the tempest final play script

8/14/2019 The Tempest Final Play Script

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ACT I

SCENE I. On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise of thunder and

lightning heard.

Enter a Master and a Boatswain

Master

Boatswain!

Boatswain

Here, master: what cheer?

Master

Good, speak to the mariners: fall to't, yarely,

or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir

Exit

nter "ariners

Boatswain

Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts!

yare, yare! #ake in the topsail #end to the

master's whistle Blow, till thou burst thy wind,

if room enough!

Enter AONSO! SEBASTIAN! ANTONIO! "E#$INAN$! %ON&AO! and

others

AONSO

Good boatswain, have care $here's the master?

%lay the men

Boatswain

& pray now, keep below

ANTONIO

$here is the master, boatswain?


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Boatswain

o you not hear him? (ou mar our labour: keep your

cabins: you do assist the storm

%ON&AO

)ay, good, be patient

Boatswain

$hen the sea is Hence! $hat cares these roarers

for the name of king? #o cabin: silence! trouble us not

%ON&AO

Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard

Boatswain

)one that & more love than myself (ou are a

counsellor* if you can command these elements to

silence, and work the peace of the present, we will

not hand a rope more* use your authority: if you

cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make

yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of

the hour, if it so hap +heerly, good hearts! ut

of our way, & say

Exit

%ON&AO

& have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he

hath no drowning mark upon him* his comple-ion is

perfect gallows .tand fast, good /ate, to his

hanging: make the rope of his destiny our cable,

for our own doth little advantage &f he be not


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born to be hanged, our case is miserable

Exeunt

#e'enter Boatswain

Boatswain

own with the topmast! yare! lower, lower! Bring

her to try with main0course

A (r) within

1 plague upon this howling! they are louder than

the weather or our office

#e'enter SEBASTIAN! ANTONIO! and %ON&AO

(et again! what do you here? .hall we give o'er

and drown? Have you a mind to sink?

SEBASTIAN

1 po- o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous,

incharitable dog!

Boatswain

$ork you then

ANTONIO

Hang, cur! hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker!

$e are less afraid to be drowned than thou art

%ON&AO

&'ll warrant him for drowning* though the ship were

no stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an

unstanched wench

Boatswain

2ay her a0hold, a0hold! set her two courses off to


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sea again* lay her off

Enter Mariners wet

Mariners

1ll lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost!

Boatswain

$hat, must our mouths be cold?

%ON&AO

#he king and prince at prayers! let's assist them,

/or our case is as theirs

SEBASTIAN

&'m out of patience

ANTONIO

$e are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards:

#his wide0chapp'd rascal00would thou mightst lie drowning

#he washing of ten tides!

%ON&AO

He'll be hang'd yet,

#hough every drop of water swear against it

1nd gape at widest to glut him

1 confused noise within: '"ercy on us!'00 '$e split, we split!'00'/arewell, my

wife and children!'00 '/arewell, brother!'00'$e split, we split, we split!'

ANTONIO

2et's all sink with the king

SEBASTIAN

2et's take leave of him

Exeunt ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN

%ON&AO


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)ow would & give a thousand furlongs of sea for an

acre of barren ground, long heath, brown fur3e, any

thing #he wills above be done! but & would fain

die a dry death

Exeunt

SCENE II. The island. Before *#OS*E#O+S (ell.

Enter *#OS*E#O and MI#AN$A

MI#AN$A

&f by your art, my dearest father, you have

%ut the wild waters in this roar, allay them

#he sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,

But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek,

ashes the fire out , & have suffered

$ith those that & saw suffer: a brave vessel,

$ho had, no doubt, some noble creature in her,

ash'd all to pieces , the cry did knock

1gainst my very heart %oor souls, they perish'd

Had & been any god of power, & would

Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere

&t should the good ship so have swallow'd and

#he fraughting souls within her

*#OS*E#O

Be collected:

)o more ama3ement: tell your piteous heart

#here's no harm done

MI#AN$A


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, woe the day!

*#OS*E#O

)o harm

& have done nothing but in care of thee,

f thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who

1rt ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing

f whence & am, nor that & am more better

#han %rospero, master of a full poor cell,

1nd thy no greater father

MI#AN$A

"ore to know

id never meddle with my thoughts

*#OS*E#O

'#is time

& should inform thee farther 2end thy hand,

1nd pluck my magic garment from me .o:

a)s down his mantle

2ie there, my art $ipe thou thine eyes* have comfort

#he direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd

#he very virtue of compassion in thee,

& have with such provision in mine art

.o safely ordered that there is no soul00

)o, not so much perdition as an hair

Betid to any creature in the vessel

$hich thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink .it down*

/or thou must now know farther


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MI#AN$A

(ou have often

Begun to tell me what & am, but stopp'd

1nd left me to a bootless in4uisition,

+oncluding '.tay: not yet'

*#OS*E#O

#he hour's now come*

#he very minute bids thee ope thine ear*

bey and be attentive +anst thou remember

1 time before we came unto this cell?

& do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not

ut three years old

MI#AN$A

+ertainly, sir, & can

*#OS*E#O

By what? by any other house or person?

f any thing the image tell me that

Hath kept with thy remembrance

MI#AN$A

'#is far off

1nd rather like a dream than an assurance

#hat my remembrance warrants Had & not

/our or five women once that tended me?

*#OS*E#O

#hou hadst, and more, "iranda But how is it

#hat this lives in thy mind? $hat seest thou else


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&n the dark backward and abysm of time?

&f thou remember'st aught ere thou camest here,

How thou camest here thou mayst

MI#AN$A

But that & do not

*#OS*E#O

#welve year since, "iranda, twelve year since,

#hy father was the uke of "ilan and

1 prince of power

MI#AN$A

.ir, are not you my father?

*#OS*E#O

#hy mother was a piece of virtue, and

.he said thou wast my daughter* and thy father

$as uke of "ilan* and thou his only heir

1nd princess no worse issued

MI#AN$A

the heavens!

$hat foul play had we, that we came from thence?

r blessed was't we did?

