The mistress, which I serve, quickens what's | This wooden slavery, than I would suffer dead, Had ne'er like executor. I forget: Enter MIRANDA; and PROSPERO at a distance. Work not so hard: I would, the lightning had pile! Pray, set it down, and rest you: when this Fer. O most dear mistress, Mira. If you'll sit down, The flesh-fly blow my mouth.---Hear my soul speak ;-- The very instant that I saw you, did Fer. O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this And crown what I profess with kind event, Mira. I am a fool, To weep at what I am glad of. [grace Pro. Fair encounter [offer What I desire to give; and much less take, The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning! I'll bear your logs the while: Pray, give me that; And prompt me, plain and holy innocence ! I'll carry it to the pile. Fer. No, precious creature : I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, Mira. It would become me As well as it does you: and I should do it Pro. Poor worm! thou art infected; This visitation shows it. Mira. You look wearily. Fer. No, noble mistress; 'tis fresh morning with me, When you are by at night. I do beseech you, (Chiefly, that I might set it in my prayers,) What is your name? Mira. Miranda :---O my father, Indeed, the top of admiration; worth Mira. I do not know One of my sex; no woman's face remember, friend, And my dear father: how features are abroad, Fer. I am, in my condition, I am your wife, if you will marry me; Fer. My mistress, dearest, And I thus humble ever. Mira. My husband then ? Fer. Ay, with a heart as willing As bondage e'er of freedom: here's my hand. now farewell, Till half an hour hence. Fer. A thousand! thousand! [Exeunt FER. and MIR. Pro. So glad of this as they, I cannot be, Who are surpris'd with all; but my rejoicing At nothing can be more. I'll to my book; For yet, ere supper time, must I perform Much business appertaining. [Exit. SCENE II.---Another part of the island. Enter STEPHANO and TRINCULO; CALIBAN following with a bottle. Ste. Tell not me;---when the butt is out, we will drink water; not a drop before: therefore bear up, and board 'em: Servant-monster, drink to me. Trin. Servant-monster? the folly of this island! They say, there's but five upon this isle: we are three of them; if the other two be brained like us, the state totters. Ste. Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee; thy eyes are almost set in thy head. Trin. Where should they be set else? he were a brave monster indeed, if they were set in his tail. Ste. My man-monster hath drowned his tongue in sack: for my part, the sea cannot drown me: I swam, ere I could recover the shore, five-and-thirty leagues, off and on, by this light.---Thou shalt be my lieutenant, monster, or my standard. Trin. Your lieutenant, if you list; he's no standard. Ste. We'll not run, monsieur monster. dogs; and yet say nothing neither. • Command + Own'd. E *Whatsoever Ste. Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a good moon-calf. Cal. How does thy honour? Let me lick thy I'll not serve him, he is not valiant. [shoe: Trin. Thou liest, most ignorant monster; I am in case to justle a constable: Why, thou deboshed fish thou, was there ever man a coward, that hath drunk so much sack as I to-day? Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish, and half a monster? Cal. Lo, how he mocks me! wilt thou let him, my lord ? Trin. Lord, quoth he!---that a monster should be such a natural! Cal. Lo, lo, again! bite him to death, I pr'ythee. Ste. Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head; if you prove a mutineer, the next tree--The poor monster's my subject, and he shall not suffer indignity. Cal. I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleas'd To hearken once again the suit I made thee? Ste. Marry will I: kneel, and repeat it; I will stand, and so shall Trinculo. murrain on your monster, and the devil take your fingers. Cal. Ha, ha, ha! Ste. Now, forward with your tale. Prythee stand further off. Cal. Beat him enough: after a little time, Cal. Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him I' the afternoon to sleep: there thou may'st Ste. Is it so brave a lass? Cal. Ay, lord; she will become thy bed, I warrant, And bring thee forth brave brood. Ste. Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and I will be king and queen; (save our graces!) and Trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys:---Dost thou like the plot, Trinculo ? Trin. Excellent. Ste. Give me thy hand; I am sorry I beat thee: but, while thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head Cal. Within this half hour will he be asleep; Wilt thou destroy him then? Ste. Ay, on mine honour. Ari. This will I tell my master. Cal. Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of * Throat The clouds, methought, would open, and show | Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again. Ste. This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing. Cal. When Prospero is destroyed. Ste. That shall be by and by: I remember the story. Trin. The sound is going away: let's follow it, and after, do our work. Ste. Lead, monster; we'll follow.---I would, I could see this taborer: he lays it on. Trin. Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano. SCENE III.---Another part of the island. Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others. Gon. By'r lakin, I can go no further, Sir; My old bones ache: here's a maze trod, indeed, Through forth-rights, and meanders! by your I needs must rest me. [patience, Alon. Old lord, I cannot blame thee, Who am myself attach'd with weariness, To the dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest. Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd, Whom thus we stray to find; and the sea mocks Our frustrate search on land: Well, let him go. Ant. I am right glad that he's so out of hope. [Aside to SEBASTIAN. Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose That you resolv'd to effect. Seb. The next advantage Will we take thoroughly. Ant. Let it be to-night; with travel, they For, now they are oppress'd Seb. I say, to-night: no more. Solemn and strange music; and PROSPERO above, invisible. Enter several strange Shapes, bringing in a banquet; they dance about it with gentle actions of salutation; and, inviting the king, &c. to eat, they depart. Alon. What harmony is this? my good friends, hark! expressing (Although they want the use of tongue), a kind Of excellent dumb discourse. Pro. Praise in departing. Fran. They vanish'd strangely. Seb. No matter, since [Aside. They have left their viands behind; for we have stomachs.