Cal. I must eat my dinner. This island's mine, by Sycorax, my mother, Which thou tak'st from me. When thou camest first, Thou strok'dst me, and mad'st much of me; would'st give me Water with berries in't; and teach me how Cursed be I that did so! - All the charms Pro. Thou most lying slave, Whom stripes may move, not kindness; I have us'd thee, Filth as thou art, with human care; and lodg'd thee In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate The honour of my child. Cal. O ho, O ho! -'would it had been done! Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else This isle with Calibans. Though thou didst learn, had that in't which good Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou Deservedly confin'd into this rock, Who hadst deserv'd more than a prison. The watch-dogs bark: Idispersedly. [dispersedly. Bur. Bowgh, wowgh. Fer. Where should this music be? i' the air, on the earth? It sounds no more:-and sure, it waits upon Fer. The ditty does remember my drown'd father: This is no mortal business, nor no sound Mira. What is't? a spirit? Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir, As we have, such: this gallant which thou seest call him Cal. You taught me language; and my profiten't A goodly person: he hath lost his fellows, Is, I know how to curse: the red plague rid2 you, And strays about to find them. For learning me your language! Pro. Hag-seed, hence! A thing divine; for nothing natural Pro. Fer. A single thing, as I am now, that wonders To hear thee speak of Naples: he does hear me; And, that he does, I weep: myself am Naples; Who with mine eyes, ne'er since at ebb, beheld The king my father wreck'd. Mira. Alack, for mercy! So they are: My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up. Pro. The duke of Milan, And his more braver daughter, could control thee, If now it were fit to do 't. At the first sight The wreck of all my friends, or this man's threats, [Aside. Have I in such a prison. They have chang'd eyes:-Delicate Ariel, Fer. O, if a virgin, And your affection not gone forth, I'll make you Soft, sir; one word more. They are both in either's powers: but this swift business I must uneasy make, lest too light winning [Aside. thee, That thou attend me: thou dost here usurp From me, the lord on't." Fer. No, as I am a man. Mira. There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't. Follow me.- [To Ferd. Come, Speak not you for him; he's a traitor. Pro. It works:-Come on.Thou hast done well, fine Ariel! -Follow me.[To Ferd. and Mira. Hark, what thou else shalt do me. [To Ariel. Be of comfort, Mira: My father's of a better nature, sir, Thou shalt be as free Ari. To the syllable. Pro. Come, follow: speak not for him. (Exeunt. АСТ II. SCENE I. Another part of the island. Enter Gon. 'Beseech you, sir, be merry: you have cause (So have we all) of joy; for our escape Is much beyond our loss: our hint of wo Can speak like us: then wisely, good sir, weigh Alon. Pr'ythee, peace. Seb. He receives comfort like cold porridge. 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 Seb. A dollar. Gon. Dolour comes to him, indeed; you have spoken truer than you proposed. Seb. You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should. Gon. Therefore, my lord, Ant. Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue! Gon. Well, I have done: but yet Seb. He will be talking. Ant. Which of them, he, or Adrian, for a good wager, first begins to crow ? Seb. The old cock. Ant. The cockrel. Seb. Done: the wager? Ant. A laughter. Seb. A match. Adr. Though this island seem to be desert, Seb. Ha, ha, ha! Ant. So, you've pay'd. Alon. You cram these words into mine ears, Adr. Uninhabitable, and almost inaccessible,- The stomach of my sense: 'would I had never Seb. Yet, Adr. Yet Ant. He could not miss it. against Married my daughter there! for, coming thence, Adr. It must needs be of subtle, tender, and I ne'er again shall see her. O thou mine heir delicate temperance. 1 Ant. Temperance was a delicate wench. Seb. Ay, and a subtle; as he most learnedly delivered. Adr. The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. Ant. Or, as 'twere perfumed by a fen. Gon. Here is every thing advantageous to life. Seb. Of that there's none, or little. Of Naples and of Milan, what strange fish Gon. How lush and lusty the grass looks! how To the shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd 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. Int. If but one of his pockets could speak, would it not say, He lies? Seb. Av, 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 grac'd 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! Adr. Widow Dido, said you? you make me study of that: she was of Carthage, not of Tunis. Gon. This Tunis, sir, was Carthage. Adr. Carthage? Gon. I assure you, Carthage. Ant. His word is more than the miraculous harp. 