SEBASTIAN But one fiend at a time, I'll fight their legions o'er. ANTONIO I'll be thy second. [Exeunt SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO. GONZALO All three of them are desperate: their great guilt, May now provoke them to. ACT THE FOURTH SCENE I Before PROSPERO's cell. Enter PROSPERO, FERDINAND, and MIRANDA PROSPERO If I have too austerely punish'd you, Your compensation makes amends; for I Have given you here a third of mine own life, I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations Here, afore Heaven, I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand, FERDINAND I do believe it Against an oracle. PROSPERO Then, as my gift, and thine own acquisition FERDINAND As I hope For quiet days, fair issue and long life, With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den, The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion Our worser genius can, shall never melt Mine honour into lust, to take away The edge of that day's celebration When I shall think, or Phœbus' steeds are founder'd, Or Night kept chain'd below. PROSPERO Fairly spoke. Sit, then, and talk with her; she is thine own.— Enter ARIEL ARIEL What would my potent master? here I am. PROSPERO Thou and thy meaner fellows your last service Dearly, my delicate Ariel. PROSPERO delicate Ariel. Do not approach Till thou dost hear me call. Look thou be true; Too much the rein PROSPERO do not give dalliance the strongest oaths are straw To the fire i' the blood: be more abstemious, Or else, good night your vow! FERDINAND I warrant you, sir ; The white cold virgin snow upon my heart Abates the ardour of my liver. PROSPERO Well. Now come, my Ariel! bring a corollary, Rather than want a spirit: appear, and pertly! Enter IRIS [Soft music. Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats, and pease; Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims, Which spongy April at thy hest betrims, To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broom-groves, Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves, Being lass-lorn; thy pole-clipt vineyard; And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard, Where thou thyself dost air ;-the queen o' the sky, |