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ACT I
SCENE I. On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise of thunder and
lightning heard.
Enter a Master and a Boatswain
Master
Boatswain!
Boatswain
Here, master: what cheer?
Master
Good, speak to the mariners: fall to't, yarely,
or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir
Exit
nter "ariners
Boatswain
Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts!
yare, yare! #ake in the topsail #end to the
master's whistle Blow, till thou burst thy wind,
if room enough!
Enter AONSO! SEBASTIAN! ANTONIO! "E#$INAN$! %ON&AO! and
others
AONSO
Good boatswain, have care $here's the master?
%lay the men
Boatswain
& pray now, keep below
ANTONIO
$here is the master, boatswain?
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Boatswain
o you not hear him? (ou mar our labour: keep your
cabins: you do assist the storm
%ON&AO
)ay, good, be patient
Boatswain
$hen the sea is Hence! $hat cares these roarers
for the name of king? #o cabin: silence! trouble us not
%ON&AO
Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard
Boatswain
)one that & more love than myself (ou are a
counsellor* if you can command these elements to
silence, and work the peace of the present, we will
not hand a rope more* use your authority: if you
cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make
yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of
the hour, if it so hap +heerly, good hearts! ut
of our way, & say
Exit
%ON&AO
& have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he
hath no drowning mark upon him* his comple-ion is
perfect gallows .tand fast, good /ate, to his
hanging: make the rope of his destiny our cable,
for our own doth little advantage &f he be not
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born to be hanged, our case is miserable
Exeunt
#e'enter Boatswain
Boatswain
own with the topmast! yare! lower, lower! Bring
her to try with main0course
A (r) within
1 plague upon this howling! they are louder than
the weather or our office
#e'enter SEBASTIAN! ANTONIO! and %ON&AO
(et again! what do you here? .hall we give o'er
and drown? Have you a mind to sink?
SEBASTIAN
1 po- o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous,
incharitable dog!
Boatswain
$ork you then
ANTONIO
Hang, cur! hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker!
$e are less afraid to be drowned than thou art
%ON&AO
&'ll warrant him for drowning* though the ship were
no stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an
unstanched wench
Boatswain
2ay her a0hold, a0hold! set her two courses off to
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sea again* lay her off
Enter Mariners wet
Mariners
1ll lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost!
Boatswain
$hat, must our mouths be cold?
%ON&AO
#he king and prince at prayers! let's assist them,
/or our case is as theirs
SEBASTIAN
&'m out of patience
ANTONIO
$e are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards:
#his wide0chapp'd rascal00would thou mightst lie drowning
#he washing of ten tides!
%ON&AO
He'll be hang'd yet,
#hough every drop of water swear against it
1nd gape at widest to glut him
1 confused noise within: '"ercy on us!'00 '$e split, we split!'00'/arewell, my
wife and children!'00 '/arewell, brother!'00'$e split, we split, we split!'
ANTONIO
2et's all sink with the king
SEBASTIAN
2et's take leave of him
Exeunt ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN
%ON&AO
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)ow would & give a thousand furlongs of sea for an
acre of barren ground, long heath, brown fur3e, any
thing #he wills above be done! but & would fain
die a dry death
Exeunt
SCENE II. The island. Before *#OS*E#O+S (ell.
Enter *#OS*E#O and MI#AN$A
MI#AN$A
&f by your art, my dearest father, you have
%ut the wild waters in this roar, allay them
#he sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,
But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek,
ashes the fire out , & have suffered
$ith those that & saw suffer: a brave vessel,
$ho had, no doubt, some noble creature in her,
ash'd all to pieces , the cry did knock
1gainst my very heart %oor souls, they perish'd
Had & been any god of power, & would
Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere
&t should the good ship so have swallow'd and
#he fraughting souls within her
*#OS*E#O
Be collected:
)o more ama3ement: tell your piteous heart
#here's no harm done
MI#AN$A
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, woe the day!
*#OS*E#O
)o harm
& have done nothing but in care of thee,
f thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who
1rt ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing
f whence & am, nor that & am more better
#han %rospero, master of a full poor cell,
1nd thy no greater father
MI#AN$A
"ore to know
id never meddle with my thoughts
*#OS*E#O
'#is time
& should inform thee farther 2end thy hand,
1nd pluck my magic garment from me .o:
a)s down his mantle
2ie there, my art $ipe thou thine eyes* have comfort
#he direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd
#he very virtue of compassion in thee,
& have with such provision in mine art
.o safely ordered that there is no soul00
)o, not so much perdition as an hair
Betid to any creature in the vessel
$hich thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink .it down*
/or thou must now know farther
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MI#AN$A
(ou have often
Begun to tell me what & am, but stopp'd
1nd left me to a bootless in4uisition,
+oncluding '.tay: not yet'
*#OS*E#O
#he hour's now come*
#he very minute bids thee ope thine ear*
bey and be attentive +anst thou remember
1 time before we came unto this cell?
& do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not
ut three years old
MI#AN$A
+ertainly, sir, & can
*#OS*E#O
By what? by any other house or person?
f any thing the image tell me that
Hath kept with thy remembrance
MI#AN$A
'#is far off
1nd rather like a dream than an assurance
#hat my remembrance warrants Had & not
/our or five women once that tended me?
*#OS*E#O
#hou hadst, and more, "iranda But how is it
#hat this lives in thy mind? $hat seest thou else
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&n the dark backward and abysm of time?
&f thou remember'st aught ere thou camest here,
How thou camest here thou mayst
MI#AN$A
But that & do not
*#OS*E#O
#welve year since, "iranda, twelve year since,
#hy father was the uke of "ilan and
1 prince of power
MI#AN$A
.ir, are not you my father?
*#OS*E#O
#hy mother was a piece of virtue, and
.he said thou wast my daughter* and thy father
$as uke of "ilan* and thou his only heir
1nd princess no worse issued
MI#AN$A
the heavens!
$hat foul play had we, that we came from thence?
r blessed was't we did?
*#OS*E#O
Both, both, my girl:
By foul play, as thou say'st, were we heaved thence,
But blessedly holp hither
MI#AN$A
, my heart bleeds
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#o think o' the teen that & have turn'd you to,
$hich is from my remembrance! %lease you, farther
*#OS*E#O
"y brother and thy uncle, call'd 1ntonio00
& pray thee, mark me00that a brother should
Be so perfidious!00he whom ne-t thyself
f all the world & loved and to him put
#he manage of my state* as at that time
#hrough all the signories it was the first
1nd %rospero the prime duke, being so reputed
&n dignity, and for the liberal arts
$ithout a parallel* those being all my study,
#he government & cast upon my brother
1nd to my state grew stranger, being transported
1nd rapt in secret studies #hy false uncle00
ost thou attend me?
