Ste. At thy requeft, monfter, I will do reafon, any reafon : Come on, Trinculo, let us fing.

[Sings. Flout 'em, and fkout 'em; and fkout 'em, and flout 'em ; Thought is free.

Cal. That's not the tune.

[ARIEL plays the tune on a tabor and pipe.

Ste. What is this fame?

Trin. This is the tune of our catch, play'd by the picture of No-body.7

Ste. If thou beeft a man, fhew thy felf in thy likeness: if thou beeft a devil, take't as thou lift.

Trin. O, forgive me my

fins!

Ste. He that dies, pays all debts: I defy thee:-Mercy upon us!

Cal. Art thou afeard ?8

Ste. No, monfter, not I.

Cal. Be not afeard; the ifle is full of noifes,

Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling inftruments

Will hum about mine ears; and fometime voices,
That, if I then had wak'd after long fleep,

Will make me fleep again; and then, in dreaming,
The clouds, methought, would open, and fhew riches
Ready to drop upon me; that, when I wak'd,

I cry'd to dream again.

Ste. This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I fhall have my mufic for nothing.

Cal. When Profpero is deftroy'd.

Ste. That fhall be by and by: I remember the ftory. Trin. The found is going away: let's follow it, and after, do our work.

Ste, Lead, monfter; we'll follow. I would, I could fee this taborer: he lays it on.

Trin. Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano."

[Exeunt. SCENE

7 A ridiculous figure, fometimes reprefented on figns. MALONE. The allufion is here to the print of No-body, as prefixed to the anonymous comedy of "No-body and Some-body;" without date. REED. 8 To affear is an obfolete verb, with the fame meaning as to affray. STEEVENS.

9 Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano.] The first words are addreffed to

Caliban,

t

SCENE III.

Another part of the island.

Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO,
ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others.

2

Gon. By'r lakin, I can go no further, Sir;
My old bones ache: here's a maze trod, indeed,
Through forth-rights, and meanders! by your patience,
I needs muft reft me.

Alon.
Old lord, I cannot blame thee,
Who am myfelf attach'd with weariness,
Toʻthe dulling of my fpirits: fit down and reft.
Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it
No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd,
Whom thus we ftray to find; and the fea mocks
Our fruftrate search on land: Well, let him go.
Ant. I am right glad that he's so out of hope.

[Afide to SEBASTIAN. Do not, for one repulfe, forego the purpose That you refolv'd to effect.

Seb.

Will we take thoroughly.

The next advantage

Let it be to-night;

Ant.
For, now they are opprefs'd with travel, they
Will not, nor cannot, ufe fuch vigilance,
As when they are fresh.

Seb.
I fay, to-night: no more.
Solemn and frange mufick; and PROSPERO above, invisible.
Enter feveral ftrange Shapes, bringing in a banquet; they
dance about it with gentle actions of falutation; and, invit-
ing the king, Sc. to eat, they depart.

Alon. What harmony is this? my good friends, hark!
Gon. Marvellous fweet mufick!

Caliban, who, vexed at the folly of his new companions idly running after the mufick, while they ought only to have attended to the main point, the dispatching Profpero, feems, for fome little time, to have ftaid behind. HEATH.

The words-Wilt come ? fhould be added to Stephano's speech. I'll follow, is Trinculo's anfwer. RITSON.

2 The diminutive only of our lady, i, e, ladykin, STEEVENS,

Alon. Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these?
Seb. A living drollery Now I will believe,
That there are unicorns; that, in Arabia

There is one tree, the phoenix' throne; one phoenix
At this hour reigning there.

Ant.

I'll believe both;

And what does elfe want credit, come to me,

And I'll be fworn 'tis true: Travellers ne'er did lie,
Though fools at home condemn them.

Gon.

If in Naples
I should report this now, would they believe me?
If I fhould fay, I faw fuch islanders,

(For, certes, these are people of the island,)
Who, though they are of monftrous fhape, yet, note,
Their manners are more gentle-kind, than of
Our human generation you shall find

Many, nay, almost any.

Pro.

Honeft lord,

Thou haft faid well; for fome of you there prefent,
Are worse than devils.

Alon.

I cannot too much mufe,5

Such fhapes, fuch gefture, and fuch found, expreffing
(Although they want the use of tongue,) a kind
Of excellent dumb difcourfe.

Pro.

Praife in departing."

No matter, fince

Fran. They vanish'd strangely.

[Afide

Seb.
They have left their viands behind; for we have stomachs.→
Will't please you taste of what is here?

Alon,

Not I.

