And blister you all o'er! Pro. For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches, that shall pen thy breath up; urchins! Cal. Water with berries in't; and teach me how Cursed be I that did so!-All the charms Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you! Pro. us'd thee, Filth as thou art, with human care; and lodg'd thee In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate The honour of my child. Cal. O ho, Oho!-'would it had been done! Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else This isle with Calibans. Pro. Abhorred slave; Which any print of goodness will not take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou Cal. You taught me language; and my profit on't Cal. No, 'pray thee! I must obey: his art is of such power, Pro. [Aside. So, slave; hence! This is no mortal business, nor no sound That the earth owes 4-I hear it now above me. Pro. The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say, what thou seest yond'. Mira. Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir, call him Fer. Most sure, the goddess On whom these airs attend!- Vouchsafe my prayer May know, if you remain upon this island; And that you will some good instruction give, How I may bear me here: my prime request, Which I do last pronounce, is, O you wonder! If you be maid, or no? Mira. But, certainly a maid. Fer. No wonder, sir; I am the best of them that speak this speech, My language? heavens! How! the best? Were I but where 'tis spoken. Pro. What wert thou, if the king of Naples heard thee? (1) Fairies. (4) Owns. [Aside. They have chang'd eyes:--Delicate Ariel, Fer. Pro. Soft, sir; one word more.They are both in either's powers: but this swift business I must uneasy make, lest too light winning [Aside. Make the prize light.-One word more ; I charge thee, That thou attend me: thou dost here usurp The name thou ow'st not: and hast put thyself Upon this island, as a spy, to win it From me, the lord on't. Fer. No, as I am a man. Mira. There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Pro. Fer. I will resist such entertainment, till Mine enemy has more power. No; [He draws. O dear father, Mira. Pro. Is so possess'd with guilt: come from thy ward;3 Mira. Sir, have pity; Silence: one word more Beseech you, father! Thou think'st, there are no more such shapes as he, Mira. My affections Are then most humble; I have no ambition (1) Confute. (2) Frightful. (3) Guard. Thy nerves are in their infancy again, And have no vigour in them. Fer. So they are: My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up. Seb. Ha, ha, ha! Alon. You cram these words into mine ears, against Ant. So, you've pay'd. Seb. Yet, Adr. Uninhabitable, and almost inaccessible, The stomach of my sense: 'would I had never Adr. Yet Ant. He could not miss it. Adr. It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate temperance.1 Ant. Temperance was a delicate wench. Seb. Ay, and a subtle; as he most learnedly delivered. Adr. The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. Seb. Of that there's none, or little. Gon. How lush2 and lusty the grass looks! green! Ant. The ground, indeed, is tawny. Seb. With an eye3 of green in't. Ant. He misses not much. Married my daughter there! for, coming thence, I ne'et again shall see her. O thou mine heir Fran. I saw him beat the surges under him, 'Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oar'd Seb. No; he doth but mistake the truth totally. Gon. But the rarity of it is (which is, indeed, al-|| That would not bless our Europe with your daughmost beyond credit-) Seb. As many vouch'd rarities are. Gon. That our garments, being, as they were, drenched in the sea, hold, notwithstanding, their freshness, and glosses; being rather new dy'd, than stain'd with salt water. Ant. If but one of his pockets could speak, would it not say, He lies? Seb. Ay, or very falsely pocket up his report. Gon. Methinks, our garments are now as fresh as when we put them on first in Afric, at the marriage of the king's fair daughter Claribel to the king of Tunis. Seb. 'Twas a sweet marriage, and we prosper well in our return. Adr. Tunis was never grac'd before with such a paragon to their queen. Gon. Not since widow Dido's time. Ant. Widow? a pox o' that! how came that widow in? Widow Dido! Seb. What if he had said, widower Æneas too? good lord, how you take it! Adr. Widow Dido, said you? you make me study of that: she was of Carthage, not of Tunis. Gon. This Tunis, sir, was Carthage. Adr. Carthage? Gon. I assure you, Carthage. Ant. His word is more than the miraculous harp. Seb. He hath rais'd the wall, and houses too. Ant. What impossible matter will he make easy next? Seb. I think he will carry this island home in his pocket, and give it his son for an apple. Ant. And, sowing the kernels of it in the sea, bring forth more islands. Gon. Ay? Ant. Why, in good time. Gon. Sir, we were talking, that our garments seem now as fresh, as when we were at Tunis, at the marriage of your daughter, who is now queen. Ant. And the rarest that c'er came there. ter, Very foul. Gon. Had I a plantation of this isle, my lord,Ant. He'd sow it with nettle-seed. Seb. Or docks, or mallows. Gon. And were the king of it, What would I do? Seb. 