Fer. There be some sports are painful; and their labour

Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone; and most poor matters
Point to rich ends. This my mean task
Would be as heavy to me as odious; but
The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead,
And makes my labours pleasures: O, she is
Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed ;
And he's compos'd of harshness. I must remove
Some thousands of these logs, and pile them up,
Upon a sore injunction: My sweet mistress
Weeps when she sees me work; and says such
Had ne'er like executor. I forget:
But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my la-
Most busy least when I do it.

[baseness

[bours;

Enter Miranda, and Prospero at a distance. Mira. Alas, now! pray you, Work not so hard; I would the lightning had Burnt up those logs that you are enjoin'd to pile! Pray set it down, and rest you: when this burns, 'T will weep for having wearied you: My father Is hard at study; pray now rest yourself; He's safe for these three hours.

Fer. O most dear mistress, The sun will set before I shall discharge What I must strive to do.

If you'll sit down

Mira. I'll bear your logs the while: Pray give me that; I'll carry it to the pile.

Fer.

dishonour undergo,

No, precious creature :
I had rather crack my sinews, break my back,
Than you should such
While I sit lazy by.
As well at it does you
With much more ease;
And yours it is against.
Pro.

Mira. It would become me
and I should do it
for my good will is to it,

Poor

This visitation shows it.

worm! thou art infected; Mira. You look wearily.

Fer. No, noble mistress; 't is fresh morning with When you are by at night. I do beseech you, [me, (Chiefly, that I may set it in my prayers,) What is your name?

Mira.

Miranda :-O my father,
I have broke your hest to say so!
Fer.
Admir'd Miranda !
Indeed the top of admiration; worth
What's dearest to the world! Full many a lady
I have eyed with best regard; and many a time
The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage
Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues
Have I lik'd several women; never any
With so full soul, but some defect in her
Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow'd,
And put it to the foil: But you, O you,
So perfect, and so peerless, are created

Of every creature's best. Mira. I do not know
One of my sex; no woman's face remember,
Save, from my glass, mine own; nor have I seen

Mira. At mine unworthiness, that dare not offer
What I desire to give; and much less take
What I shall die to want: But this is trifling;
And all the more it seeks to hide itself,

The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning!
And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!
I am your wife, if you will marry me;
If not I'll die your maid to be your fellow
You may deny me; but I'll be your servant,
Whether you will or no.

Fer.

And I thus humble ever.

Mira.

My mistress, dearest,

My husband then?

Fer. Ay, with a heart as willing

As bondage e'er of freedom: here's my hand.
Mira. And mine, with my heart in 't: And now
farewell,
Till half an hour hence.
Fer.

A thousand! thousand!
[Exeunt Fer. and Mir.
Pro. So glad of this as they I cannot be,
Who are surpris'd with all; 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 Stephano and Trinculo; Caliban following with a bottle.

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.

Trin. Servant-monster? the folly of this island! They say there's but five upon this isle: we are three of them; if the other two be brained like us, the state totters.

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 drowned 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 standard. Ste. We'll not run, monsieur monster. Trin. Nor go neither: but you'll lie, like dogs; and yet say nothing neither.

Sie. Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a good moon-calf.

Cal. How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe: I'll not serve him, he is not valiant.

Trin. Thou liest, most ignorant monster; I am in case to justle 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 pleas'd 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 sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me Of the island.

Cal. Thou shalt be lord of it, and I'll serve thee. Ste. How now shall this be compassed? Canst thou bring me to the party?

Cal. Yea, yea, my lord; I'll yield him thee asleep, Where thou may'st knock a nail into his head. Ari. Thou liest, thou canst not.

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 Where the quick freshes are. [him Ste. Trinculo, run into no further danger: interrupt the monster one word further, and, by this hand, I'll turn my mercy out of doors, and make a stockfish of thee.

Trin. Why, what did I? I did nothing; I'll go further off.

Ste. Didst thou not say he lied?

Ari. Thou liest.

Ste. Do I so? take thou that. [Strikes him.] As you like this, give me the lie another time.

Trin. I did not give the lie:-Out o' your wits, and hearing too?—A pox o' your bottle! this can sack and drinking do.-A murrain on your monster, and the devil take your fingers!

Cal. Ha, ha, ha!

Ste. Now, forward with your tale. Prithee stand further off.

Cal. Beat him enough: after a little time I'll beat him too.

Ste. Stand further. -Come, proceed.

