Adrian, Francisco, Caliban, ,} Lords. Dan, a savage and deformed Slave. Trinculo, a Jester. Stephano, a drunken Butler. Master of a Ship, Boatswain, and Mariners. Miranda, Daughter to Prospero. Ariel, an airy Spirit. Iris, Ceres, Nymphs, Reapers, } Spirits. Other Spirits attending on Prospero. SCENE, The Sea, with a Ship; afterwards an uninhabited Island. Boats. Heigh, my hearts; cheerly, cheerly, my hearts; yare, yare: take in the topsail; Tend to the master's whistle.-Blow till thou burst thy wind, if room enough! Enter Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, Ferdinand, Alon. Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master? Play the men. Boats. I pray now, keep below. Ant. Where is the master, Boatswain? ay, good, be patient. Boats. When the sea is. Hence! What care these roarers for the name of king? To cabin: silence: trouble us not, Gon. Good; yet remember whom thou hast aboard. Bouts. None that I more love than myself. You are a counsellor; if you can command these elements to s Re-enter Boatswain. Boats. Down with the top-mast; yare; lower, lower; bring her to try with main course. [Acry within.] A plague upon this howling! they are louder than the weather, or our office. Re-enter Sebastian, Antonio, and Gonzalo. Yet again? what do you here? Shall we give o'er, and drown? Have you a mind to sink? Seb. A pox o your throat! you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog! Boats. Work you, then. Ant. Hang, cur, hang! you whoreson, insolent noise-maker, we are less afraid to be drowned than thou art. Gon. I'll warrant him from drowning; though the ship were no stronger than a nut-shell, and as leaky as an unstanched wench. Boats. Lay her a-hold, a-hold: set her two courses; off to sea again, lay her off. Enter Mariners wet. This wide-chapp'd rascal;-'Would, thou might'st lie drowning, to silence, and work the peace of the present, The washing of ten tides! we will not hand a rope more; use your authority. Gon. He'll be hanged yet; If you cannot, give thanks you have lived SO and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mis And gape at wid'st to glut him. chance of the hour, if it so hap.-Cheerly, good [A confused noise within.)-Mercy on us! We split, hearts. Out of our way, I say. Gon. I have great comfort from this fellow: me- well, brother! We split, we split, we split![Exit. we split!-Farewell, my wife and children! Fare long, Though every drop of water swear against it, thinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his Ant. Let's all sink with the king. perfect gallows. complexion is [Erit. Exit. Seb. Let's take leave of him. Gon. Now would I give a thousand furlongs of brown furze, any thing: The wills above be done! [Exeunt. but I would fain die a dry death. [Exit. our cable, for our own doth little advantage! If he sea for an acre of barren ground; long heath be not born to be hanged, our case is miserable. B SCENE II. The Island: before the Cell of Prospero. Mira. Enter Prospero and Miranda. Mira. If by your art, my dearest father, you have With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel, Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er It should the good ship so have swallow'd, and Pro. Be collected; Did never meddle with my thoughts. [Lays down his Mantle. Lie there, my art. Wipe thou thine eyes; have The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd O, my heart bleeds Pro. My brother, and thy uncle, call'd Antonio, Without a parallel; those being all my study, Mira. Sir, most heedfully. Pro. Being once perfected how to grant suits, How to deny them; whom to advance, and whom To trash for over-topping; new created The creatures that were mine; I say, or chang'd them, Or else new form'd them: having both the key Of officer and office, set all hearts To what tune pleas'd his ear; that now he was The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, [not: Mira. O good sir, I do. Pro. I thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicate Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. Who having, unto truth, by telling of it, You have often He was the duke; out of the substitution, Begun to tell me what I am; but stopp'd lorded, I have with such provision in mine art Betid to any creature in the vessel Sit down; Made such a sinner of his memory, For thou must now know further. To credit his own lie, he did believe Mira. And executing the outward face of royalty, Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. Pro. To have no screen between this part he And him he play'd it for, he needs will be [play'd, Absolute Milan: me, poor man! my library Pro. The hour's now come; The very minute bids thee ope thine ear; A time before we came unto this cell? I do not think thou canst; for then thou wast not Was dukedom large enough; of temporal royalties Pro. Mark his condition, and the event; then If this