Ste. Lead, monster; we'll follow. I would, I could Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men, see this taborer: he lays it on.
Trin. Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano. [Exeunt.
SCENE III. - Another part of the Island. Enter ALONSO, 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,
Whose heads stood in their breasts? 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 too, and do as we!
Thunder and lightning. Enter ARIEL, like a harpy,
Through forth-rights, and meanders! by your pa- claps his wings upon the table, and, with a quaint
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 oil 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. The next advantage Will we take thoroughly.
Ant. 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 Shapes, bringing in a banquet; they dance about it with gentle ac- tions of salutation; and, inviting the king, etc. to eat, they depart.
Alon. What harmony is this? my good friends, hark! Gon. Marvellous 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.
I should report this now, would they believe me? If I should say, I I saw such islanders,
(For, certes, these are people of the island,)
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 caused 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. etc. 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 ministers Are like invulnerable: if you could hurt, Your swords are now too massy for your strengths. And will not be uplifted: But, remember, (For that's my business to you,) that you three From Milan did supplant good Prospero; Expos'd unto the sea, which hath requit it, Him, and his innocent child: for which foul deed The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have Incens'd the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures, Against your peace. Thee of thy son, Alonso, 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.
Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, expressing (Although they want the use of tongue) a kind
Of excellent dumb discourse.
He vanishes in thunder: then, to soft musick, enter the Shapes again, and dance with mops and mowes, 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 hadst to say: so, with good life, And observation strange, my nieaner 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; And in these fits I leave them, whilst I visit Young Ferdinand, (whom they suppose is drowned,) And his and my loved darling.
[Exit 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'd The name of Prosper; it did bass my trespass. Therefore my soni' the ooze is bedded; and
They have left their viands behind; for we have sto- I'll seek him deeper than c'er plummet sounded,
And with him there lie mudded. Seb. But one fiend at a time, I'll fight their legions o'er. Ant. I'll be thy second. [Exeunt Seb. and Ant. Gon. All three of them are desperate; their great guilt, Like poison given to work a great time after, Now' gins to bite the spirits: - I do beseech you,
SCENEI.- Before Prospero's Cell. Enter PROSPERO, FERDINAND, and MIRANDA. Pro. If I have too austerely punish'd you, Your compensation makes amends; for I Have given you here a thread of mine own life, Or that, for which I live; whom once again I tender to thy hand; all thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou
Hast strangely stood the test: here, afore Heaven, I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand, Do not smile at me, that I boast her off,
For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise, And make it halt behind her.
For quiet days, fair issue, and long life,
With such love as 'tis now; the murkiest den,
The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion Our worser Genius can, shall never melt
Mine honour into lust; to take away
The edge of that day's celebration,
Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves, Being lass-lorn; thy pole-clipt vineyard; And thy sea-marge, steril, and rocky-hard, Where thou thyself dost air: The queen o' the sky, Whose watery arch, and messenger, am I, Bids thee leave these; and with her sovereign grace, Here on this grass-plot, in this very place, To come and sport: her peacocks fly amain; Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain. Enter CERES.
Cer. Hail, many-colour'd messenger, that ne'er Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter;
Who with thy saffron wings upon my flowers Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers; And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown My bosky acres, and my unshrubb'd down, Rich scarf to my proud earth; Why hath thy queen Summon'd me hither, to this short-grass'd green? Iris. A contract of true love to celebrate; And some donation freely to estate On the bless'd lovers.
Cer. Tell me, heavenly bow,
If Venus, or her son, as thou dost know,
Do now attend the queen? since they did plot The means, that dusky Dis my daughter got, Her and her blind boy's scandal'd company I have forsworn.
When I shall think, or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd, Be not afraid; I met her deity
Or night kept chain'd below.
Pro. Fairly spoke!
Sit then, and talk with her, she is thine own. What, Ariel; my industrious servant Ariel!
Cutting the clouds towards Paphos; and her son Dove-drawn with her: here thought they to have done Some wanton charm upon this man and maid, Whose vows are, that no bed-rite shall be paid Till Hymen's torch be lighted: but in vain;
Mars's hot minion is return'd again;
Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows, Swears he will shoot no more, but play with sparrows, And be a boy right out.
Cer. Highest queen of state,
Great Juno comes; I know her by her gait.
Jun. How does my bounteous sister? Go with me, To bless this twain, that they may prosperous be, And honour'd in their issue.
Juno. Honour, riches, marriage-blessing, Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you! Juno sings her blessings on you.
Ceres. Earth's increase, and foison plenty, Barns, and garners never empty;
Vines, with clust' ring bunches growing; Plants, with goodly burden bowing; Spring come to you, at the farthest, In the very end 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. Spirits, which by mine art
I have from their confines call'd to enact
Fer. Let me live here ever!
So rare a wonder'd father, and a wife,
Make this place Paradise.
At which, like unback'd colts, they prick'd their ears, Advanc'd their eye-lids, lifted up their noses, As they smelt musick; so I charm'd their ears, That, calf-like, they my lowing follow'd, through Tooth'd briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss, and thorns,
[Juno and Ceres whisper, and send Iris Which enter'd their frail shins: at last I left them
on employment.
Pro. 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 wand'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!
Enter certain Nymphs.
You sun-burn'd sicklemen, of August weary, Come hither from the furrow, and be merry; Make holiday: your rye-straw hats put on, And these fresh nymphs encounter every one In country footing!
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.- e.-[To the Spirits.] Well done;-avoid;
Fer. This is most 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 globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve; And, like this unsubstantial 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 troubled.
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.
Pro. Come with a thought: -I thank you :-Ariel, come!
