Cal. I'll kiss thy foot: I'll swear myself thy subject. Ste. Come on then; down, and swear. Trin. I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster. A most scurvy monster! I could find in my heart to beat him,Ste. Come, kiss. Trin. —but that the poor monster's in drink. An abominable monster! Cal. I'll show thee the best springs; I'll pluck thee berries; I'll fish for thee and get thee wood enough. 170 Trin. A most ridiculous monster, to make a wonder of a poor drunkard! Cal. I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow; And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts; Show thee a jay's nest and instruct thee how 179 To snare the nimble marmoset; I'll bring thee To clustering filberts, and sometimes I'll get thee Young scamels from the rock. Wilt thou go with me? Ste. I prithee now, lead the way without any more talking. Trinculo, the king and all our company else being drowned, we will inherit here. Here; bear my bottle. Fellow Trinculo, we 'll fill him by and by again. Cal. Sings drunkenly. Farewell, master; farewell, farewell. Trin. A howling monster; a drunken monster! Cal. No more dams I'll make for fish ; Nor fetch in firing At requiring; Nor scrape trencher, nor wash dish; 'Ban, 'Ban, Ca Caliban 190 Has a new master; get a new man. Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! freedom! hey-day, freedom! Ste. O brave monster! lead the way. Exeunt. ACT III. SCENE I-Before PROSPERO's cell. Fer. There be some sports are painful, and their labour Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness 11 Fer. O most dear mistress, The sun will set before I shall discharge What I must strive to do. Mir. If you'll sit down, I'll bear your logs the while. Pray, give me that: I'll carry it to the pile. Fer. No, precious creature; I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, Than you should such dishonour undergo, While I sit lazy by. Mir. It would become me As well as it does you; and I should do it With much more ease, for my good will is to it, And yours it is against. Pros. Poor worm! thou art infected: This visitation shows it. You look wearily. 32 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 prayersWhat is your name? Mir. Miranda-O my father! I have broke your hest to say so. Fer. Admir'd Miranda! Indeed the top of admiration; worth What's dearest to the world! Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues Have I lik'd several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow'd And put it to the foil: but you, O you! So perfect and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best. Mir. I do not know One of my sex; no woman's face remember, Save, from my glass, mine own; nor have I seen More that I may call men than thou, good friend, And my dear father: how features are abroad, I am skill-less of; but, by my modesty, The jewel in my dower, I would not wish Any companion in the world but you; Nor can imagination form a shape, Besides yourself, to like of. But I prattle Something too wildly and my father's precepts I therein do forget. 49 60 Fer. I am in my condition A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king; I would, not so! and would no more endure This wooden slavery than to suffer The flesh-fly blow my mouth. Hear my soul speak: The very instant that I saw you did My heart fly to your service; there resides To make me slave to it: and for your sake Am I this patient log-man. Mir. Do you love me? Fer. O heaven! O earth! bear witness to this sound, And crown what I profess with kind event Do love, prize, honour you. Mir. I am a fool To weep at what I am glad of. Pros. Ste. Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a good moon-calf. Cal. How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe. I'll not serve him, he is not valiant. 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 To 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? Fair encounter Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace On that which breeds between them! Fer. Wherefore weep you? Mir. At mine unworthiness that dare not offer What I desire to give; and much less take What I shall die to want. But this is trifling; And all the more it seeks to hide itself The bigger bulk it shows. cunning! So Hence, bashful And prompt me, plain and holy innocence! Fer. And I thus humble ever. Mir. My mistress, dearest; My husband then? Fer. Ay, with a heart as willing As bondage e'er of freedom: here's my hand. Mir. And mine, with my heart in 't: and now farewell Till half an hour hence. Fer. 9 A thousand thousand! Exeunt FERDINAND and MIRANDA. Pros. So glad of this as they I cannot be, Who are surpris'd withal; 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 CALIBAN with a bottle; STEPHANO and TRINCULO, following. 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. 