In this strange stare?

Alon. O it is monstrous ! monstrous !
Methought, the billows spoke, and told me of it;
The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder,
That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd
The name of Prosper; it did pass my trespass.
Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded; and
I'll seck him deeper than e'er plummet
sounded,

And with him there lie mudded.
Seb. But one flend at a time,

I'll fight their legions o'er.
Ant. I'll be thy second.

[Exit.

[Exeunt SEB. and ANT. Gon. All three of them are desperate; their great guilt,

Like poison given to work a great time after,
Now 'gins to bite the spirits :-I do beseech you
That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly,
And hinder them from what this ecstacy ⚫
May now provoke them to.

Adr, Follow, I pray you.

ACT IV.

Enter ARIEL.

Ari. What would my potent master! here I

am.

Pro. Thou and thy meaner fellows your last service

Did worthily perform; and I must use you
In such another trick: go, bring the rabble,
O'er whom I give thee power, here, to this
place:

Incite them to quick motion; for I must
Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple
Some vanity of mine art; it is my promise,
And they expect it from me.
Ari. Presently?

Pro. Ay, with a twink.

And breathe twice; and cry, sa, so;
Ari. Before you can say, come, and go,
Each one, tripping on his toe,
Will be here with mop and mowe :
Do you love me, master? no.

Pro. Dearly, my delicate Ariel:
Till thou dost hear me call.

Ari. Well I conceiye.

Pro. Look, thou be true; do not

liance

Do not ap[proach,

(Exit.

give dal[straw

Too much the rein; the strongest oaths are
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 ardour of my liver.

Pro. Well.—

SCENE I.-Before PROSPERO'S cell. Enter PROSPERO, FERDINAND, and MIRANDA. Pro. If I have too austerely punish'd you, Your compensation makes amends; for i Have given you here a thread of mine own life, Or that for which I live; whom once again I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test: here, afore Heaven, I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand, Do not smile at me, that I boast her off, For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise, And make it halt bebind her.

Fer. I do believe it,

Against an oracle.

Pro. Then, as my gift, and thine own acqui

sition

Worthily purchas'd, take my daughter: But
If thou dost break her virgin knot before
All sanctimonious ceremonies may
With full and holy rite be minister'd,
No sweet aspersion + shall the heavens let fall
To make this contract grow but barren bate,
Sour-ey'd disdain, and discord, shall bestrew
The union of your bed with weeds so loathly,
That you shall hate it both: therefore, take
heed,

As Hymen's lamps shall light you.

Fer. As I hope

For quiet days, fair issue, and long life,

With such love as 'tis now; the murkiest den, The most oppórtune place, the strong'st sug

gestion

Our worser Genius can, shall never melt Mine honour into lust; to take away

The edge of that day's celebration,

A masque. Enter IRIS.

Iris. Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich lees Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats, and pease; Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatch'd with stover, them to keep;

Thy banks with peonied and lilied brims,
Which spungy 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,

Whose watery arch, and mesenger, am I
Bids thee leave these: and with her sovereign

Cer. Hail, many-colour'd messenger, that Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter; [ne'er Who, with thy saffron wings, upon my flowers Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers: And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown Rich scarf to my proud earth: Why hath thy My bosky acres, and my unshrubb'd down, queen [green ? Summon'd me hither, to this short-grass'd Iris. A contract of true love to celebrate; And some donation freely to estate On the bless'd lovers.

Cer. Tell me, heavenly bow,

If Venus, or her son, as thou dost know,
Do now attend the queen? since they did plot
The means, that dusky Dis my daughter got,
Her and her blind boy's scandal'd company

To think these spirits ?

Pro. Spirits, which by mine art

I have from their confines call'd to enact

My present fancies.

Fer. Let me live here ever;

So rare a wonder'd + father and a wife,
Make this place Paradise.

[Juno and Ceres whisper, and send IRIB
on employment.

Pro. Sweet now, Silence:
Juno and Ceres whisper seriously;

There's something else to do: hush, and be mute,

Or else our spell is marr'd.

Iris. You nymphs, call'd Naiads, of the wandring brooks,

With your sedg'd crowns, and ever harmless looks,

Leave your crisp channels, and on this green land

Answer your summons; Juno does command: Come, temperate nymphs, and help to cele

brate

A contract of true love; be not too late.

