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And, as with Age, his body uglier grows,

So his mind cankers; I will plague them all,
Even to roaring: come, hang them on this line.

[Profpero remains invifible.. Enter Ariel loaden with gliftering apparel, &c. Enter Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo, all wet.

Cal. Pray you, tread foftly, that the blind mole may not Hear a foot fall, we now are near his Cell.

Ste. Monster, your Fairy, which you fay is harmless Fairy, has done little better than plaid the Jack with us. Trin. Monfter, I do smell all horfe piss, at which my nofe is in great indignation..

Ste. So is mine; do you hear, monster? If I should ake a displeasure against you: look you.

Trin. Thou wert but a loft Monster.

Cal. Good my lord, give me thy favour still :

Be patient, for the prize, I'll bring thee to,

Shall hood wink this mifchance; therefore fpeak foftly; All's busht as midnight yet.

Trin. Ay, but to lofe our bottles in the pool,

Ste. There is not only disgrace and dishonour in that, monster, but an infinite lofs.

Trin. That's more to me than my wetting yet this is your harmless Fairy Monster.

Ste. I will fetch off my bottle, though I be o'er ears for my labour.

Cal. Pr'ythee, my King, be quiet feeft thou here, This is the mouth o' th' cell; no noife, and enter; Do that good Mischief, which may make this Island Thine own for ever; and I, thy Caliban,

For ay thy foot-licker.

Ste. Give me thy hand; I do begin to have bloody thoughts.

Trin. O king Stephano! O Peer! O worthy Stephane ! Look, what a wardrobe here is for thee !

Cal. Let it alone, thou Fool, it is but trash.

Trin. Oh, oh, monfter; we know what belongs to frippery -O, King Stephano!

Ste. Put off that gown, Trinculo; by this hand, I'l have that gown.

Trin. Thy grace fhall have it.

Cal. The dropfie drown this fool! what do you mean,
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To doat thus on fuch luggage? let's along,

And do the Murder firft: if he awake,

From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches ;
Make us ftrange Stuff.

Ste. Be you quiet, monster. Mistress line, is not this my jerkin? now is the jerkin under the line: now jerkin, you are like to lofe your hair, and prove a bald jerkin. Trin. Do, do; we fteal by line and level, and't like your Grace.

Ste. I thank thee for that jeft, here's a garment for't: wit fhall not go unrewarded, while I am King of this country; fteal by line and level, is an excellent pafs of for't. pate; there's another garment

Trin. Monster, come, put fome lime upon your fingers, and away with the rest.

Cal. I will have none on't; we fhall lofe our time, And all be turn'd to barnacles, or apes

With foreheads villanous low.

Ste. Monster, lay to your fingers; help to bear this away, where my hogfhead of wine is, or I'll turn you out of my kingdom; go to, carry this.

Trin. And this.

Ste. Ay, and this.

A noife of hunters heard. Enter divers fpirits in fhape of bounds, hunting them about; Profpero and Ariel fetting them on. Calib, Steph. and Trinc, driven out, roaring. Pro. Hey, Mountain, bey.

Ari. Silver; there it goes, Silver.

Pro. Fury, Fury; there, Tyrant, there; bark, bark; Go, charge my goblins that they grind their Joints With dry Convulfions; shorten up their finews

With aged cramps; and more pinch spotted make them, Than pard, or cat o' mountain.

Ari. Hark, they roar.

Pro. Let them be hunted foundly. At this hour

Lie at my mercy all mine enemies:

Shortly hall all my labours end, and thou,

Shalt have the air at freedom; for a little,
Follow, and do me fervice,

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ACT V.

SCENE before the Cell.

Enter Profpero in his magick robes, and Ariel.

WOW does my project gather to a head; [time

Goes upright with his carriage: how's the Day?
Ari. On the fixth hour, at which time, my lord,
You faid, our work fhould cease.

Pro. I did fay fo,

When firft I rais'd the tempeft; fay, my fpirit,
How fares the King and's followers?

Ari. Confin'd

In the fame fashion as you gave in charge;
Juft as you left them, all your prifoners, Sir,
In the Lime Grove which weather-fends your Cell.
They cannot budge, 'till you release. The King,
His brother and yours, abide all three distracted,
And the remainder mourning over them,
Brim-full of forrow and difmay; but, chiefly,
Him that you term'd the good old lord Gonzalo.
His Tears run down bis beard, like winter-drops
From Eaves of reeds; your charm fo ftrongly works 'em,
That if you now beheld them, your affections
Would become tender.

