THE TEMPEST. Trin. Swum ashore, man, like a duck: I can swim like a duck, I'll be sworn. Ste. Here, kiss the book. Though thou canst swim like a duck, thou art made like a goose. Trin. O Stephano, hast any more of this? Ste. The whole butt, man: my cellar is in a rock by the sea-side where my wine is hid. How now, moon-calf! how does thine ague? Cal. Hast thou not dropp'd from heaven? 140 Ste. Out o' the moon, I do assure thee: I was the man i' the moon when time was. Cal. I have seen thee in her and I do adore thee: My mistress show'd me thee and thy dog and [thy bush. Ste. Come, swear to that: kiss the book. I will furnish it anon with new contents. Trin. By this Swear. shallow monster! good light, this is a very weak monster! The man i' the moon! A most Cal. I'll show thee every fertile inch o' th' And I will kiss thy foot: I prithee, be my god. Trin. But that the poor monster's in drink: an abominable monster! Cal. I'll show thee the best springs; I'll I'll fish for thee and get thee wood enough. Trin. A most ridiculous monster, to make a crabs grow; And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts; 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! [ster! At requiring; Nor scrape trencher, nor wash dish: Has a new master: get a new man. Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! freedom, hey-day, freedom! 191 Ste. O brave monster! Lead the way! ACT III. SCENE I. Before PROSPERO's cell. II Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness says, such baseness Had never like executor. But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my I forget: labors, Enter MIRANDA; and PROSPERO at a distance, + Most busy, least when I do it. Mir. unseen. Work not so hard: I would the hightning had He's safe for these three hours. 20 Fer. I had rather crack my sinews, break This visitation shows it. Fer. No, noble mistress; 'tis fresh morning When you are by at night. I do beseech you I have broke your hest to say so! Miranda.-O my father, Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time 40 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 you, good friend, And my dear father. How features are abroad, I am skilless 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. 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 60 Trin. Servant-monster! the folly of this island! They say there's but five upon this isle; we are three of them; if th' other two be brain'd like us, the state totters. ΙΟ 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 drown'd his tongue in sack: for my part, the sea cannot drown me; I swam, ere I could recover the shore, five and thirty 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 The flesh-fly blow my mouth. Hear my soul standard. speak: The very instant that I saw you, did My heart fly to your service: there resides, Do you love me? Mir. And crown what I profess with kind event Mir. I am a fool To weep at what I am glad of. Pros. 70 Fair encounter And prompt me, plain and holy innocence! Fer. My mistress, dearest, And I thus humble ever. Mir. 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. A thousand thousand! [Exeunt Fer, and Mir, severally. Pros. So glad of this as they I cannot be, Who are surprised 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, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO. 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. 21 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 honor? Let me lick thy shoe. I'll not serve him: he's not valiant. Trin. Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in case to jostle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, thou, was there ever 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? Cal. Lo, how he mocks me! wilt thou let him, my lord? Trin. Lord' quoth he! That a monster should be such a natural! Cal. Lo, lo, again! bite him to death, I prithee. Ste. Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head: if you prove a mutineer,-the next tree! The poor monster's my subject, and he shall not suffer indignity. Cal. I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleased to hearken once again to the suit I made to thee? Ste. Marry, will I; kneel and repeat it; I will stand, and so shall Trinculo. Enter ARIEL, invisible. Cal. As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a sorceror, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island. Where thou mayst knock a nail into his head. Ari. Thou liest; thou canst not. 70 Cal. What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch! I do beseech thy greatness, give him blows And take his bottle from him; when that's gone He shall drink nought but brine; for I'll not show him 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 o' doors and make a stock-fish of thee. Trin. Why, what did I? I did nothing. I'll go farther off. Ste. Ari. Didst thou not say he lied? Thou liest. 81 Ste. Stand farther. Come, proceed. Cal. Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him, I' th' afternoon to sleep: there thou mayst brain him, Having first seized his books, or with a log Ste. Is it so brave a lass? Cal. Ay, lord; she will become thy bed, I warrant, and bring thee forth brave brood. 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. 121 Cal. Within this half hour will he be asleep: 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. Cal. Be not afeard: the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments The clouds methought would open and show riches 150 Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, 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. 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. 160 Trin. Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano. [Exeunt. SCENE III. Another part of the island. Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others. Gon. By'r lakin, I can go no further, sir; My old bones ache: here's a maze trod indeed Through forth-rights and meanders! By your patience, I needs must rest me. Do not. for one repulse, forego the purpose Seb. Aside to Ant.] The next advantage Will we take throughly. 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. Alon. What harmony is this? My good friends, hark! Gon. Marvellous sweet music! Enter PROSPERO above, invisible. Enter sev eral strange Shapes, bringing in a banquet; | they dance about it with gentle actions of salutation; and, inviting the King, &c., to eat, they depart. Alon. Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these? Seb. 20 A living drollery. Now I will believe Their manners are more gentle-kind than of Pres. any. Aside Honest lord, [ent Thou hast said well; for some of you there presAre worse than devils. Although they want the use of tongue, a kind 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 'em 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 Alon. 50 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 caused 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 valor, men hang and drown Their proper selves. [Alon., Seb, &c., draw their swords. You fools! I and my fellows Are ministers of Fate: the elements, 60 Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well And will not be uplifted. But remember- Him and his innocent child: for which foul deed tures, Against your peace. Thee of thy son, Alonso, Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls 82 He vanishes in thunder; then, to soft music, And these my enemies are all knit up And his and mine loved darling. [Exit above. I'll be thy second. [Exeunt Scb. and Ant. Gon. All three of them are desperate: their great guilt, Like poison given to work a great time after, 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 Pros. Ay, with a twink. Ari. Before you can say 'come' and 'go,' And breathe twice and cry 'so, so,' Each one, tripping on his toe, Will be here with mop and mow. Do you love me, master? no? Pros. Dearly, my delicate Ariel. Do not Till thou dost hear me call. [approach Ari. Well, I conceive. [Exit. 50 Pros. Look thou be true; do not give dalliance Too much the rein: the strongest oaths are straw To the fire i' the blood: be more abstemious, Or else, good night your vow! Fer. I warrant you, sir; The white cold virgin snow upon my heart Abates the ardor of my liver. Pros. Well. Now come, my Ariel! bring a corollary, Rather than want a spirit: appear, and pertly! No tongue! all eyes! be silent. [Soft music. Enter IRIS. Iris. Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats and pease; And flat meads thatch'd with stover, them to keep; Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep, Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims, Which spongy April at thy hest betrims, To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broom-groves, Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves, And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky hard, Being lass-lorn; thy pole-clipt vineyard; Where thou thyself dost air,-the queen o' the sky, 71 Whose watery arch and messenger am I, Here on this grass-plot, in this very place, Cer. Hail, many-color'd messenger, that ne'er |