Obey, and be attentiue! Canft thou remember

A time before we came vnto this Cell?

I doe not thinke thou canft; for then thou was't not
Out three yeeres old.

Mira.

Certainely, Sir, I can!

Prof. By what? by any other house, or person?
Of any thing the Image, tell me, that
Hath kept with thy remembrance.

Mira.

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'Tis farre off,

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And rather like a dreame, then an affurance,

That my remembrance warrants. Had I not

Fowre or fiue women once, that tended me?

Prof. Thou hadft; and more, Miranda. But how is it 48 That this liues in thy minde? What feeft thou els

In the dark-backward and Abifme of Time?

Yf thou remembrest ought ere thou cam'ft here,
How thou cam'ft here, thou maist.

Mira.

But that, I doe not. 52

Prof. Twelue yere fince, (Miranda,) twelue yere since, Thy father was the Duke of Millaine, and

A Prince of power

Mira.
Sir! are not you my Father?
Prof. Thy Mother was a peece of vertue, and
She said thou waft my daughter; and thy father
Was Duke of Millaine; and his onely heire,
And Princeffe, no worse Iffued.

Mira.

O, the heauens!

What fowle play had we, that we came from thence?
Or bleffed was't, we did?

Prof.

Both, both, my Girle!

By 'fowle play' (as thou saist) were we heau'd thence,
But bleffedly holpe hither.

O! my heart bleedes

Mira.
To thinkė oth' teene that I haue turn'd you to,
Which is from my remembrance! Please you, farther!
Prof. My brother, and thy vncle, call'd Anthonio,

(I pray thee marke me, that a brother should
Be fo perfidious!) he, whom, next thy felfe,
Of all the world I lou'd, and to him put
The mannage of my state; (as, at that time,

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Through all the fignories it was the first,

And Profpero, the prime Duke, being fo reputed
In dignity; and for the liberall Artes,

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Without a paralell: thofe being all my studie,
The Gouernment I cast vpon my brother,

And to my State grew ftranger, being transported
And rapt in secret studies;) thy false vncle

(Do'st thou attend me?

Mira.

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Sir! most heedefully.)

Prof. Being once perfected how to graunt fuites,
How to deny them; who t'aduance, and who
To trash for ouer-topping; new created

80

The creatures that were mine, I fay, or chang'd 'em,

Or els new form'd 'em; (hauing both the key,

Of Officer, and office ;) fet all hearts i'th state

84

To what tune pleas'd his eare; that now he was

The Iuy which had hid my princely Trunck,

And fuckt my verdure out on't: (Thou attend'st not?
Mira. O good Sir, I doe!

Prof.

I pray thee, marke me!) 88

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
To clofenes, and the bettering of my mind
With that, which (but by being fo retir'd)
Ore-priz'd all popular rate; in my false brother
Awak'd an euill nature; and my trust
(Like a good parent) did beget of him
A falfehood in it's contrarie, as great

As my truft was; which had indeede no limit,

A confidence fans bound. He being thus Lorded,
Not onely with what my reuénew yeelded,
But what my power might els exact, (Like one
Who hauing into truth, by telling of it,
Made fuch a fynner of his memorie

To credite his owne lie,) he did beleeue

He was indeed the Duke; (out o'th' Substitution,
And executing th'outward face of Roialtie,

With all prerogatiue :) hence, his Ambition growing,
(Do'st thou heare?

Mira.

Your tale, Sir, would cure deafeneffe.) Prof. To haue no Schreene between this part he plaid,

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And him he plaid it for, he needes will be
Abfolute Millaine. Me (poore man!) my Librarie
Was Dukedome large enough: of temporall royalties
He thinks me now incapable. Confederates

(So drie he was for Sway) wi'th' King of Naples,

To giue him Annuall tribute, doe him homage,
Subiect his Coronet to his Crowne, and bend
The Dukedom yet vnbow'd (alas, poore Millaine!)
To moft ignoble stooping.

Mira.

Oh the heauens!

Prof. Marke his condition, and th'euent! then tell me If this might be a brother.

Mira.

I fhould finne

To thinke but Noblie of my Grand-mother:
Good wombes haue borne bad fonnes.

Pro.

