Boa's. Heigh, my hearts; cheerly, cheerly, my hearts; yare, yare: Take in the top-sail; Tend to the master's whistle.-Blow till thou burst thy wind, if room enough! Enter ALONS SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND GONZALO, and others. Alon. Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master? Play the men. Boats. I pray now, keep below. An'. Where is the master, boatswain? Do you not hear him? You mar our Abor keep your cabins: you do assist the storm. Gon. Nay, good, be patient. Bouts. When the sea is. Hence! What care these roarers for the name of king? To cabins: silence: Trouble us not. Gon. Good; yet remember whom thou hast tboard. Boats. None that I more love than myself. You are a counsellor; if you can command these elements to silence, and work the peace of the present, we will not hatiu a rope more; use your authority; If you cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so hap. Cheerly, good hearts.-Out of our way, I say. Exit. Gon. I have great comfort from this fellow methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him: bis complexion is perfect gallows. Stand fast, good te to his hanging! make the rope of his destiny 1 Readily. s Present instant. our cable, for our own doth little advantage! If he be not born to be hanged, our case is miserable. [Exeu it Re-enter Boatswain. Boats. Down with the top-mast; yare; lower lower: bring her to try with main course. A cry within. A plague upon this howling! they are louder than the weather, or our office. Re-enter SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, and GONZALO. Yet again? what do you here? Shall we give o'er and drown? Have you a mind to sink? Seh. A pox o' your throat! you bawling, blasphemous, uncharitable dog! Boats. Work you, then. noise-maker, we are less afraid to be drowned than Ant. Hang, cur, hang! you whoreson, insolent thou art. Gon. I'll warrant him from drowning; though the ship were no stronger than a nut-shell, and as leaky as an unstaunched wench. Boats. Lay her a-hold, a-hold; set her twe courses; off to sea again, lay her off. Enter Mariners, wet. Mar. All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost! [Exeunt. Boats. What, must our mouths be cold? Gon. The king and prince at prayers! let us assist them, For our case is as theirs. Seb. I am out of patience. Ant. We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards.This wide-chapped rascal:-'Would thou mightst lie drowning The washing of ten tides! Gon. He'll be hanged yet, Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at wid'st to glut him. A confused noise within. Mercy on us!-We split, we split! Farewell, my wife and childrenFarewell, brother '-We spfit, we split, we split• Absolutely a Incontinent. [Exit. Mira. Ant. Let's all sink with the king. Seb. Let's take leave of him. Exil. Gon. Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground; long heath, brown farze, any thing: the wills above be done! but I would fain die a dry death. Exit. SCENE II.-The 'sland: before the cell of PROSPERO. Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA. Mir. If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them: The sky, it seems, wou d pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffer d With those that I saw suder! a brave vessel, Who had no doubt some noble creatures in her, Dash'd ad to pieces. 0, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls! they perish'd. Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er It should the good ship so have swallow'd, ard The freighting souls within her. Be collected; Pro. No more amazement: tell your piteous heart, There's no harm done. Mira. Pro. O, woe the day! No harm. The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd I have with such provision in mine art Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. For thou must now know further. Pro. The hour's now come; I do not think thou canst; for then thou wast not Certainly, sir, I can. Mira. Pro. Thou hadst, and more, Miranda: but how is it, That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else Mira. But that I do not. | O, my heart bleeds - Pro. My brother, and thy uncle, call'd Antonio, Mira. Pro. Being once perfected how to grant su S, How to deny them; whom to advance, and who To trash' for over-topping; new created The creatures that were mine; I say, or chang'd them, Or else new-form'd them: having both the key To what tune pleas'd his ear; that now he was O good sir, I do. I pray thee mark me. Mira. And him he play'd it for, he needs will be Mira. I should sin Now the condition. Mira. Alack, for pity! I, not rememb'ring how I cried out then, Pro. Hear a little further, And then I'll bring thee to the present businese Which now's upon us; without the which, the My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not; (So dear the love my people bore me) nor set Was I then to you! Pro. Alack! what trouble O! a cherubim Yea, his dread trident shake. My brave spirit! Who was