Leave not a rack1 behind: We are such stuff If you be pleas'd, retire into my cell, Fer. Mira. We wish your peace. Pro. Come with a thought:-I thank Exeunt. you : Ariel, come. Enter Ariel. Ari. Thy thoughts I cleave to; What's thy Pro. pleasure? We must prepare to meet with Caliban. Spirit, Ari. Ay, my commander: when I presented I thought to have told thee of it; but I fear'd, Pro. Say again, where didst thou leave these varlets? Ari. I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; So full of valour, that they smote the air ears, Advanc'd their eye-lids, lifted up their noses, (1) A body of clouds in motion; but it is most probable that the author wrote track. Tooth'd briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss, and thorns, Wh ch entered their frail shins: at last I left them There dancing up to the chins, that the foul lake Pro. This was well done, my bird Thy shape invisible retain thou still : The trumpery in my house, go, bring it hither, Ari. Re-enter Ariel loaden with glistering apparel, &c. Even to roaring :--Come, hang them on this line. Prospero and Ariel remain invisible. Enter Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo; all wet. Cal. Pray, you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not Hear a foot fall: we now are near his cell. Ste. Monster, your fairy, which, you say, is a harmless fairy, has done little better than played the Jack3 with us. Trin. Monster, I do smell all horse-piss; at which my nose is in great indignation. Ste. So is mine. Do you hear, monster? I I should take a displeasure against you; look you,— Trin. Thou wert but a lost monster. Cal. Good my lord, give me thy favour still: Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to Shall hood-wink this mischance therefore, speak softly, (1) Bait. (2) Education. (3) Jack with a lantern. All's hush'd as midnight yet. Trin. Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool,Ste. There is not only disgrace and dishonour in that, monster, but an infinite loss. Trin. That's more to me than my wetting: yet this is your harmless fairy, monster. Ste. I will fetch off my bottle, though I be o'er cars for my labour. Cal. Pr'ythee, my king, be quiet: Seest thou here, This is the mouth o' the cell: no noise, and enter: Do that good mischief, which may make this island Thine own for ever, and I, thy Caliban, For ayel thy foot-licker. Ste. Give me thy hand: I do begin to have bloody thoughts. Trin. O king Stephano! O peer! O worthy Stephano! look, what a wardrobe here is for thee! Cal. Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash. Trin. O, ho, monster; we know what belongs to a frippery 2-0 king Stephano! Ste. Put off that gown, Trinculo; by this hand, I'll have that gown. Trin. Thy grace shall have it. Cal. The dropsy drown this fool! what do you mean, To doat thus on such luggage? Let's along, From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches, Ste. Be you quiet, monster.-Mistress line, is not this my jerkin Now is the jerkin under the line: now, jerkin, you are like to lose your hair, and prove a bald jerkin. Trin. Do, do: We steal by line and level, an't like your grace. Ste. I thank thee for that jest; here's a garment for't: wit shall not go unrewarded, while I am king of this country: Steal by line and level, (1) Ever. (2) A shop for sale of old clothes. an excellent pass of pate; there's another garment for't. Trin. Monster, come, put some limel upon your fingers, and away with the rest. Cal. I will have none on't: we shall lose our time, And all be turn'd to barnacles, or to apes With foreheads villanous low. Ste. Monster, lay-to your fingers: help to bear this away, where my hogshead of wine is, or I'R turn you out of my kingdom; go to, carry this. Trin. And this. Ste. Ay, and this. A noise of hunters heard. Enter divers Spirits, in shape of hounds, and hunt them about; Prospero and Ariel setting them on. Pro. Hey, Mountain, hey! Ari. Silver! there it goes, Silver! Pro. Fury, Fury! there, Tyrant, there! hark, hark! [Cal. Ste. and Trin. are driven out. Go, charge my goblins that they grind their joints With dry convulsions; shorten up their sinews With aged cramps; and more pinch-spotted make them, Hark, they roar Pro. Let them be hunted soundly: at this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies; Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou (1) Bird-lime. [Exeunt. (2) Leopard. ACT V. SCENE I.—Before the cell of Prospero. Enter Prospero in his magic Robes, and Ariel. Pro. Now does my project gather to a head: My charms crack not; my spirits obey; and tune Goes upright with his carriage.-How's the day? Ari. On the sixth hour; at which time, my lord, You said our work should cease. Pro. I did say so, Ari. In the lime-grove which weather-fends! your cell, That if you now beheld them, your affections Pro. Dost thou think so, spirit? Ari. Mine would, sir, were I human. Pro. And mine shall. Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions; and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier mov'd than thou art? Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, Yet with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury (1) Defends from bad weather, (2) Thatch. |