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For raising this sea-storm? Pros.

Instinctively have quit it: there they hoist us,

Know thus far forth. To cry to the sea that roar'd to us, to By accident most strange, bountiful sigh

To the winds whose pity, sighing back again,

Did us but loving wrong.

Mir.

Alack, what trouble

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Fortune,

Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore; and by my prescience

I find my zenith doth depend upon
A most auspicious star, whose influence
If now I court not but omit, my fortunes
Will ever after droop. Here cease more
questions:

Thou art inclined to sleep; 'tis a good dulness,

And give it way: I know thou canst not choose. [Miranda sleeps. Come away, servant, come. I am ready

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Plunged in the foaming brine and quit

the vessel,

Then all afire with me: the king's son,
Ferdinand,

With hair up-staring,—then like reeds,

not hair,—

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Pros. At least two glasses.

'twixt six and now

Must by us both be spent most preciously. Ari. Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains,

Let me remember thee what thou hast promised,

Was the first man that leap'd; cried, Which is not yet perform'd me.

'Hell is empty,

And all the devils are here.'

Pros.
How now ? moody?
What is't thou canst demand?

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As thou report'st thyself, wast then her And hither come in't: go, hence with

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[Exit Ariel.

Awake, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well;

Awake!

Mir. The strangeness of your story put Heaviness in me.

Pros.

Shake it off.

Come on;

We'll visit Caliban my slave, who never Yields us kind answer.

Mir.

'Tis a villain, sir,

But, as 'tis,

I do not love to look on.

Pros.

We cannot miss him: he does make our

fire,

Fetch in our wood and serves in offices

That profit us. What, ho! slave! Cali

ban!

Thou earth, thou! speak.

Cal. [Within] There's wood enough within.

Pros. Come forth, I say! there's other business for thee: Come, thou tortoise! when?

Re-enter ARIEL like a water-nymph.
Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel,
Hark in thine ear.
Ari.

My lord, it shall be done. [Exit. Pros. Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself

Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!

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Pros. For this, be sure, to-night thou Which any print of goodness wilt not

shalt have cramps,

take,

Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,

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One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage,

Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like

A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes

With words that made them known. But thy vile race,

Though thou didst learn, had that in't which good natures

Thou strokedst me and madest much of Could not abide to be with; therefore

me, wouldst give me

Water with berries in't, and teach me

how

To name the bigger light, and how the less,

wast thou

Deservedly confined into this rock,
Who hadst deserved more than a prison.
Cal. You taught me language; and
my profit on't

That burn by day and night: and then Is, I know how to curse. The red

I loved thee

And show'd thee all the qualities o' the

isle,

plague rid you For learning me your language! Pros.

Hag-seed, hence!

The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou'rt

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In this hard rock, whiles you do keep That beasts shall tremble at thy din.

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No, pray thee. [Aside] I must obey: his art is of such

power,

It would control my dam's god, Setebos, And make a vassal of him.

Pros.

So, slave; hence! [Exit Caliban.

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Full fathom five thy father lies;

Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade

But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell :
Burthen. Ding-dong.
Ari. Hark! now I hear them,-Ding-
dong, bell.

Fer. The ditty does remember my
drown'd father.

This is no mortal business, nor no sound
That the earth owes.
I hear it now

above me.

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hear me;

And that he does I weep: myself am
Naples,

Pros. The fringed curtains of thine Who with mine eyes, never since at ebb, eye advance

beheld

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