Well demanded, wench : My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not, So dear the love my people bore me, nor set Bore us some leagues to sea, where they prepar'd Mira. Was I then to you! Pro. Alack! what trouble O! a cherubim Thou didst smile, Thou wast, that did preserve me. Infused with a fortitude from heaven, When I have deck'd the sea with drops full salt, Against what should ensue. Mira. Pro. By Providence divine. How came we ashore? Some food we had, and some fresh water, that Out of his charity, (who being then appointed Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries, Which since have steaded much so, of his gentleness, Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me, From my own library, with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. Mira. But ever see that man! Pro. Would I might Now I arise :- · [Puts on his robe again.3 Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow. Here in this island we arriv'd; and here Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit 1 butt in f. e. 2 have in f. e. 3 This direction is not in f. e. Than other princes1 can, that have more time you, sir, now, For still 'tis beating in my mind, your reason Pro. Know thus far forth.- Brought to this shore; and by my prescience A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop. Here cease more questions. Enter ARIEL. Ari. All hail, great master; grave sir, hail. I come To answer thy best pleasure; be 't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curl'd clouds: to thy strong bidding task Hast thou, spirit, Pro. I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak, Pro. Would not infect his reason? Ari. Not a soul 1 princess in f. e. But felt a fever of the mad, and play'd On their sustaining garments not a blemish,' Of the king's ship Pro. Ari. Whom, with a charm joined to their suffer'd labour, Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd, Pro. Exactly is perform'd; but there's more work. Ariel, thy charge Past the mid season. Ari. Pro. At least two glasses. The time '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 promis'd, Which is not yet perform'd me. 1 are in f. e. 2 flote: in f. e. Pro. How now! moody? What is 't thou canst demand? Ari. My liberty. Pro. Before the time be out? no more. I prithee Remember, I have done thee worthy service; Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, serv'd Without or grudge, or grumblings. Thou didst promise To bate me a full year. Pro. Dost thou forget From what a torment I did free thee? Ari. No. 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' th' earth, Ari. Hast thou forgot I do not, sir. Pro. Thou hast. Where was she born? speak; tell me. Ari. Sir, in Argier. Pro. O! was she so? I must, Once in a month, recount what thou hast been, Which thou forget'st. This damn'd witch, Sycorax, For mischiefs manifold, and sorceries terrible To enter human hearing, from Argier, Thou know'st, was banish'd: for one thing she did, They would not take her life. Is not this true? Ari. Ay, sir. Pro. This blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child, And here was left by the sailors: thou, my slave To act her earthy and abhorr'd commands, A dozen years; within which space she died, And left thee there, where thou didst vent thy groans As fast as mill-wheels strike. Then was this island (Save for a1 son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp, hag-born) not honour'd with Ari. Yes; Caliban, her son. Pro. Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban, When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape 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. I will be correspondent to command, Pro. I will discharge thee. Ari. Pardon, master: Do so, and after two days That's my noble master! What shall I do? say what? what shall I do? Pro. Go, make thyself a like nymph2 o' the sea: be subject To no sight but thine and mine; invisible To every eyeball, else. Go, take this shape, And hither come in 't; go; hence, with diligence. [Exit ARIEL. Awake, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well; Awake! Mira. The strangeness of your story put [Waking.3 Heaviness in me. . Pro. Shake it off. Come on: We'll visit Caliban, my slave, who never Yields us kind answer. Mira. 'I do not love to look on. Pro. 'Tis a villain, sir, But, as 'tis, 1 the in f. e. 2 like a in f. e. 3 Not in f. e. |