Enter certain Nymphs.

You sun-burn'd sicklemen, of August weary,
Come hither from the furrow, and be merry;
Make holy-day your rye-straw hats put on,
And these fresh nymphs encounter every one
In country footing.

Enter certain Reapers, properly habited: they join with the Nymphs in a graceful dance; towards the end whereof PROSPERO starts suddenly, and speaks; after which, to a strange, hollow, and confused noise, they heavily vanish.

Pro. [Aside.] I had forgot that foul conspiracy

Of the beast Caliban, and his confederates,
Against my life; the minute of their plot
Ls almost come.-[To the spirits.] Well done;
avoid; no more.

Fer. This is most strange: your father's in some passion That works him strongly.

Mira. Never till this day,

Saw I him touch'd with anger so distemper'd.
Pro. You do look, my son, in a mov'd sort,
As if you were dismay'd be cheerful, Sir:
Our revels now are ended: these our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve;
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack + behind: We are such stuff
As dreams are made of, and our little life
Is founded with a sleep.-Sir, I am vex'd;
Bear with my weakness; my old brain is trou-
bled.

Be not disturb'd with my infirmity:

If you be pleas'd, retire into my cell,

And there repose; a turn or two I'll walk,
To still my beating mind.

[Exeunt.

Fer. Mira. We wish you peace.
Pro. Come with a thought:-I thank you :-
Ariel, come.

So full of valour, that they smote the air
For breathing in their faces; beat the ground,
For kissing of their feet: yet always bending
Towards their project; Then I beat my tabor,
At which, like unback'd colts, they prick'd
their ears,

Advanc'd their eye-lids, lifted up their noses,
As they smelt music; so I charm'd their ears,
That, calf-like, they my lowing follow'd,
through
Tooth'd briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss,
and thorns,

Which enter'd their frail shins: at last I left them

I' the filthy mantled pool beyond your cell, There dancing up to the chins, that the foul lake O'er-stunk their feet.

Pro. This was well done, my bird: Thy shape invisible retain thou still : The trumpery in my house, go, bring it hither, For stale to catch these thieves.

Ari. I go, I go. [Exit. Pro. A devil, a born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains, Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost; And as, with age, his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers: will plague them all. Re-enter ARIEL, loaden with glistering apvarel, &c.

Even to roaring :-Come, hang them on this

line.

PROSPERO and ARIEL remain invisible. Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO; all wet.

Cal. Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not

Hear a foot fall: we now are near his cell. a harmless fairy, has done little better than Ste. Monster, your fairy, which, you say, is played the Jack || with us.

• Vanished.

Rack is the thin and subtil mist which may be seen encircling the tops of mountains immediately after ↑ Bait. Education. Jack with a lantern.

sun-rise.

enter :

Do that good mischief, which may make this island

Thine own for ever, and I, thy Caliban,
For aye, thy foot-licker.

Ste. Give me thy hand: I do begin to have bloody thoughts.

Trin. O king Stephano! O peer! O worthy Stephano! look, what a wardrobe here is for thee! Cal. Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash. Trin. O ho, monster; we know what belongs to a frippery:-O king Stephano!

Ste. Put off that gown, Trinculo; by this hand, I'll have that gown.

Trin. Thy grace shall have it.

Cal. The dropsy drown this fool! what do

Make us strange stuff.

Ste. Be you quiet, monster.-Mistress line, is not this my jerkin? Now is the jerkin under the line now, jerkin, you are like to lose your hair, and prove a bald jerkin.

Trin. Do, do; We steal by line and level, and't like your grace.

Ste. I thank thee for that jest: here's a garment for't: wit shall not go unrewarded, while I am king of this country: Steal by line and level, is an excellent pass of pate; there's another garment for't.

Trin. Mouster, come, put some limet upon your fingers, and away with the rest.

Cal. I will have none on't: we shall lose our time,

And all be turn'd to barnacles, or to apes
With foreheads villianous low.

Ste. Monster, lay-to your fingers; help to bear this away, where my hogshead of wine is, or I'll turn you out of my kingdom: go to, carry this.

