Mir.

Alon.

Seb.

Fer.

Alon.

Mir.

Pros.

I would not for the world.

Yes, for a score of kingdoms you
And I would call it fair play.

should wrangle,

If this prove

A vision of the Island, one dear son

Shall I twice lose.

A most high miracle! Though the seas threaten, they are merciful;

I have cursed them without cause.

[Kneels.

Now all the blessings

Of a glad father compass thee about!
Arise, and say how thou camest here.

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O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in 't!

'Tis new to thee.
Alon. What is this maid with whom thou wast at play?
Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours:
Is she the goddess that hath sever'd us,
And brought us thus together?

Fer.

Alon.

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Sir, she is mortal;
But by immortal Providence she's mine:
I chose her when I could not ask my father
For his advice, nor thought I had one. She
Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan,
Of whom so often I have heard renown,
But never saw before; of whom I have
Received a second life; and second father
This lady makes him to me.

I am hers:
But, O, how oddly will it sound that I
Must ask my child forgiveness!

Pros.

Gon.

Alon.

Gon.

There, sir, stop:

I have inly wept,

Let us not burthen our remembrance with

A heaviness that's gone.

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Or should have spoke ere this. Look down, you

gods,

And on this couple drop a blessed crown!
For it is you that have chalk'd forth the way
Which brought us hither.

I say, Amen, Gonzalo !
Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue
Should become kings of Naples? O, rejoice
Beyond a common joy, and set it down
With gold on lasting pillars: In one voyage
Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis
And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife

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Where he himself was lost, Prospero his dukedom
In a poor isle and all of us ourselves

When no man was his own.

Alon. [To Fir. and Mir.]

Gon.

Give me your hands :

Be it so! Amen!

Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart
That doth not wish you joy!

Re-enter Ariel, with the Master and Boatswain amazedly

following.

O, look, sir, look, sir! here is more of us :
I prophesied, if a gallows were on land,

This fellow could not drown. Now, blasphemy,
That swear'st grace o'erboard, not an oath on

shore?

Hast thou no mouth by land? What is the news?

Boats. The best news is, that we have safely found 221
Our king and company; the next, our ship—
Which, but three glasses since, we gave out split-
Is tight and yare and bravely rigg'd as when
We first put out to sea.

Ari. [Aside to Pros.]

Have I done since I went.

Pros. [Aside to Ari.]

Sir, all this service

My tricksy spirit!

Alon. These are not natural events; they strengthen From strange to stranger. Say, how came you hither?

Boats. If I did think, sir, I were well awake,

I'ld strive to tell you. We were dead of sleep, 230
And how we know not-all clapp'd under hatches;
Where but even now with strange and several

noises

Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling chains,
And moe diversity of sounds, all horrible,
We were awaked; straightway, at liberty;
Where we, in all our trim, freshly beheld
Our royal, good and gallant ship, our master
Capering to eye
her on a trice, so please you,
Even in a dream, were we divided from them
And were brought moping hither.

Ari. [Aside to Pros.]

Was 't well done?

Pros. [Aside to Ari.] Bravely, my diligence.

shalt be free.

Thou

Alon. This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod;
And there is in this business more than nature
Was ever conduct of: some oracle

Pros.

Must rectify our knowledge.

Sir, my liege,
Do not infest your mind with beating on

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The strangeness of this business; at pick'd leisure
Which shall be shortly, single I'll resolve you,
Which to you shall seem probable, of every
These happen'd accidents; till when, be cheerful
And think of each thing well. [Aside to Ari.] Come
hither, spirit:

Set Caliban and his companions free;

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Untie the spell. [Exit Ariel.] How fares my gracious sir?

There are yet missing of your company

Some few odd lads that you remember not.

Re-enter Ariel, driving in Caliban, Stephano and Trinculo, in their stolen apparel.

Ste.

Every man shift for all the rest, and let no man take care for himself; for all is but fortune. Coragio, bully-monster, coragio!

Trin. If these be true spies which I wear in my
head, here's a goodly sight.

Cal. O Setebos, these be brave spirits indeed!
How fine my master is! I am afraid
He will chastise me.

What things are these, my lord Antonio?
Will money buy 'em?

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Ant.
Very like; one of them
Is a plain fish, and, no doubt, marketable.
Pros. Mark but the badges of these men, my lords,
Then say if they be true. This mis-shapen knave,
His mother was a witch, and one so strong
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