(For still 'tis beating in my mind) your reason For raising this sea-storm? Pro. Know thus far forth. By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, stions; Thou art inclin'd to sleep; 'tis a good dulness, And give it way; - I know thou can'st not choose. [MIRANDA sleeps. Come away, servant, come: I am ready now; Enter ARIEL. Ariel. All hail, great Master! grave Sir, hail! I come To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curl'd clouds; to thy strong bidding, task Ariel, and all his quality. Pro. Hast thou, spirit, Perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee? I boarded the King's ship; now on the beak, cursors O' the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary : And sight-out-running were not: The fire, and cracks Of sulphurous roaring, the most mighty Neptune Seem'd to besiege, and make his bold waves tremble, Yea, his dread trident shake. Pro. My brave spirit! Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil Ariel. Not a soul But felt a fever of the mad, and play'd nand, With hair up-staring (then like reeds, not hair) Was the first man that leap'd; cried, Hell is empty. And all the devils are here. Pro. Why, that's my spirit! On their sustaining garments not a blemish, Pro. Of the King's ship, Ariel. Safely in harbour Is the King's ship; in the deep nook, where once Thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew From the still vex'd Bermoothes, there she's hid: The mariners all under hatches stow'd, bour, I have left asleep and for the rest o' the fleet, Bound sadly home for Naples; Supposing that they saw the King's ship wreck'd, And his great person perish. Pro. Ariel, thy charge Exactly is perform'd; but there's more work: Pro. At least two glasses: The time 'twixt six and now, Must by us both be spent most preciously. Ariel. 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. How now? moody? What is't thou can'st demand? Ariel. My liberty. Pro. Before the time be out? no more. Ariel. I pray thee Remember, I have done thee worthy service; Told thee no lies, made no mistakings, serv'd Without or grudge, or grumblings: thou didst To bate me a full year. Pro. Dost thou forget promise From what a torment I did free thee? Pro. Thou dost; and think'st It much, to tread the ooze of the salt deep; To do me business in the veins o' the earth, Ariel. I do not, Sir. Pro. Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot The foul witch Sycorax, who, with age, and envy, Ariel. No, Sir. Pro. Thou hast: Where was she born? speak; Pro. O, was she so? I must, Once in a month, recount what thou hast been, To enter human hearing, from Argier, Thou know'st, was banish'd; for one thing she did, Pro. This blue-ey'd hag was hither brought with child, And here was left by the sailors: Thou, my slave, groans, As fast as mill-wheels strike: Then was this is land, (Save for the son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp, hag-born) not honour'd with A human shape. Ariel. Yes; Caliban her son. 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 arriv'd, and heard thee, that made gape The pine, and let thee out. Ariel. I thank thee, Master. Pro. If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak, And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till I will be correspondent to command, Pro. Do so; and after two days Ariel. That's my noble Master! What shall I do? say what? what shall I do? Pro. Go make thyself like to a nymph o' the sea; Be subject to no sight but mine; invisible To every eyeball else. Go, take this shape, And hither come in't: hence, with diligence. [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 |