Shew thee a jay's neft, and instruct thee how Cal. I'll shew thee every fertile inch o' the ifle; And I will kifs thy foot: I pr'ythee, be my god. Trin. By this light, a most perfidious and drunken monster; when his god's afleep, he'll rob his bottle. Cal. I'll kiss thy foot: I'll fwear myself thy fubSte. Come on then; down, and fwear. [ject. Ste. I pr'ythee now, lead the way, without any ; Trin. I fhall laugh myself to death at this puppy-more talking.-Trinculo, the king and all our comheaded monster: A most scurvy monfter! Ipany being drown'd, we will inherit here.-could find in my heart to beat him,— Here; bear my bottle! Fellow Trinculo, we'll fill him by and by again. Cal. [Sings drunkenly.] Farewell mafter; fare well, farewell. Trin. A howling monfter; a drunken monster. At requiring, Nor fcrape trencher, nor wash dish; Ban' Ban', Ca-Caliban Has a new mafer-Get a new Man. [grow; Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! freedom, hey-day, freedom! Cal. I pr'ythee, let me bring thee where crabs And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts; Ste. O brave monster! lead the way. [Exeunt, Mira. It would become me As well as it does you: and I should do it Delight in them fets off: fome kinds of baseness [bours; Enter Miranda, and Profpero at a distance. Fer. O moft dear mistress, The fun will fet before I fhall discharge What I muft ftrive to do. Mira. If you'll fit down, Pro. Poor worm! thou art infected; Mira. You look wearily. Fer. No, noble miftrefs; 'tis fresh morning with me, When you are by at night. I do befeech you, (Chiefly that I might fet it in my prayers) What is your name? Mira. Miranda :-O my father, have broke your hest to say fo! Fer. Admir'd Miranda! Indeed, the top of admiration; worth What's deareft to the world! Full many a lady Mira. I do not know I'll bear your logs the while: Pray, give me that; One of my fex; no woman's face remember, I'll carry 't to the pile. Save, from my glafs, mine own; nor have I feen 1 Mr. Steevens fuppofes, that, by an error of the prefs, feamel has been here fubftituted for feamell, a lpecies of bird mentioned by Willoughby, 2 For beheft, or command. More to me. Trin. Servant-monfter? the folly of this ifland! They fay there's but five upon this ifle: we are three of them; if the other two be brain'd like us, the state totters. More that I may call men, than you, good friend, bear up, and board 'em: Servant-monster, drink ber. I am, in my condition, A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king; Ste. Drink, fervant-monster, when I bid thee: thy eyes are almoft fet in thy head. Trin. Where fhould they be fet elfe? he were a brave monfter indeed, if they were fet in his tail. Ste. My man-moniter hath drown'd his tongue in fack: for my part, the fea cannot drown me: I fwam, ere I could recover the shore, five-and (1 would, not fo!) and would no more endure My heart fly to your fervice; there refides, Mira. Do you love me? Fer. O heaven, o earth, bear witnefs to this found, What belt is boded me, to mischief! I, Mira. I am a fool, To weep at what I am glad of. Pro. Fair encounter halt be my lieutenant, moniter, or my standard. Trin. Your lieutenant, if you lift; he's no itandard 2. Ste. We'll not run, monfieur monster. Trin. Nor go neither: but you'll lie, like dogs; and yet fay nothing neither. Ste. Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beeft a good moon-calf. Cal. How does thy honour? Let me lick thy fhoe: I'll not ferve him, he is not valiant. Trin. Thou lyft, moit ignorant moniter; I am in cafe to juftle a conftable: Why, thou deboth'd3 fifh thou, was there ever a man a coward, that hath drunk fo much fack as I to-day? Wilt thou Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace tell a monitrous lie, being but half a tifh, and half On that which breeds between them! Mira. Atmine unworthiness, that dare not offer If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow Fer. My miftrefs, dearest, And I thus humble ever. Fer. Av, with a heart as willing As bondage e'er of freedom: here's my hand. Fer. A thoufand, thousand! a monfter? Cal. Lo, how he mocks me; wilt thou let him, my lord? Trin. Lord, quoth he!