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On the curled clouds; to thy strong bidding, task Thou calledst me up at midnight to fetch dew
Ariel, and all his quality.
From the still-vexed Bermoothes, there she's hid:
The mariners all under hatches stowed;

Pro.

Hast thou, spirit,

Performed to point the tempest that I bade thee? Whom, with a charm joined to their suffered

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That's my noble master !

What shall I do? say what? what shall I do?
Pro. Go, make thyself like a nymph o' the sea;
be subject

To no sight but thine and mine; invisible
To every eye-ball else. Go, take this shape,
And hither come in 't: hence, with diligence.
[Exit ARIEL.
Awake, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well;

And here was left by the sailors: Thou, my Awake!
slave,

As thou report'st thyself, wast then her servant:
And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate
To act her earthy and abhorred commands,
Refusing her grand 'hests, she did confine thee,
By help of her more potent ministers,
And in her most unmitigable rage,
Into a cloven pine; within which rift
Imprisoned, thou didst painfully remain
A dozen years; within which space she died,
And left thee there; where thou didst vent thy
groans,

As fast as mill-wheels strike. Then was this

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Mira. The strangeness of your story put
Heaviness in me.

Pro. Shake it off: Come on;
We'll visit Caliban, my slave, who never
Yields us kind answer.

Mira.

'T is a villain, sir,

I do not love to look on.
Pro. But, as 't is,
We cannot miss him he does make our fire,
Fetch in our wood; and serves in offices
That profit us. What ho! slave! Caliban!
Thou earth, thou! speak.

Cal. [within.] There's wood enough within.
Pro. Come forth, I say; there's other business.
for thee:

Come, thou tortoise! when?

Re-enter ARIEL, like a water-nymph. Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel, Hark in thine car. Ari. My lord, it shall be done. [Exit. Pro. Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself

Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!

Enter CALIBAN.

Cal. As wicked dew as c'er my mother brushed
With raven's feather from unwholesome fen,
Drop on you both! a south-west blow on ye,

Pro. If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an And blister you all o'er!

oak,

And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till

Thou hast howled away twelve winters.
Pardon, master.

Ari.

Pro. For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have

cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins

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Thou strok'st me, and mad'st much of me; wouldst Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou wert best,

give me

Water with berries in 't; and teach me how

To name the bigger light, and how the less,

That burn by day and night: and then I loved thee,

And shewed thee all the qualities o' the isle,

The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place, and fertile ;

Curséd be I that did so! - All the charms

Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!

For I am all the subjects that you have,

Which first was mine own king; and here you sty

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Which any print of goodness will not take,
Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,

Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each
hour

One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like

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It sounds no more: — and sure it waits upon
Some god of the island. Sitting on a bank
Weeping again the king my father's wreck,
This music crept by me upon the waters;
| Allaying both their fury, and my passion,
With its sweet air: thence I have followed it,
Though thou didst learn, had that in 't which good | Or it hath drawn me rather:
- But 't is gone.
No, it begins again.

A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes
With words that made them known: But thy vile

race,

natures

ARIEL sings.

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:

Hark! now I hear them,- ding-dong, bell. [Burden, ding-dong. Fer. The ditty does remember my drowned father: :

This is no mortal business, nor no sound
That the earth owes:- I hear it now above me.
Pro. The fringed curtains of thine eye advance,
And say what thou seest yond'.

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And his more braver daughter, could control thee, If now 't were fit to do 't. At the first sight

[Aside.

They have changed eyes:- Delicate Ariel,
I'll set thee free for this!-A word, good sir;
I fear you have done yourself some wrong: a
word.

Mira. Why speaks my father so ungently?

This

Is the third man that e'er I saw; the first With grief, that's beauty's canker, thou mightst That e'er I sighed for: pity move my father

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Make the prize light. One word more: I charge thee

That thou attend me: thou dost here usurp

On whom these airs attend! Vouchsafe, my The name thou ow'st not; and hast put thyself

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The fresh-brook muscles, withered roots, and husks Are then most humble; I have no ambition Wherein the acorn cradled: Follow.

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To see a goodlier man.

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Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What! Than he appears by speech; this is unwonted,

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Gon. 'Beseech you, sir, be merry: you have By and by it will strike.

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