Cal. You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse: the red plague rid you, For learning me your language!

Pro. Hag-seed, hence! Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou wert best, To answer other business. Shrug'st thou, malice? If thou neglect'st, or dost unwillingly

What I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps; Fill all thy bones with aches; make thee roar, That beasts shall tremble at thy din.

Cal.

:

No, 'pray thee!

I must obey his art is of such power,
It would control my dam's god, Setebos,
And make a vassal of him.

Pro..

[Aside.

So, slave; hence!

[Exit CALIBAN,

Re-enter ARIEL invisible, playing and singing; FERDINAND following him.

ARIEL'S Song.

Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands:

Court'sied when you have, and kiss'd,

(The wild waves whist')

Foot it featly here and there;

And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.

Hark, hark!

Bur. Bowgh, wowgh.

The watch-dogs bark:

Bur. Bowgh, wowgh.

[dispersedly.

[dispersedly.

Hark, hark! I hear

The strain of strutting chanticlere

Cry, cock-a-doodle-doo.

Fer. Where should this musick be? i' the air, or

the earth?

It sounds no more: ― and sure, it waits

6 Destroy.

upon

7 Being stilled, silenced.

Some god of the island. Sitting on a bank,
Weeping again the king my father's wreck,
This musick crept by me upon the waters;
Allaying both their fury, and my passion,
With its sweet air; thence I have follow'd it,
Or it hath drawn me rather :-
-But 'tis gone.
No, it begins again.

ARIEL sings.

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls, that were his eyes :
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change

Into something rich and strange.

Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:

Hark! now I hear them,- ding-dong, bell.

This is no mortal business, nor no sound

That the earth owes 8: I hear it now above me.

Pro. The fringed curtains of thine eye advance And say, what thou seest yond'.

Mira.

See how it looks about!

It carries a brave form:

What is't? a spirit?

Believe me, sir,

-But 'tis a spirit.

Pro. No, wench; it eats and sleeps, and hath such senses

As we have, such: This gallant which thou seest, Was in the wreck; and but he's something stain'd With grief, that's beauty's canker, thou might'st call

him

A goodly person: he hath lost his fellows,
And strays about to find them.

8 Owns.

Mira.

I might call him

It goes on,

Aside.

A thing divine; for nothing natural
I ever saw so noble.

Pro.

As my soul prompts it:-Spirit, fine spirit! I'll free

thee

Within two days for this.

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! be maid, or no?

If

you

Mira.

But, certainly a maid.

Fer.

No wonder, sir;

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech, Were I but where 'tis spoken.

How! the best?

Pro. What wert thou, if the king of Naples heard thee?

Fer. A single thing, as I am now, that wonders To hear thee speak of Naples: He does hear me; And, that he does, I weep: myself am Naples; Who with mine eyes, ne'er since at ebb, beheld The king my father wreck'd.

Mira.

Alack, for mercy! Fer. Yes, faith, and all his lords; the duke of

Milan,

And his brave son, being twain.

The duke of Milan,

Pro. And his more braver daughter, could control' thee, If now 'twere fit to do't: At the first sight

[Aside.

A word, good sir;

They have chang'd eyes: - Delicate Ariel,
I'll set thee free for this!
I fear, you have done yourself some wrong: a word.

9 Confute.

Mira. Why speaks my father so ungently? This Is the third man that e'er I saw; the first

That e'er I sigh'd for: pity move my father
To be inclin'd my way!

Fer.

O, if a virgin,

And your
The queen of Naples !

affection not gone forth, I'll make you

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 an house,

Good things will strive to dwell with't.

Pro.

Follow me.-[To FERD.
Speak not you for him; he's a traitor.-Come.
I'll manacle thy neck and feet together:

Sea-water shalt thou drink, thy food shall be
The fresh-brook muscles, wither'd roots, and husks
Wherein the acorn cradled: Follow.

Fer.

I will resist such entertainment, till

Mine enemy has more power.

No;

[He draws.

O dear father,

What, I say,

Mira.
Make not too rash a trial of him, for
He's gentle, and not fearful. '

Pro.

My foot my tutor!--Put thy sword up, traitor;

1 Frightful.

Who mak'st a show, but dar'st not strike, thy con

science

Is so possess'd with guilt: come from thy ward2;
For I can here disarm thee with this stick,
And make thy weapon drop.

Mira.

Beseech you,

father!

Sir, have pity;

Pro. Hence; hang not on my garments.

Mira.

I'll be his surety.

Pro.

Silence: one word more

Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What! An advocate for an impostor? hush!

Thou think'st, there are no more such shapes as he, Having seen but him and Caliban; Foolish wench! To the most of men this is a Caliban,

And they to him are angels.

Mira.

My affections

Are then most humble; I have no ambition

To see a goodlier man.

Pro.

Come on; obey :

[To FERD.

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.
My father's loss, the weakness which I feel,
The wreck of all my friends, or this man's threats,
To whom I am subdued, are but light to me,
Might I but through my prison once a day
Behold this maid: all corners else o' the earth
Let liberty make use of; space enough
Have I in such a prison.

Pro.

It works: Come on.

Thou hast done well, fine Ariel!

Follow me.

[To FERD. and MIR.

Hark, what thou else shalt do me. [To ARIEL.

2 Guard.