*#OS*E#O

Both, both, my girl:

By foul play, as thou say'st, were we heaved thence,

But blessedly holp hither

MI#AN$A

, my heart bleeds


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#o think o' the teen that & have turn'd you to,

$hich is from my remembrance! %lease you, farther

*#OS*E#O

"y brother and thy uncle, call'd 1ntonio00

& pray thee, mark me00that a brother should

Be so perfidious!00he whom ne-t thyself

f all the world & loved and to him put

#he manage of my state* as at that time

#hrough all the signories it was the first

1nd %rospero the prime duke, being so reputed

&n dignity, and for the liberal arts

$ithout a parallel* those being all my study,

#he government & cast upon my brother

1nd to my state grew stranger, being transported

1nd rapt in secret studies #hy false uncle00

ost thou attend me?

MI#AN$A

.ir, most heedfully

*#OS*E#O

Being once perfected how to grant suits,

How to deny them, who to advance and who

#o trash for over0topping, new created

#he creatures that were mine, & say, or changed 'em,

r else new form'd 'em* having both the key

f officer and office, set all hearts i' the state

#o what tune pleased his ear* that now he was


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#he ivy which had hid my princely trunk,

1nd suck'd my verdure out on't #hou attend'st not

MI#AN$A

, good sir, & do

*#OS*E#O

& pray thee, mark me

&, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated

#o closeness and the bettering of my mind

$ith that which, but by being so retired,

'er0pri3ed all popular rate, in my false brother

1waked an evil nature* and my trust,

2ike a good parent, did beget of him

1 falsehood in its contrary as great

1s my trust was* which had indeed no limit,

1 confidence sans bound He being thus lorded,

)ot only with what my revenue yielded,

But what my power might else e-act, like one

$ho having into truth, by telling of it,

"ade such a sinner of his memory,

#o credit his own lie, he did believe

He was indeed the duke* out o' the substitution

1nd e-ecuting the outward face of royalty,

$ith all prerogative: hence his ambition growing00

ost thou hear?

MI#AN$A

(our tale, sir, would cure deafness


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*#OS*E#O

#o have no screen between this part he play'd

1nd him he play'd it for, he needs will be

1bsolute "ilan "e, poor man, my library

$as dukedom large enough: of temporal royalties

He thinks me now incapable* confederates00

.o dry he was for sway00wi' the 5ing of )aples

#o give him annual tribute, do him homage,

.ub6ect his coronet to his crown and bend

#he dukedom yet unbow'd00alas, poor "ilan!00

#o most ignoble stooping

MI#AN$A

the heavens!

*#OS*E#O

"ark his condition and the event* then tell me

&f this might be a brother

MI#AN$A

& should sin

#o think but nobly of my grandmother:

Good wombs have borne bad sons

*#OS*E#O

)ow the condition

#he 5ing of )aples, being an enemy

#o me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit*

$hich was, that he, in lieu o' the premises

f homage and & know not how much tribute,


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.hould presently e-tirpate me and mine

ut of the dukedom and confer fair "ilan

$ith all the honours on my brother: whereon,

1 treacherous army levied, one midnight

/ated to the purpose did 1ntonio open

#he gates of "ilan, and, i' the dead of darkness,

#he ministers for the purpose hurried thence

"e and thy crying self

MI#AN$A

1lack, for pity!

&, not remembering how & cried out then,

$ill cry it o'er again: it is a hint

#hat wrings mine eyes to't

*#OS*E#O

Hear a little further

1nd then &'ll bring thee to the present business

$hich now's upon's* without the which this story

$ere most impertinent

MI#AN$A

$herefore did they not

#hat hour destroy us?

*#OS*E#O

$ell demanded, wench:

"y tale provokes that 4uestion ear, they durst not,

.o dear the love my people bore me, nor set

1 mark so bloody on the business, but


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$ith colours fairer painted their foul ends

&n few, they hurried us aboard a bark,

Bore us some leagues to sea* where they prepared

1 rotten carcass of a boat, not rigg'd,

)or tackle, sail, nor mast* the very rats

&nstinctively had 4uit it: there they hoist us,

#o cry to the sea that roar'd to us, to sigh

#o the winds whose pity, sighing back again,

id us but loving wrong

MI#AN$A

1lack, what trouble

$as & then to you!

*#OS*E#O

, a cherubim

#hou wast that did preserve me #hou didst smile

&nfused with a fortitude from heaven,

$hen & have deck'd the sea with drops full salt,

7nder my burthen groan'd* which raised in me

1n undergoing stomach, to bear up

1gainst what should ensue

MI#AN$A

How came we ashore?

*#OS*E#O

By %rovidence divine

.ome food we had and some fresh water that

1 noble )eapolitan, Gon3alo,


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ut of his charity, being then appointed

"aster of this design, did give us, with

8ich garments, linens, stuffs and necessaries,

$hich since have steaded much* so, of his gentleness,

5nowing & loved my books, he furnish'd me

/rom mine own library with volumes that

& pri3e above my dukedom

"&81)1

$ould & might

But ever see that man!

%8.%8

)ow & arise:

#esumes his mantle

.it still, and hear the last of our sea0sorrow

Here in this island we arrived* and here

Have &, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit

#han other princesses can that have more time

/or vainer hours and tutors not so careful

MI#AN$A

Heavens thank you for't! 1nd now, & pray you, sir,

/or still 'tis beating in my mind, your reason

/or raising this sea0storm?

*#OS*E#O

5now thus far forth

By accident most strange, bountiful /ortune,

)ow my dear lady, hath mine enemies


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Brought to this shore* and by my prescience

& find my 3enith doth depend upon

1 most auspicious star, whose influence

&f now & court not but omit, my fortunes

$ill ever after droop Here cease more 4uestions:

#hou art inclined to sleep* 'tis a good dulness,

1nd give it way: & know thou canst not choose

MI#AN$A sleeps

+ome away, servant, come & am ready now

1pproach, my 1riel, come

Enter A#IE

A#IE

1ll hail, great master! grave sir, hail! & come

#o answer thy best pleasure* be't to fly,

#o swim, to dive into the fire, to ride

n the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task

1riel and all his 4uality

*#OS*E#O

Hast thou, spirit,

%erform'd to point the tempest that & bade thee?

A#IE

#o every article

& boarded the king's ship* now on the beak,

)ow in the waist, the deck, in every cabin,

& flamed ama3ement: sometime &'ld divide,


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1nd burn in many places* on the topmast,

#he yards and bowsprit, would & flame distinctly,

#hen meet and 6oin 9ove's lightnings, the precursors

' the dreadful thunder0claps, more momentary

1nd sight0outrunning were not* the fire and cracks

f sulphurous roaring the most mighty )eptune

.eem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble,

(ea, his dread trident shake

*#OS*E#O

"y brave spirit!

