Ari. Ay, sir. Pro. This blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child, And here was left by the sailors: thou, my slave, A dozen years; within which space she died, groans, As fast as mill-wheels strike. Then was this island, Pro. Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban, Whom now I keep in service. Thou best know'st What torment I did find thee in: thy groans Did make wolves howl, and penetrate the breasts Of ever-angry bears; it was a torment To lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax Could not again undo: it was mine art, When I arrived, and heard thee, that made gape The pine, and let thee out. Ari. I thank thee, master. Pro. If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak, And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters. Ari. I will be correspondent to command, Pro. I will discharge thee. Ari. 1 Pardon, master: Do so; and after two days That's my noblé master! What shall I do? say what? what shall I do? Pro. Go make thyself like a nymph o' the sea; be subject To no sight but thine and mine; invisible To every eye-ball else. Go, take this shape, [Exit Ariel. Awake, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well; Awake! Mir. The strangeness of your story put Heaviness in me. Pro. Shake it off: Come on; We'll visit Caliban, my slave, who never Yields us kind answer. Mir. 'Tis a villain, sir, But, as 'tis, I do not love to look on. Pro. We cannot miss 2 him: he does make our fire. Fetch in our wood, and serves in offices That profit us. What, ho! slave! Caliban! Thou earth, thou! speak! Cal. [within] There's wood enough within. Come, thou tortoise! when? Re-enter ARIEL, like a water-nymph. Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel, Hark in thine ear. Ari. My lord, it shall be done. [Exit. Pro. Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself Upon thy wicked dam, come forth! Enter CALIBAN. Cal. As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd With raven's feather from unwholesome fen, Drop on you both! a south-west blow on ye, And blister you all o'er! Pro. For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins 1 As thick as honey-combs, each pinch more stinging Cal. I must eat my dinner. 1 Hedge-hogs, which were reckoned among the animals used by witches as their familiar spirits. |