MI#AN$A
.ir, most heedfully
*#OS*E#O
Being once perfected how to grant suits,
How to deny them, who to advance and who
#o trash for over0topping, new created
#he creatures that were mine, & say, or changed 'em,
r else new form'd 'em* having both the key
f officer and office, set all hearts i' the state
#o what tune pleased his ear* that now he was
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#he ivy which had hid my princely trunk,
1nd suck'd my verdure out on't #hou attend'st not
MI#AN$A
, good sir, & do
*#OS*E#O
& pray thee, mark me
&, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
#o closeness and the bettering of my mind
$ith that which, but by being so retired,
'er0pri3ed all popular rate, in my false brother
1waked an evil nature* and my trust,
2ike a good parent, did beget of him
1 falsehood in its contrary as great
1s my trust was* which had indeed no limit,
1 confidence sans bound He being thus lorded,
)ot only with what my revenue yielded,
But what my power might else e-act, like one
$ho having into truth, by telling of it,
"ade such a sinner of his memory,
#o credit his own lie, he did believe
He was indeed the duke* out o' the substitution
1nd e-ecuting the outward face of royalty,
$ith all prerogative: hence his ambition growing00
ost thou hear?
MI#AN$A
(our tale, sir, would cure deafness
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*#OS*E#O
#o have no screen between this part he play'd
1nd him he play'd it for, he needs will be
1bsolute "ilan "e, poor man, my library
$as dukedom large enough: of temporal royalties
He thinks me now incapable* confederates00
.o dry he was for sway00wi' the 5ing of )aples
#o give him annual tribute, do him homage,
.ub6ect his coronet to his crown and bend
#he dukedom yet unbow'd00alas, poor "ilan!00
#o most ignoble stooping
MI#AN$A
the heavens!
*#OS*E#O
"ark his condition and the event* then tell me
&f this might be a brother
MI#AN$A
& should sin
#o think but nobly of my grandmother:
Good wombs have borne bad sons
*#OS*E#O
)ow the condition
#he 5ing of )aples, being an enemy
#o me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit*
$hich was, that he, in lieu o' the premises
f homage and & know not how much tribute,
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.hould presently e-tirpate me and mine
ut of the dukedom and confer fair "ilan
$ith all the honours on my brother: whereon,
1 treacherous army levied, one midnight
/ated to the purpose did 1ntonio open
#he gates of "ilan, and, i' the dead of darkness,
#he ministers for the purpose hurried thence
"e and thy crying self
MI#AN$A
1lack, for pity!
&, not remembering how & cried out then,
$ill cry it o'er again: it is a hint
#hat wrings mine eyes to't
*#OS*E#O
Hear a little further
1nd then &'ll bring thee to the present business
$hich now's upon's* without the which this story
$ere most impertinent
MI#AN$A
$herefore did they not
#hat hour destroy us?
*#OS*E#O
$ell demanded, wench:
"y tale provokes that 4uestion ear, they durst not,
.o dear the love my people bore me, nor set
1 mark so bloody on the business, but
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$ith colours fairer painted their foul ends
&n few, they hurried us aboard a bark,
Bore us some leagues to sea* where they prepared
1 rotten carcass of a boat, not rigg'd,
)or tackle, sail, nor mast* the very rats
&nstinctively had 4uit it: there they hoist us,
#o cry to the sea that roar'd to us, to sigh
#o the winds whose pity, sighing back again,
id us but loving wrong
MI#AN$A
1lack, what trouble
$as & then to you!
*#OS*E#O
, a cherubim
#hou wast that did preserve me #hou didst smile
&nfused with a fortitude from heaven,
$hen & have deck'd the sea with drops full salt,
7nder my burthen groan'd* which raised in me
1n undergoing stomach, to bear up
1gainst what should ensue
MI#AN$A
How came we ashore?
*#OS*E#O
By %rovidence divine
.ome food we had and some fresh water that
1 noble )eapolitan, Gon3alo,
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ut of his charity, being then appointed
"aster of this design, did give us, with
8ich garments, linens, stuffs and necessaries,
$hich since have steaded much* so, of his gentleness,
5nowing & loved my books, he furnish'd me
/rom mine own library with volumes that
& pri3e above my dukedom
"&81)1
$ould & might
But ever see that man!
%8.%8
)ow & arise:
#esumes his mantle
.it still, and hear the last of our sea0sorrow
Here in this island we arrived* and here
Have &, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit
#han other princesses can that have more time
/or vainer hours and tutors not so careful
MI#AN$A
Heavens thank you for't! 1nd now, & pray you, sir,
/or still 'tis beating in my mind, your reason
/or raising this sea0storm?
*#OS*E#O
5now thus far forth
By accident most strange, bountiful /ortune,
)ow my dear lady, hath mine enemies
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Brought to this shore* and by my prescience
& find my 3enith doth depend upon
1 most auspicious star, whose influence
&f now & court not but omit, my fortunes
$ill ever after droop Here cease more 4uestions:
#hou art inclined to sleep* 'tis a good dulness,
1nd give it way: & know thou canst not choose
MI#AN$A sleeps
+ome away, servant, come & am ready now
1pproach, my 1riel, come
Enter A#IE
A#IE
1ll hail, great master! grave sir, hail! & come
#o answer thy best pleasure* be't to fly,
#o swim, to dive into the fire, to ride
n the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task
1riel and all his 4uality
*#OS*E#O
Hast thou, spirit,
%erform'd to point the tempest that & bade thee?
A#IE
#o every article
& boarded the king's ship* now on the beak,
)ow in the waist, the deck, in every cabin,
& flamed ama3ement: sometime &'ld divide,
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1nd burn in many places* on the topmast,
#he yards and bowsprit, would & flame distinctly,
#hen meet and 6oin 9ove's lightnings, the precursors
' the dreadful thunder0claps, more momentary
1nd sight0outrunning were not* the fire and cracks
f sulphurous roaring the most mighty )eptune
.eem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble,
(ea, his dread trident shake
*#OS*E#O
"y brave spirit!
