Boats. 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!

jyour cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it So hap.-Cheerly, good hearts-Out of our way, I say.

50

[Exit.

Gon. I have great comfort from this fellow; 5 methinks, he hath no drowning mark upon him: his complexion is perfect gallows. Standfast, good fate, to his hanging; make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our own doth little advantage: If hebe not born to be hang'd, our case is miserable. [Exeunt.

10

Re-enter Boatswain.

Enter Alonso, Sebastian, Anthonio, Ferdinand, 15 they are louder than the weather, or our office.

Gonzalo, and others.

Alon. Good Boatswain, have care. Where's the master? Play the men.

Boats. Down with the top-mast; yare, lower, lower; bring her to try with main-course. [A cry within.] A plague upon this howling!

Boats. I pray, now, keep below.

Re-enter Sebastian, Anthonio, and Gonzalo. Yet again? What do you here? Shall we give o'er, and drown? Have you a mind to sink? Seb. A pox o' your throat! you bawling, blas

Ant. Where's the master, boatswain?

Boats. Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: Keep your cabins: you do assist the storm.

20 phemous, uncharitable dog!
Boats. Work you then.

Gon. Nay, good, be patient.

Boats. When the sea is. Hence! What care

Ant. Hang, cur, hang! you whoreson, insolent noisemaker! we are less afraid to be drown'd, than thou art.

these roarers for the name of king? To cabin: 25 Gon. I'll warrant him from drowning; though silence: trouble us not.

[aboard. Gon. Good; yet remember whom thou hast 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 30 present, we will not handle a rope more; use your authority. If you cannot, give thanks you have liv'd so long, and make yourself ready in

the ship were no stronger than a nut-shell, and as leaky as an unstaunch'd' wench.

Boats. Lay her a-hold, a-hold; set her two

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?

Readily, nimbly. 2 Of the present instant, the poet probably means. 3 Incontinent.

Gon. The king and prince at prayers! let u-/ No, not so much perdition as an hair,

assist them,

For our case is as theirs.

Seb. I am out of patience.

Betid to any creature in the vessel
Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink

Sit down;

Ant. We're merely cheated of our lives by 5 For thou must now know further.

drunkards.

Thiswide-chopp'd rascal;-Would, thoumight'st

lie drowning,

The washing of ten tides!

Gon. He'll be hang'd yet;

Though every drop of water swear against it,
And gape at wid'st to glut1 him.

[A confused noise within.] Mercy on us;

We splitt we split! Farewell my wife and chil

Mira. You have often

Begun to tell me what I am; but stopp'd,
And left me to a bootless inquisition;

Concluding, Stay, not yet.

10 Pro. The hour's now come;

The very minute bids thee ope thine ear;
Obey, and be attentive. Canst thou remember
A time before we came unto this cell?

I do not think thou canst; for then thou wast not

dren! Farewell, brother! We split, we split, we 15 Out' three years old split.

Ant. Let's all sink with the king.
Seb. Let's take leave of him.

[Erit

[Exit.

Gon. Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground; long heath, 20 brown furze, any thing: The wills above be done, but I wou d fain die a dry death! [Erit.

SCENE II.

The inchanted island. before the cell of Prospero.
Enter Prospero ant Miranda.

Mira. If by your art, my dearest father, you
have

Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them:

The sky, it seems, would pour down stink ing pitch.

25

Mira. Certainly, sir, I can.

Pro. By what? by any other house, or person?
Of any thing the image tell me, that
Hath kept with thy remembrance.

Mira. 'Tis far off;
And rather like a dream than an assurance
That my remembrance warrants: Had I not
Four or five women once, that tended me?
Pro. Thou hadst, and more, Miranda: But
how is it,

That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else
In the dark back-ward and abysm of time?
If thou remember'st aught ere thou cam'st here;
How thou cain'st here thou may'st.

But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's check, 30 Mira. But that I do not.

Pro. 'Tis time,

40 What foul play had we, that we came from

Or blessed wast, we did?

Pro. Both, both, my girl:

[thence:

By foul play, as thou say'st, were we heav'd

But blessedly holp hither.

45 Mira. O, my heart bleeds

To think ở the teen that I have turn'd you to,
Which is from my remembrance! Please you

further.

Pro. My brother, and my uncle, called Anthonio,

I should inform thee further. Lend thy hand, 155 Through all the signiortes it was the first,
And pluck my magick garment from me. So;
[Lavs down his manılı.

