Against what should ensue. MIRA. How came we ashore? PRO. By Providence divine, Some food we had, and some fresh water, that Out of his charity (who being then appointed Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries, MIRA. But ever see that man! PRO. 'Would I might Now I arise:- Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow. sir, And now, I pray you, (For still 't is beating in my mind,) your reason For raising this sea-storm? PRO. Will ever after droop.-Here cease more questions; Come away, servant, come: I am ready now; Enter ARIEL. [MIRANDA sleeps ARI. All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come To answer thy best pleasure; be 't to fly, On the curl'd clouds; to thy strong bidding task PRO. Hast thou, spirit, Perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee? I boarded the king's ship: now on the beak, PRO. Would not infect his reason? Not a soul ARI. Some tricks of desperation: All but mariners PRO. But was not this nigh shore? ARI. Why, that 's my spirit! Close by, my master. Not a hair perish'd; PRO. But are they, Ariel, safe? On their sustaining garments not a blemish, His arms in this sad knot. PRO. Of the king's ship, The mariners, say, how thou hast dispos'd, Safely in harbour ARI. Whom, with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour, Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrack'd, PRO. Ariel, thy charge Exactly is perform'd; but there's more work: What is the time o' the day? ARI. Past the mid season. PRO. At least two glasses: the time 'twixt six and now Must by us both be spent most preciously. ARI. Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains, Let me remember thee what thou hast promis'd, Which is not yet perform'd me. PRO. What is 't thou canst demand? ARI. How now moody? My liberty. PRO. Before the time be out? no more. ARI. I prithee Remember, I have done thee worthy service; Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, serv'd Without or grudge or grumblings: thou didst promise PRO. Dost thou forget No. From what a torment I did free thee? ARI. PRO. Thou dost; and think'st it much to tread the ooze Of the salt deep; To run upon the sharp wind of the north; To do me business in the veins o' the earth, PRO. Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot ARI. No, sir. PRO. Thou hast: Where was she born? speak; tell me. ARI. Sir, in Argier. PRO. O, was she so? I must, Once in a month, recount what thou hast been, Which thou forgett'st. This damn'd witch, Sycorax, To enter human hearing, from Argier, Thou know'st, was banish'd; for one thing she did PRO. This blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child, And here was left by the sailors: Thou, my slave, As thou report'st thyself, wast then her servant: To act her earthy and abhorr'd commands, A dozen years, within which space she died, (Save for the son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp, hag-born) not honour'd with PRO. Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban, To lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax Could not again undo; it was mine art, When I arriv'd, and heard thee, that made gape 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. Pardon, master: Do so; and after two days That's my noble master! What shall I do? say what: what shall I do? PRO. Go make thyself like a nymph o' the sea; Awake, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well; MIRA. The strangeness of your story put PRO. Shake it off: Come on; We'll visit Caliban, my slave, who never Yields us kind answer. But, as 't is, I do not love to look on. PRO. We cannot miss 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. [Exit ARIEL. PRO. Come forth, I say; there's other business for thee: Come, thou tortoise! when! Re-enter ARIEL, like a water-nymph. Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel, Hark in thine ear. |