$ho was so firm, so constant, that this coil
$ould not infect his reason?
A#IE
)ot a soul
But felt a fever of the mad and play'd
.ome tricks of desperation 1ll but mariners
%lunged in the foaming brine and 4uit the vessel,
#hen all afire with me: the king's son, /erdinand,
$ith hair up0staring,00then like reeds, not hair,00
$as the first man that leap'd* cried, 'Hell is empty
1nd all the devils are here'
*#OS*E#O
$hy that's my spirit!
But was not this nigh shore?
A#IE
+lose by, my master
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*#OS*E#O
But are they, 1riel, safe?
A#IE
)ot a hair perish'd*
n their sustaining garments not a blemish,
But fresher than before: and, as thou badest me,
&n troops & have dispersed them 'bout the isle
#he king's son have & landed by himself*
$hom & left cooling of the air with sighs
&n an odd angle of the isle and sitting,
His arms in this sad knot
*#OS*E#O
f the king's ship
#he mariners say how thou hast disposed
1nd all the rest o' the fleet
A#IE
.afely in harbour
&s the king's ship* in the deep nook, where once
#hou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew
/rom the still0ve-'d Bermoothes, there she's hid:
#he mariners all under hatches stow'd*
$ho, with a charm 6oin'd to their suffer'd labour,
& have left asleep* and for the rest o' the fleet
$hich & dispersed, they all have met again
1nd are upon the "editerranean flote,
Bound sadly home for )aples,
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.upposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd
1nd his great person perish
*#OS*E#O
1riel, thy charge
-actly is perform'd: but there's more work
$hat is the time o' the day?
A#IE
%ast the mid season
*#OS*E#O
1t least two glasses #he time 'twi-t si- and now
"ust by us both be spent most preciously
A#IE
&s there more toil? .ince thou dost give me pains,
2et me remember thee what thou hast promised,
$hich is not yet perform'd me
*#OS*E#O
How now? moody?
$hat is't thou canst demand?
A#IE
"y liberty
*#OS*E#O
Before the time be out? no more!
A#IE
& prithee,
8emember & have done thee worthy service*
#old thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served
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$ithout or grudge or grumblings: thou didst promise
#o bate me a full year
*#OS*E#O
ost thou forget
/rom what a torment & did free thee?
A#IE
)o
*#OS*E#O
#hou dost, and think'st it much to tread the oo3e
f the salt deep,
#o run upon the sharp wind of the north,
#o do me business in the veins o' the earth
$hen it is baked with frost
A#IE
& do not, sir
*#OS*E#O
#hou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot
#he foul witch .ycora-, who with age and envy
$as grown into a hoop? hast thou forgot her?
A#IE
)o, sir
*#OS*E#O
#hou hast $here was she born? speak* tell me
A#IE
.ir, in 1rgier
*#OS*E#O
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, was she so? & must
nce in a month recount what thou hast been,
$hich thou forget'st #his damn'd witch .ycora-,
/or mischiefs manifold and sorceries terrible
#o enter human hearing, from 1rgier,
#hou know'st, was banish'd: for one thing she did
#hey would not take her life &s not this true?
A#IE
1y, sir
*#OS*E#O
#his blue0eyed hag was hither brought with child
1nd here was left by the sailors #hou, my slave,
1s thou report'st thyself, wast then her servant*
1nd, for thou wast a spirit too delicate
#o act her earthy and abhorr'd commands,
8efusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,
By help of her more potent ministers
1nd in her most unmitigable rage,
&nto a cloven pine* within which rift
&mprison'd thou didst painfully remain
1 do3en years* within which space she died
1nd left thee there* where thou didst vent thy groans
1s fast as mill0wheels strike #hen was this island00
.ave for the son that she did litter here,
1 freckled whelp hag0born00not honour'd with
1 human shape
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A#IE
(es, +aliban her son
*#OS*E#O
ull thing, & say so* he, that +aliban
$hom now & keep in service #hou best know'st
$hat torment & did find thee in* thy groans
id make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts
f ever angry bears: it was a torment
#o lay upon the damn'd, which .ycora-
+ould not again undo: it was mine art,
$hen & arrived and heard thee, that made gape
#he pine and let thee out
A#IE
& thank thee, master
*#OS*E#O
&f thou more murmur'st, & will rend an oak
1nd peg thee in his knotty entrails till
#hou hast howl'd away twelve winters
A#IE
%ardon, master*
& will be correspondent to command
1nd do my spiriting gently
*#OS*E#O
o so, and after two days
& will discharge thee
A#IE
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#hat's my noble master!
$hat shall & do? say what* what shall & do?
*#OS*E#O
Go make thyself like a nymph o' the sea: be sub6ect
#o no sight but thine and mine, invisible
#o every eyeball else Go take this shape
1nd hither come in't: go, hence with diligence!
Exit A#IE
1wake, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well* 1wake!
MI#AN$A
#he strangeness of your story put
Heaviness in me
*#OS*E#O
.hake it off +ome on*
$e'll visit +aliban my slave, who never
(ields us kind answer
MI#AN$A
'#is a villain, sir,
& do not love to look on
*#OS*E#O
But, as 'tis,
$e cannot miss him: he does make our fire,
/etch in our wood and serves in offices
#hat profit us $hat, ho! slave! +aliban!
#hou earth, thou! speak
CAIBAN
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$ithin; #here's wood enough within
*#OS*E#O
+ome forth, & say! there's other business for thee:
+ome, thou tortoise! when?
#e'enter A#IE li,e a water'n)mph
/ine apparition! "y 4uaint 1riel,
Hark in thine ear
A#IE
"y lord it shall be done
Exit
*#OS*E#O
#hou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself
7pon thy wicked dam, come forth!
Enter CAIBAN
CAIBAN
1s wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd
$ith raven's feather from unwholesome fen
rop on you both! a south0west blow on ye
1nd blister you all o'er!
*#OS*E#O
/or this, be sure, to0night thou shalt have cramps,
.ide0stitches that shall pen thy breath up* urchins
.hall, for that vast of night that they may work,
1ll e-ercise on thee* thou shalt be pinch'd
1s thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging
#han bees that made 'em
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CAIBAN
& must eat my dinner
#his island's mine, by .ycora- my mother,
$hich thou takest from me $hen thou camest first,
#hou strokedst me and madest much of me, wouldst give me
$ater with berries in't, and teach me how
#o name the bigger light, and how the less,
#hat burn by day and night: and then & loved thee
1nd show'd thee all the 4ualities o' the isle,
#he fresh springs, brine0pits, barren place and fertile:
+ursed be & that did so! 1ll the charms
f .ycora-, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!