'Scape being drunk, for want of wine. Gon. I'the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things: for no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known; no use of service, Of riches or of poverty; no contracts, Successions; bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none: No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil: No occupation; all men idle, all; And women too; but innocent and pure: No sovereignty:Seb. And yet he would be king on't. Ant. The latter end of his commonwealth for Gon. Is not, sir, my doublet as fresh as the first gets the beginning. day I wore it? I mean, in a sort.4 Ant. That sort was well fish'd for. (1) Temperature. (2) Rank. (3) Shade of colour. Gon. All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine,s (4) Degree or quality. (5) The rack. TEMPEST. Act II. Would I not have; but nature should bring forth, [] Whiles thou art waking. Of its own kind, all foizon,1 all abundance, To feed my innocent people. Seb. No marrying 'mong his subjects? Ant. None, man; all idle; whores and knaves. Gon. I would with such perfection govern, sir, To excel the golden age. Seb. 'Save his majesty! Ant. Long live Gonzalo ! thing to me. Gon. I do well believe your highness; and did it to minister occasion to these gentlemen, who are of such sensible and nimble lungs, that they always use to laugh at nothing. Ant. 'Twas you we laugh'd at. Gon. Who, in this kind of merry fooling, am nothing to you; so you may continue, and laugh at nothing still. Seb. Thou dost snore distinctly; There's meaning in thy snores. Ant. I am more serious than my custom: you Seb. Well; I am standing water. 0, Do so: to ebb, Whiles thus you mock it! how, in stripping it, Ant. What a blow was there given: Thus, sir: Although this lord of weak remembrance, this Enter Ariel, invisible, playing solemn music. Seb. We would so, and then go a bat-fowling. Ant. Nay, good my lord, be not angry. Gon. No, I warrant you: I will not adventure my discretion so weakly. Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy? Ant. Go sleep, and hear us. All sleep but Alon. Seb. and Ant. Alon. What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts: I find, They are inclined to do so. Seb. Please you, sir, Do not omit the heavy offer of it: Ant. Thank you: wondrous heavy. Ant. and My strong imagination sees a crown Ant. (1) Plenty. Who's the next heir of Naples? Then, tell me, Claribel. Seb. Seb. Ant. You did supplant your brother Prospero. Ant. True: And look, how well my garments sit upon me; Much feater than before: my brother's servants Were then my fellows, now they are my men. Seb. But, for your conscience Ant. Ay, sir; where lies that? if it were a kibe, If he were that which now he's like; whom I, Seb. Thy case, dear friend, Shall be my precedent; as thou got'st Milan, I'll come by Naples. Draw thy sword: one stroke Shall free thee from the tribute which thou pay'st; And I the king shall love thee. Ant. Draw together: And when I rear my hand, do you the like, To fall it on Gonzalo. Seb. O, but one word. [They converse apart. Music. Re-enter Ariel, invisible. Ari. My master through his art foresees the danger By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me, Enter Trinculo. Here comes a spirit of his; and to torment me, Perchance he will not mind me. Trin. Here's neither bush nor shrub, to bear off any weather at all, and another storm brewing; I hear it sing i' the wind: yond' same black cloud, would shed his liquor. If it should thunder, as it yond' huge one, looks like a foul bumbard1 that did before, I know not where to hide my head: ear.yond' same cloud cannot choose but fall by pail That these, his friends, are in; and sends me forth, While you here do snoring lie, His time doth take: If of life you keep a care, Ant. Then let us both be sudden. And that a strange one too, which did awake me: fuls.-What have we here? a man or a fish? Dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of, not of the newest, Poor John. A strange fish! Were I in England now (as once I was,) and had this fish painted, not a holiday-fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a man; any strange beast there makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm, o' my they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd troth! I do now let loose my opinion, hold it no longer; this is no fish, but an islander, that hath the storm is come again: my best way is to creep lately suffered by a thunderbolt. [Thunder.] Alas! under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter hereabout: misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows. I will here shroud, till the dregs of the storm be past. Enter Stephano, singing; a bottle in his hand. (4) A black jack of leather, to hold beer |