PROSPERO

Thou most lying slave,

Whom stripes may move, not kindness! I have us'd thee,
Filth as thou art, with human care; and lodg'd thee
In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate

The honour of my child.

CALIBAN

O ho, O ho! would 't had been done!

Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else

This isle with Calibans.

PROSPERO

Abhorred slave,

Which any print of goodness wilt not take,

Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,

Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour
One thing or other : when thou didst not, savage,
Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like
A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes

With words that made them known. But thy vile race,
Though thou didst learn, had that in 't which good natures
Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou
Deservedly confin'd into this rock,

Who hadst deserv'd more than a prison.

You taught me language;
Is, I know how to curse.

CALIBAN

and my profit on 't
The red plague rid

For learning me your language!

you

D

PROSPERO

Hag-seed, hence !

Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou 'rt best,
To answer other business. Shrug'st thou, malice?
If thou neglect'st, or dost unwillingly

What I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps,
Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar,
That beasts shall tremble at thy din.

CALIBAN

No, pray thee.

[Aside] I must obey his art is of such power,
It would control my dam's god, Setebos,
And make a vassal of him.

PROSPERO

So, slave; hence! [Exit CAliban.

Re-enter ARIEL, invisible, playing and singing; FERDINAND following