PROSPERO What! I say, My foot my tutor?-Put thy sword up, traitor ; Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What! An advocate for an impostor? hush! Thou think'st there is no more such shapes as he, And they to him are angels. MIRANDA My affections Are, then, most humble; I have no ambition To see a goodlier man. PROSPERO Come on; obey : Thy nerves are in their infancy again, And have no vigour in them. FERDINAND So they are: My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up. The wreck of all my friends, nor this man's threats, PROSPERO [Aside] It works. [To FERDINAND] Come on. Thou hast done well, fine Ariel! [To FERDINAND] Follow me. [To ARIEL] Hark what thou else shalt do me. MIRANDA My father's of a better nature, sir, Than he appears by speech: this is unwonted PROSPERO Be of comfort; Thou shalt be as free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command. ARIEL To the syllable. PROSPERO Come, follow.-Speak not for him. [Exeunt. ACT THE SECOND SCENE I Another part of the island Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, GONZALO Beseech you, sir, be merry; you have cause, So have we all, of joy; for our escape Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of woe Is common; every day, some sailor's wife, The masters of some merchant, and the merchant, But for the miracle, I mean our preservation, few in millions Can speak like us then wisely, good sir, weigh ALONSO Prithee, peace. SEBASTIAN He receives comfort like cold porridge. ANTONIO The visitor will not give him o'er so. SEBASTIAN Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. Sir . . . GONZALO SEBASTIAN One: tell. GONZALO When every grief is entertain'd that 's offer'd, Comes to the entertainer A dollar. SEBASTIAN GONZALO Dolour comes to him, indeed: you have spoken truer than you purpos'd. SEBASTIAN You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should. Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue! I prithee, spare. ALONSO |