Trin. And this. Ste. Ay, and this.

In the same fashion as you gave in charge;
Just as you left them, Sir; all prisoners
In the lime-grove which weather-fends
cell;

your

They cannot budge, till you release. The king, His brother, and your's, abide all three distracted;

And the remainder mourning over them,
Brim-full of sorrow, and dismay: but chiefly
Him you term'd, Sir, The good old lord, Gon-
zalo :

His tears run down his beard, like winter's drops

From eaves of reeds: your charm so strongly works them,

That if you now beheld them, your affections
Would become tender.

Pro. Dost thou think so, spirit?
Ari. Mine, would, Sir, were I human.
Pro. And mine shall.

Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling
Of their afflictions? and shall not myself,
One of their kiad, that relish all as sharply,
Passion as they, be kindlier mov'd 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 peni tent,

The sole drift of my purpose doth extend
Not a frown further: Go, release them, Ariel;
My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore,
And they shall be themselves.

[Erit.

Ari. Pil fetch them, Sir.
Pro. Ye elves of hills, brook, standing lakes,

and groves;

And ye, that on the sands with printless foot
Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly bim,
When he comes back: you demi-puppets, that
By moonshine do the green-sour ringlets make,
Whereof the ewe not bites; and you, whose

pastime

Is to make midnight-mushrooms; that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid (Weak masters though you be,) I have be dimm'd

The noon-tide sun, call'd forth the mutinoss winds,

And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt: the strong-bas'd promor tory

Have I made shake: and by the spurs pluck'd up

The pine, and cedar graves, at my command, Have waked their sleepers; oped, and let them forth

By my so potent art: But this rough magic
I here abjure: and, when I have requir'd
Some heavenly music, (which even now I do,)
To work mine end upon their senses, that
This abry charm is for, I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound,
I'll drown my book.
[Solemn music.
Re-enter ARIEL: after him, ALONZO, with a
frantic gesture, attended by GONZALO;
SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO in like manner,
attended by ADRIAN and FRANCISCO: They
all enter the circle which PROSPERO had
made, and there stand charmed; which
PROSPE RO observig, speaks.

A solemn air, and the best comforter
To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains,

Gon. All torment, amazement

trouble, wonder, and

Inhabits here: Some heavenly power guide us
Out of this fearful country!

Pro. Behold, Sir king!

The wronged duke of Milan, Prospero :
For more assurance that a living prince
Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body;
And to thee, and thy company, I bid
A hearty welcome.

Alon, Whe'r thou beest he, or no,
Or some enchanted trifle to abuse me,
As late I have been, I not know: thy pulse
Beats, as of flesh and blood; and since I saw
thee,

Th' affliction of my mind amends, with which,
I fear a madness held me: This must crave
(And if this be at all,) a most strange story.
Thy dukedom I resign; and do entreat
Thou pardon me my wrongs :-But how should
Prospero

stand,

For you are spell-stopp'd.-

Holy Gonzalo, honourable man,

Mine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine, Fall fellowly drops.--the charm dissolves

apace;

And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignoraut fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.-O my good Gonzalo, My true preserver, and a loyal sir

To him thou follow'st; I will pay thy graces Home, both in word and deed. Most cruelly Didst thou, Alonso, use me, and my daughter: Thy brother was a furtherer in the act ;Thou'rt pinch'd for't now, Sebastian.-Flesh and blood,

You brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, Expell'd remorse and nature; who, with Sebastian,

(Whose inward pinches therefore

strong,)

are most

Gon. Whether this be,

Or be not, I'll not swear.

Pro. You do yet taste

Believe things certain :-Welcorae, my friends Some subtilties o'tne isle, that will not let you

- all :

For you, most wicked Sir, whom to call brother
Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive
Thy rankest fault; all of them; and require
My dukedom of thee, which, perforce, I know,
Thou must restore.

Alon. If thou beest Prospero,

Give us particulars of thy preservation : How thou hast met us here, who three hours since

Unnatural though thou

thee,

standing

art!--Their under

Begins to swell; and the approaching tide
Will shortly fill the reasonable shores,
That now lie foul and muddy. Not one of them,
That yet looks on me, or would know me :-
Ariel,

Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell;

[Exit ARIEL.

