Fer. A single thing, as I am now, that wonders To hear thee speak of Naples: he does hear me ; And, that he does, I weep: myself am Naples; Who with mine eyes, ne'er since at ebb, beheld The king my father wreck'd. Alack, for mercy! Thy nerves are in their infancy again, So they are: Mira. Milan And his brave son, being twain. The wreck of all my friends, or this man's threats, To whom I am subdued, are but light to me, The duke of Milan, Might I but through my prison, once a day, And his more braver daughter, could control' thee, Behold this maid: all corners else o' the earth If now it were fit to do 't. At the first sight Let liberty make use of; space enough [Aside. Have I in such a prison. Pro. They have chang'd eves:-Delicate Ariel, Fer. O, if a virgin, It works:-Come on.- My father's of a better nature, sir, Than he appears by speech; this is unwonted, Which now came from him. Pro. Thou shalt be as free As mountain winds: but then exactly do Soft, sir; one word more.-All points of my command. They are both in either's powers: but this swift Ari. To the syllable. business Pro. Come, follow: speak not for him. [Exeunt. And your affection not gone forth, I'll make you I must uneasy make, lest too light winning[Aside. thee, That thou attend me: thou dost here usurp From me, the lord on't. Fer. No, as I am a man. (So have we all) of joy; for our escape Alon. Seb. Ha, ha, ha! Alon. You cram these words into mine ears, against Ant. So, you've pay'd. Seb. Yet, Adr. Yet Adr. Uninhabitable, and almost inaccessible,-The stomach of my sense: 'would I had never Ant. He could not miss it. Married my daughter there! for, coming thence, Adr. It must needs be of subtle, tender, and I ne'er again shall see her. O thou mine heir Ant. Temperance was a delicate wench. Seb. Ay, and a subtle; as he most learnedly delivered. Adr. The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. Gon. Here is every thing advantageous to life. Seb. Of that there's none, or little. Fran. Sir, he may live; 'Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oar'd Gon. How lush and lusty the grass looks! how To the shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd green! Ant. The ground, indeed, is tawny. Seb. With an eye of green in't. Ant. He misses not much. Seb. No; he doth but mistake the truth totally. Gon. But the rarity of it is (which is, indeed, almost beyond credit--) Seb. As many vouch'd rarities are. Gon. That our garments, being, as they were, drenched in the sea, hoid, notwithstanding, their freshness, and glosses; being rather new dy'd, than stain'd with salt water. Ant. If but one of his pockets could speak, would it not say, He lies? Seb. Ay, or very falsely pocket up his report. Gon. Methinks, our garments are now as fresh as when we put them on first in Afic, at the marriage of the king's fair daughter Claribel to the king of Tunis. Seb. "Twas a sweet marriage, and we prosper well in our return. Adr. Tunis was never grac'd before with such a paragon to their queen. Gon. Not since widow Dido's time. Ant. Widow a pox o' that! how came that widow in? Widow Dido! Seb. What if he had said, widower Æneas too? good lord, how you take it! Adr. Widow Dido, said you? you make me study of that: she was of Carthage, not of Tunis. Gon. This Tunis, sir, was Carthage. Alr. Carthage? Gon. I assure you, Carthage. Ant. His word is more than the miraculous harp. next? Gom. Sir, we were talking, that our garments seem now as fresh, as when we were at Tunis, at the marriage of your daughter, who is now queen. Ant. And the rarest that e'er came there. Seb. 'Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido. Ant. O, widow Dido; ay, widow Dido. As stoopingo relieve him. I not doubt, Seb. Seb. Foul weather? Gon. Is not, sir, my doublet as fresh as the first gets the beginning. day I wore it? I mean, in a sort. Ant. That sort was well fish'd for. Gon. All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony, Gon. When I wore it at your daughter's marriage? Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, (1) Temperature. (2) Rank. (3) Shade of colour. (4) Degree or quality. (5) The rack. Seb. Would I not have; but nature should bring forth, Whiles thou art waking. Seb. No marrying 'mong his subjects? Seb. 'Save his majesty! Ant. Long live Gonzalo! Gon. Alon. Pr'ythee, p hug to n Thou dost snore distinctly; Ant. I am more serious than my custom: you Seb. Well; I am standing water. And do you mark me, sir?