Are nobly undergone; and most poor matters 35 With much more ease; for my good will is to it,

Ten times more gentle, than her father's crabbed; 40 Fer. No, noble mistress; 'tis fresh morning

Had ne'er like executor. I forget: [baseness 45 Mira. Miranda: O my father,

Work not so hard; I would, the lightning had 50 1 have ey'd with best regard; and many a time

I'll bear your logs the while: Pray, give me that: 30 One of my sex; no woman's face remember, I'll carry it to the pile.

Mr. Steevens supposes, that, by an error of the press, scamel has been here substituted for seamell, a species of bird mentioned by Willughby. For behest, or command.

More that I may call men, than you, good friend,
And my dear father: how features are abroad,
I am skilless of; but, by my modesty,
(The jewel in my dower) I would not wish
Any companion in the world but you;
Nor can imagination form a shape,
Besides yourself, to like of: But I prattle
Something too wildly, and my father's precepts
I therein do forget.

Fer. I am, in my condition,
A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king;
(I would, not so!) and would no more endure
This wooden slavery, than I would suffer[speak;--
The flesh-fly blow my mouth: Hear my soul
The very instant that I saw you, did

My heart fly to your service; there resides,
To make me slave to it; and, for your sake,
Am I this patient log-man.

Mira. Do you love me?

[sound,

bear up, and board'em: Servant-monster, drink

to me.

Trin. Servant-monster? the folly of this island! They say there's but five upon this isle: we are 5 three of them; if the other two be brain'd like us, the state totters.

Ste. Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee: thy eyes are almost set in thy head.

Trin. Where should they beset else? hewerea 10 brave monster indeed, if they were set in his tail. Ste. My man-monster hath drown'd his tongue in sack: for my part, the sea cannot drown me: I swam, ere I could recover the shore, five-andthirty leagues, off and on, by this light. -Thou 15 shalt be my lieutenant, monster, or my standard. Trin. Your lieutenant, if you list; he's no standard 2.

Ste. We'll not run, monsieur monster.
Trin. Nor go neither: but you'll lie, like dogs;

Fer. O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this 20 and yet say nothing neither.

And crown what I profess with kind event,

If I speak true; if hollowly, invert

What best is boded me, to mischief! I,
Beyond all limit of what else i' the world,

Do love, prize, honour you.

Mira. I am a fool,

To weep at what I am glad of.

Pro. Fair encounter

Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace
On that which breeds between them!

[offer

Ste. Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a good moon-calf.

Cal. How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe. I'll not serve him, he is not valiant.

25 Trin. Thou ly'st, most ignorant monster; I am in case to justle a constable: Why, thou debosh'd fish thou, was there ever a man a coward, that hath drunk so much sack as I to-day? Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish, and half a monster?

30

Fer. Wherefore weep you?
Mira. At mine unworthiness, that dare not
What I desire to give; and much less take
What I shall die to want: But this is trifling;
And all the more it seeks to hide itself, [ning! 35
The bigger bulk it snews. Hence, bashful cun-
And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!

I am your wife, if you will marry me;

If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow1

Cal. Lo, how he mocks me; wilt thou let him, my lord?

Trin. Lord, quoth he!-that a monster should be such a natural!

Cal. Lo, lo, again: bite him to death, I pr'ythee.

Ste. Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head; if you prove a mutineer, the next tree The poor monster's my subject, and he shall

You may deny me; but I'll be your servant, 40 not suffer indignity.

Whether you will or no.

Fer. My mistress, dearest,

And I thus humble ever.

Mira. My husband then?

Fer. Ay, with a heart as willing

As bondage e'er of freedom: here's my hand.

Mira. And mine with my heart in't: and now

Till half an hour hence.

[farewell,

Fer. A thousand, thousand!

[Exeunt.

Pro. So glad of this as they, I cannot be, Who are surpriz'd with all; but my rejoicing At nothing can be more. I'll to my book; For yet, ere supper-time, must I perform

Much business appertaining.