-- Will't please you taste of what is here? Gon. Faith, Sir, you need not fear: When we were boys, [eers, Who would believe that there were mountainDew-lapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at them Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men, Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find, Each putter-out on five for one, will bring us Good warrant of. Alon. I will stand to, and feed, Although my last: no matter, since I feel The best is past:---Brother, my lord the duke, Stand too, and do as we. Thunder and Lightning. Enter ARIEL like a harpy; claps his wings upon the table, and, with a quaint device, the banquet vanishes. Ari. You are three men of sin, whom destiny (That hath to instrument this lower world, And what is in't,) the never-surfeited sea Hath caused to belch up; and on this island Where man doth not inhabit; you 'mongst men Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad; Seeing ALON. SEB. &c. draw their swords. And even with such like valour, men hang and [fellows Their proper selves. You fools! I and my drown well Are ministers of fate; the elements Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as [stabs Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish One dowle that's in my plume; my fellowministers Are like invulnerable: if you could hurt, Your swords are now too massy for your strengths, And will not be uplifted: But, remember, (For that's my business to you,) that you three From Milan did supplant good Prospero, Expos'd unto the sea, which hath requit it, Him, and his innocent child: for which foul deed Incens'd the seas and shores, yea an' the creaThe powers, delaying, forgetting, have tures, Against your peace: Thee, of thy son, 1, Alonso, from (Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls Upon your heads,) is nothing, but heart's sorAnd a cleart life ensuing. [row, He vanishes in thunder: then, to soft music, enter the Shapes again, and dance with mops and mowes, and carry out the table. Pro. [Aside.] Bravely the figure of this harpy [present, hast thou [Aside. Certainly. Wonder. * Down. Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring: Of my instruction hast thou nothing 'bated, † Pure, blameless. Alon. I cannot too much muse,§ * Our Lady. + Show. In what thou hadst to say: so, with good life, And these, mine enemies, are all knit up And his and my loved darling. [Exit PROSPERO from above. Gon. I' the name of something holy, Sir, why stand you In this strange stare? Alon. O, it is monstrous! monstrous! Methought, the billows spoke, and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prosper; it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded. Seb. But one fiend at a time, I'll fight their legions o'er. Ant. I'll be thy second. [Exit. Do you love me, master? no. Till thou dost hear me call. [proach, Gon. All three of them are desperate; their Ari. Well I conceive. [Exit. [straw great guilt, [Exeunt SEB. and ANT. Like poison given to work a great time after, Adr. Follow, I pray you. ACT IV. [Exeunt. SCENE I.---Before PROSPERO'S cell. Enter PROSPERO, FERDINAND, and MIRANDA. Pro. If I have too austerely punish'd you, Your compensation makes amends; for I Have given you here a thread of mine own life, Or that for which I live; whom once again I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test: here, afore HeaI ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand, [ven, Do not smile at me, that I boast her off, For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise, And make it halt behind her. Fer. I do believe it, Against an oracle. sition Pro. Then, as my gift, and thine own acquiWorthily purchas'd, take my daughter: But If thou dost break her virgin knot before All sanctimonious ceremonies may With full and holy rite be minister'd, No sweet aspersiont shall the heavens let fall To make this contract grow; but barren hate, Sour-ey'd disdain, and discord, shall bestrew The union of your bed with weeds so loathly, That you shall hate it both: therefore, take As Hymen's lamps shall light you. Fer. As I hope [heed, For quiet days, fair issue, and long life, Our worser Genius can, shall never melt Mine honour into lust; to take away The edge of that day's celebration, founder'd, Or night kept chain'd below. Pro. Look, thou be true; do not give dal liance Too much the rein; the strongest oaths are Fer. I warrant you, Sir; Pro. Well.-- Now come, my Ariel; bring a corollary,* A Masque. Enter IRIS. Iris. Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich lees Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats, and pease; Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatch'd with stover, them to keep; Thy banks with peonied and lilied brims, Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor love Whose watery arch, and messenger, am 1, Bids thee leave these; and with her sovereiga grace, Here on this grass-plot, in this very place, To come and sport, her peacocks fly amain; Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain. Enter CERES. Cer. Hail, many-colour'd messenger, that And some donation freely to estate * Surplus, + Command, Woody. have done Dove-drawn with her: here thought they to Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows, Cer. Highest queen of state, Juno. How does my bounteous sister? Go with me, To bless this twain, that they may prosperous And honour'd in their issue. SONG. Juno. Honour, riches, marriage-blessing, Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you! Juno sings her blessings on you. [be, Cer. Earth's increase, and foisont plenty; Fer. This is a most majestic vision, and Pro. Spirits, which by nine art Fer. Let me live here ever; [Juno and Ceres whisper, and send IRIS on employment. Pro. Sweet now, silence: Juno and Ceres whisper seriously; There's something else to do: hush, and be Or else our spell is marr'd. [mute, Iris. You nymphs, call'd Naiads, of the wand'ring brooks, [looks, With your sedg'd crowns, and ever harmless Leave your crisp channels, and on this green land Answer your summons; Juno does command: Come, temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate A contract of true love; be not too late. Enter certain Nymphs. You sun-burn'd sicklemen, of August weary, Come hither from the furrow, and be merry; Make holy-day: your rye-straw hats put on, And these fresh nymphs encounter every one In country footing. Enter certain Reapers, properly habited: they join with the Nymphs in a graceful dance; towards Fluto, † Abundance, & Able to produce such wonders. Fer. This is most strange: your father's in some passion That works him strongly. Mira. Never till this day, Be not disturb'd with my infirmity: : [Exeunt. Fer. Mira. We wish you peace. Ariel, come. |