/or & am all the sub6ects that you have,
$hich first was mine own king: and here you sty me
&n this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me
#he rest o' the island
*#OS*E#O
#hou most lying slave,
$hom stripes may move, not kindness! & have used thee,
/ilth as thou art, with human care, and lodged thee
&n mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate
#he honour of my child
CAIBAN
ho, ho! would't had been done!
#hou didst prevent me* & had peopled else
#his isle with +alibans
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*#OS*E#O
1bhorred slave,
$hich any print of goodness wilt not take,
Being capable of all ill! & pitied thee,
#ook pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour
ne thing or other: when thou didst not, savage,
5now thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like
1 thing most brutish, & endow'd thy purposes
$ith words that made them known But thy vile race,
#hough thou didst learn, had that in't which
good natures
+ould not abide to be with* therefore wast thou
eservedly confined into this rock,
$ho hadst deserved more than a prison
CAIBAN
(ou taught me language* and my profit on't
&s, & know how to curse #he red plague rid you
/or learning me your language!
*#OS*E#O
Hag0seed, hence!
/etch us in fuel* and be 4uick, thou'rt best,
#o answer other business .hrug'st thou, malice?
&f thou neglect'st or dost unwillingly
$hat & command, &'ll rack thee with old cramps,
/ill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar
#hat beasts shall tremble at thy din
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CAIBAN
)o, pray thee
1side
& must obey: his art is of such power,
&t would control my dam's god, .etebos,
and make a vassal of him
*#OS*E#O
.o, slave* hence!
Exit CAIBAN
#e'enter A#IE! in-isile! pla)ing and singing/ "E#$INAN$ following
A#IE+S song.
+ome unto these yellow sands,
1nd then take hands:
+ourtsied when you have and kiss'd
#he wild waves whist,
/oot it featly here and there*
1nd, sweet sprites, the burthen bear
Hark, hark!
Burthen dispersedly, within
#he watch0dogs bark!
Burthen Bow0wow
Hark, hark! & hear
#he strain of strutting chanticleer
+ry, +ock0a0diddle0dow
"E#$INAN$
$here should this music be? i' the air or the earth?
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&t sounds no more: and sure, it waits upon
.ome god o' the island .itting on a bank,
$eeping again the king my father's wreck,
#his music crept by me upon the waters,
1llaying both their fury and my passion
$ith its sweet air: thence & have follow'd it,
r it hath drawn me rather But 'tis gone
)o, it begins again
A#IE sings
/ull fathom five thy father lies*
f his bones are coral made*
#hose are pearls that were his eyes:
)othing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea0change
&nto something rich and strange
.ea0nymphs hourly ring his knell
Burthen ing0dong
Hark! now & hear them,00ing0dong, bell
"E#$INAN$
#he ditty does remember my drown'd father
#his is no mortal business, nor no sound
#hat the earth owes & hear it now above me
*#OS*E#O
#he fringed curtains of thine eye advance
1nd say what thou seest yond
MI#AN$A
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$hat is't? a spirit?
2ord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir,
&t carries a brave form But 'tis a spirit
*#OS*E#O
)o, wench* it eats and sleeps and hath such senses
1s we have, such #his gallant which thou seest
$as in the wreck* and, but he's something stain'd
$ith grief that's beauty's canker, thou mightst call him
1 goodly person: he hath lost his fellows
1nd strays about to find 'em
MI#AN$A
& might call him
1 thing divine, for nothing natural
& ever saw so noble
*#OS*E#O
1side; &t goes on, & see,
1s my soul prompts it .pirit, fine spirit! &'ll free thee
$ithin two days for this
"E#$INAN$
"ost sure, the goddess
n whom these airs attend!
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MI#AN$A
)o wonder, sir*
But certainly a maid
"E#$INAN$
"y language! heavens!
& am the best of them that speak this speech,
$ere & but where 'tis spoken
*#OS*E#O
How? the best?
$hat wert thou, if the 5ing of )aples heard thee?
"E#$INAN$
1 single thing, as & am now, that wonders
#o hear thee speak of )aples He does hear me*
1nd that he does & weep: myself am )aples,
$ho with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld
#he king my father wreck'd
MI#AN$A
1lack, for mercy!
"E#$INAN$
(es, faith, and all his lords* the uke of "ilan
1nd his brave son being twain
*#OS*E#O
1side; #he uke of "ilan
1nd his more braver daughter could control thee,
&f now 'twere fit to do't 1t the first sight
#hey have changed eyes elicate 1riel,
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&'ll set thee free for this
To "E#$INAN$
1 word, good sir*
& fear you have done yourself some wrong: a word
MI#AN$A
$hy speaks my father so ungently? #his
&s the third man that e'er & saw, the first
#hat e'er & sigh'd for: pity move my father
#o be inclined my way!
"E#$INAN$
, if a virgin,
1nd your affection not gone forth, &'ll make you
#he 4ueen of )aples
*#OS*E#O
.oft, sir! one word more
Aside
#hey are both in either's powers* but this swift business
& must uneasy make, lest too light winning
"ake the pri3e light
To "E#$INAN$
ne word more* & charge thee
#hat thou attend me: thou dost here usurp
#he name thou owest not* and hast put thyself
7pon this island as a spy, to win it
/rom me, the lord on't
"E#$INAN$
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)o, as & am a man
MI#AN$A
#here's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
&f the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with't
*#OS*E#O
/ollow me
.peak not you for him* he's a traitor +ome*
&'ll manacle thy neck and feet together:
.ea0water shalt thou drink* thy food shall be
#he fresh0brook muscles, wither'd roots and husks
$herein the acorn cradled /ollow
"E#$INAN$
)o*
& will resist such entertainment till
"ine enemy has more power
raws, and is charmed from moving
MI#AN$A
dear father,
"ake not too rash a trial of him, for
He's gentle and not fearful
*#OS*E#O
$hat? & say,
"y foot my tutor? %ut thy sword up, traitor*
$ho makest a show but darest not strike, thy conscience
&s so possess'd with guilt: come from thy ward,
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/or & can here disarm thee with this stick
1nd make thy weapon drop
MI#AN$A
Beseech you, father
*#OS*E#O
Hence! hang not on my garments
MI#AN$A
.ir, have pity*
&'ll be his surety
*#OS*E#O
.ilence! one word more
.hall make me chide thee, if not hate thee $hat!
