ACT I. Miranda, daughter to Prospero. Ariel, an airy spirit. Iris, Ceres, Juno, spirits. Nymphs, Reapers, Óther spirits attending on Prospero. Scene, the sea, with a ship; afterwards an unn• habited island. Hate, to his hanging! make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our own doth little advantage! If he SCENE I-On a ship at sea. A storm, with be not born to be hanged, our case is miserable. thunder and lightning. Enter a Ship-master and a Boatswain. Boats. Heigh, my hearts; cheerly, cheerly, my hearts; yare, yare: take in the top-sail: tend to the master's whistle.-Blow, till thou burst thy wind, if room enough! Enter Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, Ferdinand, Alon. Good boatswain, have a care. Where's the master? Play the men. Boats. I pray now, keep below. Ant. Where is the master, boastwain? Boats. When the sea is. Hence! What care these roarers for the name of king? To cabin: silence: trouble us not. Gon. Good; yet remember whom thou hast aboard. Re-enter Boatswain. [Exeunt. Mar. All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost! For our case is as theirs. Seb. I am out of patience. cheated of our lives ly Boats. None that I more love than myself. You are a counsellor; if you can command these elements to silence, and work the peace of the present,2 This wide-chapped rascal ;-Would, thou might's we will not hand a rope more; use your authority. lie drowning, If you cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, The washing of ten tides! and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mis- Gon. He'll be hanged yet; chance of the hour, if it so hap.-Cheerly, good Though every drop of water swear against it, nearts.--Out of our way, I say. [Exit. And gape at wid'st to glut him. Gon. I have great comfort from this fellow: me- [A confused noise within.] Mercy on us!-We thinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his split, we split! Farewell, my wife and children!complexion is perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Farewell, brother!-We split, we split, we split. (1) Readily. (2) Present instant. (3) Incontinent. (4) Absolutely. Mira. But that I do not. Ant. Let's all sink with the king. [Exit. In the dark backward and abysın3 of time! Seb. Let's take leave of him. Exit. If thou remember'st aught, ere thou cam'st here, Gon. Now would I give a thousand Curlongs of How thou cam'st here, thou may'st. sea 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. [Exil. SCENE II-The island: before the cell of Prospero. Enter Prospero and Miranda. Mir. If by your art, my dearest father, you have Mira. O, wo the day! No harm. I have done nothing but in care of thee, Mira. More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts. 'Tis time The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd So safely order'd, that there is no soul- Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. For thou must now know further. Pro. The hour's now come; I do not think thou canst; for then thou wast not Mira. Pro. Thou hadst, and more, Miranda: but how That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else '2) Quite. (3) Abyss. '1) Before. Pro. Twelve years since, Pro. Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and Mira. Both, both, my girl. Mira. Pro. My brother, and thy uncle, call'd Antonio, Mira. Sir, most heedfully. Or else new form'd them: having both the key not: I pray thee, mark me. Mira. Was dukedom large enough; of temporal royalties Mira. O the heavens! Pro. Now I arise: Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow. Pro. Mark his condition, and the event; then Than other princes can, that have more time If this might be a brother. Mira. I should sin To think but nobly of my grandmother: Pro. Now the condition. Mira. Alack, for pity! I, not rememb'ring how I cried out then, Will cry it o'er again; it is a hint,3 That wrings mine eyes. Pro. Hear a little further, not; (So dear the love my people bore me) nor set Mira. Alack! what trouble O! a cherubim Thou wast, that did preserve me? Thou didst smile, When I have deck'd' the sea with drops full salt; Under my burden groan'd; which rais'd in me How came we ashore? Pro. By Providence divine. A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo, Out of his charity (who being then appointed Master of this design,) did give us, with Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries, To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, Pro. Perform'd to points the tempest that I bade thee? boarded the king's ship; now on the beak, Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin, 'I flam'd amazement: sometimes, I'd divide, And burn in many places; on the top-mast, ¡The yards, and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly; Then meet, and join: Jove's lightnings, the pre cursors Which since have steaded much; so, of his gentle-But fresher than before: and, as thou bad'st me, Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs, Pro. Ari. Safely in harbour I have left asleep: and for the rest o' the fleet, Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd, Must by us both be spent most preciously. Let me remember thee what thou hast promis'd, What is't thou canst demand? How now? moody? My liberty. Pro. Before the time be out? no more. Ari. I pray thee Remember, I have done thee worthy service; Told thee no lies, made no mistakings, serv'd Without or grudge or grumblings: thou didst pro mise Pro. Thou dost; and think'st It much, to tread the ooze of the salt deep; To run upon the sharp wind of the north; To do me business in the veins o' the earth, When it is bak'd with frost. I do not, sir. Ari. The foul witch Sycorax, who, with age, and envy, Thou hast: where was she born? O, was she so? I must, Once in a month, recount what thou hast been, Which thou forget st. This damn'd witch, Sycorax, They would not take her life. Is not this true? Pro. This blue-ey'd hag was hither brought with child, And here was left by the sailors. Thou, my slave, As thou report'st thyself, wast then her servant: And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate (1) Bermudas To act ner carthly and abhorr'd commands, As fast as mill-wheels strike: then was this island Ari. Yes; Caliban, her son. Ari. I (2) Wave. (3) Algiers. | Ari. Pardon, master: will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently. Pro. I will discharge thee. Do so; and after two days Ari. That's my noble master! What shall I do? say what: what shall I do? Pro. Go make thyself like a nymph o' the sea, Be subject to no sight but mine; invisible To every eye-ball else. Go, take this shape, And hither come in't: hence, with diligence. [Exit Ariel, Awake, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well; Awake! Mira. The strangeness of your story put Heaviness in me. Pro. We'll visit Caliban, my Yields us kind answer. Mira. Shake it off; core on; slave, who never 'Tis a villain, sir, But, as 'tis, I do not love to look on. Cal. [Within.] There's wood enough within. Re-enter Ariel, like a water-nymph. Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel, Hark in thine ear. Ari. My lord, it shall be done. [Exit. Pro. Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself Upon thy wicked dam, come forth! Enter Caliban. Cal. As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd With raven's feather from unwholesome fen, Drop on you both! a south-west blow on ye, |