I will dis-case me and myself present,
As I was sometime Milan :-quickly, spirit;
Thou shalt ere long be free.

PROSPERO.

Ari. Where the bee sucks, there suck 1:
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, merrity, 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:
There shalt thou find the mariners asleep
Under the hatches; the master, and the
swain,

Being awake, enforce them to this place;
And presently, I pr'ythee.

Ari. I drink the air before me, and return Or e'er your pulse twice beat. [Erit ARIEL.

Pity, or tenderness of heart.

• Whether.

↑ Sorry.

: Bearable.

Upon this shore, where you were wreck'd, was landed,

To be the lord on't. No more yet of this;
For 'tis a chronicle of day by day,

Not a relation for a breakfast, nor
Befitting this first meeting. Welcome, Sir;
This cell's my court: here have 1 few attend-
ants,

And subjects none abroad: pray you, look in.
My dukedom since you have given me again,
I will requite you with as good a thing;
At least, bring forth a wonder, to content ye,
As much as me my dukedom.

The entrance of the cell opens, and discovers FERDINAND and MIRANDA playing at chess.

Mira. Sweet lord, you play me false.
Fer. No, my dearest love,

I would not for the world.

Mira. Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle,

And I would call it fair play.

Alon. If this prove

A vision of the island, one dear son

Shall I twice lose.

Seb. A most high miracle !

Re-enter ARIEL., with the MASTER and BOAT-
SWAIN amazedly following.

O look, Sir, look, Sir; here are more of us!
I prophesied, if a gallows were on land,
This fellow could not drown:- -Now, blas-
phemy,

That swear'st grace o'erboard, not an oath on shore?

Hast thou no mouth by land? What is the news?

Boats. The best news is, that we have safely found

Our king aud company: the next our ship,Which, but three glasses since, we gave ou split,

Is tight and yare, and bravely rigged, as when We first put out to sea.

Ari. Sir, all this service Have I done since I went. Pro. My tricksy + spirit!

[Aside. [A side.

Alon. These are not natural events; they strengthen,

From strange to stranger:-Say, how came you

hither?

ful:

I have curs'd them without cause.

hatches,

Alon. Now all the blessings
Of a glad father compass thee about!
Arise, and say how thou cam❜st here.
Mira. O wonder !

How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new
world,

That has such people in't!

Pro. "Tis new to thee.

Alon. What is this maid, with whom thou wast at play?

Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours:
Is she the goddess that hath sever'd us,
And brought us thus together?

Fer. Sir, she's mortal;

But, by immorta! Providence, she's mine;
I chose her, when I could not ask my father
For his advice; nor thought I had one: she
Is daughter to this famous duke of Milan,
Of whom so often I have heard renown,
But never saw before; of whom I have
Received a second life, and second father
This lady makes him to me.

That doth not wish you joy!

Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart,

And more diversity of sounds, all horrible,
We were awak'd; straitway, at liberty:
Where we, in all her trim, freshly beheld
Our royal, good, and gallant ship; our master
Cap'ring to eye her: On a trice, so please you,
Even in a dream, were we divided from them,
And were brought inoping hither.

Ari. Was't well done?

[Aside.

Pro. Bravely, my diligence. Thou shalt be free. [Aside.

Alon. This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod :

And there is in this business more than nature
Was ever conduct of: some oracle
Must rectify our knowledge.

Which shall be shortly, single I'll resolve you (Which to you shall seem probable,) of every These happen'd accidents: till when, be cheerful,

And think of each thing well.-Come hither, [Aside.

spirit;

Set Caliban and his companions free :
Untie the spell. [Exit ARIEL.] How fares my
gracious Sir?

There are yet missing of your company
Some few odd lads, that you remember not.

Re-enter ARIEL, driving in CALIBAN, ST. PHANO, and TRINCULO, in their stolen apparel.

Ste. Every man shift for all the rest, and let no man take care for himself: for all is but for. tune -Coragio, bully-monster, Coragio!

Trin. If these be true spies which I wear in my head, here's a goodly sight.

Cal. O Setebos, there be brave spirits, mdeed!

How fine my master is! I am afraid
He will chastise me.

Gon. Be't so! Amen!

fo his senses.