Shalt have the air at freedom: for a little,

Follow, and do me service.

[Exeunt.

ACT. V. SCENE 1.

Before the cell. Enter PROSPERO in his magic robes, and ARIEL.

Prospero.

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.

Pro. I did say so,

When first I rais'd the tempest.

Say, my spirit,

How fare the king and his followers ?
Ari. Confin'd together

In the same fashion as you gave in charge;

Just as you left them; all prisoners, sir,

In the lime-
e-grove

which weather-fends They cannot budge, till your release.

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your cell ;

The king,

His brother, and yours, abide all three distracted;
And the remainder mourning over them,
Brim-full of sorrow, and dismay; but chiefly,
Him that you term'd The good old lord, Gonzalo :
His tears run down his beard, like winter-drops

From

From eaves of reeds: your charms so strongly work

'em,

That if you now beheld them, your affections

Would become tender.

Pro. Dost thou think so, spirit?

Ari. Mine would, sir, were I human.

Pro. And mine shall.

Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling
Of their afflictions? and shall not myself,

One of their kind, that relish all as sharply,

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Passion as they, be kindlier mov'd than thou art? Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick,

Yet, with

my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury Do I take part: the rarer action is

In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,
The sole drift of my purpose doth extend

Not a frown further: Go, release them, Ariel;
My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore,
And they shall be themselves.

Ari. I'll fetch them, sir.

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[Exit.

Pro. 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 demy-puppets,

that

By moon-shine do the green sour ringlets make,
Whereof the ewe not bites; and you, whose pastime
Is to make midnight mushrooms; that rejoice
To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid

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(Weak

(Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd
The noon-tide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,
And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault
Set roaring war to the dread rattling thunder
Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak
With his own bolt: the strong-bas'd
promontory
Have I made shake: and by the spurs pluck'd up
The pine, and cedar graves, at my command,
Have wak'd their sleepers; op'd, and let them forth
By my so potent art: but this rough magic
I here abjure: and, when I have requir'd
Some heavenly music (which even now I do),
To work mine end upon their senses, that
This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And, deeper than did ever plummet sound,
I'll drown
my book.

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[Solemn music.

Re-enter ARIEL, after him ALONZO, with a frantic gesture, attended by GONZALO. SEBASTIAN and ANTHONIO in like manner, attended by ADRIAN and FRANCISCO. They all enter the circle which PROSPERO had made, and there stand charm'd ; which PROSPERO observing, speaks.

A solemn air, and the best comforter
To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains,

Now useless, boil❜d within thy skull! there stand,
For you are spell-stopp'd.

Holy Gonzalo, honourable man,

Mine eyes, even sociable to the shew of thine,

Fall

Fall fellowly drops.

And, as the

The charm dissolves apace;
the night,

morning steals upon
Melting the darkness, so their rising senses
Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
Their clearer reason. -O good Gonzalo,
My true preserver, and a loyal sir

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

-Most cruelly

Didst thou, Alonzo, use me and my daughter:
Thy brother was a further in the act ;-

Thou'rt pinch'd for't now, Sebastian.

blood,

-Flesh and

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You brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,
Expell❜d remorse, and nature; who, with Sebastian,
(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
Will shortly fill the reasonable shore,

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 dis-case me, and myself present [Exit ARIEL.
As I was sometime Milan. quickly, spirit;

Thou shalt e'er long be free.

ARIEL enters singing, and helps to attire him.

Where the bee sucks, there suck 1;

In a cowslip's bell I lie :

There

There I couch when owls do cry.

On the bat's back I do fly,
After summer, merrily:

Merrily, merrily, shall I live now,

Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

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

But yet thou shalt have freedom: So, so, so.
To the king's ship invisible as thou art :
There shalt thou find the mariners asleep

Under the hatches; the master, and the boatswain,
Being awake, enforce them to this place;

And presently, I pr'ythee.

Ari. I drink the air before me, and return

Or e'er your pulse twice beat.

Gon. All torment, trouble, wonder, and

ment

Inhabit here; some heavenly power guide us
Out of this fearful country!

Pro. Behold, sir King,

The wronged duke of Milan, Prospero:
For more assurance that a living prince
Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body;
And to thee, and thy company, I bid

A hearty welcome.

Alon. Whe'r thou be'st he, or no,

Or some inchanted trifle to abuse me,

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[Exit. amaze

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As late I have been, I not know: thy pulse

Beats, as of flesh and blood; and, since I saw thee,

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