SCENE II.

Another part of the island.

[Exit.

Enter Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo, with a

bortle.

Ste. Tell not me;-when the butt is out, we

Cal. Thou ly'st, thou jesting monkey, thou; I would my valiant master would destroy thee: I do not lie.

Ste. Trinculo, if you troub'e him any more in 55 his tale, by this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.

Trin. Why, I said nothing.

Ste. Mum then, and no more-[To Caliban.] Proceed.

will drink water; not a drop before: therefore 60 Cal. I say, by sorcery he got this isle;

2

1 Companion. Meaning he is so much intoxicated, as not to be able to stand. The quibble between standard an ensign, and standard a fruit-tree that grows without support, is evident. Debauched.

From me he got it. If thy greatness will
Revenge it on him (for I know, thou dar'st,
But this thing dare not-)

Ste. That's most certain.

[thee. Cal. Thou shalt be lord of it, and I'll serve 5 Ste. How now shall this be compass'd? Canst thou bring me to the party?

Cal. Yea, yea, my lord; I'll yield himtheeasleep,
Where thou may'st knock a nail into his head.
Ari. Thou ly'st, thou canst not. [patch!-10
Cal. What a py'd' ninny's this! Thou scurvy
I do beseech thy greatness, give him blows,
And take his bottle from him: when that's gone,
He shall drink nought but brine; for I'll not shew
Where the quick freshes are.

[him 15

Ste. Trinculo, run into no further danger: interrupt the monster one word further, and by this hand, I'll turn my mercy out of doors, and inake a stock-fish of thee.

Ste. Give me thy hand; I am sorry I beat thee: but at whilethouliv'st, keep a good tongue in thy head. Cal. Within this half hour will he be asleep;

Wilt thou destroy him then?
Ste. Ay, on mine honour.

Ari. This will I tell my master. [sure;
Cal. Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of plea-
Let us be jocund: Will you troul2 the catch,
You taught me but while-ere?

Ste. At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any reason: Come on, Trinculo, let us sing. [Sings. Flout'em, andskout'em; and skout'emand flout 'em; Thought is free.

Cal. That's not the tune. [Ariel plays the tune Ste. What is the same? [onatabor and pipe. Trin. This is the tune of our catch, play'd by the picture of no-body.

Ste. If thou bee'st a man, shew thyself in thy likeness: if thou bee'st a devil, take 't as thou list.

Trin. Why, what did I? I did nothing; I'll go 20 Trin. O, forgive me my sins! further off.

Ste. He that dies, pays all debts: I defy thee:

Ste. Did'st thou not say, he ly'd?

Mercy upon us!

Ari. Thou ly'st.

Cal. Art thou affeard?

Ste. Do I so? take thou that, [Beats him.

Ste. No, monster, not I.

As you like this, give me the lie another time. 25 Cat. Be not aifeard; the isle is full of noises,

Trin. I did not give thee the lie:--Out o' your

wits, and hearing too?-- A pox of your bottle!

this can sack and drinking do.-Amurrain on your monster, and the devil take your fingers!

Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt
Sometimesathousandtwangling instruments[not.
Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices,
That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep,

30 Will make mesleepagain: and then, in dreaming,
Theclouds, methought, wouldopen,andshewriches
Ready to drop upon me; that, when I wak'd,
I cry'd to dream again.

Cal. Ha, ha, ha!

Ste. Now, forward with your tale. Prythee

stand further off.

Cal. Beat him enough: after a little time, I'll beat him too.

Ste. Stand further.--Come, proceed.

Ste. This will prove a brave kingdom to me,

[him 35 where I shall have my musick for nothing.

