Gon. Heavens keep him from these beasts!
For he is, sure, i' the island.
Alon. Lead away.

No better than the earth he lies upon, [ther, 15 Ari. Prospero my lord shall know what I have

"Twould put me to iny slipper; but I feel not
This deity in my bosom: twenty consciences,
That stand 'twixt me and Milan, candy'd be they,
And melt, e'er they molest. Here lies your bro-

If he were that which now he's like, that's' dead;

done.

[Aside.

Whom I with this obedientsteel, three inches of it,
Can lay to bed for ever: whiles you, doing thus,
To the perpetual wink, for ay 2 might put
This ancient morsel, this sir Prudence, who
Should not upbraid our course. For all the rest,
They'll take suggestion, as a cat laps milk;
They'll tell the clock to any business that
We say bents the hour.

Seb. Thy case, dear friend,
Shall be my precedent, as thou gott'st Milan,
I'll come by Naples. ples. Draw Dra tny sword: one stroke

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Shall free thee from the tribute which thou pay'st;
And I the king shall love thee.

Ant. Draw together:

And when I rear my hand, do you the like
To fall it on Gonzalo.

Seb. O, but one word. [They converse apart.
Enter Ariel, with musick and song.
Ari. My master through his art foresees the
danger

him

By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me,
And yet I needs must curse. But they'li not pinch,
Fright me with urchin shows, pitch ine i the mire,
Nor lead me, like a fire-brand, in the dark

30 Out of my way, unless he bid'em; but
For every trifie they are set upon me:
Sometime like apes, that moe 'and chatter at me,
And after, bite me; then like hedge-hogs, which
Lie tumbling in my bare-foot way, and mount
35 1 heir pricks at my foot-tall; sometime am I
All wound with adders, who, with cloven tongues,
Do hiss me into ma ness: - Lo! now! lo!

Enter Trinculo.

That you, his friend, are in; and sends me forth (For else his project dies) to keep them living. Here comes a spirit of his; and to torment me, [Sings in Gonzalo's ear. 40 For bringing wood in slowly: I'll fall flat;

While you here do snoring lie,
Open-erd conspiracy

His time doth take:

If of

life you keep

a care,

Shake off slumber, and beware:

Awake! awake!

Perchance be will not mind me.

Trin. Here's neither bush nor shrub, to bear off any weather at all, and another storm brewing; I hear it singing the wind: yond' same black 45 cloud, yond' huge one, looks like a foul bumbard that would shed his liquor. If it should thunder, as it did before, I know not where to hide my head yond' same cloud cannot chuse but tall by [They awake.pailfuls. - What have we here? a man or a fish? Alon. Why, how now, ho! awake? Why are 50 Dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a

Ant. Then let us both be sudden.
Gon. Now, good angels, preserve the king!

you drawn 1?

Wherefore this ghastly looking?
Gon. What's the matter?

Seb. Whiles we stood here securing your repose,

very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of, not of the newest, Poor-John. A strange fish! Were I in England now, (as once I was) and had but this fish painted, not a holiday-fool there but would

Even now, we heard a hollow burst of bellowing 55 give a piece of silver: there would this monster

Like bulls, or rather lions; did it not wake you?
It strook mine ear most terribly.

Alon. I heard nothing.

make a man'; any strange beast there makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man! and his fins like

Ant. O, 'twas a din to fright a monster's ear; To make an earthquake! sure, it was the roar 60 arms! Warm, o' my troth! I do now let loose Of a whole herd of lions.

1i. e. that is, id est. 2 For ever.

my opinion, hold it no longer; this is no fish, but A hint of villany. * Having your swords drawn.

Make mouths. • Bumbard means, in this place, a large vessel for holding drink. make a man's fortune; similar to Wickham's motto, Learning makes a man.

i. e.

an

Jof his friend; his backward voice is to utter foul speeches, and to detract. If all the wine in any bottle will recover him, I will help his ague: Come- Amen! I will pour some in thy other

an islander, that has lately suffer'd by a thunder-
bolt. Alas! the storm is come again my best
way is to creep under his gaberdine'; there is no
other shelter hereabout: Misery acquaints a man
with strange bedfellows: I will here shroud, till 5 mouth.
the dregs of the storm be past.