12 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-andthirty 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. 20 I do beseech thy greatness, give him blows Where the quick freshes are. Ste. Trinculo, run into no further danger: interrupt the monster one word further, and, by this hand, I'll turn my mercy out of doors and make a stock-fish of thee. Trin. Why, what did I? I did nothing. I'll go further off. Ste. Didst thou not say he lied? Ste. Do I so? take thou that. 80 Strikes TRINCULO. Ste. We'll not run, Monsieur monster. Trin. Nor go neither; but you'll lie like dogs As you like this, give me the lie another time. and yet say nothing neither. Trin. I did not give the lie. Out o' your wits and hearing too? A pox o' your bottle! | Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, this can sack and drinking do. A murrain on your monster, and the devil take your fingers! Cal. Ha, ha, ha! 101 Having first seiz'd his books; or with a log As great'st does least. Ste. Is it so brave a lass? The clouds methought would open and show Ready to drop upon me, that when I wak'd Ste. This will prove a brave kingdom to me, 151 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. Exeunt. SCENE III. Another Part of the Island. Gon. By 'r lakin, I can go no further, sir; I needs must rest me. Alon. Old lord, I cannot blame thee, Who am myself attach'd with weariness, To the dulling of my spirits: sit down and rest. Cal. Ay, lord; she will become thy bed, I 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. warrant, And bring thee forth brave brood. 110 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. 119 Cal. Within this half hour will he be asleep: Ay, on mine honour. Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch Ste. At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any reason. Come on, Trinculo, let us sing. Flout 'em, and scout'em; and scout'em, and flout'em; Cal. That's not the tune. 20 Gon. Marvellous sweet music! Seb. A living drollery. Now I will believe I'll believe both; Gon. If in Naples 30 I should report this now, would they believe me? Pros. Aside. Praise in departing. 40 Will't please you taste of what is here? Not I. Gon. Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys, Who would believe that there were mountaineers Dew-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 of five for one will bring us Thunder and lightning. Enter ARIEL, like a drown Their proper selves. 60 Seeing ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, etc., draw Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt, You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from, 80 Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls Upon your heads,-is nothing but heart-sorrow And a clear life ensuing. He vanishes in thunder: then, to soft music, enter the Shapes again, and dance with mocks and mows, and carry out the table. Pros. Aside. Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring. And these mine enemies are all knit up 90 In their distractions: they now are in my power; And in these fits I leave them, while I visit Young Ferdinand, whom they suppose is drown'd, And his and my lov'd darling. Exit. 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 101 I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded. Seb. Exit. But one fiend at a time, I'll fight their legions o'er. Ant. I'll be thy second. Exeunt SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO. Gon. All three of them are desperate: their great guilt, Like poison given to work a great time after, ACT IV. Follow, I pray you. Exeunt. SCENE I. Before PROSPERO's cell. Enter PROSPERO, FERDINAND, and MIRANDA, Pros. 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 Heaven, I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand! Do not smile at me that I boast her off, For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise, 10 And make it halt behind her. Ari. 49 Well, I conceive. Exit. Juno. How does my bounteous sister? Go with me Pros. Look thou be true. Do not give dalliance To bless this twain, that they may prosperous be, Too much the rein: the strongest oaths are straw Fer. I warrant you, sir; The white cold virgin snow upon my heart Abates the ardour of my liver. Pros. Well. Iris. Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas 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 pioned and twilled brims, Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves, 71 And honour'd in their issue. They sing. Honour, riches, marriage-blessing, Ceres. Earth's increase, foison plenty, Barns and garners never empty; Fer. This is a most majestic vision, and Pros. 110 Spirits, which by mine art Fer. 121 JUNO and CERES whisper, and send IRIS on employment. Pros. Sweet, now, silence! Juno and Ceres whisper seriously; There's something else to do. Hush, and be mute, Or else our spell is marr'd. |