Cal. Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with I' the afternoon to sleep: there thou may'st brain Having first seized his books; or with a log [him,

Cal. When Prospero is destroy'd. [story.
Ste. That shall be by and by: I remember the
Trin. The sound is going away: let's follow it,

Or cut his wezand with thy knife: Remember, 40 Ste. Lead, monster; we'll follow. ---I wou'd, I

Trin. Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano.

Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,

And after do our work.

First to possess his books: for without them

could see this taborer: he lays it on.

He's but a sot, as I am; nor hath not

SCENE III.

[Exeunt.

Changes to another part of the island. Enter Alonso, Sebastian, Anthonio, Gonzalo, Adrian, Francisco, &c.

Gon. By'r lakin, I can go no further, sir; My old bones ache: here's a maze trod, indeed, 50 Through forth-rights, and meanders! By your

I needs must rest me.

[patience,

Alon. Old lord, I cannot blame thee,
Who am my elf attach'd with weariness,
To the dulling of my spirits: sit down and rest.

[rant, 35 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.
Ant. [Aside to Sebastian.] I am right glad that
he's so out of hope.

Ste. Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and I will be king and queen; (save our graces!, and Trinculo and thyself shall be vice-roys:Dost thou like the plot, Trinculo?

Trin. Excellent.

• Alluding to the striped or fool's coat worn by Trincu'o, who in the ancient dramatis personæ is called a jester, and not a sailor. 2 Means probably to dismiss it trippingly from the tongue. • The provincial mode in Staffordshire and the adjoning counties of pronouncing the word * i. e. The diminutive only of our lady, i. e. lady kin.

afraid.

De

Seb. I say, to night; no more.

(That hath to instrument this lower world,

Solemn and strange music; and Prospero on the 10 And what is in't) the never-surfeited sea

top, 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.

Hath caused to belch up; and on this island
Where man doth not inhabit; you 'mongst men,
Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad;
Andevenwithsuch likevalour men hang and drown

Alon. What harmony is this? my good friends, 15 Their proper selves. [Alonzo, Sebastian, and the

Gon. Marvellous sweet music!
[hark!
Alon. Give us kind keepers, heavens! What

were these?

And what does else want credit, come to me,

Yefools! Landmy fellows[rest drawtheir swords.
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
20 Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish [nister
One dowle that's in my plume; my fellow-mi-
Are like invulnerable: if you could hurt,
Your swords are now too massy for your strengths,
And will not be uplifted: But remember,

And I'll be sworn 'tis true: Travellers ne'er did lie, 25 (For that's my business to you) that you three

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 islanders,

From Milan did supplant good Prospero;
Expos'd unto the sea, which hath requit it,
Him, and his innocent child: for which foul deed

(For certes', these are people of the island)
Who though they are of inoustrous shape, yet note,
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of
Our human generation you shall find
Many, nay, almost any.

Pro. Honest lord,

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

[Aside.

The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have 30 Incens'd the seas and shores, yea all the creatures, Against your peace: Thee, of thy son, Alonso, They have bereft: and do pronounce by me, Ling'ring perdition (worse than any death Can be at once) shall step by step attend [from 35 You, and your ways; whose wraths to guard you (Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls Upon your heads) is nothing, but heart's sorrow, And a clear life ensuing.

Alon. I cannot too much muse' [pressing Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound ex(Although they want the use of tongue) a kind 40 Of excellent dumb discourse.

Pro. Praise in departing.

Fran. They vanish'd strangely.

Seb. No matter, since

[Aside.

[stomachs.

They have left their viands behind; for we have 45 In what thou hadst to say: so with good life', Will't please you taste of what is here?

