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could see this taborer;* he lays it on. Trin. Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano. *Player on tabor. [Exeunt.

SCENE III. Another part of the island. Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others.

Gon. By'r lakin,* I can go no further, sir; My old bones ache; here's a maze trod indeed Through forth-rights and meanders! By your *Our Lady. Straight paths.

patience,

I needs must rest me.

Alon.
Old lord, I cannot blame thee,
Who am myself attach'd with weariness,

To the dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
Even here I will put off my hope and keep it
No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd

Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks
Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go. 10
Ant. [Aside to Seb.] I am right glad that he's
so out of hope.

Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose
That you resolved to effect.

Seb. [Aside to Ant.]

Will we take throughly.

The next advantage

Ant. [Aside to Seb.] Let it be to-night;

For, now they are oppress'd with travel, they
Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance

As when they are fresh.

Seb. [Aside to Ant.] I say, to-night: no more. [Solemn and strange music. Alon. What harmony is this? My good friends, hark!

Gon. Marvellous sweet music!

Enter PROSPERO above, invisible. Enter several strange Shapes, bringing in a banquet; they dance about it with gentle actions of salutation; and, inviting the King, &c. to eat, they depart. Alon. Give us kind keepers, heavens! What

were these? Seb. A living drollery.* Now I will believe

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That there are unicorns, that in Arabia
There is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one phœnix
At this hour reigning there.

*Puppet-show.

Ant. I'll believe both; And what does else want credit, come to me, And I'll be sworn 'tis true; travellers ne'er did lie, Though fools at home condemn 'em.

Gon. If in Naples I should report this now, would they believe me? If I should say, I saw such islandersFor, certes,* these are people of the islandWho, though they are of monstrous shape, yet,

note,

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*Certainly.

Their manners are more gentle-kind than of
Our human generation you shall find

Many, nay, almost any.

Pros.

[Aside] Honest lord,

Thou hast said well; for some of you there present Are worse than devils.

Alon.

I cannot too much muse*

Such shapes, such gesture and such sound, ex

*Wonder.

pressing, Although they want the use of tongue, a kind Of excellent dumb discourse.

Pros.

[Aside] Praise in departing.

No matter, since 40

Fran. They vanish'd strangely.

Seb.

They have left their viands behind; for we have

stomachs.*

Will't please you taste of what is here?
Alon.

Gon. Faith, sir, you need not fear.

were boys,

*Appetites.

Not I.

When we

Who would believe that there were mountain

eers

Dew-lapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging

at 'em

Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find

Each putter-out* of five for one will bring us

Good warrant of.

*Lender of money at interest. I will stand to and feed,

Alon.
Although my last: no matter, since I feel

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The best is past. Brother, my lord the duke,
Stand to and do as we.

Thunder and lightning.

Enter ARIEL, like a harpy; claps his wings upon the table; and, with a quaint device, the banquet vanishes.

Ari. You are three men of sin, whom Destiny, That hath to instrument this lower world And what is in't, the never-surfeited sea Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island Where man doth not inhabit; you 'mongst men Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad; And even with such-like valour men hang and drown

Their proper selves.

[Alon., Seb. &c. draw their swords. You fools! I and my fellows 60

Are ministers of Fate: the elements,

Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs

Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish

One dowle* that's in my plume: my fellow-ministers

*Swirl of a feather.

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Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,
Your swords are now too massy for your strengths
And will not be uplifted. But remember—
For that's my business to you—that you three
From Milan did supplant good Prospero;
Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it,
Him and his innocent child; for which foul deed
The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have
Incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the crea-
tures,

Against your peace.

Thee of thy son, Alonso, They have bereft; and do pronounce by me Lingering perdition, worse than any death Can be at once, shall step by step attend

You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from

Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls Upon your heads-is nothing but heart-sorrow 81 And a clear life ensuing.

He vanishes in thunder; then, to soft music, enter the Shapes again, and dance, with mocks and mows, and carrying out the table.

Pros. Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring: Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated In what thou hadst to say: so, with good life And observation strange, my meaner ministers Their several kinds have done. My high charms work

And these mine enemies are all knit up

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In their distractions; they now are in my power; And in these fits I leave them, while I visit Young Ferdinand, whom they suppose is drown'd, And his and mine loved darling. [Exit above. Gon. I' the name of something holy, sir, why stand you

In this strange stare?

Alon. O, it is monstrous, monstrous! Methought the billows spoke and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded, and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded And with him there lie mudded.

Seb.

I'll fight their legions o'er.

Ant.

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[Exit.

But one fiend at a time,

I'll be thy second.
[Exeunt Seb. and Ant.

Gon. All three of them are desperate: their great guilt,

Like poison given to work a great time after,
Now 'gins to bite the spirits. I do beseech you
That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly
And hinder them from what this ecstasy*
May now provoke them to.

Adr.

Follow, I pray you.

ACT IV.

*Madness.

[Exeunt.

SCENE I. Before PROSPERO's cell.

Enter PROSPERO, FERDINAND, and MIRANDA. Pros. If I have too austerely punish'd you,

*Fibre

Your compensation makes amends, for I
Have given you here a thrid* of mine own life,
Or that for which I live; who once again
I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations
Were but my trials of thy love, and thou
Hast strangely stood the test: here, afore Heaven,
I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand,
Do not smile at me that I boast her off,

For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise 10
And make it halt behind her.

Fer.

Against an oracle.

I do believe it

Pros. Then, as my gift and thine own acquisition Worthily purchased, take my daughter: but If thou dost break her virgin-knot before All sanctimonious ceremonies may With full and holy rite be minister'd, No sweet aspersion* shall the heavens let fall To make this contract grow; but barren hate, Sour-eyed disdain and discord shall bestrew The union of your bed with weeds so loathly That you shall hate it both: therefore take heed, As Hymen's lamps shall light you. *Sprinkling. As I hope

Fer.

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For quiet days, fair issue and long life,
With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den,
The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion
Our worser* genius can, shall never melt
Mine honour into lust, to take away

The edge of that day's celebration

*Worse.

When I shall think, or Phoebus' steeds are found

er'd,

Or Night kept chain'd below.

Pros.

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Fairly spoke.

Sit then and talk with her; she is thine own.
What, Ariel! my industrious servant, Ariel!

Enter ARIEL.

Ari. What would my potent master? here I am. Pros. Thou and thy meaner fellows your last service

Did worthily perform; and I must use you

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