$ho was so firm, so constant, that this coil

$ould not infect his reason?

A#IE

)ot a soul

But felt a fever of the mad and play'd

.ome tricks of desperation 1ll but mariners

%lunged in the foaming brine and 4uit the vessel,

#hen all afire with me: the king's son, /erdinand,

$ith hair up0staring,00then like reeds, not hair,00

$as the first man that leap'd* cried, 'Hell is empty

1nd all the devils are here'

*#OS*E#O

$hy that's my spirit!

But was not this nigh shore?

A#IE

+lose by, my master


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*#OS*E#O

But are they, 1riel, safe?

A#IE

)ot a hair perish'd*

n their sustaining garments not a blemish,

But fresher than before: and, as thou badest me,

&n troops & have dispersed them 'bout the isle

#he king's son have & landed by himself*

$hom & left cooling of the air with sighs

&n an odd angle of the isle and sitting,

His arms in this sad knot

*#OS*E#O

f the king's ship

#he mariners say how thou hast disposed

1nd all the rest o' the fleet

A#IE

.afely in harbour

&s the king's ship* in the deep nook, where once

#hou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew

/rom the still0ve-'d Bermoothes, there she's hid:

#he mariners all under hatches stow'd*

$ho, with a charm 6oin'd to their suffer'd labour,

& have left asleep* and for the rest o' the fleet

$hich & dispersed, they all have met again

1nd are upon the "editerranean flote,

Bound sadly home for )aples,


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.upposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd

1nd his great person perish

*#OS*E#O

1riel, thy charge

-actly is perform'd: but there's more work

$hat is the time o' the day?

A#IE

%ast the mid season

*#OS*E#O

1t least two glasses #he time 'twi-t si- and now

"ust by us both be spent most preciously

A#IE

&s there more toil? .ince thou dost give me pains,

2et me remember thee what thou hast promised,

$hich is not yet perform'd me

*#OS*E#O

How now? moody?

$hat is't thou canst demand?

A#IE

"y liberty

*#OS*E#O

Before the time be out? no more!

A#IE

& prithee,

8emember & have done thee worthy service*

#old thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served


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$ithout or grudge or grumblings: thou didst promise

#o bate me a full year

*#OS*E#O

ost thou forget

/rom what a torment & did free thee?

A#IE

)o

*#OS*E#O

#hou dost, and think'st it much to tread the oo3e

f the salt deep,

#o run upon the sharp wind of the north,

#o do me business in the veins o' the earth

$hen it is baked with frost

A#IE

& do not, sir

*#OS*E#O

#hou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot

#he foul witch .ycora-, who with age and envy

$as grown into a hoop? hast thou forgot her?

A#IE

)o, sir

*#OS*E#O

#hou hast $here was she born? speak* tell me

A#IE

.ir, in 1rgier

*#OS*E#O


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, was she so? & must

nce in a month recount what thou hast been,

$hich thou forget'st #his damn'd witch .ycora-,

/or mischiefs manifold and sorceries terrible

#o enter human hearing, from 1rgier,

#hou know'st, was banish'd: for one thing she did

#hey would not take her life &s not this true?

A#IE

1y, sir

*#OS*E#O

#his blue0eyed hag was hither brought with child

1nd here was left by the sailors #hou, my slave,

1s thou report'st thyself, wast then her servant*

1nd, for thou wast a spirit too delicate

#o act her earthy and abhorr'd commands,

8efusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,

By help of her more potent ministers

1nd in her most unmitigable rage,

&nto a cloven pine* within which rift

&mprison'd thou didst painfully remain

1 do3en years* within which space she died

1nd left thee there* where thou didst vent thy groans

1s fast as mill0wheels strike #hen was this island00

.ave for the son that she did litter here,

1 freckled whelp hag0born00not honour'd with

1 human shape


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A#IE

(es, +aliban her son

*#OS*E#O

ull thing, & say so* he, that +aliban

$hom now & keep in service #hou best know'st

$hat torment & did find thee in* thy groans

id make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts

f ever angry bears: it was a torment

#o lay upon the damn'd, which .ycora-

+ould not again undo: it was mine art,

$hen & arrived and heard thee, that made gape

#he pine and let thee out

A#IE

& thank thee, master

*#OS*E#O

&f thou more murmur'st, & will rend an oak

1nd peg thee in his knotty entrails till

#hou hast howl'd away twelve winters

A#IE

%ardon, master*

& will be correspondent to command

1nd do my spiriting gently

*#OS*E#O

o so, and after two days

& will discharge thee

A#IE


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#hat's my noble master!

$hat shall & do? say what* what shall & do?

*#OS*E#O

Go make thyself like a nymph o' the sea: be sub6ect

#o no sight but thine and mine, invisible

#o every eyeball else Go take this shape

1nd hither come in't: go, hence with diligence!

Exit A#IE

1wake, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well* 1wake!

MI#AN$A

#he strangeness of your story put

Heaviness in me

*#OS*E#O

.hake it off +ome on*

$e'll visit +aliban my slave, who never

(ields us kind answer

MI#AN$A

'#is a villain, sir,

& do not love to look on

*#OS*E#O

But, as 'tis,

$e cannot miss him: he does make our fire,

/etch in our wood and serves in offices

#hat profit us $hat, ho! slave! +aliban!

#hou earth, thou! speak

CAIBAN


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$ithin; #here's wood enough within

*#OS*E#O

+ome forth, & say! there's other business for thee:

+ome, thou tortoise! when?

#e'enter A#IE li,e a water'n)mph

/ine apparition! "y 4uaint 1riel,

Hark in thine ear

A#IE

"y lord it shall be done

Exit

*#OS*E#O

#hou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself

7pon thy wicked dam, come forth!

Enter CAIBAN

CAIBAN

1s wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd

$ith raven's feather from unwholesome fen

rop on you both! a south0west blow on ye

1nd blister you all o'er!

*#OS*E#O

/or this, be sure, to0night thou shalt have cramps,

.ide0stitches that shall pen thy breath up* urchins

.hall, for that vast of night that they may work,

1ll e-ercise on thee* thou shalt be pinch'd

1s thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging

#han bees that made 'em


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CAIBAN

& must eat my dinner

#his island's mine, by .ycora- my mother,

$hich thou takest from me $hen thou camest first,

#hou strokedst me and madest much of me, wouldst give me

$ater with berries in't, and teach me how

#o name the bigger light, and how the less,

#hat burn by day and night: and then & loved thee

1nd show'd thee all the 4ualities o' the isle,

#he fresh springs, brine0pits, barren place and fertile:

+ursed be & that did so! 1ll the charms

f .ycora-, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!