I' the filthy mantled pool beyond your cell, There dancing up to the chins, that the foul lake O'erstunk their feet.
Pro. This was well done, my bird; Thy shape invisible retain thou still :
The trumpery in my house, go, bring it hither, For stale to catch these thieves! Ari. I go, I go.
Pro. A devil, a born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains, Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost; And as with age his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers: I will plague them all, Re-enter ARIEL, loaden with glistering apparel, etc. Even to roaring: - Come, hang them on this line! PROSPERO and ARIEL remain invisible. Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO, all wet.
Cal. Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may 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 softly,
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.
Šte. 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,
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,
Ari. Thy thoughts I cleave to: What's thy pleasure? To doat thus on such luggage? Let's along, Pro. Spirit,
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.
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 For breathing in their faces; beat the ground For kissing of their feet: yet always bending Toward their project: Then I beat my tabor,
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.
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 fin- gers, 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 With foreheads villainous 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.
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.
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!
SCENE I. - Before the cell of Prospero. Enter PROSPERO in his magick 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.
When first I rais'd the tempest. Say, my spirit, How fares the king and his?
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 Him 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 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? Though with their high wrongs I 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.
Pro. Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves;
And ye, that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back; you demy-puppets, that By moon-shine do the green-sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites; and you, whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms; that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid (Weak masters though: ye 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 Have I made shake; and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar: graves, at my command, .Have wak'd their sleepers; oped, and let them forth By my so potent art: But this rough magick There abjure: and, when I have requir'd 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. Re-enter ARIEL: after him, ALONSO, with a frantic gesture, attended by GONZALO ; SEBASTIAN and ANTO- NIO in like manner, attended by ADRIAN and FRAN- CISCO: they all enter the circle which PROSPEKO 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. ·
Holy Gonzalo, honourable man,
Mine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine, 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, Alonso, 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,) Would here have kill'd your king; I do forgive thee, Unnatural though thou art!- Their understanding Begins to swell; and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores, That now lie foul and muddy. Not one of them, - Ariel, That yet looks on me, or would know me : — Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell! [Exit Ariel. I will dis-case me, and myselfpresent, As I was sometime Milan:- quickly, spirit! Thou shalt ere long be free.
ARIEL re-enters, singing, and helps to attire PROSPERO.
Ari. Where the bee sucks, there suck I;
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.
DUKE OF MILAN, father to Silvia. VALENTINE,
PROTEUS gentlemen of Verona.
ANTONIO, father to Proteus.
THURIO, a foolish rival to Valentine.
EGLAMOUR, agent for Silvia, in her escape. SPEED, a clownish servant to Valentine. LAUNCE, servant to Proteus.
SCENE,-Sometimes in Verona; sometimes in Milan; and on the frontiers of Mantua.
An open place in Verona. Enter VALENTINE and PROTEUS. Val. Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus! Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits: Wer't not, affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honour'd love, I rather would entreat thy company, To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardiz'd at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness. But, since thou lov'st, love still, and thrive therein, Even as I would, when I to love begin.
Pro. Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valentine, adica! Think on thy Proteus, when thon, haply, seest Some rare note-worthy object in thy travel! Wish me partaker in thy happiness,
When thou dost meet good hap; and in thy danger, If ever danger do environ thee, Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers! For I will be thy bead's-man, Valentine!
Val. And on a love-book pray for my success! Pro. Upon some book, I'll love, I'll pray for thee. Val. That's on some shallow story of deep love, How young Leander cross'd the Hellespont. Pro. That's a deep story of a deeper love; For he was more than over shoes in love. Val. 'Tis true; for you are over boots in love, And yet you never swom the Hellespont.
Pro. Over the boots? nay, give me not the boots! Fal. No, I'll not, for it boots thee not.
In love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, With heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth, With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights: If haply won, perhaps, a hapless gain;
If lost, why then a grievous labour won; However, but a folly bought with wit, Or else a wit by folly vanquished.
Pro. So, by your circumstance, you call me fool.
Val. So, by your circumstance, I fear, you'll prove. Pro. 'Tis love you cavil at ; I am not Love. Val. Love is your master, for he masters you: And he, that is so yoked by a fool,
Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise. Pro. Yet writers say, As in the sweetest bud The eating canker dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all.
Val. And writers say, As the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker, ere it blow, Even so by love the young and tender wit Is turn'd to folly; blasting in the bud, Losing his verdure even in the prime, And all the fair effects of future hopes. But wherefore waste I time to counsel thee, That art a votary to fond desire? Once more adieu! my father at the road Expects my coming, there to see mes e shipp'd. Pro. And thither will I bring thee, Valentine. Val. Sweet Proteus, no! now let us take our leave. At Milan, let me hear from thee by letters, Of thy success in love, and what news else Betideth here, in absence of thy friend; And I likewise will visit thee with mine. Pro. All happiness bechance to thee in Milan! Val. As much to you at home! and so, farewell! [Exit Valentine.
Pro. He after honour hunts, I after love; IIe leaves his friends, to dignify them more; I leave myself, my friends, and all for love. Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphos'd me, Made me neglect my studies, lose my time, War with good counsel, set the world at nought: Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought.
Speed. Sir Proteus, save you! Saw you my master? Pro. But now he parted hence, to embark for Milan. Speed. Twenty to one then, he is shipp'd already; And I have play'd the sheep, in losing him. Pro. Indeed a sheep doth very often stray, An if the shepherd be awhile away.
Speed. You conclude that my master is a shepherd then, and I a sheep?
Speed. Why then my horns are his horns, whether I
Pro. A silly answer, and fitting well a sheep! Speed. This proves me still a sheep.
Pro. True; and thy master a shepherd.
Speed. Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance.
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