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; av, widow Dido. The surge most swoin that met him: his bold head But rather lose her to an African; Pr'ythee, peace. Seb. You were kneel'd to, and importun'd By all of us; and the fair soul herself I fear, for ever: Milan and Naples have Alon. So is the dearest of the loss. My lord Sebastian, Or docks, or mallows. And women too; but innocent and pure: Gon. Is not, sir, my doublet as fresh as the first gets the beginning. day I wore it? I mean, in a sort.4 Ant. That sort was well fish'd for. Gon. When I wore it at your daughter's marriage? (1) Temperature. (2) Rank. (3) Shade of colour. Gon. All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, (4) Degree or quality. (5) The rack. Thou dost snore distinctly; Would I not have; but nature should bring forth, Whiles thou art waking. Of its own kind, all foizon, all abundance, To feed my innocent people. Seb. No marrying 'mong his subjects? Ant. None, man; all idle; whores and knaves. To excel the golden age. Seb. 'Save his majesty! Seb. There's meaning in thy snores. Ant. I am more serious than my custom: you Seb. Well; I am standing water. Ant. I'll teach you how to flow. Seb. Ant. Long live Gonzalo! thing to me. Do so: to ebb, Ant. 0, If you but knew, how you the purpose cherish, Gon. I do well believe your highness; and did Whiles thus you mock it! how, in stripping it, it to minister occasion to these gentlemen, who are You more invest it! Ebbing men, indeed, of such sensible and nimble lungs, that they always Most often do so near the bottom run, use to laugh at nothing. Ant. 'Twas you we laugh'd at. By their own fear, or sloth. Seb. Pr'ythée, say on: Gon. Who, in this kind of merry fooling, am The setting of thine eye, and cheek, proclaim nothing to you; so you may continue, and laugh A matter from thee; and a birth, indeed, Ant. What a blow was there given: would lift the moon out of her sphere, continue in it five weeks without changing. Enter Ariel, invisible, playing solemn music. Gon. No, I warrant you: I will not adventure my discretion so weakly. Will you laugh measlcep, for I am very heavy ? Ant. Go sleep, and hear us. [All sleep but Alon. Seb. and Ant. n. What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes ould, with themselves, shut up my thoughts: I find, They are inclined to do so. Seb. Please you, sir, Do not omit the heavy offer of it: Ant. We two, my lord, Will guard your person, while you take your rest, Thank you: wondrous heavy. Ant. She that is queen of Tunis; she that dwells Be rough and razorable: she, from whom We were all sea-swallowed, though some cast again; [Alonso sleeps. Exit Ariel. Whereof what's past is prologue; what to come, Seb. What a strange drowsiness possesses them! 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- "Twould put me to my slipper; but I feel not If he were that which now he's like; whom I, This ancient morsel, this sir Prudence, who By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me, Should not upbraid our course. For all the rest, Nor lead me, like a fire-brand, in the dark, They'll take suggestion, as a cat laps milk; They'll tell the clock to any business that We say befits the hour. Seb. Thy case, dear friend, Shall be my precedent; as thou got'st Milan, Ant. Draw together: And when I rear my hand, do you the like, To fall it on Gonzalo. Seb. Ari. O, but one word. Out of my way, unless he bid them; but Sometimes like apes, that moes and chatter at me, Enter Trinculo. Here comes a spirit of his; and to torment me, [They converse apart. For bringing wood in slowly; I'll fall flat; Perchance he will not mind me. Music. Re-enter Ariel, invisible. danger That these, his friends, are in; and sends me forth, (For else his project dies,) to keep them living. [Sings in Gonzalo's ear. Ant. O, 'twas a din to fright a monster's ear; To make an earthquake! sure it was the roar Of a whole herd of lions." Alon. Heard you this, Gonzalo? Gon. Upon mine honour, sir, I heard a humming, And that a strange one too, which did awake me: I shak'd you, sir, and cry'd; as mine eyes open'd, I saw their weapons drawn:-there was a noise, That's verity: 'best stand upon our guard; Or that we quit this place: let's draw our weapons. Alon. Lead off this ground; and let's make fur Trin. Here's neither bush nor shrub, to bear off any weather at all, and another storm brewing; I hear it sing i' the wind: yond' same black cloud, yond' huge one, looks like a foul bumbard that would shed his liquor. If it should thunder, as it did before, I know not where to hide my head: yond' same cloud cannot choose but fall by pail Tuls. What have we here? a man or a fish? Dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of, not of the newest, Poor John. A strange fish! Were I in England now, (as once I was,) and had this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a man; any strange beast there makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm, o' my troth! I do now let loose my opinion, hold it no longer; this is no fish, but an islander, that hath lately suffered by a thunderbolt. [Thunder.] Alas! the storm is come again: my best way is to creep under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter hereabout: misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows. I will here shroud, till the dregs of the storm be past. Enter Stephano, singing; a bottle in his hand. Ste. I shall no more to sea, to sea, Here shall I die ashore; This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's funeral: The master, the swabber, the boastswain, and I, A black jack of leather, to hold beer. (5) The frock of a peasant. |