Cal. Why, as I told thee, 't is a custom with him I'the afternoon to sleep: there thou may'st brain him, Having first seiz'd his books; or with a log Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, Or cut his wezand with thy knife: Remember, First to possess his books; for without them He's but a sot, as I am, nor hath not One spirit to command: They all do hate him, As rootedly as I : Burn but his books; He has brave utensils, (for so he calls them,) Which, when he has a house, he'll deck withal. And that most deeply to consider, is The beauty of his daughter; he himself Calls her a nonpareil : I ne'er saw woman, But only Sycorax my dam, and she; But she as far surpasseth Sycorax

As greatest does least. [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.

Cal. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments [not. Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds, methought, would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that when I wak'd I cried to dream again.

[story.

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 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.

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 pa-
I needs must rest me.
[tience,

Alon. Old lord, I cannot blame thee, Who am myself attach'd with weariness, To the dulling of my spirits sit down and rest. Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd Whom thus we stray to find; and the sea mocks Our frustrate search on land: Well, let him go. Ant. I am right glad that he's so out of hope. [Aside to Sebastian. Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose That you resolv'd to effect. Seb.

Will we take throughly.

The next advantage Ant. 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. I say, to-night: no more. Solemn and strange music; and Prospero above, invisible. Enter several strange Shapes, bringing in a banquet; they dance about it with

Ant. And what does else want credit, come to me, And I'll be sworn 't is true: Travellers ne'er did lie, Though fools at home condemn them.

Gon.

If in Naples should report this now, would they believe me? f I should say I saw such islanders,

For, certes, these are people of the island,)
Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet, note,
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of
Our human generation you shall find
Many, nay, almost any. Pro. Honest lord,
Thou hast said well; for some of you there present,
Are worse than devils.
[Aside.
Alon.
I cannot too much muse
Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, express-
(Although they want the use of tongue) a kind [ing
Of excellent dumb discourse.
Pro.

Praise in departing. [Aside.
Fran. They vanish'd strangely.
Seb.

No matter, since They have left their viands behind; for we have stomachs.

Will't please you taste of what is here?
Alon.
Not I. [boys,
Gon. Faith, sir, you need not fear: When we were
Who would believe that there were mountaineers
Dew-lapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging
at them

Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men
Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we
Each putter-out of five for one will bring us [find,
Good warrant of.

Alon.

I will stand to, and feed,
Although my last: no matter, since I feel
The best is past :-Brother, my lord the duke,
Stand to, and do as we.

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 caus'd 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 ;

[Seeing Alon., Seb., &c., draw their swords. And even with such-like valour, men hang and drown

Their proper selves. You fools! I and my fellows
Are ministers of fate; the elements,

Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well
Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs
Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish
One dowle, that's in my plume; my fellow-ministers
Are like invulnerable: if you cou'd hurt,
Your swords are now too massy for your strengths,
And will not be uplifted: But, remember,
(For that's my business to you,) that you three
From Milan did supplant good Prospero;
Expos'd unto the sea, which hath requit it,

Him and his innocent child: for which foul deed
The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have
Incens'd the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
Against your peace: Thee, of thy son, Alonso,
They have bereft; and do pronounce by me,
Ling ring perdition (worse than any death
Can be at once,) shall step by step attend
You, and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from
(Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls
Upon your heads,) is nothing, but heart's sorrow,
And a clear life ensuing.

He vanishes in thunder: then, to soft music, enter the Shapes again, and dance with mops and mowes, and carry out the table.

Pro. Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring: Of my instruction hast thou nothing 'bated, In what thou hadst to say so, with good life, And observation strange, my meaner ministers Their several kinds have done my high charms And these, mine enemies, are all knit up [work, In their distractions: they now are in my power; And in these fits I leave them, while I visit Young Ferdinand, (whom they suppose is drown'd,) And his and my loved darling.

:

[Exit Prospero from above. Gon. I' the name of something holy, sir, why stand In this strange stare? [you 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 bass my trespass. Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.

Seb.

I'll fight their legions o'er. Ant.

[Exit. But one fiend at a time,

I'll be thy second. [Exeunt Seb. and Ant. Gon. All three of them are desperate; their great Like poison given to work a great time after, [guilt, Now 'gins to bite the spirits :-I do beseech you That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly, And hinder them from what this ecstasy May now provoke them to. Adr.

ACT IV.

Follow, I pray you. [Exeunt.

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 behind her. Fer. I do believe it,
Against an oracle.

Pro. Then, as my gift, and thine own acquisition
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 hate,