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Adrian,

Francisco,

Caliban,

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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,
Juno,

Nymphs,

Reapers,

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Spirits.

Other Spirits attending on Prospero.

SCENE, The Sea, with a Ship; afterwards an uninhabited Island.

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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,
Gonzalo, and others.

Alon. Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master? Play the men.

Boats. I pray now, keep below.

Ant. Where is the master, Boatswain?
Boats. Do you not hear him? You mar our la-
bour; Keep your cabins: you do assist the storm.
Gon. Nay,

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.

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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
Stand fast, good
fate, to his hanging! make the rope of his destiny

[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.

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SCENE II. The Island: before the Cell of Prospero. Mira.

Enter Prospero and Miranda.

Mira. If by your art, my dearest father, you have
Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them:
The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,
But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek,
Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffer'd

With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel,
Who had no doubt some noble creatures in her,
Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock
Against my very heart! Poor souls! they perish'd.
Had I been any god of power, I would

Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er

It should the good ship so have swallow'd, and
The freighting souls within her.

Pro.

Be collected;

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Did never meddle with my thoughts.
Pro.
'Tis time
I should inform thee further. Lend thy hand,
And pluck my magic garment from me.-So;

[Lays down his Mantle.

Lie there, my art. Wipe thou thine eyes; have
comfort.

The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd
The very virtue of compassion in thee,

O, my heart bleeds
To think o'the teen that I have turn'd you to,
Which is from my remembrance! Please you fur-
ther.

Pro. My brother, and thy uncle, call'd Antonio,
I pray thee, mark me, that a brother should
Be so perfidious! he whom, next thyself,
Of all the world I lov'd, and to him put
The manage of my state; as, at that time,
Through all the signiories it was the first,
And Prospero the prime duke; being so reputed
In dignity, and, for the liberal arts,

Without a parallel; those being all my study,
The government I cast upon my brother,
And to my state grew stranger, being transported,
And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle-
Dost thou attend me?

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:
And suck'd my verdure out on't. Thou attend'st
I pray thee, mark me.

Mira.

O good sir, I do.

Pro. I thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicate
To closeness and the bettering of my mind
With that, which, but by being so retir'd,
O'erpriz'd all popular rate, in my false brother,
Awak'd an evil nature and my trust,
Like a good parent, did beget of him
A falsehood, in its contrary as great
As my trust was; which had, indeed, no limit,
A confidence sans bound. He being thus lord
Not only with what my revenue yielded,
But what my power might else exact, like one,

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
And left me to a bootless inquisition;
Concluding, Stay, not yet.-

lorded,

I have with such provision in mine art
So safely order'd, that there is no soul
No, not so much perdition as an hair,

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,
With all prerogative:-Hence his ambition
Growing, Dost hear?
Mira.

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

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Pro.

The hour's now come;

The very minute bids thee ope thine ear;
Obey, and be attentive. Canst thou remember

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

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Pro. Mark his condition, and the event; then If this might be a brother. [tell me,

Mira.

I should sin
To think but nobly of my grandmother:
Good wombs have borne bad sons.

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This king of Naples, being an enemy
To me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit;
Which was, that he in lieu o'the premises,--
Of homage, and I I know not how much tribute,-
Should presently extirpate me and mine
Out of the dukedom; and confer fair Milan,
With all the honours, on my brother: whereon
A treacherous army levied, one midnight,
Fated to the purpose, did Antonio open

The gates of Milan; and i'the dead of darkness,
The ministers for the purpose hurried thence

Me, and thy crying self.

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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,
To cry to the sea that roar'd to us; to sigh
To the winds, whose pity, sighing back again,
Did us but loving wrong.

Alack! what trouble

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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.

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Not a hair perish'd;

On their sustaining garments not a blemish,
But fresher than before: and, as thou bad'st me,
In troops I have dispers'd them 'bout the isle:
The king's son have I landed by himself;
Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs,

In an odd angle of the isle, and sitting,
His arms in this sad knot.
Pro.

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
The mariners all under hatches stowed';

Whom, with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour,
I have left asleep and for the rest o'the fleet,
Which I dispers'd, they all have met again;
And are upon the Mediterranean flote,
Bound sadly home for Naples;

Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd,
And his great person perish.
Pro.

Ariel, thy charge
Exactly is perform'd; but there's more work:
What is the time o'the day?
Ari.

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,

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Ari. All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come To run upon the sharp wind of the north;

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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

To enter human hearing, from Argier,
Thou know'st, was banish'd; for one thing she did,
They would not take her life: Is not this true?

Ari. Ay, sir.

Pro. This blue-ey'd hag was hither brought with child,

And here was left by the sailors: Thou, my slave,
As thou report'st thyself, wast then her servant:
And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate

To act her earthy and abhorr'd commands,
Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,
By help of her more potent ministers,
And in her most unmitigable rage,
Into a cloven pine; within which rift
Imprison'd, thou didst painfully remain
A dozen years; within which space she died,
And left thee there; where thou thou didst

groans,

vent thy

As fast as mill-wheels strike: Then was this island,
(Save for the son that she did litter here,
A freckled whelp, hag-born,) not honour'd with
A human shape.

Ari.

Yes; Caliban her son.

Pro. Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban,
Whom now I keep in service. Thou best know'st
What torment I did find thee in: thy groans
Did make wolves howl, and penetrate the breasts
Of ever-angry bears; it was a torment

To lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax
Could not again undo; it was mine art,
When I arriv'd, and heard thee, that made gape
The pine, and let thee out.

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:

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give me

Water with berries in't; and teach me how
To name the bigger light, and how the less,
That burn by day and night: and then I lov'd thee,
And shew'd thee all the qualities o'the isle,
The fresh springs, brine pits, barren place, and fer-
Cursed be I that did so! All the charms
Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!
For I am all the subjects that you have,
Which first was mine own king: and here you sty
In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me
The rest of the island.

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[tile;

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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.

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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!

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Bur. Bowgh, wowgh.

[Dispersedly.

The watch-dogs bark:

Bur. Bowgh, wowgh.

[Dispersedly.

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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?

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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.
Ant. The visitor will not give him o'er so.

Seb. Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit;

By and by it will strike.

Gon. Sir,

Seb. One:

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