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If thou be pleas'd, retire into my cell,

And there repose: a turn or two I'll walk,

To ftill my beating mind.

FER. MIRA. We wish your peace. [Ex. Fer. and Mira.

PRO. Come with a thought;-I thank you :-

Ariel, come.

Profpero comes foward from the cell; enter Ariel to him.

ARI. Thy thoughts I cleave to; what's thy pleasure ?
PRO. Spirit,

We must prepare to meet with Caliban.

ARI. Ay, my commander; when I presented Ceres, I thought to have told thee of it; but I fear'd,

Left I might anger thee.

PRO. Say again, where didst thou leave these varlets?' ARI. I told you, Sir, they were red hot with drinking; So full of valour, that they fmote the air

For breathing in their faces; beat the ground
For kifling of their feet; yet always bending
Towards their project. Then I beat my tabor,
At which, like unbackt colts, they prick't their ears,
Advanc'd their eye-lids, lifted up their noses,

As they smelt mufick; so I charm'd their ears,
That, calf-like, they my lowing follow'd through
Tooth'd-briars, sharp furzes, pricking goss and thorns,
Which enter'd their frail fhins: at last I left them
I'th' filthy mantled pool beyond your cell,
There dancing up to th' chins, that the foul lake
O'er-ftunk their feet.

PRO. This was well done, my bird;
Thy fhape invifible retain thou still;

VOL. I.

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The trumpery in my houfe, go bring it hither,
For ftale, to catch these thieves.

ARI. I go, I go,

PRO. A devil, a born devil, on whofe nature
Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains,
Humanly taken, all, all loft, quite loft;
And, as with age, his body uglier grows,
So his mind cankers; I will plague them all,
Even to roaring: come, hang them on this line..

[Exit.

[Profpero remains invifible,

3.2 91.SCENE V.

Enter Ariel loaden with gliftering apparel, &c. Enter Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo, all wet.

CAL. Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not Hear a foot fall; we now are near his cell

STE. Monfter, your Fairy, which you fay is a harmless Fairy, has done tittle better than plaid the Jack with us. TRIN. Monster, I do fmell all horfe-pifs, at which my nose is in great indignation.

STE. So is mine: do you hear moniter? if I thould take a displeasure against you; look you

TRIN. Thou wer't but a loft moniter.

CAL. Good, my lord, give me thy favour still:

Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to,

Shall hood-wink this mifchance: therefore, fpeak foftly; All's husht as midnight yet.

TRIN. Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool,

STE. There is not only difgrace and dilhonour in that, monster, but an infinite lofs,

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TRIN. That's more to me than my wetting: yet
This is your harmless Fairy, monster.

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STE. I will fetch off my bottle, though I be o'er ears

my

labour.

CAL. Pr'ythee, my king, be quiet: feest thou here,

This is the mouth o' th' cell; no noife, and enter;
Do that good mischief, which may make this island
Thine own for ever: and I, thy Caliban,

For ay thy foot-licker.

STE. Give me thy hand: I do begin to have bloody thoughts.

TRIN. O king Stephano! O peer! O worthy Stephano! Look what a wardrobe here is for thee!

CAL. Let it alone, thou fool, it is but trash.

TRIN. Oh, ho, monster; we know what belongs to a frippery 3 O, king Stephano!

STE. Put off that gown, Trinculo; by this hand, I'll have that gown.

TRIN. Thy grace shall have it.

CAL. The dropfy drown this fool! what do you mean, To doat thus on fuch luggage? let's along,

And do the murder first; if he awake,

From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches;
Make us ftrange stuff.

STE. Be you quiet, monster. Mistress line, is not this my jerkin? now is the jerkin under the line: now, jerkin, you are like to lofe your hair, and prove a bald jerkin.

TRIN. Do, do; we steal by line and level, and't like your grace.

STE. I thank thee for that jeft, here's a garment for't: wit shall not go unrewarded, while I am king of this coun

try: steal by line and level, is an excellent pafs of pate there's aoother garment for't

TRIN. Monster, come, put fome lime upon your fingers, and away with the rest.

CAL. I will have none on't; we shall lose our time, And all be turn'd to barnacles, or apes

With foreheads villanous low.

STE. Monster, lay to your fingers; help to bear this away, where my hogfhead of wine is, or I'll turnn you out of my kingdom; go to, carry this.

TRIN. And this.
STE. Ay, and this.

A noife of hunters heard. Enter divers fpirits in fhape of hounds, hunting them about; Profpero and Ariel setting them on. Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo, driven out roaring.

PRO. Hey, Mountain, hey.

ARI. Silver; there it goes, Silver.

PRO. Fury, Fury; there, Tyrant, there; hark, hark.[To Ariel.] Go, charge my goblins that they grind their joints

With dry convulfions; fhorten up their finews"

With aged cramps; and more pinch-fpotted make them,

Than pard, or cat o'mountain.

ARI. Hark, they roar.

PRO Let them be hunted foundly. At this hour

Lye at my mercy all mine enemies :

Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou
Shalt have the air at freedom. For a little,
Follow, and do me fervice.

[Exeunt.

ACT V. SCENE I

Before the cell.

Enter Profpero in his magick robes, and Ariel.

PROSPERO.

Now does my project gather to an head;

My charms crack not; my spirits obey, and time Goes upright with his carriage? how's the day? ARI. On the fixth hour, at which time, my lord, You faid, our work fhould cease.

PRO. I did fay fo,

When first I rais'd the tempeft; fay, my spirit,
How fares the king and's followers?

ARI. Confin'd

your cell.

In the fame fashion as you gave in charge;
Just as you left them, all your prisoners, fir,
In the Lime-grove which weather-fends
They cannot budge, 'till you release. The king,
His brother, and yours, abide all three distracted;
And the remainder mourning over them,
Brim-full of forrow and difmay; but, chiefly,
Him that you term'd the good old lord Gonzalo,
His tears run down his beard, like winter drops

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From eaves of reeds; your charm fo ftrongly works 'em, That if you now beheld them, your affections

Would become tender

PRO. Doft thou think fo, fpirit?

ARI. Mine would, Sir, were I human.

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