Trin. The found is going away, let's follow it, and affer do our work.

Ste. Lead, monfter; we'll follow. I would I could fee this taborer, He lays it on.

Trin: Wik come

follow Stephano.

[Exeunt.

SCENE changes to another part of the Island. Enter Alonfo, Sebaftian, Anthonio, Gonzalo, Adrian, Francifco,

Gon. By'r lakin, I can go no further, Sir, My old bonesake, here's a maze trods indeed, Through forth-rights and meanders! by your patiencey I needs must reft me.

Alons Old lord, I cannot blame thee,

Who am my felf attached with wearinefs,
Tooth daing of my fpirits: fit down and reft.
Ev'n here I will put off my hope, and keep it
No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd.
Whom thus we fray to find, and the Sea; mocks
Our fruftrate fearch on land. Well, let him go.
Ant. I am right glad that he's fo out of hope.
Do not, for one repulfe, forego the purpofe-
This you refolvid t'effect;

Seb. The next advantage.

Will we take throughly.

Ant. Deritsbe«to night;

For, now they are opprefs'd with travel, they
Will not, nor cannot, ufe fuch vigilance,
As when they're fresh.

Seb. I fay to night: no more.

Solemn and frange mufick, and Profpero on the top, invisible. Enter feveral firange shapes, bringing in a ban◄ quet, and dance about it with gentle allions of falutation; and, inviting the King, &c. to eat, they depart.

Alan What harmony is this? my good friends, hark! Gon. Marvellous fweer muficles!

Alon. Give us kind keepers, heaven what were these? * Sela A living drollery. Now I will believe, That there are unicorns; that, in Arabia

There is one tree, the phoenix' throne; one phoenix As this honn reigning there,

Ant.

Ant. I'll believe both :

And what does elfe want credit, come to me,

And I be worn 'tis true.

Travellers ne'er did lye,

Though fools at home condemn 'em.

Gon. If in Naples

I fhould report this now, would they believe me?
If I fhould fay, I faw fuch iflanders:

(For, certes, thefe are people of the island)
Who tho' they are of monstrous fhape, yet,, note,
Their manners are more gentle-kind than of
Our human generation you fhall find

Many; nay, almost any.

Pro, Honeft lord,

Thou haft faid well; for fome of you there prefent Are worfe than devils.

Alon. I cannot too much mufa,

Such fhapes, fuch gefture, and fuch found, expreffing (Although they want the ufe of tongue) a kind Of excellent dumb difcourse.

Pro, Praise, in departing.

Fran. They vanish'd ftrangely.
Seb. No matter, fince

They've left their viands behind; for we have fomachs
Will't please you taste of what is here?

Alon, Not I

Gen. Faith Sir, you need not fear. When we were boy Who would believe that there were mountaineers, Dew-lapt like bulls, whofe throats had hanging at 'em Wallets of flesh, or that there were fuch, men, Whofe heads stood in their breasts which now we find Each putter out on five for one will bring' us

Good warrant of.

Alon. I will fand to, and feeds

Although my, laft; no matter, fince I feel
The best is past Brother, my lord the Duke,
Stand to, and do as we

Thunder and lightning, Enter Ariel like a harpyy, cla his wings upon the table, and with a qu device, the banquet: vanifkes.

Ari. You are three men of fin, whom destiny

(That hath to inftrument this lower worksh

And

And what is in't) the neverfurfeited fea
Hath caufed to belch up; and on this Island
Where man doth not inhabit, you 'mongft men
Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad;
And ev'n with fuch like valour men hang and drown
Their proper felves. You fools! I and my fellows
Are ministers of fate; the elements,

Of whom your fwords are temper'd, may as well
Wound the loud winds, or with bemockt-at ftabs
Kill the ftill-clofing waters, as diminish

One down that's in my plume: my fellow-minifters
Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,
Your fwords are now too maffie for your strengths,
And will not be up-lifted. But remember,
(For that's my business to you) that you three
From Milan did fupplant good Profpero:
Expos'd unto the fea (which hath requit it)
Him, and his innocent child: for which foul deed:
The powers delaying, not forgetting, have
Incens'd the feas and fhores, yea, all the creatures,
Against your peace: thee of thy fon, Alonso,
They have bereft; and do pronounce by me,
Ling'ring perdition, worfe than any death
Can be at once, fhall ftep by step attend
You and your ways; whofe wrath to guard you from,
(Which here in this moft defolate Ifle elfe falls
Upon your heads,) is nothing but heart's forrow,
And a clear life enfuing.