50

I pray thee mark me, that a brother should
Be so perfidious!-he whom, next thyself,
Of all the world I lov'd, and to him put
The manage of my state; as, at that time,

Lye there my art. - Wipe thou thine eyes; have

comfort.

And Prospero the prime duke; being so reputed
In dignity, and, for the liberal arts,
Without a parallel; those being all my study,
The government I cast upon my brother,

The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd 50 And to my state grew stranger, being transported,

The very virtue of compassion in thee,

I have with such provision in mine art

So safely o dered, that there is no soul

Absolutely. Swallow. Perhaps it should be ling, heath, &c. *Before. i. e. a very poor cell. Mingle. 'Quite. Sorrow, grief, trouble.

Pro. Being once perfected how to grant suits,
How to deny them; whom to advance, and whom
To trash for over-topping; new created ['em,
The creatures that were mine; I say, or chang'd
Or else new form'd'em; having both the key
Of officer and office, set all hearts i' the state
To what tune pleas'd his ear; that now he was
The ivy, which had hid my princely trunk, [not.
And suck'd my verdure out on't. - Thou attend'st
Mira. O good sir, I do.

Pro. I pray thee, mark me.

I thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated

To closeness, and the bettering of my mind

With that, which, but by being so retir'd,

Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepar'd

O'er-priz'd all popular rate, in my false brother 15 A rotten carcass of a boat not rigg'd,

Awak'd an evil nature: and my trust,

Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats

Like a good parent, did beget of hinı

A falsehood, in its contrary as great

Instinctively had quit it: there they hoist us
To cry to the sea that roar'd to us; to sigh

As my trust was; which had, indeed, no limit,

To the winds, whose pity, sighing back again,

Not only with what my revenue yielded,

Mira. Alack! what trouble

Was I then to you!

Who having unto truth, by telling of it,

Pro. O! a cherubim

[smile,

Made such a sinner of his memory,

A contidence sans bound. He being thus lorded, 20 Did us but loving wrong.

But what my power might else exact, -like one,

To credit his own lie, he did believe

He was, indeed, the duke; out of the substitution,
And executing the outward face of royalty, [ing, -
With all prerogative:-Hence hisambition grow-
Dost thou hear?

Mira. Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
Pro. To have no screen between this part he
And him he play'd it for, he needs will be [play'd
Absolute Milan: Me, poor man!-my library
Was lukedom large enough; of temporal royalties
He thinks me now incapable: confederates,
So'dry he was for sway, with the king of Naples
To give him annual tribute, do him homage,
Subject his coronet to his crown, and bend
The dukedom, yet unbow'd (alas, poor Milan!)
To most ignoble stooping.

Thou wast, that did preserve me! Thou didst

25 Infused with a fortitude from heaven,

When I have 'deck'd the sea with drops full salt;
Under my burden groan'd; which rais'd in me
An undergoing stomach', to bear up
Against what should ensue.

30 Mira. How came we ashore?
Pro. By Providence divine.

Some food we had, and some fresh water, that
A noble Neapolitan, Gonzało,
Out

of his charity, who being then appointed 35 Master of this design, did give us; with

Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries,
Which since have steaded much; so, of his gentle-
Knowing I lov'd my books, hefurnish'd me [ness,
From my own library, with volumes that

40 I prize above my dukedom.

Mira. Would I might

But ever see that man!

Pro. Now, I arise:

Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow.

Which was, that he in lieu o the premises, 50 (For still 'tis 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 nine enemies
55 Brought to this shore: and by my prescience
I find my zenith doth depend upon

A most auspicious star; whose intituence
If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes [tions;
Will ever after droop. Here cease more ques-
60 Thou art inclin'd to sleep: 't's a good dulness,
And give it way:- I know thou canst not choose.-

Te trash, Warburton says, is to cut away the superfluities. Suggestion. Covered. i. e. a stubborn resolution.

B2

Thirsty.

Perform'd to point1 the tempest that I bade thee: 10 Ari. My liberty.

And sight-outrunning werenot: Thefire, andcracks 20 Pro. Thou dost; and think'st it muchtotreadthe

Plung'd in the foaming brine, and quit the vessel, 30 Pro. Thou hast: Where was she born? speak;

Is the king's ship; in the deep nook, where once
Thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew

From the still-vex'd Bermoothes', there she's hid:
The mariners all under hatches stow'd;

Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd, 60 Did make wolves howl, and penetrate the breasts