And will not be uplifted. But, remember
(For that's my business to you), that you three
From Milan did supplant good Prospero;
Expos'd unto the sea, which hath requit it,
Him, and his innocent child: for which foul deed
The powers delaying, not forgetting, have
Incens'd the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
Against your peace. Thee of thy son, Alonso,
They have bereft; and do pronounce by me,
Ling'ring perdition (worse than any death
Can be at once), shall step by step attend
You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from
(Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls

Upon your heads), is nothing but heart's sorrow

And a clear life ensuing.

He vanishes in thunder: then, to soft music, enter the Shapes again,
and dance with mops and moes and carry out the table.
Pro. [Aside.] Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou
Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring:

Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated

In what thou hadst to say: so, with good life,"
And observation strange, my meaner ministers

Their several kinds have done: my high charms work,
And these, mine enemies, are all knit up

In their distractions: they now are in my power;
And in these fits I leave them, whilst I visit

Young Ferdinand (whom they suppose is drown'd),
And his and my lov'd darling.

[Exit PROSPERO from above. Gon. I' the name of something holy, sir, why stand you In this strange stare?

Alon.
O, it is monstrous ! monstrous !
Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it;
The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder,
That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd
The name of Prosper; it did bass my trespass.

Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded; and

I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded,

And with him there lie mudded.

Seb.

[Exit.

But one fiend at a time,

I'll fight their legions o'er.

I'll be thy second.

[Exeunt SEB. and ANT.

Ant.

Gon. All three of them are desperate; their great guilt,
Like poison given to work a great time after,
Now 'gins to bite the spirits.-I do beseech you,
That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly,
And hinder them from what this ecstasy
May now provoke them to.

Adr.

Follow, I pray you.

[Exeunt.

SCENE I. Before PROSPERO's Cell.

Enter PROSPERO, FERDINAND, and MIRANDA.

Pro. If I have too austerely punish'd you,
Your compensation makes amends; for I
Have given you here a thread of mine own life.1
Or that for which I live; whom once again
I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations
Were but my trials of thy love, and thou

Hast strangely stood the test: here, afore Heaven,
I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand,
Do not smile at me that I boast her off,
For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise,
And make it halt behind her.

Fer.
Against an oracle.

I do believe it

Pro. Then, as my gift,2 and thine own acquisition Worthily purchas'd, take my daughter: but

If thou dost break her virgin 'faith' before
All sanctimonious ceremonies may
With full and holy rite be minister'd,
No sweet aspersion 3 shall the heavens let fall
To make this contract grow; but barren hate,
Sour-ey'd disdain, and discord, shall bestrew
The union of your lives' with weeds so loathly
That you shall hate it both: therefore take heed,
As Hymen's lamps shall light you.

Fer.

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.

Pro.

Fairly spoke:

Sit then, and talk with her, she is thine own.—
What, Ariel, my industrious servant Ariel!

Ari. What would my potent master? here I am. Pro. Thou and thy meaner fellows your last service Did worthily perform; and I must use you

In such another trick: go, bring the rabble,

O'er whom I give thee power, here, to this place:
Incite them to quick motion; for I must
Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple
Some vanity of mine art; it is my promise,
And they expect it from me.

i

Ari. Before you can say, 'Come,' and 'Go,'

And breathe twice; and cry 'So, so ;'

Each one, tripping on his toe,

Will be here with mop and moe:

Do you love me, master? no?

Pro. Dearly, my delicate Ariel. Do not approach Till thou dost hear me call.

Well I conceive.

Ari.
Pro. Look, thou be true; do not give dalliance
Too much the rein; the strongest oaths are straw
To the fire i' the blood: be more abstemious,

Or else good-night your vow!

Fer.

I warrant you, sir.

The white-cold virgin snow upon my heart

Abates the ardour of my liver.

Now come, my Ariel; bring a corollary,

Rather than want a spirit; appear, and pertly!—
No tongue; all eyes; be silent.

A Masque. Enter IRIS.

Iris. Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats, and pease; Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,

And flat meads thatch'd with stover,5 them to keep;

Thy banks with peonied and lilied brims,

Which spongy April at thy hest betrims,

[Exit.

[Soft music.

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,
Whose watery arch, and messenger, am I,

Bids thee leave these; and with her sovereign grace,
Here on this grass-plot, in this very place,