He vanishes in thunder: then, to foft mufick, Enter the Shapes again, and dance with mopps and mowes, and carrying out the table.

Pro. Bravely the figure of this harpy haft thou Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had devouring: Of my inftruction haft thou nothing bated, In what thou hadft to fay: fo with good life, And obfervation ftrange, my meaner minifters Their feveral kinds have done; my high charms work, And thefe, mine enemies, are all knit up In their distractions: they are in my power; And in thefe fits I leave them, whilft I vifit Young Ferdinand, (whom they fuppofe is drown'd,

And

And his and my lov'd darling. [Exit Profpero from above. Gen. I' th' name of fomething holy, Sir, why ftand you In this ftrange ftare?

Alon. O, it is monftrous! monstrous!

Methoughts, the billows fpoke, and told me of its
The winds did fing it to me; and the thunder,
That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd,
The Name of Profper: it did bafe my trespass.
Therefore, my fon i'th' ooze is bedded; and
I'll feek him deeper than e'er plummet founded, :
And with him there lye mudded.

Seb. But one fiend at a time,

I'll fight their legions o'er..

Ant. I'll be thy fecond.

[Exit

[Exeunt.

Gon. All three of them are defperate; their great guilt,

Like poifon giv'n to work a great time after,
Now 'gins to bite the fpirits. I do beseech you,
That are of fuppler joints, follow them fwiftly,
And hinder them from what this ecftafie

May now provoke them too.

Adri. Follow, I pray you.

ACT

[Exeunt.

IV.

SCENE, Profpero's Cell.

Enter Profpero, Ferdinand, and Miranda.
Pro. IF I have too aufterely punish'd you,
Your compenfation makes amends; for I
Have giv'n you here a thread of mine own life;
Or that, for which I live, whom once again
I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations
Were but my tryals of thy love, and thou
Haft ftrangely ftood the teft. Here, afore heaven,
I ratify this my rich gift: O Ferdinand,
Do not smile at me, that I boast her off;
For thou thalt find, fhe will outftrip all praise,
And make it halt behind her.

Fer. I believe it, Against an oracle.

Po Them as my gift, and thine own aequifition Womaly purchas, take my Daughter. But If thou doft break her virgin-knot, before All fanctimonious ceremonies may With full and holy Rite be minifier'd, No fweet afperfions, fall the heav'us let fall To make this contract grow: bat barren hate, Sour-ey'd disdain, and difcord fhall beftrew The union of your bed with weeds fo loathly, That you firall hate it both: therefore take heed, As Hymen's lamps thall light you.

Fer. As I hope

For quiet days, fair iffue, and long life,

Wish fuch love as 'tis now, the murkiest den,
The most oppomune place, the frongest suggestion
Our worfer Genius can, fhall never melt

Mine honour inte luft; to take away

The edge of that day's celebration,

When I fhall think of Phabas' steeds are founder'dy Or night kept chain'd below.

Eno. Fairly fpoke.

Sit then, and talk with her, fhe is thine own.
What, Ariel; my induftrious fervant, Ariel

Enter Ariel.

Ari. What would my potent mafter? here I am. Pro. Thou and thy meaner fellows your last service Did worthily perform; and I must use you

In fuch another trick; go, bring the rabble,

O'er whom I give thee power, here to this place:
Incite them to quick motion, for I must

Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple
Some vanity of mine ast 3. it is

And they expect it from me.

Ari. Prefently?

Pro. Ay, with a twink

my promise,

Ari Before you can fay; Come and go.

And breathe twice, and cry for fan

Each one, tripping on his toe

Will be here with map and maw

Do you love me, mafter no¿

Pro. Dearly, my delicate Ariel; do not approach,

'Till thou dost hear me call.