/or & am all the sub6ects that you have,

$hich first was mine own king: and here you sty me

&n this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me

#he rest o' the island

*#OS*E#O

#hou most lying slave,

$hom stripes may move, not kindness! & have used thee,

/ilth as thou art, with human care, and lodged thee

&n mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate

#he honour of my child

CAIBAN

ho, ho! would't had been done!

#hou didst prevent me* & had peopled else

#his isle with +alibans


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*#OS*E#O

1bhorred slave,

$hich any print of goodness wilt not take,

Being capable of all ill! & pitied thee,

#ook pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour

ne thing or other: when thou didst not, savage,

5now thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like

1 thing most brutish, & endow'd thy purposes

$ith words that made them known But thy vile race,

#hough thou didst learn, had that in't which

good natures

+ould not abide to be with* therefore wast thou

eservedly confined into this rock,

$ho hadst deserved more than a prison

CAIBAN

(ou taught me language* and my profit on't

&s, & know how to curse #he red plague rid you

/or learning me your language!

*#OS*E#O

Hag0seed, hence!

/etch us in fuel* and be 4uick, thou'rt best,

#o answer other business .hrug'st thou, malice?

&f thou neglect'st or dost unwillingly

$hat & command, &'ll rack thee with old cramps,

/ill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar

#hat beasts shall tremble at thy din


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CAIBAN

)o, pray thee

1side

& must obey: his art is of such power,

&t would control my dam's god, .etebos,

and make a vassal of him

*#OS*E#O

.o, slave* hence!

Exit CAIBAN

#e'enter A#IE! in-isile! pla)ing and singing/ "E#$INAN$ following

A#IE+S song.

+ome unto these yellow sands,

1nd then take hands:

+ourtsied when you have and kiss'd

#he wild waves whist,

/oot it featly here and there*

1nd, sweet sprites, the burthen bear

Hark, hark!

Burthen dispersedly, within

#he watch0dogs bark!

Burthen Bow0wow

Hark, hark! & hear

#he strain of strutting chanticleer

+ry, +ock0a0diddle0dow

"E#$INAN$

$here should this music be? i' the air or the earth?


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&t sounds no more: and sure, it waits upon

.ome god o' the island .itting on a bank,

$eeping again the king my father's wreck,

#his music crept by me upon the waters,

1llaying both their fury and my passion

$ith its sweet air: thence & have follow'd it,

r it hath drawn me rather But 'tis gone

)o, it begins again

A#IE sings

/ull fathom five thy father lies*

f his bones are coral made*

#hose are pearls that were his eyes:

)othing of him that doth fade

But doth suffer a sea0change

&nto something rich and strange

.ea0nymphs hourly ring his knell

Burthen ing0dong

Hark! now & hear them,00ing0dong, bell

"E#$INAN$

#he ditty does remember my drown'd father

#his is no mortal business, nor no sound

#hat the earth owes & hear it now above me

*#OS*E#O

#he fringed curtains of thine eye advance

1nd say what thou seest yond

MI#AN$A


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$hat is't? a spirit?

2ord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir,

&t carries a brave form But 'tis a spirit

*#OS*E#O

)o, wench* it eats and sleeps and hath such senses

1s we have, such #his gallant which thou seest

$as in the wreck* and, but he's something stain'd

$ith grief that's beauty's canker, thou mightst call him

1 goodly person: he hath lost his fellows

1nd strays about to find 'em

MI#AN$A

& might call him

1 thing divine, for nothing natural

& ever saw so noble

*#OS*E#O

1side; &t goes on, & see,

1s my soul prompts it .pirit, fine spirit! &'ll free thee

$ithin two days for this

"E#$INAN$

"ost sure, the goddess

n whom these airs attend!


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MI#AN$A

)o wonder, sir*

But certainly a maid

"E#$INAN$

"y language! heavens!

& am the best of them that speak this speech,

$ere & but where 'tis spoken

*#OS*E#O

How? the best?

$hat wert thou, if the 5ing of )aples heard thee?

"E#$INAN$

1 single thing, as & am now, that wonders

#o hear thee speak of )aples He does hear me*

1nd that he does & weep: myself am )aples,

$ho with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld

#he king my father wreck'd

MI#AN$A

1lack, for mercy!

"E#$INAN$

(es, faith, and all his lords* the uke of "ilan

1nd his brave son being twain

*#OS*E#O

1side; #he uke of "ilan

1nd his more braver daughter could control thee,

&f now 'twere fit to do't 1t the first sight

#hey have changed eyes elicate 1riel,


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&'ll set thee free for this

To "E#$INAN$

1 word, good sir*

& fear you have done yourself some wrong: a word

MI#AN$A

$hy speaks my father so ungently? #his

&s the third man that e'er & saw, the first

#hat e'er & sigh'd for: pity move my father

#o be inclined my way!

"E#$INAN$

, if a virgin,

1nd your affection not gone forth, &'ll make you

#he 4ueen of )aples

*#OS*E#O

.oft, sir! one word more

Aside

#hey are both in either's powers* but this swift business

& must uneasy make, lest too light winning

"ake the pri3e light

To "E#$INAN$

ne word more* & charge thee

#hat thou attend me: thou dost here usurp

#he name thou owest not* and hast put thyself

7pon this island as a spy, to win it

/rom me, the lord on't

"E#$INAN$


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)o, as & am a man

MI#AN$A

#here's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:

&f the ill spirit have so fair a house,

Good things will strive to dwell with't

*#OS*E#O

/ollow me

.peak not you for him* he's a traitor +ome*

&'ll manacle thy neck and feet together:

.ea0water shalt thou drink* thy food shall be

#he fresh0brook muscles, wither'd roots and husks

$herein the acorn cradled /ollow

"E#$INAN$

)o*

& will resist such entertainment till

"ine enemy has more power

raws, and is charmed from moving

MI#AN$A

dear father,

"ake not too rash a trial of him, for

He's gentle and not fearful

*#OS*E#O

$hat? & say,

"y foot my tutor? %ut thy sword up, traitor*

$ho makest a show but darest not strike, thy conscience

&s so possess'd with guilt: come from thy ward,


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/or & can here disarm thee with this stick

1nd make thy weapon drop

MI#AN$A

Beseech you, father

*#OS*E#O

Hence! hang not on my garments

MI#AN$A

.ir, have pity*

&'ll be his surety

*#OS*E#O

.ilence! one word more

.hall make me chide thee, if not hate thee $hat!

