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Ari. Thou liest; thou canst not.

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Cal. What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch!

I do beseech thy greatness, give him blows
And take his bottle from him: when that's gone
He shall drink nought but brine; for I'll not
show him

Where the quick freshes are.

Ste. Trinculo, run into no further danger: interrupt the monster one word further, and, by this hand, I'll turn my mercy out o' doors and make a stock-fish of thee.

Trin. Why, what did I? I did nothing. I'll go farther off.

Ste.

Ari.

Didst thou not say he lied?

Thou liest.

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Ste. Do I so? take thou that. [Beats Trin.] As you like this, give me the lie another time. Out o' your

Trin. I did not give the lie. wits and hearing too? A pox o' your bottle! this can sack and drinking do. A murrain on your monster, and the devil take your fingers!

Cal. Ha, ha, ha !

Ste.

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Now, forward with your tale. Prithee, stand farther off.

Cal. Beat him enough: after a little time I'll beat him too.

Ste.

Stand farther. Come, proceed.

Cal. Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him,

I' th' afternoon to sleep: there thou mayst brain

him,

Having first seized his books, or with a log
Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,
Or cut his weasand with thy knife. Remember
First to possess his books; for without them 100
He's but a sot, as I am, nor hath not

One spirit to command: they all do hate him.
As rootedly as I. Burn but his books.

He has brave utensils,-for so he calls them,—
Which, when he has a house, he'll deck withal.
And that most deeply to consider is

The beauty of his daughter; he himself

Calls her a nonpareil: I never saw a woman,
But only Sycorax my dam and she;
But she as far surpasseth Sycorax

As great'st does least.

Ste.

Is it so brave a lass?

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Cal. Ay, lord; she will become thy bed, I warrant, and bring thee forth brave brood.

Ste. Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and I will be king and queen,-save our graces ! -and Trinculo and thy self shall be viceroys. Dost thou like the plot, Trinculo?

Trin. Excellent.

Ste. Give me thy hand: I am sorry I beat thee; but, while thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head.

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Cal. Within this half hour, will he be asleep: Wilt thou destroy him then?

Ste.

Ay, on mine honor. Ari. This will I tell my master.

Cal.

Thou makest me merry; I am full of pleasure:

Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch
You taught me but while-ere?

Ste.

At thy request, monster, I will do reason,

any reason. Come on, Trinculo, let us sing. [Sings. Flout 'em and scout 'em,

And scout 'em and flout 'em;
Thought is free.

Cal. That's not the tune.

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[Ariel plays the tune on a tabor and pipe. Ste. What is this same?

Trin.

This is the tune of our catch, played by the picture of Nobody.

Ste. If thou beest a man, show thyself in thy likeness: if thou beest a devil, take't as thou list. Trin. O, forgive me my sins!

Ste. He that dies pays all debts: I defy thee. Mercy upon us!

Cal. Art thou afeard?

Ste. No, monster, not I.

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Cal. Be not afeard: the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt

not.

Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show
riches

Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.

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Ste. This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing. Cal. When Prospero is destroyed.

Ste.

the story.

That shall be by and by: I remember

Trin. The sound is going away; let's follow. it, and after do our work.

Ste. Lead, monster; we'll follow. could see this taborer; he lays it on.

Trin. Wilt come?

I would I

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I'll follow, Stephano.

[Exeunt.

SCENE III. Another part of the island.

Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO,
ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others.

Gon. By'r lakin, I can go no further, sir;
My old bones ache: here's a maze trod indeed
Through forth-rights and meanders! By your
patience,

I needs must rest me.

Alon.

Old lord, I cannot blame thee, Who am myself attach'd with weariness,

To the dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
Even here I will put off my hope and keep it
No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd

Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks
Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go. 10
Ant. [Aside to Seb.] I am right glad that he's
so out of hope.

Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose
That you resolved to effect.

Seb. [Aside to Ant.] The next advantage
Will we take throughly.

Ant. [Aside to Seb.] Let it be to-night;

For, now they are oppress'd with travel, they
Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance

As when they are fresh.

Seb. [Aside to Ant.] I say, to-night: no more. [Solemn and strange music. Alon. What harmony is this? My good friends, hark!

Gon. Marvellous sweet music!

Enter several

Enter PROSPERO above, invisible. strange Shapes, bringing in a banquet; they dance about it with gentle actions of salutation; and, inviting the King, &c., to eat, they depart. Alon. Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these?

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Seb. A living drollery. Now I will believe That there are unicorns, that in Arabia There is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one phoenix At this hour reigning there.

I'll believe both;

Ant. And what does else want credit, come to me, And I'll be sworn 'tis true: travellers ne'er did lie, Though fools at home condemn 'em.

Gon.

If in Naples

I should report this now, would they believe me? If I should say, I saw such islanders

For, certes, these are people of the island

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Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet,

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Their manners are more gentle-kind than of

Our human generation you shall find

Many, nay, almost any.

Pros.

[Aside] Honest lord,

Thou hast said well; for some of you there present

Are worse than devils.

Alon.

I cannot too much muse

Such shapes, such gesture and such sound, ex

pressing,

Although they want the use of tongue, a kind
Of excellent dumb discourse.

Pros.

[Aside] Praise in departing.

No matter, since 40

Fran. They vanish'd strangely.
Seb.

They have left their viands behind; for we have

stomachs.

Wil't please you taste of what is here?

Alon.

Not I.

Gon. Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we ⚫ were boys,

Who would believe that there were mountaineers Dew-lapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at 'em

Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now

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Each putter-out of five for one will bring us
Good warrant of.

Alon.

I will stand to and feed,

Although my last: no matter, since I feel
The best is past. Brother, my lord the duke,
Stand to and do as we.

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Thunder and lightning. Enter ARIEL like a harpy; claps his wings upon the table; and, with a quaint device, the banquet vanishes.

Ari. You are three men of sin, whom Destiny, That hath to instrument this lower world And what is in't, the never-surfeited sea Hath caused to belch up you, and on this island Where man doth not inhabit; you 'mongst men Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad;

And even with such-like valor, men hang and

drown

Their proper selves.

[Alon., Seb., &c., draw their swords. You fools! I and my fellows 60

Are ministers of Fate: the elements,

Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well
Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs
Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish

One dowle that's in my plume: my fellow-ministers
Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,
Your swords are now too massy for your strengths
And will not be uplifted. But remember—
For that's my business to you—that you three
From Milan did supplant good Prospero;

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