Ste. Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and I will be King and Queen, fave our Graces and Trintulo and thy felf fhall be Vice-Roys. Doft thou like. the plot, Trinculo? Trin. Excellent. Ste. Give me thy hand; I am forry, I beat thee: but, while thou liv❜ft, keep a good tongue in thy head. Cal. Within this half hour will he be asleep; Wilt thou destroy him then? Ste. Ay, on my honour. Ari. This will I tell my master. Cal. Thou mak❜ft me merry; I am full of pleasure; Let us be jocund. Will you troul the catch, You taught me but while-ere? Ste. At thy requeft, monfter, I will do reafon, any reafon: come on, Trinculo, let us fing. [Sings. Flout 'em, and skout 'em; and skout 'em, and flout 'em; thought is free. Cal. That's not the tune. [Ariel plays the Tune on a Tabor and Pipe. Ste. What is this fame ? Trin. This is the tune of our catch, plaid by the picture of no-body. Ste. If thou be'ft a man, fhew thy felf in the likenefs; if thou be'ft a devil, take't as thou lift. Trin. O, forgive me my fins! Ste. He that dies, pays all debts: I defie thee. Mercy upon us! Cal. Art thou afraid? Ste. No, monfter, not I.. Cal. Be not afraid; the ifle is full of noifes, [not. Sounds, and fweet airs, that give delight, and hurt Sometimes a thousand twanging inftruments Will hum about mine ears, and fometimes voices; That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me fleep again; and then in dreaming, The clouds, methought, would open, and fhew riches Ready Ready to drop upon me; that when I wak'd, Ste. This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my mufick for nothing. Cal. When Profpero is destroy'd. ant ly Ste. That fhall be by and by: I remember the ftory. Trin. The found is going away; let's follow it, and after do our work. Ste. Lead, monster; we'll follow. I would I could fee this taborer. He lays it on. Trin. Wilt come? I'll follow Stephano. SCENE III. [Exeunt. Changes to another Part of the land. Enter Alonso, Sebaftian, Anthonio, Gonzalo, Adrian, Francisco, &c. Gon. BY'R lakin, I can go no further, Sir, My old bones ake: here's a maze trod, indeed, Through forth-rights and meanders! by your patience, Alon. Old lord, I cannot blame thee, Seb. The next advantage Will we take throughly. For, now they are opprefs'd with travel, they Will not, nor cannot, ufe fuch vigilance, As when they're fresh. Seb. I fay, to night: no more. Solemn and frange mufick; and Profpero on the top,. invifible. Enter feveral ftrange shapes, bringing in a banquet; and dance about it with gentle actions of falutation; and, inviting the King, &c. to eat, they depart. Alon. What harmony is this? my good friends, hark! Gon. Marvellous fweet mufick! Alon. Give us kind keepers, heaven! what were these? Seb. A living drollery. Now I will believe, That there are unicorns; that, in Arabia There is one tree, the phoenix' throne; one phoenix At this hour reigning there. Ant. I'll believe both: And what does elfe want credit, come to me, And I'll be fworn 'tis true. Travellers ne'er did lie, Though fools at home condemn 'em. Gon. If in Naples I should report this now, would they believe me? (For, certes, these are people of the island) Many; nay, almost any. Pro. Honeft lord, Thou haft faid well; for fome of you there prefent Are worse than devils. Alon. I cannot too much mufe, Such fhapes, fuch gefture, and fuch found, expreffing (Although they want the use of tongue) a kind Of excellent dumb difcourfe. Pro. • Pro. Praise, in departing. Fran. They vanish'd strangely. They've left their viands behind; for we have stomachs. Alon. Not I. [boys, Gon. Faith, Sir, you need not fear. When we were Who would believe, that there were mountaineers, Dew-lapt like bulls, whofe throats had hanging at 'em Wallets of flesh, or that there were fuch men, Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find, Alon. I will ftand to, and feed, Thunder and lightning. Enter Ariel like a harpy, claps his wings upon the table, and with a queint device the banquet vanishes. Ari. You are three men of fin, whom destiny (That hath to inftrument this lower world, 4 Pro. Praise in departing.] This is a farcafm. They were praifing the mufic and attendance of this vifionary Entertainment: but their commendations were too hafty, for the Banquet was prefently fnatched from them: fo that the mufic was only a prelude to a Mockery. Profpero therefore fays, Stay your praises 'till you bave ended your entertainment. Praife in departing. The phrase alludes to the custom of Guefts praifing their entertainment when they rife from the Banquet. 5 Each putter out on five for one-] A Satire on the Voyagers of that time, who had just discovered a new World; and, as was natural, gave very extravagant accounts of the wonders of it. Their Ventures in thefe expeditions are alluded to in the title, given them, of putters out on five for one. And And what is in't) the never-furfeited fea Of whom your fwords are temper'd, may as well One down that's in my plume: my fellow-minifters You and your ways; whofe wrath to guard you from, He vanishes in thunder: then, to foft mufick, Enter the Shapes again, and dance with mops and mowes, and carrying out the table. Pro. Bravely the figure of this harpy haft thou Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring: Of my inftruction haft thou nothing 'bated, In what thou hadst to say: fo with good life, And obfervation ftrange, my meaner ministers |