Pro. Let them be hunted foundly: At this hour
Lie at my mercy all mine enemies :

Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou
Shalt have the air at freedom: for a little,
Follow, and do me fervice.

[Exeunt.

ACT V.

V.

SCENE I.

Before the Cell.

Enter Profpero in bis magick robes, and Ariel.
Pro. Now does my project gather to a head:
My charms crack not; my spirits obey; and time
"Goes upright with his carriage. How's the day?

Ari. On the fixth hour; at which time, my lord,
You faid our work fhould cease.

Pro. I did fay fo,

When first I rais'd the tempeft. Say, my spirit,
How fares the king and his followers?

Ari. Confin'd together

In the fame fashion as you gave in charge;
Just as you left them; all prisoners, fir,

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In the lime-grove which weather-fends your cell;
They cannot budge till your release. The king,
His brother, and yours, abide all three distracted;
And the remainder mourning over them,
Brim-full of forrow, and difmay; but, chiefly,
Him that you term'd The good old lord, Gonzalo,
His tears run down his beard, like winter drops
From eaves of reeds: your charm fo ftrongly works 'em,

"Goes upright]-fmoothly on, without faultering under his burthen. " weather-fends]-fcreens, fhelters from inclement weather.

That if you now beheld them, your affections
Would become tender.

Pro. Do'st thou think fo, fpirit?

Ari. Mine would, fir, were I human.

Pro. And mine fhall.

Haft thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling
Of their afflictions? and fhall not myself,

One of their kind,

that relish all as sharply,

Paffion as they, be kindlier mov'd than thou art?

Though with their high wrongs I am ftruck to the

quick,

Yet, with my nobler reafon, 'gainst my fury

Do I take part: the rarer action is

In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,
* The fole drift of my purpose doth extend
Not a frown further: Go, release them, Ariel;
My charms I'll break, their fenfes I'll restore,
And they fhall be themselves.

Ari. I'll fetch them, fir.

[Exit.

Pro. Ye elves of hills, brooks, ftanding lakes, and

groves;

And ye, that on the fands with printless foot

"Nor tender feelings, to bafe touches prone."

-that relifh all as fharply,

Paffion as they,]-Paffion' d-am liable to the fame impreffions, and actuated by the fame paffions.

"Ariadne paffioning

"For Thefeus' perjury."

Two GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, A& IV, S. 3. Jul.

"I paffion to fay wherewith."

LOVE'S LABOUR LOST, A&t I, S. 1. King.

Dumbly the paffions."

The fole drift of my purpose, wrath doth end.

POEMS. 455.

Do

Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him,
When he comes back; you demy-puppets, that
By moon-fhine do the green four ringlets make,
Whereof the ewe not bites; and you, whose pastime
Is to make midnight mushrooms; that rejoice
To hear the folemn curfew; by whose aid
(Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd
The noon-tide fun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,
And 'twixt the green fea and the azur'd vault
Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder
Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's ftout oak
With his own bolt: the ftrong-bas'd promontory
Have I made shake; and by the spurs pluck'd up
The pine, and cedar: graves, at my command,
Have wak'd their fleepers; op'd, and let them forth
By my fo potent art: But this rough magick
I here abjure: and, when I have requir'd
Some heavenly mufick, (which even now I do)
To work mine end upon their fenfes, that
This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And, deeper than did ever plummet found,
I'll drown my book.

[Solemn mufick.]

Re-enter Ariel: after him Alonso with a frantick gesture, attended by Gonzalo. Sebaftian and Anthonio in like manner, attended by Adrian and Francifco. They all enter the circle which Profpero bad made, and there ftand charm'd; which Profpero obferving, Speaks.

A folemn air, the best comforter

folemn curfew ;]-the bell which proclaimed the clofe of day, at whofe found they were permitted to be at large till the first cock.

Weak mafters though ye be]-They are powerful auxiliaries, but weak, if left to themselves, their agency being then confined to such trifling performances as are just recounted.

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To an unfettled fancy, cure thy brains,

Now useless, boil'd within thy fkull! there ftand,
For you are spell-ftopp'd.

Holy Gonzalo, honourable man,

Mine eyes, even fociable to the fhew of thine,
Fall fellowly drops.-The charm diffolves apace;
And as the morning fteals upon the night,

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Melting the darkness, fo their rifing fenfes
Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
Their clearer reason.-O good Gonzalo,
My true preferver, and a loyal fir

To him thou follow'ft; I will pay thy graces
Home, both in word and deed. Most cruelly
Didst thou, Alonfo, ufe me and my daughter:
Thy brother was a furtherer in the act ;-

Thou'rt pinch'd for't now, Sebastian.-Flesh and blood,

You brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,
Expell'd remorfe and nature; who, with Sebaftian,
(Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong)
Would here have kill'd your king; I do forgive thee,
Unnatural though thou art!-Their understanding
Begins to fwell; and the approaching tide
Will fhortly fill the reasonable shore,

That now lies foul and muddy. Not one of them,
That yet looks on me, or would know me :-Ariel,

Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell ;

I will dif-cafe me, and myself prefent,

As I was fometime Milan :-quickly, spirit;
Thou shalt e'er long be free.

[Exit Ariel.

"Lovers and madmen have fuch feething brains.” MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Act V, S. I. The. e remorse]-pity.

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Ariel enters finging, and helps to attire him.

Where the bee fucks, there fuck I;

In a cowflip's bell I lie,

There I couch:- when owls do cry,

On the bat's back I do fly,

After fummer, merrily:

Merrily, merrily, fhall I live now,

Under the bloom that hangs on the bough.

Pro. Why, that's my dainty Ariel: I fhall miss thee; But yet thou shalt have freedom: So, fo, fo.To the king's fhip, invifible as thou art: There fhalt thou find the mariners afleep Under the hatches; the mafter and the boatswain, Being awake, enforce them to this place;

And presently, I pr'ythee.

Ari. I drink the air before me, and return Or e'er your pulfe twice beat.

[Exit.

Gon. All torment, trouble, wonder, and amazement

Inhabits here; Some heavenly power guide us

Out of this fearful country!

Pro. Behold, fir King,

The wronged duke of Milan, Profpero:

For more affurance that a living prince

Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body;'
And to thee, and thy company, I bid

A hearty welcome,

Alon. Whe'r thou be'ft he, or no, Or fome inchanted trifle to abuse me,

As late I have been, I not know: thy pulfe

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f when owls do cry,]-when winter approaches.
"Then nightly fings the ftaring owl."

& fun-fet.
LOVE'S LABOUR LOST, Song at the end.
I drink the air before me,]-an expresion of swiftness.
"to devour the way,"-is ufed with the fame intention.
HENRY IV, Part II. A&t I, S. 1. Tra.

Whe'r]-Whether.

Beats,