Wilt thou Wilt thou go with Young Scamels from the rock. me? Ste. I pr'ythee now, lead the way without any more talking. Trinculo, the King and all our company being drown'd, we will inherit here. Hear, bear my bottle; fellow Trinculo, we'll fill him by and by again. Cal. [Sings drunkenly.] Farewe! master; farewel, farewel. Trin. A howling monfter; a drunken monster. Cal. No more dams I'll make for fish, Has a new master, get a new man. Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! freedom, hey-dey, freedom! Ste. O brave monster, lead the way. [Exeunt. ACT III. SCENE Before Profpero's Cell. Enter Ferdinand, bearing a log. FERDINAND. I. HERE be fome sports are painful, but their labour TH Delight in them fets off; fome kinds of baseness 7 Scamels] This word has puzz ed the Commentators: Dr. Warburton reads Shamois, Mr. Theobald would read any thing rather than Scamels. Mr. Holt, who wrote Notes upon this play, obferves that limpets are in fome places called Scams, therefore I have fuffered Scamels to stand. Are Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters ; The miftrefs, which I ferve, quickens what's dead, But those sweet thoughts do ev'n refresh my labour, 8 Enter Miranda; and Profpero, at a distance unfeen. Mira. Alas, now, pray you, Work not fo hard; I would the lightning had Fer. O most dear mistress, The fun' will fet before I fhall discharge Mir. If you'll fit down, I'll bear your logs the while. Pray, give me that; I'll carry it to the pile. Fer. No, precious creature, l'ad rather crack my finews, break my back, Than you should fuch difhonour undergo, While 1 fit lazy by. Mira. It would become me, The two firft Folio's read: Moft bufy leaft, when I do it. 'Tis true this Reading is corrupt; but the Corruption is fo VOL. I. very little remov'd from the Truth of the Text, that I can't afford to think well of my own Sagacity for having discovered THEOBALD. it. E As As well as it does you; and I should do it With much more eafe; for my good will is to it, Pro. Poor worm! thou art infected: This vifitation fhews it. Mira. You look wearily. Fer. No, noble mistress; 'tis fresh morning with me, Mira. Miranda, O my father, Fer. Admir'd Miranda! Indeed, the top of admiration: worth Mira. I do not know One of my fex; no woman's face remember, Befides yourself, to like of. But I prattle 9 Of every creature's beft.] Alluding to the picture of Venus by Apelles. Fer. Fer. I am, in my condition, A Prince, Miranda; I do think a King; (I would, not fo!) and would no more endure This wooden flavery, than I would fuffer The flesh-fly blow my mouth.-Hear my foul speakThe very inftant that I faw you, did My heart fly to your fervice, there refides To make me flave to it, and for your fake Mira. Do you love me? Fer. O heav'n, O earth, bear witness to this found, And crown what I profefs with kind event, If I fpeak true; if hollowly, invert Beyond all limit of what elfe i'th' world, Mira. I am a fool, To weep at what I'm glad of. Pro. Fair encounter Of two most rare affections! heav'ns rain grace, Fer. Wherefore weep you? Mira. At mine unworthiness, that dare not off r, What I defire to give: and much less take, What I fhall die to want. But this is trifling; And all the more it feks to hide itfelf, Hence bashful cunning! Fer. My mistress, deareft, And I thus humble ever. Fer. Ay, with a heart as willing As bondage e'er of freedom. Here's my E 2 hand. Mira. Mira. And mine, with my heart in't. And now farewel, 'Till half an hour hence. Fer. A thoufand, thousand. Pro. So glad of this as they, I cannot be, Who are furpriz'd withal; but my rejoicing At nothing can be more. I'll to my book; For yet, ere fupper-time, must I perform Much bufinefs appertaining. SCENE II. Changes to another part of the Island. [Exeunt. [Exit. Enter Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo, with a bottle. Ste. ELL not me-When the butt is out, we TE will drink water, not a drop before; therefore bear up, and board 'em-Servant-monster; drink to me. Trin. Servant-monster! the folly of this island ! They fay, there's but five upon this ifle; we are three of them, if the other two be brain'd like us, the state totters. Ste. Drink, fervant monfter, when I bid thee. Thy eyes are almost set in thy head. Trin. Where fhould they be fet elfe? he were a brave monfter indeed, if they were fet in his tail. Ste. My man-monfter hath drown'd his tongue in fack for my part, the fea cannot drown me. 1 swam, ere I could recover the fhore, five and thirty leagues, off and on; by this light, thou shalt be my lieutenant, monfter, or my standard. Trin. Your lieutenant, if you lift; he's no ftandard. Trin. Norgo neither: but you'll lie like dogs, and yet fay nothing neither. Ste. Moon-calf, fpeak once in thy life, if thou beeft a good moon-calf. Cal. |