1n advocate for an imposter! hush!
#hou think'st there is no more such shapes as he,
Having seen but him and +aliban: foolish wench!
#o the most of men this is a +aliban
1nd they to him are angels
MI#AN$A
"y affections
1re then most humble* & have no ambition
#o see a goodlier man
*#OS*E#O
+ome on* obey:
#hy nerves are in their infancy again
1nd have no vigour in them
"E#$INAN$
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.o they are*
"y spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up
"y father's loss, the weakness which & feel,
#he wreck of all my friends, nor this man's threats,
#o whom & am subdued, are but light to me,
"ight & but through my prison once a day
Behold this maid: all corners else o' the earth
2et liberty make use of* space enough
Have & in such a prison
*#OS*E#O
1side; &t works
To "E#$INAN$
+ome on
#hou hast done well, fine 1riel!
To "E#$INAN$
/ollow me
To A#IE
Hark what thou else shalt do me
MI#AN$A
Be of comfort*
"y father's of a better nature, sir,
#han he appears by speech: this is unwonted
$hich now came from him
*#OS*E#O
#hou shalt be free
1s mountain winds: but then e-actly do
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1ll points of my command
A#IE
#o the syllable
*#OS*E#O
+ome, follow .peak not for him
Exeunt
SCENE II. Another part of the island.
Enter CAIBAN with a urden of wood. A noise of thunder heard.
CAIBAN
1ll the infections that the sun sucks up
/rom bogs, fens, flats, on %rosper fall and make him
By inch0meal a disease! His spirits hear me
1nd yet & needs must curse But they'll nor pinch,
/right me with urchin00shows, pitch me i' the mire,
)or lead me, like a firebrand, in the dark
ut of my way, unless he bid 'em* but
/or every trifle are they set upon me*
.ometime like apes that mow and chatter at me
1nd after bite me, then like hedgehogs which
2ie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount
#heir pricks at my footfall* sometime am &
1ll wound with adders who with cloven tongues
o hiss me into madness
Enter T#INC0O
2o, now, lo!
Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me
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/or bringing wood in slowly &'ll fall flat*
%erchance he will not mind me
T#INC0O
Here's neither bush nor shrub, to bear off
any weather at all, and another storm brewing*
& hear it sing i' the wind: yond same black
cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul
bombard that would shed his li4uor &f it
should thunder as it did before, & know not
where to hide my head: yond same cloud cannot
choose but fall by pailfuls $hat have we
here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? 1 fish:
he smells like a fish* a very ancient and fish0
like smell* a kind of not of the newest %oor0
9ohn 1 strange fish! $ere & in ngland now,
as once & was, and had but 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 la3y out ten to see a dead
&ndian 2egged like a man and his fins like
arms! $arm o' my troth! & do now let loose
my opinion* hold it no longer: this is no fish,
but an islander, that hath lately suffered by a
thunderbolt
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Thunder
1las, the storm is come again! my best way is to
creep under his gaberdine* there is no other
shelter hereabouts: misery ac4uaints a man with
strange bed0fellows & will here shroud till the
dregs of the storm be past
Enter STE*1ANO! singing: a ottle in his hand
STE*1ANO
& shall no more to sea, to sea,
Here shall & die ashore00
#his is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's
funeral: well, here's my comfort
$rin,s! Sings
#he master, the swabber, the boatswain and &,
#he gunner and his mate
2oved "all, "eg and "arian and "argery,
But none of us cared for 5ate*
/or she had a tongue with a tang,
$ould cry to a sailor, Go hang!
.he loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch,
(et a tailor might scratch her where'er she did itch:
#hen to sea, boys, and let her go hang!
#his is a scurvy tune too: but here's my comfort
$rin,s
CAIBAN
o not torment me, prithee* &'ll bring my wood home faster
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STE*1ANO
How didst thou 'scape? How camest thou hither?
swear by this bottle how thou camest hither &
escaped upon a butt of sack which the sailors
heaved o'erboard, by this bottle* which & made of
the bark of a tree with mine own hands since & was
cast ashore
CAIBAN
&'ll swear upon that bottle to be thy true sub6ect*
for the li4uor is not earthly
STE*1ANO
+ome, drink thee
CAIBAN
&'ll show thee the best springs* &'ll pluck thee berries*
&'ll fish for thee and get thee wood enough
1 plague upon the tyrant that & serve!
&'ll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee,
#hou wondrous man
STE*1ANO
brave monster! 2ead the way
Exeunt
ACT III
SCENE I. Before *#OS*E#O+S Cell.
Enter "E#$INAN$! earing a log
"E#$INAN$
#here be some sports are painful, and their labour
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elight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness
1re nobly undergone and most poor matters
%oint to rich ends #his my mean task
$ould be as heavy to me as odious, but
#he mistress which & serve 4uickens what's dead
1nd makes my labours pleasures: , she is
#en times more gentle than her father's crabbed,
1nd he's composed of harshness & must remove
.ome thousands of these logs and pile them up,
7pon a sore in6unction: my sweet mistress
$eeps when she sees me work, and says, such baseness
Had never like e-ecutor & forget:
But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours,
"ost busy lest, when & do it
Enter MI#AN$A/ and *#OS*E#O at a distan(e! unseen
MI#AN$A
1las, now, pray you,
$ork not so hard: & would the lightning had
Burnt up those logs that you are en6oin'd to pile!
%ray, set it down and rest you: when this burns,
'#will weep for having wearied you "y father
&s hard at study* pray now, rest yourself*
He's safe for these three hours
"E#$INAN$
most dear mistress,
#he sun will set before & shall discharge
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$hat & must strive to do
MI#AN$A
&f you'll sit down,
&'ll bear your logs the while: pray, give me that*
&'ll carry it to the pile
"E#$INAN$
)o, precious creature*
& had rather crack my sinews, break my back,
#han you should such dishonour undergo,
$hile & sit la3y by
MI#AN$A
&t would become me
1s well as it does you: and & should do it
$ith much more ease* for my good will is to it,
1nd yours it is against
*#OS*E#O
%oor worm, thou art infected!
#his visitation shows it
MI#AN$A
(ou look wearily
"E#$INAN$
)o, noble mistress*'tis fresh morning with me
$hen you are by at night & do beseech you00
+hiefly that & might set it in my prayers00
$hat is your name?
