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For this one night; which, part of it, I'll waste
With such discourse as, I not doubt, shall make

it

Go quick away: the story of my life,

And the particular accidents gone by
Since I came to this isle: and in the morn

I'll bring you to your ship, and so to Naples,
Where I have hope to see the nuptial

Of these our dear-beloved solemnized;

And thence retire me to my Milan, where 310
Every third thought shall be my grave.

Alon.

I long.
To hear the story of your life, which must
Take the ear strangely.

Pros.

I'll deliver all;

And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales,
And sail so expeditious, that shall catch

Your royal fleet far off. [Aside to Ari.] My
Ariel, chick,

That is thy charge: then to the elements

Be free, and fare thou well! Please you, draw

near.

302. "waste"; spend.-C. H. H.

[Exeunt.

309. The line is to be read, according to the folios, "to see our dear belov'd solémnizéd."-I. G.

EPILOGUE

Spoken by Prospero.

Now my charms are all o'erthrown,
And what strength I have 's mine own,
Which is most faint: now, 'tis true,
I must be here confined by you,
Or sent to Naples. Let me not,
Since I have my dukedom got,
And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell
In this bare island by your spell;
But release me from my bands
With the help of your good hands:
Gentle breath of yours my sails
Must fill, or else my project fails,
Which was to please. Now I want
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant;
And my ending is despair,

Unless I be relieved by prayer,

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Which pierces so, that it assaults

Mercy itself, and frees all faults.

As

you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free.

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10. "with good hands"; i. e. by your applause. Noise was supposed to dissolve a spell. Thus before in this play:

"hush, and be mute,

Os else our spell is marr'd."-H. N. H.

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GLOSSARY

By ISRAEL GOLLANCZ, M.A.

Aon; II. i. 190.

ABUSE, deceive; V. i. 112. ACHES (dissyllabic, pronounced "aitches," like the letter H); I. ii. 370.

ADMIRE, wonder; V. i. 154.

ADVANCE, raise, lift up; I. ii. 408. ADVENTURE, to risk; II. i. 192. AFTER, afterwards; II. ii. 10. AGAIN, again and again; I. ii.

390.

A-HOLD; "to lay a ship a-hold,"

i. e., "to bring a ship close to the wind so as to hold or keep her to it"; I. i. 56. AMAZEMENT, anguish; I. ii. 14. AMEN, used probably in the sense of "again!" or perhaps merely with the force of "many"; others render it "hold, stop!"; II. ii. 106. AN, if; II. i. 186. ANGLE, Corner; I. ii. 223. ARGIER, Algiers; I. ii. 261. As, as if; II. i. 126.

ASPERSION, Sprinkling of rain or Idew (with an allusion perhaps to the ceremony of sprinkling the marriage-bed with holy water); IV. i. 18.

ATTACHED, seized; III. iii. 5.
AVOID, begone; IV. i. 142.

BACKWARD, distant, past; I. ii.

50.

BADGES; "household servants usu

ally wore on their arms, as part of their livery, silver 'badges' whereon the shield of their masters was engraved";

V. i. 267.

BAREFOOT (used adjectively); II. ii. 11.

BARNACLES, barnacle geese; IV. i. 251.

BASS, utter in a deep bass; III.

iii. 99.

BAT-FOWLING, a term used for

catching birds by night; thence the name of a thieves' trick for plundering shops about dusk by pretending to have lost a jewel near; II. i. 190.

BEAK, bow (of a ship); I. ii. 196. BEAR UP, i. e., take your course, sail up; III. ii. 3. BERMOOTHES, i. e., Bermudas; "said and supposed to be inchanted and inhabited with witches and deuills, which grew by reason of accustomed monstrous thunder, storme, and tempest," &c. Stow's Annals; I. ii. 229.

BERRIES (? Coffee); I. ii. 334. BLUE-EYED, with blueness about the eyes; I. ii. 269.

BOMBARD, "black jack" of leather; II. ii. 22.

BOOTLESS, profitless; I. ii. 35.
Bosky, wooded; IV. i. 81.
BOURN, boundary; II. i. 157.

BRAVE, fine; I. ii. 411. BRING TO TRY; "to lay, the ship with her side close to the wind, and lash the tiller to the

lee side"; I. i. 40. BROOM-GROVES, groves in which broom (Spartium scoparium) abounds; or perhaps woods overgrown with genista, pathless woods; IV. i. 66. BUDGE, stir; V. i. 11. BURTHEN, undersong; I. ii. 381. BUT, except that; I. ii. 414; otherwise than; I. ii. 119.