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Now the Condition. 120

This King of Naples, being an Enemy
To me inueterate, hearkens my Brothers fuit;
Which was, That he, in lieu o'th' premises,
Of homage, and I know not how much Tribute,
Should prefently extirpate me and mine

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Out of the Dukedome, and confer faire Millaine,

With all the Honors, on my brother: Whereon,
A treacherous Armie leuied, one mid-night
Fated to th' purpose, did Anthonio open

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The gates of Millaine; and, ith' dead of darkenesse,

The ministers for th' purpose hurried thence,

Me, and thy crying selfe.

Alack, for pitty!

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Mir.

I, not remembring how I cride out then,

Will

cry it ore againe: it is a hint

That wrings mine eyes to't.

Pro.

Heare a little further;

And then I'le bring thee to the present bufineffe

Which now's vpon's; without the which, this Story

135. to't] too't F.

Pro.

Well demanded, wench!

My Tale prouokes that queftion. Deare, they durft not! 140 (So deare the loue my people bore me!) nor set A marke fo bloudy on the bufineffe; but,

With colours fairer, painted their foule ends.

In few, they hurried vs a-boord a Barke,

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Bore vs fome Leagues to Sea; where they prepared
A rotten carkaffe of a Butt,1 not rigg'd,
Nor tackle, fayle, nor maft; (the very rats
Inftinctiuely haue quit it:) There they hoyft vs
To cry to th' Sea, that roard to vs; to figh
To th' windes, whose pitty, fighing backe againe,
Did vs but louing wrong.

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(Infused with a fortitude from heauen,)

Mir.

Was I then to you!

Pro.

Thou was't, that did preferue me!

When I haue deck'd the sea with drops full falt,

Thou didst fmile,

Vnder my burthen groan'd; which raif'd in me
An vndergoing ftomacke, to beare vp

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Against what should ensue.

Mir. How came we a-fhore?

Pro.

By prouidence diuine,

Some food we had, and fome fresh water, that

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A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo,

Out of his Charity, (who being then appointed

Mafter of this defigne,) did giue vs, with

Rich garments, linnens, stuffs, and neceffaries,

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Which fince haue fteeded much; fo, of his gentlenesse,

Now I arife. [Puts on his Mantle.

Sit ftill, and heare the last of our fea-forrow!
Heere in this Iland we arriu'd; and heere

1 Compare our use of 'Tub' for a clumsy boat.

Haue I, thy Schoolemaster, made thee more profit
Then other Princeffe1 can, that haue more time
For vainer howres; and Tutors, not fo carefull.

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Mir. Heuens thank you for't! And now, I pray you, Sir, (For ftill 'tis beating in my minde;) your reason For rayfing this Sea-ftorme?

Pro.

Know thus far forth!

By accident most strange, bountifull Fortune
(Now my deere Lady) hath, mine enemies,
Brought to this fhore: And, by my prescience,

I finde my Zenith doth depend vpon

A moft aufpitious ftarre, whofe influence,

If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes

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Will euer after droope. Heare 2 cease more questions! 184 Thou art inclinde to fleepe: 'tis a good dulneffe,

And giue it way! I know thou canst not chufe.

Enter ARIEL.

[MIR. sleepes.

¶ Come away, Seruant, come! I am ready now, Approach, my Ariel! Come!

Ari. All haile, great Mafter! graue Sir, haile! I come To answer thy beft pleasure! be't to fly,

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To swim, to diue into the fire; to ride

On the curld clowds: to thy ftrong bidding, taske
Ariel, and all his Qualitie!

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Pro.

Haft thou, Spirit,

Performd to point, THE TEMPEST that I bad thee?

Ar. To euery Article!

I boorded the Kings fhip. Now on the Beake,
Now in the Wafte, the Decke, in euery Cabyn,

I flam'd amazement. Sometime I'ld diuide,

And burne in many places; on the Top-maft,

The Yards, and Bore-fpritt, would I flame distinctly;
Then meete, and ioyne. Ioues Lightning, the precurfers
O'th dreadfull Thunder-claps, more momentarie

1 Princesse is plural here, like 'The two Antipholus.'-Errors, V. i. 356, vol. i, p. 139.

2 Heare= here.

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186-7. Enter...] Ariel is after 188 in F.

200. Bore-spritt] F. boltsprit Rowe. bowsprit Cam.