Enter Mariners. Boats. Heigh, my hearts; cheerly, cheerly, my take in the top-fail; tend to the blow, till thou burst thy wind, hearts; yare, yare: master's whistle; if room enough. 4 Enter Alonso, Sebastian, Anthonio, Ferdinand, Gonzalo, and others. Alon. Good Boatswain, have care. Where's the master? Play the men. Boats. I pray now, keep below. Ant. Where is the master, Boatswain? Boats. Do you not hear him? You mar our labour; keep your cabins: you do assist the storm. Gon. Nay, good, be patient. Boats. When the sea is. Hence! What care these roarers for the name of king? To cabin: filence : trouble us not. from an Italian chemical romance called Orelia and Isabella; but, on examining it, discovered no grounds for fuch a supposition. The beauties of this piece could not fecure it from the criticifm of Ben Jonson, whose malignity sometimes appears to have been more than equal to his wit. In the induction to Bartholomew Fair, he says: "If there be never a fervant monster in the fair who can help it, nor a nest of antiques? " He is loth to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that "beget Tales, Tempests, and fuch like drolleries." STEEVENS. Gon. Good; yet remember whom thou hast aboard. Boats. None that I more love than myself. You are a counsellor, if you can command these elements to filence, and work the peace of the present, we will not handle a rope more; use your authority. If you cannot, give thanks you have liv'd so long, and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mifchance of the hour, if it fo hap. - Cheerly, good hearts. Out of our way, I say. [Exit. 2 In this naval dialogue, perhaps the first example of sailor's language exhibited on the stage, there are, as I have been told by a skilful navigator, some inaccuracies and contradictory orders. JOHNSON. 3 -Fall to't yarely,-] i. e. Readily, nimbly. Our author is frequent in his use of this word. STEEVENS. 4 Perhaps it might be read, room enough. JOHNSON. blow till thou burst, wind, if Perhaps rather, blow till thou burst thee, wind! if room enough. Beaum. and Fletcher have copied this passage in The Pilgrim. -Blow, blow weft wind, Blove till thou rive. STEEVANS. Gon. 5 Gon. I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks, he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows. Stand faft, good fate, to his hanging; make the rope of his deftiny our cable, for our own doth little advantage: if he be not born to be hang'd, our cafe is miferable. [Exeunt. Re-enter Boatswain. Boats. Down with the top-mast: yare, lower, lower; bring her to try with main-course. [A cry within.] A plague upon this howling! Re-enter Sebastian, Anthonio, and Gonzalo. They are louder than the weather, or our office.-Yet again? What do you here? Shall we give o'er, and drown? Have you a mind to fink? Seb. A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blafphemous, uncharitable dog! Boats. Work you then. Ant. Hang, cur, hang! you whoreson, infolent noisemaker! we are lefs afraid to be drown'd than thou art. Gon. I'll warrant him from drowning; though the ship were no stronger than a nut-shell, and as leaky as an unstanch'd wench, 5 Gonzalo.] It may be observed of Gonzalo, that, being the only good man that appears with the king, he is the only man that preserves his cheerfulness in the wreck, and his hope on the island. JOHNSON. A 3 1 Boats. Boats. 6 Lay her a-hold, a-hold; 7 set her two courses; off to fea again, lay her off. Mar. All loft! to prayers, to prayers! all loft ! Boats. What, must our mouths be cold? [Exeunt. Gon. The king and prince at prayers! let us assist them, For our cafe is as theirs. Seb. I am out of patience. Ant. We're & merely cheated of our lives by drun kards. This wide-chopp'd rafcal:-'would, thou might'st lie drowning, The washing of ten tides ! Gon. He'll be hang'd yet; Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at wid'st 9 to glut him. [A con Lay her a-hold, a-hold;-] To lay a ship a-hold, is to bring her to lie as near the wind as she can, in order to keep clear of the land, and get her out to fea. STEEVENS. 1-fet her two courses off to sea again, The courses are the main-fail and fore-fail. This term is used by Raleigh, in his Discourse on Shipping. JOHNSON. The paffage, as Mr. Holt has observed, should be pointed, Set her two courses; off, &c. STEEVENS. 8 -merely] In this place fignifies absolutely. In which sense it is used in Hamlet, Act 1. Sc. 3. 66 - Things rank and gross in nature "Possess it merely.". So in Ben Jonfon's Poetafter: -at request "Of fome mere friends, some honourable Romans." STEEVENS. 9-to glut him.] Shakespeare probably wrote, t'englut him, to swallow him; for which I know not that glut is ever used by him. In this fignification englut, from engloutir, French, occurs frequently, as in Henry VI. -Thou art so near the gulf "Thou needs must be englutted," And [A confused noise within.) Mercy on us! We split, we split! Farewell, my wife and children! Ant. Let's all fink with the king. [Exit. Seb. Let's take leave of him. [Exit. 'Farewell, brother! We split, we split, we split ! Gon. Now would I give a thousand furlongs of fea, for an acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, any thing. The wills above be done, but I would fain die a dry death! [Exit. The inchanted island before the cell of Profpero. Enter Profpero and Miranda. Mira. If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them: The sky, it seems, would pour down ftinking pitch, But that the fea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out. O, I have fuffer'd With those that I faw fuffer! a brave veffel, Who had, no doubt, fome noble creatures in her, Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor fouls! they perish'd. Had I been any god of power, I would Have funk the fea within the earth, or ere And again in Timon and Othello. Yet Milton writes glutted offal for fwallowed, and therefore perhaps the present text may itand. JOHNSON. 1 Brother, farewell!) All these lines have been hitherto given to Gonzalo, who has no brother in the ship. It is probable that the lines fucceeding the confused noise within should be confidered as spoken by no determinate characters, but should be printed thus. I Sailor. Mercy on us! We split, we split! 2 Sailor. Farewell, my, &c. 3 Sailor. Brother, farewell, &c. JOHNSON. 2-long heath,-) This is the common name for the erica baccifera. WARBURTON. 1 It should the good ship so have swallow'd, and Pro. Be collected; No more amazement: tell your piteous heart, Mira. 3 O, woe the day ! Pro. No harm. I have done nothing but in care of thee, Mira. More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts. Pro. 'Tis time, I should inform thee further. Lend thy hand, [Lays down his mantle. Lye there my art. - Wipe thou thine eyes; have com fort. The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd So fafely order'd, 5 that there is no foul No, 3 Pro. No harm.] I know not whether Shakespeare did not make Miranda speak thus: O, woe the day! no harm? To which Profpero properly answers: I have done nothing but in care of thee. Miranda, when she speaks the words, O, woe the day! fupposes, not that the crew had escaped, but that her father thought differently from her, and counted their destruction no harm. JOHNSON. * virtue of compassion] Virtue: the most efficacious part, the energetic quality; in a like fenfe we say, The virtue of a plant is in the extract. JOHNSON. 5-that there is no foul-] Thus the old editions read, but this is apparently defective. Mr. Rowe, and after him Dr. Warburton, read that there is no foul loft, without any notice of 1 the |