Had I been any god of power, I would It should the good ship so have swallow'd and Pros. Be collected: No more amazement: tell your piteous heart There's no harm done. Mir. O, woe the day! No harm. I have done nothing but in care of thee, So: And pluck my magic garment from me. [Lays down his mantle. Lie there, my art. Wipe thou thine eyes; have comfort. The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd. Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. Sit down; For thou must now know farther. You have often Mir. 13. The fraughting souls, the living freight. ΤΟ 20 30 Concluding 'Stay: not yet.' Pros. The hour's now come; The very minute bids thee ope thine ear; I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not Mir. Certainly, sir, I can. Pros. By what? by any other house or person? Of any thing the image tell me that Hath kept with thy remembrance. Mir. 'Tis far off And rather like a dream than an assurance Pros. Thou hadst, and more, Miranda. But how is it That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else Mir. But that I do not. Pros. Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since, Thy father was the Duke of Milan and A prince of power. Mir. Sir, are not you my father? Pros. Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and She said thou wast my daughter; and thy father Was Duke of Milan; and thou his only heir And princess no worse issued. Mir. O the heavens ! 40 50 What foul play had we, that we came from thence ? 60 Or blessed was 't we did? 41. Out, fully. 56. piece, paragon. 59. issued, derived. Pros. Both, both, my girl: By foul play, as thou say'st, were we heaved thence, But blessedly holp hither. Mir. O, my heart bleeds Pros. My brother and thy uncle, call'd Antonio- Without a parallel; those being all my study, And to my state grew stranger, being transported Dost thou attend me? Mir. Sir, most heedfully. Pros. Being once perfected how to grant suits, The creatures that were mine, I say, or changed Or else new form'd 'em; having both the key 80 Trash was a technical term of the kennel for the process of artificially retarding a dog too eager or forward in hunting. 83. key, tuning-key (with a play upon the ordinary sense). 85. that, so that. The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, And suck'd my verdure out on 't. not. Mir. O, good sir, I do. Thou attend'st Pros. As my trust was; which had indeed no limit, But what my power might else exact, like one To credit his own lie, he did believe He was indeed the duke; out o' the substitution, And executing the outward face of royalty, With all prerogative: hence his ambition growing— 90 100 from the word 'lie' to which 'it' refers. On the other hand, 'by telling of it becomes natural, if the clause containing 'lie' was already opened in the preceding words. Hence it is probable that the construction is credit his own lie into truth,' i.e. 'believe it into the semblance of truth,' the lucidity of the thought being disturbed in the course of its expression by the amplification in lim 01. Pros. To have no screen between this part he play'd And him he play'd it for, he needs will be The dukedom yet unbow'd-alas, poor Milan !— Mir. O the heavens ! Pros. Mark his condition and the event; then tell me If this might be a brother. Mir. I should sin To think but nobly of my grandmother : Pros. Now the condition. 120 This King of Naples, being an enemy Fated to the purpose did Antonio open The gates of Milan, and, i' the dead of darkness, 130 The ministers for the purpose hurried thence Me and thy crying self. Mir. Alack, for pity! I, not remembering how I cried out then, ill cry it o'er again: it is a hint 109. Milan, duke of Milan. 112. dry thirsty. VOL. IV 417 123. in lieu o', in return for. 134. hint, theme. 2 E |