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PRO. [Aside to ARIEL, above.] Now I arise :Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow. Here in this island we arriv'd; and here Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit Than other princess' can, that have more time For vainer hours, and tutors not so careful.

MIRA. Heavens thank you for't! And now, pray you, sir,

For still 'tis beating in my mind,-your reason For raising this sea-storm?

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PRO. Know thus far forth. By accident most strange, bountiful FortuneNow my dear lady-hath mine enemies Brought to this shore; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes

Will ever after droop.-Here cease more ques

tions:

Thou art inclin'd to sleep; 't is a good dulness, And give it way;-I know thou canst not choose.[MIRANDA sleeps. Come away, servant, come! I am ready now: Approach, my Ariel; come!

a Now I arise:-] The purport of these words has never been satisfactorily explained, because they have been always understood as addressed to Miranda. If we suppose them directed not to her, but aside to Ariel, who has entered, in visible except to Prospero, after having

"Perform'd to point the tempest,"

and whose arrival occasions Prospero to operate his sleepy charm

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PRO.

My brave spirit! Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil Would not infect his reason?

ARI.
Not a soul
But felt a fever of the mad, and play'd

Some tricks of desperation. All, but mariners,
Plung'd in the foaming brine, and quit the vessel,
Then all a-fire with me: the king's son, Ferdinand,
With hair up-staring,-then like reeds, not hair,-
Was the first man that leap'd; cried, Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.
PRO.
Why, that's my spirit!
But was not this nigh shore?
ARI.
Close by, my master.
PRO. But are they, Ariel, safe?
ARI.

Not a hair perish'd;
On their sustaining garments not a blemish,
But fresher than before: and, as thou bad'st me,
In troops I have dispers'd them 'bout the isle.
The king's son have I landed by himself;
Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs,

a And are upon the Mediterranean flote,-] Mr. Collier's annotator suggests, "And all upon," &c.; but what is gained by the alteration we cannot discern. Flote is here used substantively for food or wave, as in the following from Middleton and Rowley's

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The mariners, say how thou hast dispos'd, And all the rest o' the fleet.

ARI.

Safely in harbour Is the king's ship; in the deep nook, where once Thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew From the still-vex'd Bermoothes, (4) there she's hid: The mariners all under hatches stow'd; Whom, with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour, I have left asleep and for the rest o' the fleet, Which I dispers'd, they all have met again, And are upon the Mediterranean flote," Bound sadly home for Naples,

Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd,
And his great person perish.

PRO.
Ariel, thy charge
Exactly is perform'd; but there's more work.
What is the time o' the day?
ARI.

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Past the mid season.

play of "The Spanish Gipsie," Act I. Sc. 5,it did not More check my rash attempt, than draw to ebb The float of those desires."

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Yes, Caliban her son.

PRO. Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban,
Whom now I keep in service. Thou best know'st
What torment I did find thee in; thy groans
Did make wolves howl, and penetrate the breasts
Of ever-angry bears: it was a torment
To lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax
Could not again undo: it was mine art,
When I arriv'd, and heard thee, that made gape
The pine, and let thee out.

ARI.
I thank thee, master.
PRO. If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak,
And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till
Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.
ARI.

Pardon, master:

I will be correspondent to command,
And do my spriting gently.
PRO.

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ARI. My lord, it shall be done. [Exit. PRO. Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself

Upon thy wicked dam, come forth !

Enter CALIBAN.(5)

CAL. As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd
With raven's feather from unwholesome fen,
Drop on you both! a south-west blow on ye,
And blister you all o'er ! (6)

PRO. For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt
have cramps,

Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins
Do so; and after two days Shall, for that vast of night that they may work,
All exercise on thee: thou shalt be pinch'd
As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging
Than bees that made 'em.

I will discharge thee.
ARI.
That's my noble master!
What shall I do? say what; what shall I do?
PRO. Go make thyself like a nymph o' the sea;
Be subject to no sight but thine and mine; invisible
To every eyeball else. Go, take this shape,
And hither come in 't: go, hence with diligence!
[Exit ARIEL.
Awake, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well;
Awake!

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MIRA. [Waking.] The strangeness of your
story put
Heaviness in me.

PRO.
Shake it off. Come on;
We'll visit Caliban, my slave, who never

Yields us kind answer.

MIRA.

'Tis a villain, sir, I do not love to look on.

a MIRA. (Waking.)] Mr. Collier claims for his annotator the merit of having first added this not very important stage direction.

b We cannot miss him:] We cannot do without him. e When?] See note (f), p. 449, Vol. I.

d4s wicked dew-] Wicked here implies baneful, pernicious; as in opposition we hear of the virtuous properties of "herbs, plants, stones," &c.

• Urchins-] Hedgehogs were formerly so called. it is doubtful, however, whether urchins in this place does not signify some fairy

dinner.

CAL.
I must eat my
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;
wouldst give me

Water with berries in 't; and teach me how
To name the bigger light, and how the less,
That burn by day and night: and then I lov'd thee,
And show'd thee all the qualities o' the isle,
The fresh springs, brine pits, barren place and
fertile :-

Cursed be I that did so!-All the charms
Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!
For I am all the subjects that you have,

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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.

PRO." Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness will not take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,

Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee cach hour

One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage,

a PRO.] This speech, in the folios, has the prefix "Mira," but it plainly belongs to Prospero, to whom Theobald assigned it, and who has retained it ever since.

b

Which any print of goodness will not take,
Being capable of all ill !]

Here, as in many other places, capable signifies impressible, susceptible.

e Race,-] That is, Nature, essence.

a The red plague rid you,-] See note (a), p. 447, Vol. II. • Fill all thy bones with aches,-] Mr. Collier remarks that "this word, of old, was used either as a monosyllable or as a dissyllable, as the case might require." This may be questioned. "Ake," says Baret in his "Alvearie," "is the Verbe of the substantive Ach, ch being turned into k." As a substantive, then,

Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known. But thy vile race, c

Though thou didst learn, had that in't which good

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