Ari. I go, I go. Pros. A devil, a born devil, on whose nature Re-enter ARIEL, loaden with glittering apparel, etc. Come, hang them on this line. [Brit. 190 PROSPERO and ARIEL remain, invisible. Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO, all wet. Cal. Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not Hear a foot fall: we now are near his cell. Ste. Monster, your fairy, which you say is a harmless fairy, has done little better than play'd the Jack with us. Trin. Monster, I do smell all horse-piss; at which my nose is in great indignation. Ste. So is mine. Do you hear, monster? If I should take a displeasure against you, look you, Trin. Thou wert but a lost monster. Cal. Good my lord, give me thy favour still. Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to Shall hoodwink this mischance: therefore speak softly. All's hush'd as midnight yet. Trin. Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool, 201 Ste. There is not only disgrace and dishonour in that, monster, but an infinite loss. Trin. That's more to me than my wetting: yet this is your harmless fairy, monster. 211 Ste. I will fetch off my bottle, though I be o'er ears for my labour. Cal. Prithee, my king, be quiet. See'st thou here, This is the mouth o' th' cell: no noise, and enter. Do that good mischief which may make this island For aye thy foot-licker. Ste. Give me thy hand. I do begin to have bloody thoughts. Trin. O king Stephano! O peer! O worthy Stephano! look what a wardrobe here is for thee! Cal. Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash. 221 Trin. O, ho, monster! we know what belongs to a frippery. O king Stephano! Ste. Put off that gown, Trinculo; by this hand, I'll have that gown. Trin. Thy grace shall have it. Cal. The dropsy drown this fool! what do you mean 223 frippery a shop for the sale of old finery. น To dote thus on such luggage? Let 't alone And do the murther first: if he awake, From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches, Make us strange stuff. 230 Ste. Be you quiet, monster. Mistress line, is not this my jerkin? Now is the jerkin under the line: now, jerkin, you are like to lose your hair and prove a bald jerkin. Trin. Do, do: we steal by line and level, an 't like your grace. Ste. I thank thee for that jest; here's a garment for 't: wit shall not go unrewarded while I am king of this country. "Steal by line and level" is an excellent pass of pate; there's another garment for 't. 241 Trin. Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and away with the rest. Cal. I will have none on 't: we shall lose our time, And all be turn'd to barnacles, or to apes With foreheads villanous low. Ste. Monster, lay-to your fingers help to bear this away where my hogshead of wine is, or I'll turn you out of my king dom: go to, carry this. Trin. And this. Ste. Ay, and this. 250 A noise of hunters heard. Enter divers Spirits, in shape of dogs and hounds, and hunt them about, PROSPERO and ARIEL setting them on. Pros. Hey, Mountain, hey! Ari. Silver! there it goes, Silver ! Pros. Fury, Fury! there, Tyrant, there! hark! hark! [Cal., Ste., and Trin. are driven out. Go charge my goblins that they grind their joints With aged cramps, and more pinch-spotted make them Ari. Hark, they roar ! Pros. Let them be hunted soundly. At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies : Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou 260 Shalt have the air at freedom: for a little [Exeunt. 234 under the line: a punning allusion to the equinoctial line, the heat under which was supposed to cause the loss of hair. 240 pass of pate = invention of the brain. ACT V. SCENE I. Before PROSPERO's cell. Enter PROSPERO in his magic robes, and ARIEL. Pros. Now does my project gather to a head: My charms crack not; my spirits obey; and time Goes upright with his carriage. How's the day? Ari. On the sixth hour; at which time, my lord, You said our work should cease. Pros. I did say so, When first I rais'd the tempest. Confin'd together In the same fashion as you gave in charge, Him that you term'd, sir, "The good old lord, Gonzalo ; 99 From eaves of reeds. Your charm so strongly works 'em Would become tender. Pros. Dost thou think so, spirit? Ari. Mine would, sir, were I human. Pros. And mine shall. Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling One of their kind, that relish all as sharply Passion as they, be kindlier mov'd than thou art? Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, Do I take part: the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent, Not a frown further. Go release them, Ariel : Ari. I'll fetch them, sir. 10 20 30 [Exil Pros. Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him 40 50. [Solemn music. Re-enter ARIEL before: then ALONSO, with a frantic gesture, attended by GONZALO; SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO in like manner, attended by ADRIAN and FRANCISCO: they all enter the circle which PROSPERO had made, and there stand charmed; which PROSPERO observing, speaks: A solemn air and the best comforter To an unsettled fancy cure thy brains, Now useless, boil'd within thy skull! There stand, 60 Holy Gonzalo, honourable man, Mine eyes, even sociable to the shew of thine, Fall fellowly drops. The charm dissolves apace, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses To him thou follow'st! I will pay thy graces 70 31 green sour ringlets. These dark circles on the grass were once supposed to be made by fairies dancing in a round, and were called fairy-rings. They are produced by a decaying fungus. to the dread rattling thunder. The carelessness with which Shakespeare wrote his plays is remarkably exemplified in the dislocated and illogical construction of this no. ble speech. Didst thou, Alonso, use me and my daughter: That now lies foul and muddy. Not one of them my cell: I will discase me, and myself present 80 ARIEL sings and helps to attire him. Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. 90 On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. Pros. Why, that's my dainty Ariel! I shall miss thee; But yet thou shalt have freedom: so, so, so. To the king's ship, invisible as thou art: There shalt thou find the mariners asleep Under the hatches; the master and the boatswain Being awake, enforce them to this place, And presently, I prithee. Ari. I drink the air before me, and return Or ere your pulse twice beat. Gon. All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us Out of this fearful country! Pros. Behold, sir king, The wronged Duke of Milan, Prospero: For more assurance that a living prince Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body; A hearty welcome. Alon. Whether thou be'st he or no, 100 [Exit. 110 After summer. Theobald changed "summer" to sunset, and has been followed by many editors. 101 presently at the present moment, immediately: the proper meaning of the word. |