Gon. Faith, fir, you need not fear: When we were boys,

Who

3 Shows, called drolleries, were in Shakespeare's time performed by puppets only. From these our modern drolls, exhibited at fairs, &c. took their name. STEEVENS.

Aliving drollery, i. e. a drollery not reprefented by wooden machines, but by perfonages who are alive. MALONE.

4 An obfolete word, fignifying certainly. STEEVENS.

To mufe, in ancient language, is to wonder. STEEVENS.

• Do not praise your entertainment too foon, left you should have reafon to retract your commendation. STEEVENS.

Who would believe that there were mountaineers,7
Dew-lapp'd like bulls, whofe throats had hanging at them
Wallets of flesh or that there were fuch men,

Whose heads flood in their breafts ? which now we find,
Each putter-out on five for one, will bring us

Good warrant of.

Alon.

I will ftand to, and feed,

Although my laft: no matter, fince I feel
The belt is past :-Brother, my lord the duke,
Stand too, and do as we.

Thunder and lightning. Enter ARIEL like a harpy; claps his wings upon the table, and, with a quaint device, the banquet vanishes.

Ari. You are three men of fin, whom destiny
(That hath to instrument this lower world,2
And what is in't) the never-furfeited fea
Hath caused to belch up; and on this island
Where man doth not inhabit; you 'mongst men
Being moft unfit to live. I have made you mad;

[Seeing ALON. SEB. &c. draw their fwords.
And even with fuch like valour, men hang and drown
Their proper felves. You fools! I and my fellows
Are minifters of fate; the elements

Of whom your fwords are temper'd, may as well

D6

Wound

> Whoever is curious to know the particulars relative to these mountaineers, may confult Maundeville's Travels, printed in 1503, by Wynken de Worde; but it is yet a known truth that the inhabitants of the Alps have been long accuftom'd to fuch excrefcences or tumours,

Quis tumidum guttur miratur in Alpibus? STEEVENS.

Our author might have had this intelligence from the translation of Pliny, B. V. chap. 8. "The Blemmyi, by report, have no heads, but mouth and eies both in their breafts." STEEVENS.

Or he might have had it from Hackluyt's Voyages, 1598: On that branch which is called Caora are a nation of people, whofe heads appear not above their fhoulders. They are reported to have their eyes in their fhoulders, and their mouths in the middle of their breafts." MALONE. 9 Each putter-out, &c.] The ancient custom here alluded to was this. In this age of travelling, it was a practice with those who engaged in long and hazardous expeditions, to place out a fum of money on condition of receiving great intereft for it at their return home. STEEVEN9.

2 i. e. that makes ufe of this world, and every thing in it, as its inftruments to bring about its ends. STEEVENS.

wn

Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs
Kill the ftill-clofing waters, as diminish

? One dowle that's in my plume; my fellow-minifters
Are like invulnerable: if you could hurt,
Your fwords are now too maffy for your strengths,
And will not be uplifted: But, remember,
(For that's my bufinefs to you,) that you three
the From Milan did fupplant good Profpero;
Expos'd unto the fea, which hath requit it, requited

Him, and his innocent child: for which foul deed
The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have
Incens'd the feas and fhores, yea, all the creatures,
Against your peace: Thee, of thy fon, Alonfo,
They have bereft; and do pronounce by me,
Ling'ring perdition (worfe than any death
Can be at once,) shall step by step attend

You, and your ways; whofe wraths to guard you from
(Which here, in this most defolate ifle, elfe falls

Upon your heads,) is nothing, but heart's forrow,
And a clear life 3 enfuing.

in

He vanishes in thunder: then, to foft mufick, enter the Shapes
again, and dance with mops and mowest and carry out the
table.

Pro. [Afide.] Bravely the figure of this harpy haft thou
Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring:
Of my inftruction haft thou nothing 'bated,

In what thou hadft to fay: fo, with good life,s

3 Pure, blameless, innocent. JOHNSON.

And

4 To mock and to mowe, feem to have had a meaning somewhat fimilar; i, e. to infult, by making mouths, or wry faces. STEEVENS.

5 With good life may mean, with exact prefentation of their feveral characters, with obfervation frange of their particular and diftinct parts. So we fay, he acted to the life. JOHNSON.

Good life, however, in Twe'fib Night, feems to be used for innocent jollity, as we now fay a bon vivant: "Would you (fays the Clown) have a love fong, or a fong of good life? Sir Toby anfwers, "A love fong, a Tove fong;"-" Ay, ay, (replies Sr Andrew) I care not for good life." It is plain, from the character of the laft fpeaker, that he was meant to mistake the fenfe in which good life is ufed by the Clown. It may therefore, in the prefent inftance, mean, boneft alacrity or cheerfulness. STEEVENS