1n advocate for an imposter! hush!

#hou think'st there is no more such shapes as he,

Having seen but him and +aliban: foolish wench!

#o the most of men this is a +aliban

1nd they to him are angels

MI#AN$A

"y affections

1re then most humble* & have no ambition

#o see a goodlier man

*#OS*E#O

+ome on* obey:

#hy nerves are in their infancy again

1nd have no vigour in them

"E#$INAN$


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.o they are*

"y spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up

"y father's loss, the weakness which & feel,

#he wreck of all my friends, nor this man's threats,

#o whom & am subdued, are but light to me,

"ight & but through my prison once a day

Behold this maid: all corners else o' the earth

2et liberty make use of* space enough

Have & in such a prison

*#OS*E#O

1side; &t works

To "E#$INAN$

+ome on

#hou hast done well, fine 1riel!

To "E#$INAN$

/ollow me

To A#IE

Hark what thou else shalt do me

MI#AN$A

Be of comfort*

"y father's of a better nature, sir,

#han he appears by speech: this is unwonted

$hich now came from him

*#OS*E#O

#hou shalt be free

1s mountain winds: but then e-actly do


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1ll points of my command

A#IE

#o the syllable

*#OS*E#O

+ome, follow .peak not for him

Exeunt

SCENE II. Another part of the island.

Enter CAIBAN with a urden of wood. A noise of thunder heard.

CAIBAN

1ll the infections that the sun sucks up

/rom bogs, fens, flats, on %rosper fall and make him

By inch0meal a disease! His spirits hear me

1nd yet & needs must curse But they'll nor pinch,

/right me with urchin00shows, pitch me i' the mire,

)or lead me, like a firebrand, in the dark

ut of my way, unless he bid 'em* but

/or every trifle are they set upon me*

.ometime like apes that mow and chatter at me

1nd after bite me, then like hedgehogs which

2ie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount

#heir pricks at my footfall* sometime am &

1ll wound with adders who with cloven tongues

o hiss me into madness

Enter T#INC0O

2o, now, lo!

Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me


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/or bringing wood in slowly &'ll fall flat*

%erchance he will not mind me

T#INC0O

Here's neither bush nor shrub, to bear off

any weather at all, and another storm brewing*

& hear it sing i' the wind: yond same black

cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul

bombard that would shed his li4uor &f it

should thunder as it did before, & know not

where to hide my head: yond same cloud cannot

choose but fall by pailfuls $hat have we

here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? 1 fish:

he smells like a fish* a very ancient and fish0

like smell* a kind of not of the newest %oor0

9ohn 1 strange fish! $ere & in ngland now,

as once & was, and had but 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, they will la3y out ten to see a dead

&ndian 2egged like a man and his fins like

arms! $arm o' my troth! & do now let loose

my opinion* hold it no longer: this is no fish,

but an islander, that hath lately suffered by a

thunderbolt


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Thunder

1las, the storm is come again! my best way is to

creep under his gaberdine* there is no other

shelter hereabouts: misery ac4uaints a man with

strange bed0fellows & will here shroud till the

dregs of the storm be past

Enter STE*1ANO! singing: a ottle in his hand

STE*1ANO

& shall no more to sea, to sea,

Here shall & die ashore00

#his is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's

funeral: well, here's my comfort

$rin,s! Sings

#he master, the swabber, the boatswain and &,

#he gunner and his mate

2oved "all, "eg and "arian and "argery,

But none of us cared for 5ate*

/or she had a tongue with a tang,

$ould cry to a sailor, Go hang!

.he loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch,

(et a tailor might scratch her where'er she did itch:

#hen to sea, boys, and let her go hang!

#his is a scurvy tune too: but here's my comfort

$rin,s

CAIBAN

o not torment me, prithee* &'ll bring my wood home faster


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STE*1ANO

How didst thou 'scape? How camest thou hither?

swear by this bottle how thou camest hither &

escaped upon a butt of sack which the sailors

heaved o'erboard, by this bottle* which & made of

the bark of a tree with mine own hands since & was

cast ashore

CAIBAN

&'ll swear upon that bottle to be thy true sub6ect*

for the li4uor is not earthly

STE*1ANO

+ome, drink thee

CAIBAN

&'ll show thee the best springs* &'ll pluck thee berries*

&'ll fish for thee and get thee wood enough

1 plague upon the tyrant that & serve!

&'ll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee,

#hou wondrous man

STE*1ANO

brave monster! 2ead the way

Exeunt

ACT III

SCENE I. Before *#OS*E#O+S Cell.

Enter "E#$INAN$! earing a log

"E#$INAN$

#here be some sports are painful, and their labour


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elight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness

1re nobly undergone and most poor matters

%oint to rich ends #his my mean task

$ould be as heavy to me as odious, but

#he mistress which & serve 4uickens what's dead

1nd makes my labours pleasures: , she is

#en times more gentle than her father's crabbed,

1nd he's composed of harshness & must remove

.ome thousands of these logs and pile them up,

7pon a sore in6unction: my sweet mistress

$eeps when she sees me work, and says, such baseness

Had never like e-ecutor & forget:

But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours,

"ost busy lest, when & do it

Enter MI#AN$A/ and *#OS*E#O at a distan(e! unseen

MI#AN$A

1las, now, pray you,

$ork not so hard: & would the lightning had

Burnt up those logs that you are en6oin'd to pile!

%ray, set it down and rest you: when this burns,

'#will weep for having wearied you "y father

&s hard at study* pray now, rest yourself*

He's safe for these three hours

"E#$INAN$

most dear mistress,

#he sun will set before & shall discharge


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$hat & must strive to do

MI#AN$A

&f you'll sit down,

&'ll bear your logs the while: pray, give me that*

&'ll carry it to the pile

"E#$INAN$

)o, precious creature*

& had rather crack my sinews, break my back,

#han you should such dishonour undergo,

$hile & sit la3y by

MI#AN$A

&t would become me

1s well as it does you: and & should do it

$ith much more ease* for my good will is to it,

1nd yours it is against

*#OS*E#O

%oor worm, thou art infected!