Enter Stephano singing, a bottle in his hand.

Ste. I shall no more to sea, to sea,

Here shall I dye a-shore,-
This is a very scurvy tune to sing ata man's funeral: 10
Well, here's my comfort.
[Drinks.
The master, th swabber, the boatswain and I,

The gunner and his mate,
Lov'd Mall, Mg, and Marian, and Margery,
But none of us card for Kate:
For she had a tongue with a tang,
Would cry to a sarlor, Go hang:

She lov'd not the savour of tar nor of pitch, [itch:
Yetataylor might scratch her where-e'er she did
Then to sea, boys, and let her go hang.
This is a scurvytune too: But here's my comfort.
[Drinks.

Trin. Stephano,

Ste. Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy! mercy! This is a devil, and no monster: I will leave him; I have no long spoon.

Trin. Stephano! - if thou beest Stephano, touch me, and speak to me; for I am Trinculo; -be not afraid,-thy good friend Trinculo.

Ste. If thou beest Trinculo, come forth; I'll pull thee by the lesser legs: if any be Trinculo's 15 legs, these are they. Thou art very Trinculo, indeed: How cam'st thou to be the siege' of this moon-calf? can he vent Trinculos?

Trin. I took him to be kill'd with a thunderstroke:-But art thou not drown'd, Stephano? I 20 hope now, thou art not drown'd. Is the storm over-blown? I hid me under the dead moon-calf's gaberdine, for fear of the storm: And art thou living, Stephano? O Stephano, two Neapolitans 'scap'd!

Do you put tricks upon us with savages, and men 25 Ste. Pr'ythee, do not turn me about; my sto

Cal. Do not torment me: Oh!

Ste. What's the matter? have we devils here?

of Inde? Ha! I have not'scaped drowning to be

mach is not constant.

afraid now of your four legs; for it hath been said,

As proper a man as ever went upon four legs,

cannot make him give ground: and it shall be

Cal. These betine things, an ifthey benotsprights.
That's a brave god, and bears celestial liquor:
I will kneel to him.

said so again, while Stephano breathes at nostrils. 30 Ste, How dids't thou 'scape? How cam'st thou

Cal. The spirit torments me: Oh!

Ste. This is some monster of the isle, with four legs; who has got, as I take it, an ague: Where

hither? swear, by this bottle, how thou cam'st hither. I escap'd upon a butt of sack, which the sailors heav'd over-board, by this bottle! which I made of the bark of a tree, with mine own hands,

the devil should he learn our language? I will

give him some relief, if it be but for that: If I 35 since I was cast a-shore.

can recover him, and keep him tame, and get to Naples with him, he's a present for any emperor that ever trod on neats-leather.

Cal. Do not torment me, pr'ythee; I'll bring my wood home faster.

Cal. I'll swear, upon that bottle, to be thy true subject; for the liquor is not earthly.

40 swim like a duck, I'll be sworn.

Ste. Here; swear then, how escap'dst thou?
Trin. Swon a-shore, man, like a duck; I can

Ste. He's in his fit now; and does not talk after the wisest: He shall taste of my bottle: if he never drunk wine afore, it will go near to remove

his fit: if I can recover him, and keep him tame,

Ste. Here, kiss the book: Though thou canst
swim like a duck, thou art made like a goose.
Trin. O Stephano, hast any more of this?
Ste. The whole butt, man: my cellar is in a

I will not take too much for him; he shall pay 45 rock by the sea-side, where my wine is hid. How

Ste. Come on your ways; open your mouth; 50 Cal. I have seen thee in her, and I do adore

here is that which will give language to you, cat;

open your mouth: this will shake your shaking, I can tell you, and that soundly: you cannot tell who's your friend; open your chaps again.

Trin. I should know that voice: It should be, - 55 Trin. By this good light, this is a very shallow But he's drown'd; and these are devils: O! defend me!