Pro. Doft thou think fo, fpirit?

Ari. Mine would, Sir, were I human.
Pro. And mine fhall.

Haft thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling
Of their afflictions, and shall not myfelf,

One of their kind, that relifh all as fharply,
Paffion as they, be kindlier mov'd than thou art?
Tho' with their high wrongs I am ftruck to th' quick,
Yet, with my nobler reafon, 'gainst my fury
Do I take part; the rarer action is

In virtue than in vengeance; they being penitent,
The fole drift of my purpofe doth extend
Not a frown further; go, releafe them, Ariel;

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My Charms I'll break, their fenfes I'll reftore,

And they fhall be themselves.

Ari. I'll fetch them, Sir.

[Exit.

Pro. Ye elves of hills, brooks, ftanding lakes and groves,
And ye, that on the fands with printlefs foot
Do chafe the ebbing Neptune; and do fly him,
When be comes back; you demy puppets, that,
By moon-fhine do the green four ringlets make.
Whereof the ewe not bites; and you whofe paftime
Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice
To hear the folemn curfew; by whose aid
(Weak mafters tho' ye be) I have be-dimm'd
The noor-tide fun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,
And 'twixt the green fea and the azur❜d vault
Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder
Have I giv'n fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak
With his own bolt: the ftrong-bas'd promontory
Have I made shake, and by the fpurs pluckt up
The pine and cedar: graves at my command
Have wak'd their fleepers; op'd, and let them forth
By my fo potent art. But this rough magick
I here abjure; and when I have requir'd
Some heav'nly mufick, which ev'n now I do,
(To work mine end upon their fenfes, that
This airy charm is for;) I'll break my staff;
Bury it certain fadoms in the earth;

And, deeper than did ever plummet found,
I'll drown my book.

[Solemn mufick.

Here enters Ariel before; then Alonso with a frantick Gefture, attended by Gonzalo. Sebastian and Anthonio in like manner, attended by Adrian and Francifco. They all enter the circle which Profpero had made, and there ftand charm'd; which Profpero obferving, speaks. A folemn air, and the best comforter

To an unfettled fancy, cure thy brains

Now useless, boil'd within thy skull! There stand,
For you are fpell ftopt.-

Holy Gonzalo, honourable man,

Mine eyes, ev'n fociable to th' fhew of thine,
Fall fellow drops.- -The charm diffolves apace ;
And as the morning fteals upon the night,

Melting

Melting the darkness; fo their rifing senses
Begin to chafe the ign'rant fumes, that mantle
Their clearer reafon. O my good Gonzalo,
My true preferver, and a loyal Sir

To him thou follow'ft; I will pay thy graces
Home both in word and deed.-

Moft cruelly
Didft thou, Alonso, ufe me and my daughter:
Thy brother was a furtherer in the act;

Thou'rt pinch'd for't now, Sebaftian, flesh and blood.
You brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,
Expell'd remorfe and nature; who with Sebaftian
(Whofe inward pinches therefore are most strong)
Would here have kill'd your King; I do forgive thee,]
Unnat'ral though thou art. Their understanding
Begins to fwell, and the approaching tide,

Will fhortly fill the reasonable fhore.

That now lies foul and muddy. Not one of them,
That yet looks on me, or would know me. Ariel,
Fetch me the hat and rapier in my Cell;

I will difcafe me, and myfelf prefent,

[Exit Ariel, and returns immediatelys

As I was fometime Milan : quickly, Spirit;

Thou shalt ere long be free.

[Ariel fings, and helps to attire him.

Where the bee fucks, there lurk 1;

In a cowflip's bell I lye:

There I couch, when owls do cry.

On the bar's back I do fly,

After Sunfet, merrily.

Merrily, merrily, shall I live now,

Under the bloffem, that hangs on the bough.

Pro. Why, that's my dainty Ariel; I fhall miss thee;

But yet thou shalt have freedom. So, so, so.

To the King's fhip, invisible as thou art;
There fhalt thou find the mariners afleep

Under the hatches; the mafter and the boatfwain,
Being awake, enforce them to this place;

And prefently, I pr'ythee.

Ari. I drink the air before me, and return Or e'er your pulfe_twice beat.

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[Exit.

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