#his visitation shows it

MI#AN$A

(ou look wearily

"E#$INAN$

)o, noble mistress*'tis fresh morning with me

$hen you are by at night & do beseech you00

+hiefly that & might set it in my prayers00

$hat is your name?

MI#AN$A


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"iranda00 my father,

& have broke your hest to say so!

"E#$INAN$

1dmired "iranda!

&ndeed the top of admiration! worth

$hat's dearest to the world! /ull many a lady

& have eyed with best regard and many a time

#he harmony of their tongues hath into bondage

Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues

Have & liked several women* never any

$ith so fun soul, but some defect in her

id 4uarrel with the noblest grace she owed

1nd put it to the foil: but you, you,

.o perfect and so peerless, are created

f every creature's best!

MI#AN$A

& do not know

ne of my se-* no woman's face remember,

.ave, from my glass, mine own* nor have & seen

"ore that & may call men than you, good friend,

1nd my dear father: how features are abroad,

& am skilless of* but, by my modesty,

#he 6ewel in my dower, & would not wish

1ny companion in the world but you,

)or can imagination form a shape,

Besides yourself, to like of But & prattle


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.omething too wildly and my father's precepts

& therein do forget

"E#$INAN$

& am in my condition

1 prince, "iranda* & do think, a king*

& would, not so!00and would no more endure

#his wooden slavery than to suffer

#he flesh0fly blow my mouth Hear my soul speak:

#he very instant that & saw you, did

"y heart fly to your service* there resides,

#o make me slave to it* and for your sake

1m & this patient log00man

MI#AN$A

o you love me?

"E#$INAN$

heaven, earth, bear witness to this sound

1nd crown what & profess with kind event

&f & speak true! if hollowly, invert

$hat best is boded me to mischief! &

Beyond all limit of what else i' the world

o love, pri3e, honour you

MI#AN$A

& am a fool

#o weep at what & am glad of

*#OS*E#O

/air encounter


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f two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace

n that which breeds between 'em!

"E#$INAN$

$herefore weep you?

MI#AN$A

1t mine unworthiness that dare not offer

$hat & desire to give, and much less take

$hat & shall die to want But this is trifling*

1nd all the more it seeks to hide itself,

#he bigger bulk it shows Hence, bashful cunning!

1nd prompt me, plain and holy innocence!

& am your wife, if you will marry me*

&f not, &'ll die your maid: to be your fellow

(ou may deny me* but &'ll be your servant,

$hether you will or no

"E#$INAN$

"y mistress, dearest*

1nd & thus humble ever

MI#AN$A

"y husband, then?

"E#$INAN$

1y, with a heart as willing

1s bondage e'er of freedom: here's my hand

MI#AN$A

1nd mine, with my heart in't* and now farewell

#ill half an hour hence


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"E#$INAN$

1 thousand thousand!

Exeunt "E#$INAN$ and MI#AN$A se-erall)

*#OS*E#O

.o glad of this as they & cannot be,

$ho are surprised withal* but my re6oicing

1t nothing can be more &'ll to my book,

/or yet ere supper0time must & perform

"uch business appertaining

Exit

ACT 2

SCENE I. Before *#OS*E#O+S (ell.

Enter *#OS*E#O in his magi( roes! and A#IE

*#OS*E#O

)ow does my pro6ect gather to a head:

"y charms crack not* my spirits obey* and time

Goes upright with his carriage How's the day?

A#IE

n the si-th hour* at which time, my lord,

(ou said our work should cease

*#OS*E#O

& did say so,

$hen first & raised the tempest .ay, my spirit,

How fares the king and's followers?

A#IE

+onfined together


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&n the same fashion as you gave in charge,

9ust as you left them* all prisoners, sir,

&n the line0grove which weather0fends your cell*

#hey cannot budge till your release #he king,

His brother and yours, abide all three distracted

1nd the remainder mourning over them,

Brimful of sorrow and dismay* but chiefly

Him that you term'd, sir, '#he good old lord Gon3alo*'

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

/rom eaves of reeds (our charm so strongly works 'em

#hat if you now beheld them, your affections

$ould become tender

*#OS*E#O

ost thou think so, spirit?

A#IE

"ine would, sir, were & human

*#OS*E#O

1nd mine shall

Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling

f their afflictions, and shall not myself,

ne of their kind, that relish all as sharply,

%assion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art?

#hough with their high wrongs & am struck to the 4uick,

(et with my nobler reason 'gaitist my fury

o & take part: the rarer action is

&n virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,


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#he sole drift of my purpose doth e-tend

)ot a frown further Go release them, 1riel:

"y charms &'ll break, their senses &'ll restore,

1nd they shall be themselves

A#IE

&'ll fetch them, sir

Exit

*#OS*E#O

(e elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves,

1nd ye that on the sands with printless foot

o chase the ebbing )eptune and do fly him

$hen he comes back* you demi0puppets that

By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make,

$hereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime

&s to make midnight mushrooms, that re6oice

#o hear the solemn curfew* by whose aid,

$eak masters though ye be, & have bedimm'd

#he noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,

1nd 'twi-t the green sea and the a3ured vault

.et roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder

Have & given fire and rifted 9ove's stout oak

$ith his own bolt* the strong0based promontory

Have & made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up

#he pine and cedar: graves at my command

Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth

By my so potent art But this rough magic


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& here ab6ure, and, when & have re4uired

.ome heavenly music, which even now & do,

#o work mine end upon their senses that

#his airy charm is for, &'ll break my staff,

Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,

1nd deeper than did ever plummet sound

&'ll drown my book

Solemn musi(

#e'enter A#IE efore: then AONSO! with a franti( gesture!

attended ) %ON&AO/ SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO in li,e manner!

attended ) A$#IAN and "#ANCISCO the) all enter the (ir(le whi(h*#OS*E#O had made! and there stand (harmed/ whi(h *#OS*E#O

oser-ing! spea,s:

*#OS*E#O

1 solemn air and the best comforter

#o an unsettled fancy cure thy brains,

)ow useless, boil'd within thy skull! #here stand,

/or you are spell0stopp'd

Holy Gon3alo, honourable man,

"ine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine,

/all fellowly drops #he charm dissolves apace,

1nd as the morning steals upon the night,

"elting the darkness, so their rising senses

Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle

#heir clearer reason good Gon3alo,

"y true preserver, and a loyal sir

#o him you follow'st! & will pay thy graces

Home both in word and deed "ost cruelly


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idst thou, 1lonso, use me and my daughter:

#hy brother was a furtherer in the act

#hou art pinch'd fort now, .ebastian /lesh and blood,

(ou, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,

-pell'd remorse and nature* who, with .ebastian,

$hose inward pinches therefore are most strong,

$ould here have kill'd your king* & do forgive thee,

7nnatural though thou art #heir understanding

Begins to swell, and the approaching tide

$ill shortly fill the reasonable shore

#hat now lies foul and muddy )ot one of them

#hat yet looks on me, or would know me 1riel,

/etch me the hat and rapier in my cell:

& will discase me, and myself present

1s & was sometime "ilan: 4uickly, spirit*

#hou shalt ere long be free

A#IE sings and helps to attire him

$here the bee sucks there suck &:

&n a cowslip's bell & lie*

#here & couch when owls do cry

n the bat's back & do fly

1fter summer merrily

"errily, merrily shall & live now

7nder the blossom that hangs on the bough

*#OS*E#O

$hy, that's my dainty 1riel! & shall miss thee:


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But yet thou shalt have freedom: so, so, so

#o the king's ship, invisible as thou art:

#here shalt thou find the mariners asleep

7nder the hatches* the master and the boatswain

Being awake, enforce them to this place,

1nd presently, & prithee

A#IE

& drink the air before me, and return

r ere your pulse twice beat

Exit

%ON&AO

1ll torment, trouble, wonder and ama3ement

&nhabits here: some heavenly power guide us

ut of this fearful country!

*#OS*E#O

Behold, sir king,

#he wronged uke of "ilan, %rospero:

/or more assurance that a living prince

oes now speak to thee, & embrace thy body*

1nd to thee and thy company & bid

1 hearty welcome

AONSO

$hether thou best he or no,

r some enchanted trifle to abuse me,

1s late & have been, & not know: thy pulse

Beats as of flesh and blood* and, since & saw thee,


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#he affliction of my mind amends, with which,

& fear, a madness held me: this must crave,

1n if this be at all, a most strange story

#hy dukedom & resign and do entreat

#hou pardon me my wrongs But how should %rospero

Be living and be here?

*#OS*E#O

/irst, noble friend,

2et me embrace thine age, whose honour cannot

Be measured or confined

%ON&AO

$hether this be

r be not, &'ll not swear

*#OS*E#O

(ou do yet taste

.ome subtilties o' the isle, that will not let you

Believe things certain $elcome, my friends all!

Aside to SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO

But you, my brace of lords, were & so minded,

& here could pluck his highness' frown upon you

1nd 6ustify you traitors: at this time

& will tell no tales

SEBASTIAN

1side; #he devil speaks in him

*#OS*E#O

)o


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/or you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother

$ould even infect my mouth, & do forgive

#hy rankest fault* all of them* and re4uire

"y dukedom of thee, which perforce, & know,

#hou must restore

AONSO

&f thou be'st %rospero,

Give us particulars of thy preservation*

How thou hast met us here, who three hours since

$ere wreck'd upon this shore* where & have lost00

How sharp the point of this remembrance is!00

"y dear son /erdinand

*#OS*E#O

& am woe for't, sir

12).

Irreparale is the loss! and patien(e

.ays it is past her cure

*#OS*E#O

& rather think

(ou have not sought her help, of whose soft grace

/or the like loss & have her sovereign aid

1nd rest myself content

AONSO

(ou the like loss!

*#OS*E#O

1s great to me as late* and, supportable


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#o make the dear loss, have & means much weaker

#han you may call to comfort you, for &

Have lost my daughter

AONSO

1 daughter?

heavens, that they were living both in )aples,

#he king and 4ueen there! that they were, & wish

"yself were mudded in that oo3y bed

$here my son lies $hen did you lose your daughter?

*#OS*E#O

&n this last tempest & perceive these lords

1t this encounter do so much admire

#hat they devour their reason and scarce think

#heir eyes do offices of truth, their words

1re natural breath: but, howsoe'er you have

Been 6ustled from your senses, know for certain

#hat & am %rospero and that very duke

$hich was thrust forth of "ilan, who most strangely

7pon this shore, where you were wreck'd, was landed,

#o be the lord on't )o more yet of this*

/or 'tis a chronicle of day by day,

)ot a relation for a breakfast nor

Befitting this first meeting $elcome, sir*

#his cell's my court: here have & few attendants

1nd sub6ects none abroad: pray you, look in

"y dukedom since you have given me again,


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& will re4uite you with as good a thing*

1t least bring forth a wonder, to content ye

1s much as me my dukedom

1ere *#OS*E#O dis(o-ers "E#$INAN$ and MI#AN$A pla)ing at(hess

MI#AN$A

.weet lord, you play me false

"E#$INAN$

)o, my dear'st love,

& would not for the world

MI#AN$A

(es, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle,

1nd & would call it, fair play

AONSO

&f this prove

1 vision of the &sland, one dear son

.hall & twice lose

SEBASTIAN

1 most high miracle!

"E#$INAN$

#hough the seas threaten, they are merciful*

& have cursed them without cause

3neels

AONSO

)ow all the blessings

f a glad father compass thee about!

1rise, and say how thou camest here


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MI#AN$A

, wonder!

How many goodly creatures are there here!

How beauteous mankind is! brave new world,

#hat has such people in't!

*#OS*E#O

'#is new to thee

AONSO

$hat is this maid with whom thou wast at play?

(our eld'st ac4uaintance cannot be three hours:

&s she the goddess that hath sever'd us,

1nd brought us thus together?

"E#$INAN$

.ir, she is mortal*

But by immortal %rovidence she's mine:

& chose her when & could not ask my father

/or his advice, nor thought & had one .he

&s daughter to this famous uke of "ilan,

f whom so often & have heard renown,

But never saw before* of whom & have

8eceived a second life* and second father

#his lady makes him to me

AONSO

& am hers:

But, , how oddly will it sound that &

"ust ask my child forgiveness!


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*#OS*E#O

#here, sir, stop:

2et us not burthen our remembrance with

1 heaviness that's gone

%ON&AO

& have inly wept,

r should have spoke ere this 2ook down, you god,

1nd on this couple drop a blessed crown!

/or it is you that have chalk'd forth the way

$hich brought us hither

AONSO

& say, 1men, Gon3alo!