MI#AN$A
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"iranda00 my father,
& have broke your hest to say so!
"E#$INAN$
1dmired "iranda!
&ndeed the top of admiration! worth
$hat's dearest to the world! /ull many a lady
& have eyed with best regard and many a time
#he harmony of their tongues hath into bondage
Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues
Have & liked several women* never any
$ith so fun soul, but some defect in her
id 4uarrel with the noblest grace she owed
1nd put it to the foil: but you, you,
.o perfect and so peerless, are created
f every creature's best!
MI#AN$A
& do not know
ne of my se-* no woman's face remember,
.ave, from my glass, mine own* nor have & seen
"ore that & may call men than you, good friend,
1nd my dear father: how features are abroad,
& am skilless of* but, by my modesty,
#he 6ewel in my dower, & would not wish
1ny companion in the world but you,
)or can imagination form a shape,
Besides yourself, to like of But & prattle
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.omething too wildly and my father's precepts
& therein do forget
"E#$INAN$
& am in my condition
1 prince, "iranda* & do think, a king*
& would, not so!00and would no more endure
#his wooden slavery than to suffer
#he flesh0fly blow my mouth Hear my soul speak:
#he very instant that & saw you, did
"y heart fly to your service* there resides,
#o make me slave to it* and for your sake
1m & this patient log00man
MI#AN$A
o you love me?
"E#$INAN$
heaven, earth, bear witness to this sound
1nd crown what & profess with kind event
&f & speak true! if hollowly, invert
$hat best is boded me to mischief! &
Beyond all limit of what else i' the world
o love, pri3e, honour you
MI#AN$A
& am a fool
#o weep at what & am glad of
*#OS*E#O
/air encounter
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f two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace
n that which breeds between 'em!
"E#$INAN$
$herefore weep you?
MI#AN$A
1t mine unworthiness that dare not offer
$hat & desire to give, and much less take
$hat & shall die to want But this is trifling*
1nd all the more it seeks to hide itself,
#he bigger bulk it shows Hence, bashful cunning!
1nd prompt me, plain and holy innocence!
& am your wife, if you will marry me*
&f not, &'ll die your maid: to be your fellow
(ou may deny me* but &'ll be your servant,
$hether you will or no
"E#$INAN$
"y mistress, dearest*
1nd & thus humble ever
MI#AN$A
"y husband, then?
"E#$INAN$
1y, with a heart as willing
1s bondage e'er of freedom: here's my hand
MI#AN$A
1nd mine, with my heart in't* and now farewell
#ill half an hour hence
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"E#$INAN$
1 thousand thousand!
Exeunt "E#$INAN$ and MI#AN$A se-erall)
*#OS*E#O
.o glad of this as they & cannot be,
$ho are surprised withal* but my re6oicing
1t nothing can be more &'ll to my book,
/or yet ere supper0time must & perform
"uch business appertaining
Exit
ACT 2
SCENE I. Before *#OS*E#O+S (ell.
Enter *#OS*E#O in his magi( roes! and A#IE
*#OS*E#O
)ow does my pro6ect gather to a head:
"y charms crack not* my spirits obey* and time
Goes upright with his carriage How's the day?
A#IE
n the si-th hour* at which time, my lord,
(ou said our work should cease
*#OS*E#O
& did say so,
$hen first & raised the tempest .ay, my spirit,
How fares the king and's followers?
A#IE
+onfined together
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&n the same fashion as you gave in charge,
9ust as you left them* all prisoners, sir,
&n the line0grove which weather0fends your cell*
#hey cannot budge till your release #he king,
His brother and yours, abide all three distracted
1nd the remainder mourning over them,
Brimful of sorrow and dismay* but chiefly
Him that you term'd, sir, '#he good old lord Gon3alo*'
His tears run down his beard, like winter's drops
/rom eaves of reeds (our charm so strongly works 'em
#hat if you now beheld them, your affections
$ould become tender
*#OS*E#O
ost thou think so, spirit?
A#IE
"ine would, sir, were & human
*#OS*E#O
1nd mine shall
Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling
f their afflictions, and shall not myself,
ne of their kind, that relish all as sharply,
%assion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art?
#hough with their high wrongs & am struck to the 4uick,
(et with my nobler reason 'gaitist my fury
o & take part: the rarer action is
&n virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,
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#he sole drift of my purpose doth e-tend
)ot a frown further Go release them, 1riel:
"y charms &'ll break, their senses &'ll restore,
1nd they shall be themselves
A#IE
&'ll fetch them, sir
Exit
*#OS*E#O
(e elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves,
1nd ye that on the sands with printless foot
o chase the ebbing )eptune and do fly him
$hen he comes back* you demi0puppets that
By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make,
$hereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime
&s to make midnight mushrooms, that re6oice
#o hear the solemn curfew* by whose aid,
$eak masters though ye be, & have bedimm'd
#he noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,
1nd 'twi-t the green sea and the a3ured vault
.et roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder
Have & given fire and rifted 9ove's stout oak
$ith his own bolt* the strong0based promontory
Have & made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up
#he pine and cedar: graves at my command
Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth
By my so potent art But this rough magic
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& here ab6ure, and, when & have re4uired
.ome heavenly music, which even now & do,
#o work mine end upon their senses that
#his airy charm is for, &'ll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
1nd deeper than did ever plummet sound
&'ll drown my book
Solemn musi(
#e'enter A#IE efore: then AONSO! with a franti( gesture!
attended ) %ON&AO/ SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO in li,e manner!