-that a monfter fhould be fuch a natural ! Cal. Lo, lo, again: bite him to death, I pr'ythee. St. Trincule, keep a good tongue in your head; if you prove a mutineer, the next treeThe poor monfter's my fubject, and he fhall not futfer indignity. Cal. I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleas'd to hearken once again to the fuit I made to thee? Ste. Marry will I: kneel, and repeat it; I will ftand, and to thall Trinculo. Enter Ariel invifible. Cal. As I told thee before, I am fubject to a [farewell, tyrant; a forcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated [Exeunt. me of the island. Pro. So glad of this as they, I cannot be Who are furpriz'd with all; but my rejoicing At nothing can be more. I'll to my book; For yet, ere fupper-time, muft I perform Much bufinefs appertaining. SCENE 1 II. Another part of the island, [Exit Enter Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo, with a bottle. Ari. Thou lyft. St. Tell not me;-when the butt is out, we Proceed. will drink water; not a drop before: therefore Cal. I fay, by forcery he got this isle; 1 Companion. 2 Meaning he is fo much intoxicated, as not to be able to ftand. The quibble between fundard an enlign, and ftandard a fruit-tree, that grows without fupport, is evident. 3 Debauched. . From From me he got it. If thy greatness will Ste. That's most certain. Cal. Thou shalt be lord of it, and I'll ferve thee. Ste. How now fhall this be compafs'd? Canft thou bring me to the party? Cal. Yea, yea, my lord; I'll yield him thee asleep, [him Ste. Give me thy hand; I am forry I beat thee: Ste. Ay, on mine honour. [fure; Cal. Thou mak'it me merry: I am full of plea- Ste. At thy request, monfter, I will do reafon, Cal. That's not the tune. [Ariel plays the tune on [a tabor and pipe. our catch, play'd by Ste. If thou bee'ft a man, fhew thyself in thy likenefs: if thou bee'st a devil, take 't as thou lift. Trin. O, forgive me my fins! Ste. He that dies, pays all debts: I defy thee: Mercy upon us! Cal. Art thou affeard 3? Ste. No, monster, not I. Cal. Be not affeard; the ifle is full of noises, Ste. Now, forward with your tale. Pr'ythee, The clouds, methought,would open, and fhew riches ftand further off. Cal. Beat him enough: after a little time, I'll beat him too. Ste. Stand further.-Come, proceed. Cal. Why, as I told thee, 'tis a cuttom with him As greatest does leaft. Ste. Is it fo brave a lafs? Cal. Ay, lord, fhe will become thy bed, I warAnd bring thee forth brave brood. Ready to drop upon me; that, when I wak'd, [story. [where Ste. Lead, monfter; we'll follow.-I wou'd, I could fee this taborer: he lays it on. Trin. Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano. Changes to another part of the island. Enter Alonso, Sebaftian, Anthonio, Gonzalo, Adrian, Gon. By'r lakin 4, I can go no further, fir; Alon. Old lord, I cannot blame thee, Who am myself attach'd with wearinefs, To the dulling of my fpirits: fit down and rest. [rant, Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it Ste. Monfter, I will kill this man: his daughter No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd, and I will be king and queen; (fave our graces!) Whom thus we ftray to find; and the fea mocks and Trinculo and thyself thall be vice-roys :-Doft Our fruftrate fearch on land: Well, let him go. thou like the plot, Trinculo? Ant. [Afide to Sebaftian.] I am right glad that he's fo out of hope. Trin. Excellent. 1 Alluding to the ftriped, or fool's coat worn by Trinculo, who in the ancient dramatis perfonæ is called a jefter, and not a failor. 2 Means probably to dismiss it trippingly from the tongue. 3 The provincial mode in Staffordshire and the adjoining counties of pronouncing the word afraid. i. c. The diminutive only of our lady, i. c. ladykin. Do Do not, for one repulfe, forego the purpose Seb. The next advantage Ant. Let it be to-night; For, now they are opprefs'd with travel, they Seb. I fay, to-night; no more. Alon. What harmony is this? my good friends, [hark! Alon. Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were thefe? Gon. Marvellous fweet mufic! Seb. A living drollery: Now I will believe, Ant. I'll believe both; And what does elfe want credit, come to me, Gon. If in Naples I should report this now, would they believe me? Pra. Honeft lord, Thou haft faid well; for fome of you there prefent, Alon. I cannot too much mufe 3 [Afide. Such shapes, fuch gefture, and fuch found expreffing (Although they want the ufe of tongue) a kind Of excellent dumb difcourfe. Pro. Praife in departing. Fran. They vanish'd ftrangely. Seb. No matter, fince [Afide. [machs. Alon. I will ftand to, and feed, Thunder and lightning. Enter Ariel like a harpy: Ari. You are three men of fin, whom destiny, One dowle that's in my plume; my fellow-ministers He vanishes in thunder: then to foft mufic, enter the Pro. [Alde] Bravely the figure of this harpy haft thou They have left their viands behind; for we have sto-In what thou hadst to fay: fo, with good life, Alon. Not I. Each putter out on five for one 5, will bring us And obfervation ftrange, my meaner minifters [Exit Profpero from above. 1 Shows, called drolleries, were in Shakspeare's time performed by puppets only. 2 Certainly. 3 Admire. 4 Our author might have had this intelligence from the tranflation of Pliny, b. V. ch. 8. "The Blemmyi, by report, have no heads, but mouth and eies both in their breall." 5 This paffage alludes to an ancient forgotten custom, now very obfcure, when it was customary for those who engaged in long expeditions, to place out a fum of money on condition of receiving great intereft for it at their return home. Bailey, in his Dictionary, fays, that dowle is a feather, or rather the fingle particles of the down. 7 Blamelets, innocent. To mop and to mowe feem to have the fame meaning, i. e. to make mouths or wry faces. 9 With honest alacrity, or shearfulness. Alon. Alon. O, it is monftrous! monstrous! Methought, the billows spoke, and told me of it; The winds did fing it to me; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Profper; it did bafs1 my trespass. Therefore my fon i' the ooze is bedded; and I'll feek him deeper than e'er plummet founded, And with him there lie mudded. Seb. But one fiend at a time, [Exit. [I'll fight their legions o'er. Ant. I'll be thy fecond. Adr. Follow, I pray you. [Excant. ACT SCENE I Profpero's cell. Enter Profpero, Ferdinand, and Miranda. Pro. IF I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations Haft strangely stood the test: here, afore Heaven, Fer. I do believe it, Against an oracle. Pro. Then, as my gift, and thine own acquifition Fer. As I hope For quiet days, fair iffue, and long life, With fuch love as 'tis now; the murkieft den, 1 Ari. What would my potent mafter? here I am. Incite them to quick motion; for I muft Pro. Ay, with a twink. Ari. Before you can fay, Come, and go, Will be here with mop and moe: Pro. Dearly, my delicate Ariel: Do not approach, Now come, my Ariel; bring a 4 corollary, Amafque. Enter Iris. When I shall think, or Phoebus' fteeds are founder'd, And flat meads thatch'd with stover 5,them to keep; Or night kept chain'd below. Pro. Fairly fpoke: Sit then, and talk with her, fhe is thine own.-- Thy banks with pionied and twilled brims, That is, told it me in a rough bafs found. 2 Ecftafy here fignifies alienation of mind. 3 Afperfion is here ufed in its primitive fenfe of fprinkling. 4 That is, bring more than are fufficient, rather than fail for want of numbers. Corollary means furplus. 5 Stover, from Eflovers, a law word, fignifies an allowance in food or other neceffarics of life. It is here ufed for provifion in general for animals. Difappointed lovers are ftill faid to wear the willow, and in thefe lines broom groves are afligned to that unfortunate tribe for a retreat. This may allude to fome old cuftom. We fill fay that a husband hangs out the broom when his wife goes from home for a fhort time; and on fuch occafions a broom befona has been exhibited as a fignal that the house was freed from uxorial refliaint, and where the mafter might be confidered as a temporary bachelor. Broom grotes may fignify broom Sufhes |