%ON&AO

$as "ilan thrust from "ilan, that his issue

.hould become kings of )aples? , re6oice

Beyond a common 6oy, and set it down

$ith gold on lasting pillars: &n one voyage

id +laribel her husband find at #unis,

1nd /erdinand, her brother, found a wife

$here he himself was lost, %rospero his dukedom

&n a poor isle and all of us ourselves

$hen no man was his own

AONSO

4To "E#$INAN$ and MI#AN$A5 Give me your hands:

2et grief and sorrow still embrace his heart

#hat doth not wish you 6oy!


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%ON&AO

Be it so! 1men!

#e'enter A#IE! with the Master and Boatswain ama6edl) following

, look, sir, look, sir! here is more of us:

& prophesied, if a gallows were on land,

#his fellow could not drown )ow, blasphemy,

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

Hast thou no mouth by land? $hat is the news?

Boatswain

#he best news is, that we have safely found

ur king and company* the ne-t, our ship00

$hich, but three glasses since, we gave out split00

&s tight and yare and bravely rigg'd as when

$e first put out to sea

A#IE

1side to %8.%8; .ir, all this service

Have & done since & went

*#OS*E#O

1side to 18&2; "y tricksy spirit!

AONSO

#hese are not natural events* they strengthen

/rom strange to stranger .ay, how came you hither?

Boatswain

&f & did think, sir, & were well awake,

&'ld strive to tell you $e were dead of sleep,

1nd00how we know not00all clapp'd under hatches*


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$here but even now with strange and several noises

f roaring, shrieking, howling, 6ingling chains,

1nd more diversity of sounds, all horrible,

$e were awaked* straightway, at liberty*

$here we, in all her trim, freshly beheld

ur royal, good and gallant ship, our master

+apering to eye her: on a trice, so please you,

ven in a dream, were we divided from them

1nd were brought moping hither

A#IE

1side to %8.%8; $as't well done?

*#OS*E#O

1side to 18&2; Bravely, my diligence #hou shalt be free

AONSO

#his is as strange a ma3e as e'er men trod

1nd there is in this business more than nature

$as ever conduct of: some oracle

"ust rectify our knowledge

*#OS*E#O

.ir, my liege,

o not infest your mind with beating on

#he strangeness of this business* at pick'd leisure

$hich shall be shortly, single &'ll resolve you,

$hich to you shall seem probable, of every

#hese happen'd accidents* till when, be cheerful

1nd think of each thing well


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Aside to A#IE

+ome hither, spirit:

.et +aliban and his companions free*

7ntie the spell

Exit A#IE

How fares my gracious sir?

#here are yet missing of your company

.ome few odd lads that you remember not

#e'enter A#IE! dri-ing in CAIBAN! STE*1ANO and T#INC0O! in

their stolen apparel

STE*1ANO

very man shift for all the rest, and

let no man take care for himself* for all is

but fortune +oragio, bully0monster, coragio!

T#INC0O

&f these be true spies which & wear in my head,

here's a goodly sight

CAIBAN

.etebos, these be brave spirits indeed!

How fine my master is! & am afraid

He will chastise me

SEBASTIAN

Ha, ha!

$hat things are these, my lord 1ntonio?

$ill money buy 'em?

ANTONIO


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&s a plain fish, and, no doubt, marketable

*#OS*E#O

"ark but the badges of these men, my lords,

#hen say if they be true #his mis0shapen knave,

His mother was a witch, and one so strong

#hat could control the moon, make flows and ebbs,

1nd deal in her command without her power

#hese three have robb'd me* and this demi0devil00

/or he's a bastard one00had plotted with them

#o take my life #wo of these fellows you

"ust know and own* this thing of darkness!

1cknowledge mine

CAIBAN

& shall be pinch'd to death

AONSO

&s not this .tephano, my drunken butler?

SEBASTIAN

He is drunk now: where had he wine?

AONSO

1nd #rinculo is reeling ripe: where should they

/ind this grand li4uor that hath gilded 'em?

How camest thou in this pickle?

T#INC0O

& have been in such a pickle since &

saw you last that, & fear me, will never out of

my bones: & shall not fear fly0blowing


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SEBASTIAN

$hy, how now, .tephano!

STE*1ANO

, touch me not* & am not .tephano, but a cramp

*#OS*E#O

(ou'ld be king o' the isle, sirrah?

STE*1ANO

& should have been a sore one then

AONSO

#his is a strange thing as e'er & look'd on

%ointing to +aliban

*#OS*E#O

He is as disproportion'd in his manners

1s in his shape Go, sirrah, to my cell*

#ake with you your companions* as you look

#o have my pardon, trim it handsomely

CAIBAN

1y, that & will* and &'ll be wise hereafter

1nd seek for grace $hat a thrice0double ass

$as &, to take this drunkard for a god

1nd worship this dull fool!

*#OS*E#O

Go to* away!

AONSO

Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it

SEBASTIAN


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r stole it, rather

Exeunt CAIBAN! STE*1ANO! and T#INC0O

*#OS*E#O

.ir, & invite your highness and your train

#o my poor cell, where you shall take your rest

/or this one night* which, part of it, &'ll waste

$ith such discourse as, & not doubt, shall make it

Go 4uick away* the story of my life

1nd the particular accidents gone by

.ince & came to this isle: and in the morn

&'ll bring you to your ship and so to )aples,

$here & have hope to see the nuptial

f these our dear0beloved solemni3ed*

1nd thence retire me to my "ilan, where

very third thought shall be my grave

AONSO

& long

#o hear the story of your life, which must

#ake the ear strangely

*#OS*E#O

&'ll deliver all*

1nd promise you calm seas, auspicious gales

1nd sail so e-peditious that shall catch

(our royal fleet far off

Aside to A#IE

"y 1riel, chick,


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#hat is thy charge: then to the elements

Be free, and fare thou well! %lease you, draw near

Exeunt

E*IO%0E

S*O3EN B7 *#OS*E#O

)ow my charms are all o'erthrown,

1nd what strength & have's mine own,

$hich is most faint: now, 'tis true,

& must be here confined by you,

r sent to )aples 2et me not,

.ince & have my dukedom got

1nd pardon'd the deceiver, dwell

&n this bare island by your spell*

But release me from my bands

$ith the help of your good hands:

Gentle breath of yours my sails

"ust fill, or else my pro6ect fails,

$hich was to please )ow & want

.pirits to enforce, art to enchant,

1nd my ending is despair,

7nless & be relieved by prayer,

$hich pierces so that it assaults

"ercy itself and frees all faults

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