attended ) A$#IAN and "#ANCISCO the) all enter the (ir(le whi(h*#OS*E#O had made! and there stand (harmed/ whi(h *#OS*E#O
oser-ing! spea,s:
*#OS*E#O
1 solemn air and the best comforter
#o an unsettled fancy cure thy brains,
)ow useless, boil'd within thy skull! #here stand,
/or you are spell0stopp'd
Holy Gon3alo, honourable man,
"ine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine,
/all fellowly drops #he charm dissolves apace,
1nd as the morning steals upon the night,
"elting the darkness, so their rising senses
Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
#heir clearer reason good Gon3alo,
"y true preserver, and a loyal sir
#o him you follow'st! & will pay thy graces
Home both in word and deed "ost cruelly
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idst thou, 1lonso, use me and my daughter:
#hy brother was a furtherer in the act
#hou art pinch'd fort now, .ebastian /lesh and blood,
(ou, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,
-pell'd remorse and nature* who, with .ebastian,
$hose inward pinches therefore are most strong,
$ould here have kill'd your king* & do forgive thee,
7nnatural though thou art #heir understanding
Begins to swell, and the approaching tide
$ill shortly fill the reasonable shore
#hat now lies foul and muddy )ot one of them
#hat yet looks on me, or would know me 1riel,
/etch me the hat and rapier in my cell:
& will discase me, and myself present
1s & was sometime "ilan: 4uickly, spirit*
#hou shalt ere long be free
A#IE sings and helps to attire him
$here the bee sucks there suck &:
&n a cowslip's bell & lie*
#here & couch when owls do cry
n the bat's back & do fly
1fter summer merrily
"errily, merrily shall & live now
7nder the blossom that hangs on the bough
*#OS*E#O
$hy, that's my dainty 1riel! & shall miss thee:
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But yet thou shalt have freedom: so, so, so
#o the king's ship, invisible as thou art:
#here shalt thou find the mariners asleep
7nder the hatches* the master and the boatswain
Being awake, enforce them to this place,
1nd presently, & prithee
A#IE
& drink the air before me, and return
r ere your pulse twice beat
Exit
%ON&AO
1ll torment, trouble, wonder and ama3ement
&nhabits here: some heavenly power guide us
ut of this fearful country!
*#OS*E#O
Behold, sir king,
#he wronged uke of "ilan, %rospero:
/or more assurance that a living prince
oes now speak to thee, & embrace thy body*
1nd to thee and thy company & bid
1 hearty welcome
AONSO
$hether thou best he or no,
r some enchanted trifle to abuse me,
1s late & have been, & not know: thy pulse
Beats as of flesh and blood* and, since & saw thee,
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#he affliction of my mind amends, with which,
& fear, a madness held me: this must crave,
1n if this be at all, a most strange story
#hy dukedom & resign and do entreat
#hou pardon me my wrongs But how should %rospero
Be living and be here?
*#OS*E#O
/irst, noble friend,
2et me embrace thine age, whose honour cannot
Be measured or confined
%ON&AO
$hether this be
r be not, &'ll not swear
*#OS*E#O
(ou do yet taste
.ome subtilties o' the isle, that will not let you
Believe things certain $elcome, my friends all!
Aside to SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO
But you, my brace of lords, were & so minded,
& here could pluck his highness' frown upon you
1nd 6ustify you traitors: at this time
& will tell no tales
SEBASTIAN
1side; #he devil speaks in him
*#OS*E#O
)o
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/or you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother
$ould even infect my mouth, & do forgive
#hy rankest fault* all of them* and re4uire
"y dukedom of thee, which perforce, & know,
#hou must restore
AONSO
&f thou be'st %rospero,
Give us particulars of thy preservation*
How thou hast met us here, who three hours since
$ere wreck'd upon this shore* where & have lost00
How sharp the point of this remembrance is!00
"y dear son /erdinand
*#OS*E#O
& am woe for't, sir
12).
Irreparale is the loss! and patien(e
.ays it is past her cure
*#OS*E#O
& rather think
(ou have not sought her help, of whose soft grace
/or the like loss & have her sovereign aid
1nd rest myself content
AONSO
(ou the like loss!
*#OS*E#O
1s great to me as late* and, supportable
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#o make the dear loss, have & means much weaker
#han you may call to comfort you, for &
Have lost my daughter
AONSO
1 daughter?
heavens, that they were living both in )aples,
#he king and 4ueen there! that they were, & wish
"yself were mudded in that oo3y bed
$here my son lies $hen did you lose your daughter?
*#OS*E#O
&n this last tempest & perceive these lords
1t this encounter do so much admire
#hat they devour their reason and scarce think
#heir eyes do offices of truth, their words
1re natural breath: but, howsoe'er you have
Been 6ustled from your senses, know for certain
#hat & am %rospero and that very duke
$hich was thrust forth of "ilan, who most strangely
7pon this shore, where you were wreck'd, was landed,
#o be the lord on't )o more yet of this*
/or 'tis a chronicle of day by day,
)ot a relation for a breakfast nor
Befitting this first meeting $elcome, sir*
#his cell's my court: here have & few attendants
1nd sub6ects none abroad: pray you, look in
"y dukedom since you have given me again,
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& will re4uite you with as good a thing*
1t least bring forth a wonder, to content ye
1s much as me my dukedom
1ere *#OS*E#O dis(o-ers "E#$INAN$ and MI#AN$A pla)ing at(hess
MI#AN$A
.weet lord, you play me false
"E#$INAN$
)o, my dear'st love,
& would not for the world
MI#AN$A
(es, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle,
1nd & would call it, fair play
AONSO
&f this prove
1 vision of the &sland, one dear son
.hall & twice lose
SEBASTIAN
1 most high miracle!
"E#$INAN$
#hough the seas threaten, they are merciful*
& have cursed them without cause
3neels
AONSO
)ow all the blessings
f a glad father compass thee about!
1rise, and say how thou camest here
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MI#AN$A
, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! brave new world,
#hat has such people in't!
*#OS*E#O
'#is new to thee
AONSO
$hat is this maid with whom thou wast at play?
(our eld'st ac4uaintance cannot be three hours:
&s she the goddess that hath sever'd us,
1nd brought us thus together?
"E#$INAN$
.ir, she is mortal*
But by immortal %rovidence she's mine:
& chose her when & could not ask my father
/or his advice, nor thought & had one .he
&s daughter to this famous uke of "ilan,
f whom so often & have heard renown,
But never saw before* of whom & have
8eceived a second life* and second father
#his lady makes him to me
AONSO
& am hers:
But, , how oddly will it sound that &
"ust ask my child forgiveness!
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*#OS*E#O
#here, sir, stop:
2et us not burthen our remembrance with
1 heaviness that's gone
%ON&AO
& have inly wept,
r should have spoke ere this 2ook down, you god,
1nd on this couple drop a blessed crown!
/or it is you that have chalk'd forth the way
$hich brought us hither
AONSO
& say, 1men, Gon3alo!
