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will shake your shaking, I can tell you, and that soundly: you cannot tell who's your friend: open your chaps again. Trin. I should know that voice: it should be—but he is drowned; and these are devils :-O defend me!

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Ste. Four legs and two voices,—a most delicate monster! His forward voice, now, is to speak well of his friend; his backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract. If all the wine in my bottle will recover him, I will help his ague. Come :-Amen! I will pour some in thy other mouth.

Trin. Stephano!

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Ste. Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy, mercy! This is a devil, and no monster: I will leave him; I have no long spoon.

Trin. Stephano! If thou beest Stephano, touch me, and speak to me; for I am Trinculo,-be not afeard,―thy good friend Trinculo.

95

Ste. If thou beest Trinculo, come forth: I'll pull thee by the lesser legs: if any be Trinculo's legs, these are they. Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How camest thou to be the siege of this moon-calf? can he vent Trinculos?

99

Trin. I took him to be killed with a thunder-stroke. But art thou not drowned, Stephano? I hope, now, thou art not drowned. Is the storm overblown? I hid me under the dead moon-calf's gaberdine for fear of the storm. And art thou living, Stephano? O Stephano, two Neapolitans scaped!

105

Ste. Prithee, do not turn me about; my stomach is not

constant.

Cal. [Aside] These be fine things, an if they be not

sprites.

80 [Cal. drinkes. Collier MS.
84 well] F. om. F2F3F4-
85 utter] spatter Warburton.
105 scaped] 'scap'd Hanmer.

108 [Aside] Dyce.

108-110 These.....him.] As in Johnson

(Anon. ap. Grey conj.). Prose in Ff.

That's a brave god, and bears celestial liquor:
I will kneel to him.

110

Ste. How didst thou 'scape? How camest thou hither? swear, by this bottle, how thou camest hither. I escaped upon a butt of sack, which the sailors heaved o'erboard, by this bottle! which I made of the bark of a tree with mine own hands, since I was cast ashore.

115

Cal. I'll swear, upon that bottle, to be thy true subject ; for the liquor is not earthly.

Ste. Here; swear, then, how thou escapedst.

Trin. Swum ashore, man, like a duck: I can swim like

a duck, I'll be sworn.

120

Ste. Here, kiss the book. Though thou canst swim like a duck, thou art made like a goose.

Trin. O Stephano, hast any more of this?

Ste. The whole butt, man: my cellar is in a rock by the sea-side, where my wine is hid. How now, moon-calf! how does thine ague?

Cal. Hast thou not dropp'd from heaven?

Ste.

126

Out o' the moon, I do assure thee: I was the man

i' the moon when time was.

Cal. I have seen thee in her, and I do adore thee: my mistress show'd me thee, and thy dog, and thy bush. Ste. Come, swear to that; kiss the book: I will furnish it anon with new contents: swear.

114 bottle!] bottle! [drinks] Nicholson

conj.

115 ashore] a'-shore FF2.

116, 117 Steevens prints as verse, I'll

...thy True...earthly.

117 [kneeling. Collier MS.
118 Ste. Here; swear, then...escapedst]

Ste. [To Cal.] Here, swear then.-
[To Trin.] How escaped'st thou?
Ritson conj. Ste. [To Cal.] Here.-
[To Trin.] Swear...escapedst Nichol-

VOL. I.

son conj.

133

swear, then, how thou escapedst] swear then: how escap'dst thou? Pope. then] man Hudson.

119 Swum] Swom Ff. Swam Steevens

(1793).

130, 131 I have...bush] As verse in Ff.
131 and thy dog, and thy bush] thy dog
and bush Steevens (1793).
133 new] F. the new F2F3F4-

contents] contexts Daniel conj.

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Trin. By this good light, this is a very shallow monster! I afeard of him! A very weak monster! The man i' the moon! A most poor credulous monster! Well drawn, monster, in good sooth!

137

Cal. I'll show thee every fertile inch o' th' island; and I will kiss thy foot: I prithee, be my god.

Trin. By this light, a most perfidious and drunken monster! when's god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle.

Cal. I'll kiss thy foot; I'll swear myself thy subject.
Ste. Come on, then; down, and swear.

141

Trin. I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster. A most scurvy monster! I could find in my heart to beat him,

Ste. Come, kiss.

146

Trin. But that the poor monster's in drink. An abominable monster!

