The duke of Milan, Pro. I'll set thee free for this!-A word, good sir; Fer. O, if a virgin, And your affection not gone forth, I'll make you The queen of Naples. Pro. Soft, sir; one word more.They are both in either's powers: but this swift busi ness I must uneasy make, lest too light winning [Aside. Make the prize light.-One word more; I charge thee, That thou attend me: thou dost here usurp The name thou ow'st not; and hast put thyself Upon this island, as a spy, to win it From me, the lord on't. Fer. No, as I am a man. Mira. There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair an house, Good things will strive to dwell with't. Pro. Follow me.-[To FERD. Speak not you for him; he's a traitor.-Come. I'll manacle thy neck and feet together; Sea-water shalt thou drink, thy food shall be The fresh-brook muscles, wither'd roots, and husks, Wherein the acorn cradled: Follow. Fer. I will resist such entertainment, till Mine enemy has more power. No; *He draws. 39 To control here signifies to confute, to contradict unanswerably. The ancient meaning of control was to check or exhibit a contrary account, from the old French contre-roller. 4066- you have done yourself some wrong" that is spoken a falsehood. Thus in The Merry Wives of Windsor: "This is not well, master Ford, this wrongs you." Mira. O dear father, Make not too rash a trial of him, for What, I say, Pro. Is so possess d with guilt: come from thy ward; Mira. Beseech you, father! Pro. Hence; hang not on my garments. Mira. I'll be his surety. Pro. Sir, have pity; . Silence; one word more Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What! An advocate for an impostor? hush! Thou think'st there are no more such shapes as he, Having seen but him and Caliban: Foolish wench! To the most of men this is a Caliban, And they to him are angels. Mira. My affections Are then most humble; I have no ambition Come on; obey: [To FERD. Pro. Fer. 41 Fearful was sometimes used in the sense of formidable, terrible, dreadful, like the French épouvantable; as may be seen by consulting Cotgrave or any of our old Dictionaries. Shakspeare almost always uses it in this sense. In K. Henry VI. Act III. Sc. 2, "A mighty and a fearful head they are." He has also fearful wars; fearful bravery; &c. &c. The verb to fear is most commonly used for to fright, to terrify, to make afraid. Gifford remarks, "as a proof how little our old dramatists were understood at the Restoration, that Dryden censures Jonson for an improper use of this word, the sense of which he altogethermistakes. Mr. Might I but through my prison once a day Behold this maid: all corners else o' the earth Let liberty make use of: space enough Have I in such a prison. It works: Come on. Pro. [To FERD. and MIRA. Hark, what thou else shalt do me. [To ARIEL. Mira. My father's of a better nature, sir, Be of comfort; Than he appears by speech; this is unwonted, Which now came from him. Pro. Thou shalt be as free Ari. To the syllable. Pro. Come, follow: speak not for him. [Exeunt. ACT II. SCENE I. Another part of the Island. Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others. Gon. 'Beseech you, sir, be mero you have cause (So have we all) of joy; for our escape Is much beyond our loss: our hint1 of woe Is common; every day, some sailor's wife, The masters of some merchant 2, and the merchant, Have just our theme of woe: but for the miracle, I mean our preservation, few in millions Can speak like us: then wisely, good sir, weigh Our sorrow with our comfort. Alon. Pr'ythee, peace. Seb. He receives comfort like cold porridge. Ant. The visitor will not give him o'er so. 1 See note 14, p. 19. 2 It was usual to call a merchant-vessel a merchant, as we now say a merchant-man. He calls Gonzalo the visitor, in allusion to the office of one who visits the sick to give advice and consolation. Seb. Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit;. by and by it will strike. Gon. Sir, Seb. One:- --Tell. Gon. When every grief is entertain'd, that's offer'd, Comes to the entertainer Seb. A dollar. Gon. Dolour comes to him, indeed; you have spoken truer than you purposed. Seb. You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should. Gon. Therefore, my lord, Ant. Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue! Alon. I pr'ythee, spare. Gon. Well, I have: But yet Seb. He will be talking. Ant. Which of them, he, or Adrian, for a good wager, first begins to crow? Seb. The old cock. Ant. The cockrel. Seb. Done: The wager? Ant. A laughter. Seb. A match. Adr. Though this island seem to be desert,- Ant. So you've pay'd. Adr. It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate -temperance 4. Ant. Temperance was a delicate wench. Seb. Ay, and a subtle; as he most learnedly delivered. Adr. The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. Seb. As if it had lungs, and rotten ones. Ant. Or, as 'twere perfumed by a fen. Gon. Here is every thing advantageous to life. Ant. True; save means to live. Seb..Of that there's none, or little. Gon. How lush 5 and lusty the grass looks? how green? Ant. The ground, indeed, is tawny. Seb. With an eye of green in't. Ant. He misses not much. Seb. No; he doth but mistake the truth totally. Gon. But the rarity of it is (which is indeed almost beyond credit) Seb. As many vouch'd rarities are. Gon. That our garments, being, as they were, drenched in the sea, hold, notwithstanding, their freshness, and glosses; being rather new dy'd than stain'd with salt water. Ant. If but one of his pockets could speak, would it not say, he lies? Seb. Ay, or very falsely pocket up his report. Gon. Methinks, our garments are now as fresh as when we put them on first in Afric, at the marriage of the king's fair daughter Claribel to the king of Tunis. Seb. 'Twas a sweet marriage, and we prosper well in our return. Adr. Túnis was never graced before with such a paragon to their queen. Gon. Not since widow Dido's time. Ant. Widow? à pox o' that! How came that widow in? Widow Dido! Seb. What if he had said widower Eneas too? good lord, how you take it! Adr. Widow Dido, said you? you make me study of that: she was of Carthage, not of Tunis. Gon. This Tunis, sir, was Carthage. 5 Lush is luxuriant, in like manner luscious is used in A Midsummer Night's Dream: "Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine." 6 That is, with a shade or small portion of green. "Red with an eye of blue makes a purple."-Boyle. |