Go, charge my goblins that they grind their joints With dry convulsions; shorten up their sinews With aged cramps; and more pinch-spotted make them, Than pard, or cat o' mountain. Ari. Hark, they roar. Pro. Let them be hunted soundly. At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies. Shortly shall all my labors end, and thou Shalt have the air at freedom: for a little, [Exeunt. ACT V. SCENE I. Before the cell of Prospero. Enter PROSPERO in his magic robes, and ARIEL. Pro. Now does my project gather to a head: My charms crack not; my spirits obey; and time Goes upright with his carriage. How's the day? Ari. On the sixth hour; at which time, my lord, You said our work should cease. Pro. I did say so, When first I raised the tempest. Say, my spirit, How fares the king and his followers? Ari. Confined together 'Time brings forward all the expected events without faultering under his burden. cell: In the same fashion as you gave in charge; Him you term'd, sir, 'The good old lord, Gonzalo ;' That if you now beheld them, your affections Would become tender. Pro. Dost thou think so, spirit? Ari. Mine would, sir, were I human. And mine shall. One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art? Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, Yet, with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury Do I take part: the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent, I Defends from bad weather. 2 Thatches. And they shall be themselves. Ari. I'll fetch them, sir. [Exit. Pro. Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves; And ye, that on the sands with printless foot forth By my so potent art. But this rough magic And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, [solemn music. Re-enter ARIEL: after him, ALONSO, with a frantic gesture, attended by GONZALO; SEBASTIAN and anTONIO in like manner, attended by ADRIAN and FRANCISCO. They all enter the circle which PRCSPERO had made, and there stand charmed; which PROSPERO observing, speaks. A solemn air, and the best comforter To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains, Now useless, boil'd within thy skull! There stand, For you are spell-stopp'd. Holy Gonzalo, honorable man, Mine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine, Fall fellowly drops. The charm dissolves apace ; To him thou follow'st; I will pay thy graces blood, You brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, Expell'd remorse and nature; 1 who, with Sebastian, 1 1 Tenderness of heart, and natural affection. (Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong) Would here have kill'd your king; I do forgive thee, Unnatural though thou art! Their understanding Ariel, That now lie foul and muddy. Not one of them, [Exit Ariel. I will discase me,1 and myself present, ARIEL re-enters, singing, and helps to attire PROS PERO. Ari. Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie : There I couch. When owls do cry, On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily. Merrily, merrily, shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. Pro. Why, that's my dainty Ariel: I shall miss thee; But yet thou shalt have freedom: so, so, so To the king's ship, invisible as thou art : Under the hatches; the master, and the boatswain, Strip off my magic garments. |