Cal. I'll show thee the best springs; I'll pluck thee berries; I'll fish for thee, and get thee wood enough.

A plague upon the tyrant that I serve!

I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee,
Thou wondrous man.

151

Trin. A most ridiculous monster, to make a wonder of a poor drunkard!

Cal. I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow; And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts; Show thee a jay's nest, and instruct thee how To snare the nimble marmoset; I'll bring thee To clustering filberts, and sometimes I'll get thee

135 afeard] afraid Rowe.

weak] F. shallow FF3F4 136 drawn] sworn Daniel conj. 138, 139 I'll...god.] Prose in Ff. Two lines of verse in Johnson. 138 island] F1. Isle FFF4. 143 [lies downe. Collier MS. [Cal. lies down. Collier (ed. 2).

156

160

148 abominable] F. abhominable F1 F.F3.

150-154, 157–162, printed as verse

by Pope (after Dryden). Prose in Ff. 160 marmoset] Capell. Marmazet Ff. marmozet Steevens.

161 filberts] Clark and Glover. Philbirts Ff. Filberds Rowe.

Young scamels from the rock. Wilt thou go with me? Ste. I prithee now, lead the way, without any more talking. Trinculo, the king and all our company else being drowned, we will inherit here: here; bear my bottle: fellow Trinculo, we'll fill him by and by again.

Cal. sings drunkenly.] Farewell, master; farewell, farewell!
Trin. A howling monster; a drunken monster!

Cal. No more dams I'll make for fish;
Nor fetch in firing

At requiring;

Nor scrape trencher, nor wash dish:

'Ban, 'Ban, Cacaliban

Has a new master:-get a new man.

166

170

Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! freedom, hey-day, freedom!

Ste. O brave monster! Lead the way.

162 scamels] shamois Theobald. stannels Id. conj. sea-malls Hanmer (Theobald conj.). sea-mews Jackson conj. staniels Dyce conj. seagells Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag. 1844). samphire Hunter conj. samols Allies conj. seamels Keightley. muscles D. Wilson conj. chamals or stamels Ingleby conj. scambles Bulloch

176 [Exeunt.

conj. sea-veles Nicholson conj.
(doubtfully). conies Kinnear conj.
squirrels Evans conj.

163 Ste.] F. Cal. FF3F4-
165 Before here; bear my bottle Capell
inserts [To Cal.]. See note (XIII).
172 trencher] Pope (after Dryden).
trenchering Ff.
175 hey-day] Rowe. high-day Ff.

ACT III.

SCENE I. Before PROSPERO'S cell.

Enter FERDINAND, bearing a log.

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Fer. There be some sports are painful, and their labour Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters Point to rich ends. This my mean task Would be as heavy to me as odious, but The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead, And makes my labours pleasures: O, she is Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed, And he's composed of harshness. I must remove Some thousands of these logs, and pile them up, Upon a sore injunction: my sweet mistress

Weeps when she sees me work, and says, such baseness Had never like executor. I forget:

But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours, Most busy lest, when I do it.

Before Prospero's cell] Theobald. Pros

pero's cave. Pope.

1 and] but Pope.

labour] labours Allen conj.

2 sets] Rowe. set Ff.

4 This] And so this Anon. conj.
4,5 my...odious] my mean task wou'd be
As heavy to me, as 'tis odious Pope.
9 remove] move Pope.

12 me] my So quoted by Vaughan.
13-15 I forget...do it.] I forgive't: For

these sweet...do it. Jackson conj. but sweet thoughts Do even refresh my labours; I forget My business, and rest me while I do it. Anon. conj. (Fraser's Mag. 1853). I forget all But those sweet thoughts that ev'n refresh my labour Most busily when I do it. Bailey conj. I forget But

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these sweet thoughts-do even refresh me; labour's Most busy rest when I do it. Daniel conj. I forget But these sweet thoughts: do even refresh my labours Most busy: rest when I do it. Spence conj. (N. and Q. 1877). I forget-But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours, Most busy, feast when I do it. Beale conj. (N. and Q. 1877). I forget But those sweet thoughts, do even refresh my labours Most busiliest, when I do it. Vaughan conj. (N. and Q. 1882). 14 But...labours] Nay,...labour Han

mer.

even] ever Anon. conj.

14, 15 labours, Most busy lest, when] labour's Most business when Taylor conj. labour Most busy least, when

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