He vanishes inthunder: then to soft music, enter the shapes again, and dance with mops and mowes, and carry out the table. [thou Pro. [Aside] Bravely the figure of this harpyhast Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had devouring;. Of my instruction hast thou nothing 'bated,

And observation strange, my meaner ministers, Their several kinds have done: my high charms Gon. Faith, sir, you need not fear: When we And these, mine enemies, are all knit up [work, Who would believe that there were mountaineers, In their distractions: they now are in my power; Dew-lapped like bulls, whose throats had hanging 50 And in these fits I leave them, wlist I visit Wallets of flesh or that there were such men, [at'em Young Ferdinand, (whom they suppose is Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now And his and my lov'd darling. [drown'd) we find, [Exit Prosperò from above. Each putter out on five for one', will bring us Gon. I'the name of something holy, sir, why Good warrant of. 55 In this strange stare? [stand you

Shows called drolleries, were in Shakspeare's time performed by puppets only. * Certainly. Admire. Our Author might have had this intelligence from the translation of Pliny, B. V.ch. 8. "The Blemmyi, by report, have no heads, but mouth and eies both in their breast. This passage alludes to an ancient forgotten custom, now very obscure, when it was customary for those who engaged in long expeditions, to place out a sum of money on condition of receiving great interest for it at their return home. Bailey, in his dictionary, says, that dowle is a feather, or rather the single particles of the down. 'Blameless, innocent. To mop and to mowe seem to have the same m meaning, fi. e. to make mouths or wry faces. Mocks and mowes in Johnson's last edition. With honest alacrity, or chearfulness.

6

Alon.

Alon. O, it is monstrous! monstrous! Methought, the billows spoke, and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me; andthe thunder, That deep and dreadful organpipe, pronounc'd

Like poison given to work a great time after, [guilt,

The name of Prosper; it did bass' my trespass. 5 Now'gins to bite the spirits:-I do beseech you

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.

[Exit.

Seb. But one fiend at a time,

That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly,
And hinder them from what this ecstacy2
May now provoke them to.
Adr. Follow, I pray you.

[Exeunt.

10

SCENE

Prospero's cell.

ACT

I.

Enter Prospero, Ferdinand, and Miranda.
Pro. IF I have too austerely punish'd you,
Your compensation makes amends; for I
Have given you here a third of mine own life,
Or that for which I live; whom 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,
And make it halt behind her.

Pro. Then, as my gift, and thine own acquisiWorthily purchas'd, 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,

IV.

Enter Ariel.

Ari. What would my potent master? here I am.
Pro. Thou and thy meaner fellows your lastser-
Did worthily perform, and I must use you [vice

20 In such another trick: go, bring the rabble,
O'er whom I give thee power, here, to this place:
Incite them to quick motion; for I must
Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple
Some vanity of mine art; it is my promise,

25 And they expect it from me.
Ari. Presently?

Pro. Ay, with a twink.

Ari. Before you can say, Come, and go,

And breathe twice; and cry, so, so;

30 Each one tripping on his toe,

Will be here with mop and moe:

Do you love me, master? no.

Sour-eye'd disdain, and discord, shall bestrew 40 Fer. I warrant you, sir;

The union of your bed with weeds so loathly,

That you shall hate it both: therefore take heed,

Iris. Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats, and pease; [der'd, 50 Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep, Andilatmeads thatch' sthatch'd with stover', them tokeep; Thy banks with pionied and twilled brims, Which spungy April at thy hestbetrims, [groves, Tomakecoldnymphschastecrowns:andthy broom

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

55 Whose shadow the dismissed batchelor loves,

That is, told it me in a rough bass sound. Ecstacy here signifies alienation of mind. Aspersion is here used in its primitive sense of sprinkling. That is, bring more than are sufficient, rather than fail for want of numbers. Corollary means surplus. Stover from Estovers, a law word, signifies an allowance in food or other necessaries of life. It is here used for provision in general for animals. Disappointed lovers are still said to wear the willow, and in these lines broom groves are assigned to that unfortunate tribe for retreat. This may allude to some old custom. We still say that a hu band hangs out the broom when his wife goes from home for a short time; and on such occasions a broom besom has been exhibited as a signal that the house was freed from uxorial restraint, and where the master might be considered as a temporary bachelor. Broom groves may signify broom bushes.