line: now, jerkin, you are like to lose your hair, and prove a bald jerkin. Trin. Do, do: we steal by line and level, an't like your grace. Steph. I thank thee for that jest; here's a garment for 't: wit shall not go unrewarded, while I am king of this country. 'Steal by line and level' is an excellent pass of pate; there's another garment for 't. Trin. Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and away with the rest. Cal. I will have none on't: we shall lose our time, And all be turn'd to barnacles, or to apes Steph. Monster, lay to your fingers help to bear this away, where my hogshead of wine is, or I'll turn you out of my kingdom. carry this. Trin. And this. Steph. Ay, and this. Go to; A noise of hunters heard. Enter divers Spirits, in shape of dogs and hounds, and hunt them about; PROSPERO and ARIEL setting them on. Pros. Hey, Mountain, hey! Ari. Silver; there it goes, Silver ! Pros. Fury, Fury! there, Tyrant, there! hark! hark! [CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO are driven out. Go, charge my goblins that they grind their joints With dry convulsions; shorten up their sinews With aged cramps, and more pinch-spotted make them, Than pard or cat o' mountain. Ari. Hark, they roar! Pros. Let them be hunted soundly. At this hour Lies at my mercy all mine enemies: Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou ACT V. [Exeunt. SCENE I. Before PROSPERO's cell. Enter PROSPERO in his magic robes; and ARIEL. Pros. Now does my project gather to a head: My charms crack not, my spirits obey, and time Goes upright with his carriage. How's the day? Ari. On the sixth hour; at which time, my lord, You said our work should cease. Pros. I did say so, When first I raised the tempest. Say, my spirit, How fares the king and 's followers? Ari. Confined together In the same fashion as you gave in charge; Just as you left them; all prisoners, sir, In the line-grove which weather-fends your cell; They cannot budge till your release. The king, His brother, and yours, abide all three distracted, And the remainder mourning over them, Brimful of sorrow and dismay; but chiefly His tears run down his beard, like winter's drops From eaves of reeds. Your charm so strongly works 'em, That if you now beheld them, your affections Would become tender. Pros. Dost thou think so, spirit? Ari. Mine would, sir, were I human. 1 Pros. Yet, with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Ari. I'll fetch them, sir. [Exit. Pros. Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves; And ye, that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back; you demi-puppets, that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites; and you, whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms; that rejoice And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault Re-enter ARIEL before; then ALONSO, with a frantic gesture, attended by GONZALO; SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO in like manner, attended by ADRIAN and FRANCISCO: they all enter the circle which PROSPERO had made, and there stand charmed; which PROSPERO observing, speaks. A solemn air, and the best comforter Holy Gonzalo, honourable man, Mine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine, To him thou follow'st, I will pay thy graces You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, (Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong), Would here have kill'd your king; I do forgive thee, Unnatural, though thou art.-Their understanding Begins to swell, and the approaching tide That now lies foul and muddy. Not one of them, [Exit ARIEL. I will discase me, and myself present, As I was sometime Milan.-Quickly, spirit; Thou shalt ere long be free. |