Enter Alonfo, Sebaftian, Anthonio, Ferdinand, Gonzalo, and others.

Alon. Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master? • Play the men.

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Boats. I pray now, keep below.

Ant. Where is the mafter, boatswain?

Boats. Do you not hear him? You mar our labour; Keep your cabins: you do affift the storm.

Gon. Nay, good, be patient.

Boats. When the fea is. Hence! What care these roarers for the name of king? To cabin: filence: trouble

us not.

Gon. Good; yet remember whom thou haft aboard.

Boats. None that I more love than myself. You are a counsellor; if you can command these elements to filence, and work the peace of the present, we will not hand a rope more; use your authority. If you cannot, give thanks you have liv'd fo long, and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mifchance of the hour, if it fo hap. -Cheerly, good hearts-out of our way, I fay. [Exit.

Gon. I have great comfort from this fellow methinks, he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows. Stand faft, good fate, to his hanging; make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our own doth little advantage: If he be not born to be hang'd, our cafe is miferable.

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[Exeunt.

Play the men.]-act with vigour and alacrity.-Play the man-Ply

the men.

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"When they shall hear how we have play'd the men."

HENRY VI, Part I. Act I, S. 6. Alen.

of the prefent,]-Of this perilous instant.

This ignorant prefent.".

MACBETH, A&t. I, S. 5. Lady.

"And that you not delay the prefent."

CORIOLANUS, A&t I, Sc. 6. Mar.

e hand]-handle.

Re-enter

Re-enter Boatswain.

Boats. Down with the top-maft; yare, lower, lower; bring her to try with main course. [A cry within.] A plague upon this howling! they are louder than the weather, or our office.—

Re-enter Sebaftian, Anthonio, and Gonzalo.

Yet again? What do ye here? Shall we give o'er, and drown? Have you a mind to fink?

Seb. A pox o' your throat! you bawling, blafphemous,

uncharitable dog!

Boats. Work you then.

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Ant. Hang, cur, hang! you whorefon, infolent noisemaker! we are less afraid to be drown'd, than thou art. Gon. I'll warrant him for drowning; though the ship were no ftronger than a nut-fhell, and as leaky as an unftanch'd wench.

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Boats. Lay her a-hold, a-hold; fet her two courses off to fea again, lay her off.

Enter Mariners wet.

Mar. All loft! to prayers, to prayers! all loft!

Boats. What, muft our mouths be cold?!

[Exeunt.

Gon. The king and prince at prayers! let us affift them, For our cafe is as theirs.

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Seb. I am out of patience.

Ant. We're merely" cheated of our lives by drunkards.

to try with main courfe.]-to wear or work with her mainfail.

& for]-from.

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Lay

hunftanch'd]-incontinent.

ber a-bold,]-Bring her to lie as near the wind as she can. k fet her two courfes off-fet her main and forefail off, so as to get out to fea again, to lay her off by that means.

be cold?]-from drowning.

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merely]-abfolutely.

things rank, and grofs in nature,
"Poffefs it merely. HAMLET, Act I, S. 2. Ham.

This wide-chopp'd rafcal; - Would, thou might'ft lie

drowning,

The washing of two tides!

Gon. He'll be hang'd yet;

Though every drop of water fwear against it,

And gape at wid❜ft to glut him." [A confufed noife within. 1 Sailor. Mercy on us!-We fplit, we fplit!

2 Sailor. Farewell, my wife and children!

3 Sailor. Farewell, brother!-We fplit, we fplit, we splitAnt. Let's all fink with the king.

Seb. Let's take leave of him.

[Exit. [Exit.

Gon. Now would I give a thousand furlongs of fea for an acre of barren ground; ling, heath, broom, furze, any thing: The wills above be done, but I would fain die a dry death! [Exit.

The enchanted Island: before the Cell of Profpero,

Enter Profpero and Miranda.

Mira. If by your art, my dearest father, you have
Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them:
The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,
But that the fea, mounting to the wełkin's cheek,
Dashes the fire out. O, I have fuffer'd
With those that I faw fuffer! a brave veffel,
Who had, no doubt, fome noble creatures in her,
Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock
Against my very heart! Poor fouls! they perifh'd.
Had I been any god of power, I would

Have funk the fea within the earth, or ere

It should the good fhip fo have fwallow'd, and
The freighting fouls within her.

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to glut him.]-to fwallow him up.

long heath, brown furze.

P freighting-freighted: the active participle used paffively.

Prof.

Prof. Be collected

No more amazement: tell your piteous heart,
There's no harm done.

Mira. O, woe the day!

Prof. No harm.?

I have done nothing but in care of thee,

(Of thee, my dear one! thee, my daughter!) who
Art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing
Of whence I am; nor that I am more better'
Than Profpero, master of a full poor cell,'
And thy no greater father.

Mira. More to know

Did never meddle with my thoughts.
Prof. 'Tis time,

I should inform thee further. Lend thy hand,
And pluck my magic garment from me.-So;

[Lays down his mantle.
Lye there, my art.-Wipe thou thine eyes; have comfort.
The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd
The very virtue of compaffion in thee,
I have with fuch provifion in mine art
So fafely order'd, that there is no foul"-
No, not fo much perdition as an hair,
Betid to any creature in the veffel

Which thou heard'ft cry, which thou faw'ft fink. Sit down: For thou muft now know further.

Mira. You have often

Begun to tell me what I am; but stopp'd,

Mira. O woe the day! no harm?

more better]-Such ungrammatical expreffions, as double comparatives and fuperlatives, occur fo frequently in our author, and the generality of old dramatic writers, that it would be endless to remark them all, and impertinent to correct them.

full poor cell,]-a cell exhibiting poverty in the extreme. meddle-trouble, interfere with.

"No foul loft-ne lofs-no fail-no ill.

And left me to a bootless inquifition;
Concluding, Stay, not yet.-

Prof. The hour's now come;

The very minute bids thee ope thine ear;
Obey, and be attentive. Canft thou remember
A time before we came unto this cell?

I do not think, thou canft; for then thou waft not
"Out three years old.

Mira. Certainly, fir, I can.

Prof. By what? by any other house, or person?
Of any thing the image tell me, that

Hath kept with thy remembrance.
Mira, 'Tis far off;

And rather like a dream, than an affurance
That my remembrance warrants: Had I not
Four or five women once, that tended me?

Prof. Thou hadít, and more, Miranda: But how is it,
That this lives in thy mind? What feeft thou elfe
In the dark back-ward and abyfm* of time?

If thou remember'ft aught, ere thou cam'ft here;
How thou cam'ft here, thou may'st.

Mira. But that I do not.

Prof. Twelve years fince, Miranda, twelve years fince,

Thy father was the duke of Milan, and

A prince of power.

Mira. Sir, are not you my Father ?

Prof. Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and

She faid-thou waft my daughter; and thy father
Was duke of Milan; thou his only heir

A princess; no worse iffu'd.

Mira. O the heavens !

What foul play had we, that we came from thence?
Or bleffed was't, we did?

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Out]-fully, quite. * abyfm]-abyfs.

9. And princess.

Prof.