Fer. Though the seas threaten, they are merciful;

I have cursed them without cause.
Alon.

[Kneels.

Now all the blessings

Of a glad father compass thee about!

Arise, and say how thou camest here.

Mir.

O, wonder!

How many goodly creatures are there here!

How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,

That has such people in't!

Pros.

'Tis new to thee.

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Alon. What is this maid with whom thou wast at play?

Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours :

Is she the goddess that hath sever'd us,

And brought us thus together ?

Fer.

Sir, she is mortal;

But by immortal Providence she's mine:

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She

I chose her when I could not ask my father
For his advice, nor thought I had one.
Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan,
Of whom so often I have heard renown,
But never saw before; of whom I have
Received a second life; and second father

This lady makes him to me.

Alon.

I am hers:

But, O, how oddly will it sound that I

Must ask my child forgiveness !

Pros.

There, sir, stop:

Let us not burthen our remembrances with

A heaviness that's gone.

Gon.

I have inly wept,

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Or should have spoke ere this. Look down, you gods, And on this couple drop a blessed crown!

For it is you that have chalk'd forth the way

Which brought us hither.

Alon.

I say, Amen, Gonzalo!

Gon. Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue

Should become kings of Naples? O, rejoice
Beyond a common joy! and set it down
With gold on lasting pillars: In one voyage
Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis,
And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife
Where he himself was lost, Prospero his dukedom
In a poor isle, and all of us ourselves

When no man was his own.

Alon. [to Fer. and Mir.]

Give me your hands:

Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart
That doth not wish you joy!
Gon.

Be it so! Amen!

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O, look, sir, look, sir! here is more of us:
I prophesied, if a gallows were on land,
This fellow could not drown. Now, blasphemy,
That swear'st grace o'erboard, not an oath on shore?
Hast thou no mouth by land? What is the news?

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Boats. The best news is, that we have safely found

Our king and company; the next, our ship-
Which, but three glasses since, we gave out split-
Is tight and yare and bravely rigg'd, as when

We first put out to sea.
Ari. [Aside to Pros.]
Have I done since I went.

Pros. [Aside to Ari.]

Sir, all this service

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My tricksy spirit!

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Alon. These are not natural events; they strengthen From strange to stranger. Say, how came you hither? Boats. If I did think, sir, I were well awake, I'ld strive to tell you. We were dead of sleep, And how we know not-all clapp'd under hatches; Where, but even now, with strange and several noises Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling chains, And mo diversity of sounds, all horrible, We were awaked; straightway, at liberty; Where we, in all her trim, freshly beheld Our royal, good, and gallant ship; our master Capering to eye her:-on a trice, so please you, Even in a dream, were we divided from them, And were brought moping hither.

Ari. [Aside to Pros.]

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Pros. [Aside to Ari.] Bravely, my diligence. Thou shalt be free.

Alon. This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod;

And there is in this business more than nature

Was ever conduct of: some oracle

Must rectify our knowledge.

Pros.

Sir, my liege,

Do not infest your mind with beating on

The strangeness of this business; at pick'd, leisure

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Which shall be shortly, single I'll resolve you,
Which to you shall seem probable, of every

These happen'd accidents; till when, be cheerful,

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And think of each thing well. [Aside to Ari.] Come hither,

spirit :

Set Caliban and his companions free;

Untie the spell. [Exit Ariel.] How fares my gracious sir?

There are yet missing of your company

Some few odd lads that you remember not.

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Re-enter ARIEL, driving in CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO, in their

stolen apparel.

Ste. Every man shift for all the rest, and let no man take care for himself; for all is but fortune. Coragio, bully-monster, coragio!

Trin. If these be true spies which I wear in my head, here's a goodly sight.

Cal. O Setebos, these be brave spirits indeed!

How fine my master is! I am afraid

He will chastise me.

What things are these, my lord Antonio?

Will money buy 'em?

Ant.

Very like; one of them

Is a plain fish, and, no doubt, marketable.

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Pros. Mark but the badges of these men, my lords,

Then say if they be true. This mis-shapen knave,

His mother was a witch; and one so strong

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And deal in her command, without her power.
These three have robb'd me; and this demi-devil-
For he's a bastard one-had plotted with them
To take my life. Two of these fellows you
Must know and own; this thing of darkness I
Acknowledge mine.

Cal.

I shall be pinch'd to death.

Alon. Is not this Stephano, my drunken butler?
Seb. He is drunk now: where had he wine?

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Alon. And Trinculo is reeling ripe: where should they

Find this grand liquor that hath gilded 'em?

How camest thou in this pickle?

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Trin. I have been in such a pickle, since I saw you last, that, I fear me, will never out of my bones: I shall not fear fly-blowing.

Seb. Why, how now, Stephano!

Ste. O, touch me not;-I am not Stephano, but

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cramp.

Pros. You'ld be king o' the isle, sirrah?

Ste. I should have been a sore one, then.

Alon. This is a strange thing as e'er I look'd on.

[Pointing to Caliban.

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Pros. He is as disproportion'd in his manners

As in his shape. Go, sirrah, to my cell;
Take with you your companions; as you look

To have my pardon, trim it handsomely.