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-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.

STE. We'll not run, monsieur Monster. TRIN. Nor go neither: but you'll lie, like dogs; and yet say nothing neither.

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 a 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?

na pied ninny's this!] An allusion to the pied, or party coloured dress which Trinculo, as a jester, wore.

I' the afternoon to sleep: there thou mayst brain him,

Having first seiz'd his books; or with a log
Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,
Or cut his wezand with thy knife. Remember,
First to possess his books; for without them
He's but a sot, as I am, nor hath not
One spirit to command: they all do hate him,
As rootedly as I :-burn but his books;
He has brave utensils,-for so he calls them,-
Which, when he has a house, he'll deck withal:
And that most deeply to consider, is
The beauty of his daughter; he himself
Calls her a nonpareil: I never saw a woman,
But only Sycorax my dam and she;
But she as far surpasseth Sycorax,
As great'st does least.

Is it so brave a lass?

STE.
CAL. Ay, lord; she will become thy bed, I

Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices
That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming
The clouds methought would open and show 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.

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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! (2) he lays it on.

TRIN. Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano. [Exeunt.

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. [Aside to SEB.] I am right glad that
he's so out of hope.

Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose
That you resolv'd to effect.

SEB. [Aside to ANT.] The next advantage Will we take throughly.

(*) Old text, cout.

a By and by:] By and by, as well as presently, now implies some brief delay; but in old language they usually meant immediately.

b By'r lakin,-] A contraction of By our ladykin, or, little lady. It occurs in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." See note

ANT. [Aside to SEB.] Let it be to-night;
For now they are oppress'd with travel, they
Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance,
As when they are fresh.

SEB. [Aside to ANT.] I say, to-night: no more.

Solemn and strange music; and PROSPERO above,

GON. Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys,

Who would believe that there were mountaineers

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!

GON. Marvellous sweet music!

ALON. Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these?

SEB. A living drollery." Now I will believe That there are unicorns; that in Arabia There is one tree, the phoenix' throne; one phoenix At this hour reigning there.

ANT. I'll believe both; And what does else want credit, come to me, And I'll be sworn 'tis true: travellers ne'er did lie, Though fools at home condemn 'em. GON.

If in Naples I should report this now, would they believe me? If I should say, I saw such islanders,-* For, certes, these are people of the island,— Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet, note, Their manners are more gentle-kind, than of Our human generation you shall find Many, nay, almost any.

PRO. [Aside.]

Honest lord,

there present

Thou hast said well; for some of you Are worse than devils.

a A living drollery.] A puppet-show in Shakespeare's time was called a droilery. This, Sebastian says, is one played by living characters.

Praise in departing.] A proverbial saying, equivalent to "Await the end before you commend your entertainment." So in "The Paradise of Dainty Devises," 1596,

"A good beginning oft we see, but seldome standing at one stay, For few do like the meane degree, then praise at parting some men say."

e Fach putter-out of five for one-] It was the custom of travellers, when about to make a long voyage, to put out, or invest, a sum of money, upon a guarantee that they should receive at the rate of five for one if they returned. This species of gambling became so much in vogue at one period that adventurers were in the practice of undertaking dangerous journeys solely upon the speculation of what their puttings-out would VOL. III.

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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
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 to, 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 caus'd to belch up you, and on this island
Where man doth not inhabit, you 'mongst men
Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad;
And even with such-like valour, men hang and drown
Their
proper selves. [ALONSO, SEBAST., &c. draw
their swords.] You fools! I and my fellows
Are ministers of Fate: the elements,
Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well
Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs
Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish
One dowle that's in my plume; my fellow ministers
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
From Milan did supplant good Prospero;
Expos'd unto the sea, which hath requit it,
Him and his innocent child: for which foul deed
The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have

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yield if they got back safe. Of course when the journey ended fatally, the money they had invested went to the party who had engaged to pay the enormous interest on it. So, in Barnaby Riche's "Faults and Nothing but Faults," 1607: "Those whipsters, that, having spent the greatest part of their patrimony in prodigality, will give out the rest of their stocke to be paid two or three for one upon their return from Rome." See also Fynes Moryson's Itinerary," Part I., p. 198, and Taylor, the water poet's pamphlet, called "The Scourge of Basenesse: or The Ol Lerry, with a new Kicksey, and a new-cum twang, with the old Winsey." The ancient reading is usually altered in moderi editions to " Each putter-out of one for five," or "Each putterout on five for one," but no change is called for; Shakespeare and his contemporaries commonly used of for on,

"I'd put out moneys of being Mayor."

"The Ordinary," Act I. Sc. 1.

d Dowle-] Feather; or particle of down.

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