%ON&AO
$as "ilan thrust from "ilan, that his issue
.hould become kings of )aples? , re6oice
Beyond a common 6oy, and set it down
$ith gold on lasting pillars: &n one voyage
id +laribel her husband find at #unis,
1nd /erdinand, her brother, found a wife
$here he himself was lost, %rospero his dukedom
&n a poor isle and all of us ourselves
$hen no man was his own
AONSO
4To "E#$INAN$ and MI#AN$A5 Give me your hands:
2et grief and sorrow still embrace his heart
#hat doth not wish you 6oy!
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%ON&AO
Be it so! 1men!
#e'enter A#IE! with the Master and Boatswain ama6edl) following
, look, sir, look, sir! here is more of us:
& prophesied, if a gallows were on land,
#his fellow could not drown )ow, blasphemy,
#hat swear'st grace o'erboard, not an oath on shore?
Hast thou no mouth by land? $hat is the news?
Boatswain
#he best news is, that we have safely found
ur king and company* the ne-t, our ship00
$hich, but three glasses since, we gave out split00
&s tight and yare and bravely rigg'd as when
$e first put out to sea
A#IE
1side to %8.%8; .ir, all this service
Have & done since & went
*#OS*E#O
1side to 18&2; "y tricksy spirit!
AONSO
#hese are not natural events* they strengthen
/rom strange to stranger .ay, how came you hither?
Boatswain
&f & did think, sir, & were well awake,
&'ld strive to tell you $e were dead of sleep,
1nd00how we know not00all clapp'd under hatches*
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$here but even now with strange and several noises
f roaring, shrieking, howling, 6ingling chains,
1nd more diversity of sounds, all horrible,
$e were awaked* straightway, at liberty*
$here we, in all her trim, freshly beheld
ur royal, good and gallant ship, our master
+apering to eye her: on a trice, so please you,
ven in a dream, were we divided from them
1nd were brought moping hither
A#IE
1side to %8.%8; $as't well done?
*#OS*E#O
1side to 18&2; Bravely, my diligence #hou shalt be free
AONSO
#his is as strange a ma3e as e'er men trod
1nd there is in this business more than nature
$as ever conduct of: some oracle
"ust rectify our knowledge
*#OS*E#O
.ir, my liege,
o not infest your mind with beating on
#he strangeness of this business* at pick'd leisure
$hich shall be shortly, single &'ll resolve you,
$hich to you shall seem probable, of every
#hese happen'd accidents* till when, be cheerful
1nd think of each thing well
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Aside to A#IE
+ome hither, spirit:
.et +aliban and his companions free*
7ntie the spell
Exit A#IE
How fares my gracious sir?
#here are yet missing of your company
.ome few odd lads that you remember not
#e'enter A#IE! dri-ing in CAIBAN! STE*1ANO and T#INC0O! in
their stolen apparel
STE*1ANO
very man shift for all the rest, and
let no man take care for himself* for all is
but fortune +oragio, bully0monster, coragio!
T#INC0O
&f these be true spies which & wear in my head,
here's a goodly sight
CAIBAN
.etebos, these be brave spirits indeed!
How fine my master is! & am afraid
He will chastise me
SEBASTIAN
Ha, ha!
$hat things are these, my lord 1ntonio?
$ill money buy 'em?
ANTONIO
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&s a plain fish, and, no doubt, marketable
*#OS*E#O
"ark but the badges of these men, my lords,
#hen say if they be true #his mis0shapen knave,
His mother was a witch, and one so strong
#hat could control the moon, make flows and ebbs,
1nd deal in her command without her power
#hese three have robb'd me* and this demi0devil00
/or he's a bastard one00had plotted with them
#o take my life #wo of these fellows you
"ust know and own* this thing of darkness!
1cknowledge mine
CAIBAN
& shall be pinch'd to death
AONSO
&s not this .tephano, my drunken butler?
SEBASTIAN
He is drunk now: where had he wine?
AONSO
1nd #rinculo is reeling ripe: where should they
/ind this grand li4uor that hath gilded 'em?
How camest thou in this pickle?
T#INC0O
& have been in such a pickle since &
saw you last that, & fear me, will never out of
my bones: & shall not fear fly0blowing
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SEBASTIAN
$hy, how now, .tephano!
STE*1ANO
, touch me not* & am not .tephano, but a cramp
*#OS*E#O
(ou'ld be king o' the isle, sirrah?
STE*1ANO
& should have been a sore one then
AONSO
#his is a strange thing as e'er & look'd on
%ointing to +aliban
*#OS*E#O
He is as disproportion'd in his manners
1s in his shape Go, sirrah, to my cell*
#ake with you your companions* as you look
#o have my pardon, trim it handsomely
CAIBAN
1y, that & will* and &'ll be wise hereafter
1nd seek for grace $hat a thrice0double ass
$as &, to take this drunkard for a god
1nd worship this dull fool!
*#OS*E#O
Go to* away!
AONSO
Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it
SEBASTIAN
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r stole it, rather
Exeunt CAIBAN! STE*1ANO! and T#INC0O
*#OS*E#O
.ir, & invite your highness and your train
#o my poor cell, where you shall take your rest
/or this one night* which, part of it, &'ll waste
$ith such discourse as, & not doubt, shall make it
Go 4uick away* the story of my life
1nd the particular accidents gone by
.ince & came to this isle: and in the morn
&'ll bring you to your ship and so to )aples,
$here & have hope to see the nuptial
f these our dear0beloved solemni3ed*
1nd thence retire me to my "ilan, where
very third thought shall be my grave
AONSO
& long
#o hear the story of your life, which must
#ake the ear strangely
*#OS*E#O
&'ll deliver all*
1nd promise you calm seas, auspicious gales
1nd sail so e-peditious that shall catch
(our royal fleet far off
Aside to A#IE
"y 1riel, chick,
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#hat is thy charge: then to the elements
Be free, and fare thou well! %lease you, draw near
Exeunt
E*IO%0E
S*O3EN B7 *#OS*E#O
)ow my charms are all o'erthrown,
1nd what strength & have's mine own,
$hich is most faint: now, 'tis true,
& must be here confined by you,
r sent to )aples 2et me not,
.ince & have my dukedom got
1nd pardon'd the deceiver, dwell
&n this bare island by your spell*
But release me from my bands
$ith the help of your good hands:
Gentle breath of yours my sails
"ust fill, or else my pro6ect fails,
$hich was to please )ow & want
.pirits to enforce, art to enchant,
1nd my ending is despair,
7nless & be relieved by prayer,
$hich pierces so that it assaults
"ercy itself and frees all faults
1 f i ld d 'd b
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