so firm, so constant, that this coll Would not infect his reason? Ari. Not a hair perish'd, On their sustaining garments not a blemish, Thou wast, that did preserve me! Thou didst The king's son I have landed by himself; Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow. Mira. Heavens thank you for't! And now I (For still is beating in my mind,) your reason For raising this sea-storm? Pro. Know thus far forth.By accident most strange, bountiful 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 Thou art inclin'd to sleep; 'tis a good dulness, Whom I left coong of the air with sighs, Of the king's ship, The mariners, say, how thou hast dispos'd, And all the rest o' the fleet! Ari. Safely in harbor Whom, with a charm jom'd to their suller'd labor Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd Pro. Ariel, thy charge Exactly is perform'd; but there's more work: What is the time o' the day! Ari. Past the mid season. Pro. At least two glasses: The time 'twixt six and now, Must by us both be spent most preciously. Ari. Is there more to? Since thou dost give me pams, Let me remember thee what thou hast pro.nis'd, Which is not yet perform'd me. Pro. How now moudy? Pro. Thou dost; and think'st It much, to tread the ooze of the salt deep; To run upon the sharp wind of the north; To do me business in the veins o' the earth, When it is bak'd with frost. Ari. I do not, sir. Pro. Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou for ot The foul witch Sycorax, who, with age and envy Pro. This blue-ey'd hag was hither brought with child, And here was left by the sailors: Thou, my slave, Bustle, tumult. ⚫ Bermudas. a Wave. Algiers As thou report'st thyself, was then her servant: groans, As fast as mill-wheels strike: Then was this island (Save for the son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp, hag-born,) not honor'd with Yes; Caliban her son. Ari. Pro. Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban, Whom now I keep in service. Thou best know'st What torment I did find thee in: thy groans Did make wolves howl, and penetrate the breasts Of ever-angry bears: it was a torment To lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax Could not again undo; it was mine art, When I arriv'd, and heard thee, that made gape The pine, and let thee out. Ari. I thank thee, master. Pro. If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak, And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters. Ari. Pardon, master: I will be correspondent to command. Do so; and after two days I will discharge thee. [Exit ARIEL. Awake, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well; Awake! Mira. The strangeness of your story put Heaviness in me. Pro. Shake it off: Come on, We'll visit Caliban, my slave, who never Yields us kind answers. Mira. 'Tis a villain, sir, But, as 'tis, I do not love to look on. Cal. Within. There's wood enough within. for thee: Cal. As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd With raven's feather from unwholesome fen, Drop on you both! a south-west blow on ye, And blister you all o'er! Pro. For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps. Side-stiches that shall pen thy breath up; urchinss Cal. Thou strok'dst me, and mad'st much of me; wouldst give me And show'd thee all the qualities o' the isle, Cursed be I that did so;- - all the charms Thou most lying slave, Whom stripes may move, not kindness! I have us J thee, Filth as thou art with human care; and lodg'd thee Cal. O ho, ho! -won'd it had been done! Pro. Abhorred slave; Which any print of goodness will not take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage, race, Though thou didst learn, had that in't which good natures Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou Cal. You taught me language; and my profit on't Is. I know how to curse: the red plague rid' you, For learning me your language! Pro. Hag-seed, hence! Fetch us in fuel: and be quick, thou wert best. To answer other business. Shrug'st thou, malice? If thou neglect'st, or dost unwillingly What I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps; Fill all thy bones with aches; make thee roar, That beasts shall tremble at thy din. Cal. Re-enter ARIEL, invisible, playing and singing : Come unto these yellow sands And then take hands: Court'sied when you have, and kiss'd, (The wild waves whisi1) Foot it featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. Hark, herk! Bur. Bowgh, wowgh. The watch-legs bark: Bur. Bowgh, wowgh. Hark, hark! I hear [dispersedly. [dispersedly The strain of strutting chanticlere Fer. Where should this music be? i' the air, e the earth? It sounds no more:-and sure, it waits upon Some god of the island. Sitting on a bank, Weeping again the king my father's wreck, This music crept by me upon the waters; Allaving both the'r fury, and my passion, With its sweet air; thence I have follow'd it, Or it hath drawn me rather: But 'tis gone. No it begins again. Fer. The ditty does remember my drown'd |