waking. [wink'st Thou dost snore distinctly;

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(For he's a spirit of persuasion only,) The king, his son's alive; 'tis as impossible That he's undrown'd, as he that sleeps here, Seb. I have no hope [swims. That he's undrown'd.

Ant. O, out of that no hope, What great hope have you! no hope,that way,is Another way so high an hope, that even Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond, But doubts discovery there. Will you grant, That Ferdinand is drown'd? He's gone.

Seb. Ant.

Who's the next heir of Naples? Seb.

[with me,

Then tell me,

Claribel.

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Sco. Methinks I do. Ant.

And how does your content Tender your own good fortune? Seb.

I remember, You did supplant your brother Prospero. Ant.

True:

And, look, how well my garments sit upon me? Much feater than before: My brother's servants Were then my fellows, now they are my men.

Seb. But, for your conscience- [kibe, Ant. Ay, sir, where lies that? if it were a Twould put me to my slipper; but I feel not This deity in my bosom: twenty consciences, Thatstand'twixt me and Milan,candied be they, And melt, ere they molest! Here lies your brother,

No better than the earth he lies upon,
If he were that which now he's like; whom I,
With this obedient steel, three inches of it,
Can lay to bed for ever: whiles you, doing thus

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Thy case, dear friend,
Shall be my precedent; as thon got'st Milan,
I'll come by Napies. Draw thy sword: one
stroke
[pay'st;
Shall free thee from the tribute which then
And I the king shall love thee.
Ant.
Draw together:
And when I rear my hand, do you the like,
To fall it on Gonzalo.

Seb.

O, but one word.
[They converse apart.

Music. Re-enter ARIEL, invisible.
Ari. My master through his art foresees the
danger
[forth,
That these, his friends, are in; and sends me
(For else his project dies,) to keep them living.
[Sings in GONZALO's ear.

While you here do snoring lie,
Open-eyed conspiracy

His time doth take:

If of life you keep a care,
Shake off slumber, and beware:
Awake! awake!

Ant. Then let us both be sudden.
Gon. Now, good angels, preserve the king!
[They wake.
Alon. Why, how now, ho! awake! Why
are yon drawn?

Wherefore this ghastly looking?
Gon.
What's the matter?
Seb. Whiles we stood here securing your
[lowing,
Even now, we heard a hollow burst of bel
Like bulls, or rather lions; did it not wake you?
It struck mine ear most terribly.

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Fright me with urchin shows, pitch me
Nor lead me, like a fire-brand, in the da
Out of my way, unless he bid them; but
For every trifle are they set upon me:
Sometime like apes, that moet and chat
And after bite me; then like hedge-hogs,
Lie tumbling in my bare-foot way, and s
Their pricks at my foot-fall; sometime a
All wound with adders, who, with
tougues,

Do hiss me into madness:-Lo! now! It
Enter TRINCULO.

Here comes a spirit of his; and to tormen
For bringing wood in slowly: l'il fall f
Perchance he will not mind me.

Trin. Here's neither bush nor shrub, to off any weather at all, and another storm t ing; I hear it sing 'the wind; yond black cloud, yond' huge one, looks like a bumbard that would shed his liquor. should thunder, as it did before, I know where to hide my head: yond' same cannot choose but fall by paiifuls.-What we here? a man or a fish? Dead or aliv fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient fish-like smell; a kind of, not of the new Poor-John. A strange fish! Were I in Eng now, (as once I was,) and had but this painted, not a holiday-fool there but w give a piece of silver: there would this moi Alon. I heard nothing. make a man; any strange beast there mal Ant. O, 'twas a din to fright a monster's ear; man: when they will not give a doit to rel To make an earthquake! sure it was the roar a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to s Of a whole herd of lions. dead Indian. Legg'd like a man! and his Alon. Heard you this, Gonzalo? like arms! Warm, o' my troth! I do nov Gon. Upon mine honour, sir, I heard a hum- loose my opinion, hold it no longer; this.i ming, [me: fish, but an islander, that hath lately suffi And that a strange one too, which did awake by a thunderbolt. [Thunder.] Alas! the st Ishak'd you,sir, and cry'd; as mine eyes open'd, is come again: my best way is to creep at I saw their weapons drawn:-there was a noise, his gaberdine; there is no other shelter b That's verity: 'Best stand upon our guard; about: Misery acquaiuts a man with stra Or that we quit this place: let's draw our bed-fellows. I will here shroud, till the di [further search of the storm be past. Alon. Lead off this ground; and let's make For my poor son.

weapons.

Gon. Heavens keep him from these beasts!
For he is, sure, i' the island.
Alon.

Lead away.
Ari. Prospero, my lord, shall know what I

Enter STEPHANO, singing; a bottle in hand.