might be a brother. [tell me, Mira. I should sin This king of Naples, being an enemy The gates of Milan; and i'the dead of darkness, Me, and thy crying self. Pro. Hear a little further, And then I'll bring thee to the present business Which now's upon us; without the which, this Were most impertinent. Mira. That hour destroy us? Pro. [story Wherefore did they not Well demanded, wench; My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not; (So dear the love my people bore me) nor set A mark so bloody on the business; but With colours fairer painted their foul ends. In few, they hurried us aboard a bark; Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepar'd A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigg'd, Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats Instinctively had quit it: there they hoist us, Alack! what trouble Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow. Here in this island we arriv'd; and here Have I, thy school-master, made thee more profit Than other princes can, that have more time For vainer hours, and tutors not so careful. Not a hair perish'd; On their sustaining garments not a blemish, In an odd angle of the isle, and sitting, Of the king's ship, The mariners, say, how thou hast dispos'd, And all the rest o'the fleet? Ari. Safely in harbour Is the king's ship; in the deep nook, where once Thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew From the still-vex'd Bermoothes, there she's hid Whom, with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour, Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd, Ariel, thy charge Past the mid season. Pro. At least two glasses: the time 'twixt six and Mira. Heavens thank you for't! And now, I Must by us both be spent most preciously. [now, Ari. All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come To run upon the sharp wind of the north; cursors Pro. Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot The foul witch Sycorax, who, with age and envy, Was grown into a hoop? hast thou forgot her? Ari. No, sir. tell me. Pro. Thou hast: where was she born? speak; Ari. Sir, in Argier. Pro. O, was she so? I must, Once in a month, recount what thou hast been, Which thou forget'st. This damn'd witch, Sycorax, For mischiefs manifold, and sorceries terrible と To enter human hearing, from Argier, Ari. Ay, sir. Pro. This blue-ey'd hag was hither brought with child, And here was left by the sailors: Thou, my slave, To act her earthy and abhorr'd commands, groans, vent thy As fast as mill-wheels strike: Then was this island, Ari. Yes; Caliban her son. Pro. Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban, To lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax Ari. I thank thee, master. Pro. If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak, And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters. Ari. Pardon, master: give me Water with berries in't; and teach me how [tile; [me Whom stripes may move, not kindness: I have us'd thee, Filth as thou art, with human care; and lodg'd thee In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate The honour of my child. Cal. O ho, O ho!'would it had been done! Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else This isle with Calibans. Pro. Abhorred slave; Which any print of goodness will not take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee, [hour Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each One thing or other when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known: But thy vile race, [natures Though thou didst learn, had that in't which good Could not not abide to be with; therefore wast thou Deservedly confin'd into this rock, Who hadst deserv'd more than a prison. 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!Aside. I must obey: his art is of such power, It would control my dam's god, Setebos, And make a vassal of him. Pro. Re-enter Ariel invisible, playing and singing; Fer dinand 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. [Dispersedly. The watch-dogs bark: Bur. Bowgh, wowgh. [Dispersedly. [self Hark, hark! I hear The strain of strutting chanticlere, Cry, Cock-a-doodle-doo. Fer. Where should this music be? i'the air, or the earth? Enter Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, Gonzalo, Adrian, Francisco, and others. Gon. Beseech you, sir, be merry: you have cause (So have we all) of joy; for our escape Is much beyond our loss: Our hint of woe Is common every day, some sailor's wife, The masters of some merchant, and the merchant, Have just our theme of woe: but for the miracle, I mean our preservation, few in millions Can speak like us: then wisely, good sir, weigh Our sorrow with our comfort. Aton: Pr'ythee, peace. Seb. He receives comfort like cold porridge. Seb. Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; By and by it will strike. Gon. Sir, Seb. One: Tell |