Ste. Four legs, and two voices; a most delicate monster! His forward voice now is to speak well

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monster:-I afraid of him?-a very weak menster:-The man i' the moon?- a most poor creulous monster:-Well drawn, monster, in good sooth.

A gaberdine is properly the coarse frock or outward garment of a peasant, and is still worn by the peasants in Sussex. e. any sum, or ever so much. * Tremor is always represented as the effect of being possess'd by the devil. * Alluding to an old proverb, that good liquor will moke a cat speak. Means, stop your draught. • Alluding to the proverb, A long spoon to eat with the devil. Siege signities stool in every sense of the word, and is here used in the dirtiest.

Cal.

Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness

III.

Fer. No, precious creature;

30l'd had rather crack my sinews, break my back, Than you should such dishonour undergo, While I sit lazy by.

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

Mira. It would become me

As well as it does you: and I should do it

Pont to rich ends. This my mean task

And yours it is against.

Would be as heavy to me, as odious; but

Pro. Poor worm! thou art infected;

The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead,

This visitation shews it.

And makes my labours pleasures: O, she is

Mira. You look wearily.

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

And he's compos'd of harshness. I must remove

with me,

Some thousands of these logs, and pile them up,

Upon a sore injunction: My sweet mistress

When you are by at night. I do beseech you, (Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers)

Weeps when she sees me work; and says, such

What is your name?

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

But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my la-
Most busy-less, when I do it.

[bours;

I have broke your hest to say so!
Fer. Admir'd Miranda!

Indeed, the top of admiration; worth

Enter Miranda, and Prospero at a distance.
M ra. Alas, now! pray you,

Work not so hard; I would, the lightning had
Burnt up those logs, that you are enjoin'd to pile!
Pray, set it down, and rest you: when this burns,
'Twill weep for having weary'd you: My father
Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself;
He's safe for these three hours.

Fer. O most dear mistress,
The sun will set before I shall discharge
What I must strive to do.

Mira. If you'll sit down,

What's dearest to the world! Full many a lady
50I have ey'd with best regard; and many a time
The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage
Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues
Have I lik'd several women; never any
With so full soul, but some defect in her
55 Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow'd,
And put it to the foil: but you, O you,
So perfect, and so peerless, are created
Of every creature's best.
Mira. I do not know

I'll bear your logs the while: Pray, give me that: 60 One of my sex; no woman's face remember,
I'll carry it to the pile.

Save, from my glass, mine own; nor have I seen

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

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 be set else? he were a 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?

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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 shews. 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.

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

Cal. I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleas'd to hearken once again to the suit I made to thee?

Ste. Marry will I: kneel, and repeat it; I

45 will stand, and so shall Trinculo.

Enter Ariel invisible.

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

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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 hun (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?

Cul. 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.

Ste. Give me thy hand; I am sorry I beat thee: but 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 pleaLet 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 [him 15 Ste. What is the same? [onataborandpipe. Trin. This is the tune of our catch, play'd by the picture of no-body.

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

Ari. Thou ly'st.

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

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

Mercy upon us!

As you like this, give me the lie another time. 25 Cal. Be not affeard; 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!

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.

Cal. Art thou affeard1?

Ste. No, monster, not I.

Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt
Sometimesathousand twangling 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 dreaın again.

Ste. This will prove a brave kingdom to me,

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

Ste. Stand further.-Come, proceed.
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 alog [him,
Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,

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,

And after do our work.

could see this taborer: he lays it on.

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

First to possess his books: for without them

One spirit to command: They all do hate him,

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

As rootedly as I: Burn but his books;

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

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, LP

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, 55 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.

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• Alluding to the striped or fool's coat worn by Trinculo, who in the ancient dramatis persona is called a jester, and not a sailor. 2 Means probably to dismiss it trippingly from the tongue, 3 The provincial mode in Staffordshire and the adjoming counties of pronouncing the word 1. e. The diminutive only of our lady, i. e. ladykin.

afraid.

Do