Ste. I shall no more to sea, to sea, Here shall I die a-shore ;-[Aside. This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a ma So, king, go safely on to seek thy son. [Exeunt. funeral: Well, here's my comfort. [Drin.

have done.

• Ever.

+ Any hint.

A black jack of leather, to hold beer.

Make mouths.
The frock of a peasant.

TEMPEST.

ter the rabber theboatswain,and1, calo, indeed: How cam'st thou to be the sieget of this moon-calf? Can he vent Trinculos? Teper, and his mate,

Mill Meg and Marian, and Margery, bmw of us cared for Kate: file kid a tongue with a tang, Tatry to a sailer, Go, hang:

int the savour of tar nor of pitch, might scratch her where-e'er

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Pa, boys, and let her go hang.

y tane too: But here's my [Drinks. De torment me: O! 4. To the matter? Have we devils, pet tricks upon us with savages, lade Ha! I have not 'scaped be afeard now of your four legs; den saad, As proper a man as ever four legs, cannot make him give shall be said so again, whilst heathes at nostrils. The part torments me: O!

me monster of the isle, with tim xo bath got, as I take it, an ague:

s should be learn our language? paste relief, if it be but for that:

him, and keep him, tame, and It foam with him, he's a present for any ever trode on neat's leather. not torment me, pr'ythee; I'll I want bomme faster.

ratis fit now; and does not talk . He shall taste of my bottle: if drunk wine afore, it will go near if I can recover him,and keep Bot take too much for him: he rt that hath bim,and that sonndly. The cost me yet but little hurt; thou I know it by thy trembling: Now tapen thee.

your ways; open your month;
vick will give language to you,cat;
h: this will shake your shaking,
fan vi me that soundly: yon cannot tell
: open your chaps again.
d know that voice: It should
frownes; and these are devils:

fargs, and two voices; a most de-
Has forward voice now is to
t friend; his backward voice!
speeches, and to detract. If
amy bottle will recover him, I
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Trin. I took him to be killed with a than-
der-stroke:-But art thou not drowned, Ste-
phano? I hope now, thon art not drowned. Is
the storm overblown? I hid me under the
dead moon-calf's gaberdine, for fear of the
storm: Aud art thou living, Stephano? O Ste-
phano, two Neapolitans 'scaped!

Ste. Pr'ythee, do not turn me about; my
[sprites.
W stomach is not constant.
Cal. These be fine things, an if they be not
That's a brave god, and bears celestial liquor:
I will kneel to him.

un, I have no long spoon.
tamo!—if thou beest Stephano,
speak to me; for I am Trinco.
arthy good friend Trinculo.
best Trincaio, come forth; I'll
y the lesser legs: if any be Trinca-
them are they. Thon art very Trin1

• India.

Ste. How did'st thou 'scape? How cam'st
thon hither? swear by this bottle, how thou
cam'st hither. I escaped upon a butt of sack,
which the sailors heaved over-board, by this
bottle! which I made of the bark of a tree, with
mine own hands, since I was cast a-shore.

Cal. I'll swear, upon that bottle, to be thy
True subject; for the liquor is not earthly.

Ste. Here; swear then how thou escap'dst. Trin. Swam a-shore, man, like a duck; I can swim like a duck, I'll be sworn.

Ste. Here, kiss the book: Though thou canst swim like a duck, thou art made like a goose.

Trin. O Stephano, hast any more of this? Ste. The whole butt, man; my cellar is in a rock by the sea-side, where my wine is hid. How now, moon-calf? how does thine ague?

Cal. Hast thou not dropped from heaven? Ste. Out o'the moon, I'do assure thee: I was the man in the moon, when time was. Cal. I have seen thee in her, and I do adore

thee; My mistress shewed me thee, thy dog, and bush.

Ste. Come, swear to that; kiss the book: I will furnish it anon with new contents: swear.

Trin. By this good light, this is a very shallow monster:-1 afeard of him?-a very weak monster :-The man i' the moon?-a most poor credulous monster:-Well drawn, mon. ster, in good sooth.

Cal. I'll shew thee every fertile inch o' the

island;

And kiss thy foot: I pr'ythee, be my god. Trin. By this light, a most perfidious and drunken monster; when his god's asleep, he'll [subject. rob his bottle.

Cal. I'll kiss thy foot: I'll swear myself thy Ste. Come on then; down, and swear. Trin. I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster: A most scurvy monster! I could find in my heart to beat him,Ste. Come, kiss.

Trin. but that the poor monster's in drink: An abominable monster!

Cal. I'll shew thee the best springs; I'll
pluck thee berries;

I'll fish for thee, and get thee wood enough.
A plague upon the tyrant that I serve!
I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee,
Thou wond'rous man,

Trin. A most ridiculous monster; to make a wonder of a poor drunkard.

↑ Stool.

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