By and by, immediately; III. ii. 160.

CAN, is able to make; IV. i. 27. CANDIED, converted into sugar, sweetened; II. i. 284. CAPABLE, retentive; I. ii. 353. CAPERING, jumping for joy; V. i. 238.

CARRIAGE, burden; V. i. 3. CASE, Condition; III. ii. 30. CAST, to throw up; perhaps with a play upon "cast" in the sense of "to assign their parts to actors"; II. i. 256. CAT (with reference to the old proverb that good liquor will make a cat speak); II. ii. 94. CATCH, a part-song; III. ii. 129. CERTES, certainly; III. iii. 30. CHALKED FORTH, i. e., chalked out; V. i. 203.

CHERUBIN, a cherub; I. ii. 152. CHIRURGEONLY, like a surgeon; II. i. 145.

CLEAR, blameless; III. iii. 82. CLOSENESS, retirement; I. ii. 90. CLOUDY, gloomy; II. i. 147. COCKEREL, the young cock; II. i. 31.

COIL, turmoil; I. ii. 207.

COME BY, to acquire; II. i. 297. CONFEDERATES, conspires; I. ii. 111.

CONSTANT, Self-possessed; í. ii. 207; "my stomach is not c." i. e. "is qualmish"; II. ii. 130. CONTENT, desire, will; II. i. 274. CONTROL, contradict; I. ii. 439. CORAGIO, Courage!; V. i. 258. COROLLARY, a supernumerary, a surplus; IV. i. 57. CORRESPONDENT, responsive, obedient; I. ii. 298.

COURSES, the largest lower sails of a ship; I. i. 57.

CRABS, crab-apples; II. ii. 188. CRACK, to burst (with reference to magic bands, or perhaps to the crucibles and alembics of magicians); V. i. 2.

DEAR, Zealous; I. ii. 179.
DEAREST, most precious object;
II. i. 140.

DEBOSHED, debauched; III. ii. 30.
DECKED, Sprinkled; I. ii. 155.
DEEP, profound, wise; II. i. 271.
DELIVER, relate; V. i. 313.
DEMANDED, asked; I. ii. 139.
DEW-LAPPED, having flesh hanging
from the throat (a reference
probably to the victims of
"goitre"); III. iii. 45.
DIS, Pluto; IV. i. 89.
DISCASE, undress; V. i. 85.
DISCHARGE, performance, execu-
tion; used probably as a tech-
nical term of the stage; II. i.
259.

DISTEMPERED, excited; IV. i. 145. DISTINCTLY, Separately; I. ii. 200. DOIT, the smallest piece of money; eighty doits went to a shilling; II. ii. 35. DOLLAR, used quibblingly with "dolor"; II. i. 18.

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DowLE, a fiber of down; III. iii. 65.

DRAWN, having swords drawn; II. i. 313; having taken a good draught; II. ii. 163. DREGS (with reference to the "liquor of the bombard," 1. 21); II. ii. 46.

DROLLERY, puppet-show; III. iii.

21.

DRY, thirsty; I. ii. 112. DULLNESS, stupor; I. ii. 185.

EARTH'D, buried in the earth; II. i. 239.

EBBING, "ebbing men," i. e., “men whose fortunes are declining"; II. i. 231.

ECSTASY, mental excitement, madness; III. iii. 108. ENDEAVOR, laborious effort; II. i. 164.

ENGINE, instrument of war, military machine; II. i. 165. ENTERTAINER, perhaps quibblingly interpreted by Gonzalo in the sense of "inn-keeper"; II. i. 17.

ENVY, malice; I. ii. 258.

ESTATE, to grant as a possession; IV. i. 85.

EYE, tinge; II. i. 55.

FALL, to let fall; II. i. 301. FEARFUL, timorous; I. ii. 468. FEATER, more becomingly; II. i. 278.

FEATLY, deftly; I. ii. 380.

FELLOWS, companions; II. i. 279. FEW, "in few," in few words, in short; I. ii. 144.

FISH, to catch at, to seek to obtain; II. i. 109.

FLAT, low level ground; II. ii. 2. FLAT-LONG, as if struck with the XXXVI-8

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