-Hereditary sloth instructs me. : Thou dost talk n Do so: to ebb, Ant. Twas you re laugh'd at. Gon. Who, in this kind of merry fooling, am nothing to you; so you may continue, and laugh at nothing still. Ant. If you but knew, how you the purpose cherish, Gon. I do well believe yo h.g. , and did Whiles thus you mock i! how, in stripping it, it to minister casion to these elemen, who are You more invest it! Ebbing men, indeed, of such sensible and nimble lungs, that they always Most often do so near the bottom run, use to laugh at noth By their own fear, or sloth. Seb. Pr'ythee, say on: The setting of thine eye, and cheek, proclaim A matter from thee; and a birth, indeed, Which throes thee much to yield. Ant. What a blow was there given: Seb. An it had not fallen flat-long. Gon. You are gentlemen of brave mettle; you would lift the moon out of her sphere, if she would cortinue in it five weeks without changing. Enter Ariel, invisible, playing solemn music. Seb. We would so, and then go a bat-fowling. Ant. Nay, good my lord, be not angry. Gon. No, I warrant you: I will not adventure my discretion so weakly. Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy? Int. Go sleep, and hear us. All sleep but Alon. Seb. and Ant. 1. What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes ✦d, with themselves, shut up my thoughts: I find, They are inclined to do so. Seb. Please you, sir, Will guard your person, while you take your rest, Thank you: wondrous heavy. Ant. My strong imagination sees a crown What, art thou waking? Noble Sebastian, Ant. Thus, sir: Ant. Ant. O, out of that no hope, Will you grant, with He's gone. Then, tell me, Claribel. Who's the next heir of Naples? Ant. worse Than now they are: there be, that can rule Na- As well as he that sleeps; lords, that can prate As this Gonzalo; I myself could make And how does your content (1) Plenty. (2) A bird of the jack-daw kind. You did supplant your brother Prospero. True: Ant. Ant. Ay, sir; where lies that? if it were a kibe, If he were that ..hich now he's like; whom I, Seb. Thy case, dear friend, Draw together: O, but one word. Music. Re-enter Ariel, invisible. That these, his friends, are in; and sends me forth, While you here do snoring lie, His time doth take: If of life you keep a care, Awake! awake! Ant. Then let us both be sudden. Cal. All the infections that the sun sucks up From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me, Enter Trinculo. Here comes a spirit of his; and to torment me, Perchance he will not mind me. Trin. Here's neither bush nor shrub, to bear off any weather at all, and another storm brewing; I car it sing i' the wind: yond' same black cloud, yond' huge one, looks like a foul bumbard' that would shed his liquor. If it should thunder, as it did before, I know not where to hide my head: vond' same cloud cannot choose but fall by pailfuls.-What have we here? a man or a fish? Dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of, not of the newest, Poor John. A strange fish! Were I in England now, (as once I was,) and had this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a man; any strange beast there makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, [They wake. they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd Alon. Why, how now, ho! awake! Why are you like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm, o' my drawn? Wherefore this ghastly looking? Gon. What's the matter? Seb. Whiles we stood here securing your repose, Even now, we heard a hollow burst of bellowing Like bulls, or rather lions; did it not wake you? It struck mine ear most terribly. Alon. I heard nothing. Ant. O, 'twas a din to fright a monster's ear; To make an earthquake! sure it was the roar Of a whole herd of lions. Gon. Now, good angels, preserve the king! troth! I do now let loose my opinion, hold it no Enter Stephano, singing; a bottle in his hand. This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's funeral: The master, the swabber, the boastswain, and I, (4) A black jack of leather, to hold beer. She lov'd not the savour of tar nor of pitch, Cal. Do not torment me: O! Ste. What's the matter? Have we devils here? Do you put tricks upon us with savages, and men of Inde? Ha! I have not 'scap'd drowning, to be afcard now of your four legs; for it hath been said, As proper a man as ever went on four legs, cannot make him give ground: and it shall be said so again, while Stephano breathes at nostrils. Cal. The spirit torments me: 0! I escap'd upon a butt of sack, which the sailors Cal. I'll swear, upon that bottle, to be thy Ste. Here, kiss the book: though thou canst swim like a duck, that art made like a goose. Trin. O Stephano, hast any more of this? Cal. Hast thou not dropped from heaven? Ste. This is some monster of the isle, with four legs; who hath got, as I take it, an ague: where the devil should he learn our language? I will give him some relief, if it be but for that: if I can reco-man in the moon, when time was. ver him, and keep him tame, and get to Naples with Cal. I have seen thee in her, and I do adore thee him, he's a present for any emperor that ever trod My mistress showed me thee, thy dog, and bush. on neat's leather. Cal. Do not torment me, pr'ythee; I'll bring my wood home faster. ; Ste. Come, swear to that; kiss the book: I will furnish it anon with new contents: swear. Trin. By this good light, this is a very shallow Ste. He's in his fit now; and does not talk after monster:-I afeard of him ?—a very weak monster: the wisest. He shall taste of my bottle: if he have-The man i' the moon?- a most never drunk wine afore, it will go near to remove monster:-well drawn, monster, in good sooth. his fit: if Lean recover him, and keep him tame, I will not take too much for him: he shall pay for him that hath him, and that soundly. Cal. Thou dost me yet but little hurt; thou wilt I Ste. Come on your ways; open your mouth;| here is that which will give language to you, cut open your mouth; this will shake your shaking, can tell you, and that soundly: you cannot tell who's your friend: open your chaps again. Trin. I should know that voice: it should bebut he is drowned; and these are devils: O! defend me! poor credulous Cal. I'll show thee every fertile inch o' the island. And kiss thy foot: I pr'ythee, be my god. Trin. By this light, a most perfidious and drunken monster; when his god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle. Cal. I'll kiss thy foot: I'll swear myself thy sub ject. Ste. Come on then; down, and swear. Trin. I shall laugh myself to death at this puppyheaded monster: a most scurvy monster! I could find in my heart to beat him, Ste. Come, kiss. Trin. but that the poor monster's in drink: an abominable monster! Cal. I'll show thee the best springs; I'll pluck thee berries; Ste. Four legs, and two voices; a most delicate monster! His forward voice now is to speak well I'll fish for thee, and get thee wood enough. of his friend; his backward voice is to utter foul A plague upon the tyrant that I serve! speeches, and to detract. If all the wine in my bot-I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee, tle will recover him, I will help his ague: come,- Thou wondrous man. Amen! I will pour some in thy other mouth. Trin. Stephano, Ste. Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy! mercy! this is a devil, and no monster: I will leave him; I have no long spoon. Trin. Stephano!-if thou beest Stephano, touch me, and speak to me; for I am Trinculo;-be not afeard,-thy good friend Trinculo. Trin. A most ridiculous monster; to make a wonder of a poor drunkard. Cal. I pr'ythee, let me bring thee where crabs grow ; And I, with my long nails, will dig thee pig-nuts; Ste. If thou beest Trinculo, come forth; I'll pull thee by the lesser legs: if any be Trinculo's legs, these are they. Thou art very Trinculo, indeed: Ste. I pr'ythee now, lead the way, without any how cam'st thou to be the siege of this moon-calf? more talking.-Trinculo, the king and all our comCan he vent Trinculos? pany else being drowned, we will inherit here.Trin. I took him to be kill'd with a thunder- Here; bear my bottle: Fellow Trinculo, we'll fill stroke-But art thou not drowned, Stephano? I him by and by again. hope now, thou art not drowned. Is the storm over-blown! I hid me under the dead moon-calf's gaberdine, for fear of the storm; and art thou living, Stephano? O Stephano, two Neapolitans 'scap'd! Ste. Pr'ythee, do not turn me about; my stomach is not constant. Cal. These be fine things, an if they be not sprites. Ste. How didst thou 'scape? How cam'st thou hither? swear by this bottle, how thou cam'st hither. (1) India. (2) Stool. (3) Sea-gulls. Cal. Farewell master; farewell, farewell. At requiring, Nor scrape trenchering, nor wash dish; Has a new master-Get a new man, Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom: freedom, hey-day, freedom! Ste. O brave monster! lead the way. [Exeunt |