ACT V. SCENE I. Before the Cell. Enter Profpero in his magic Robes, and Ariel. PROSPERO. OW does my project gather to a head; time Goes upright with his carriage: how's the day? Pro. I did fay fo, When first I rais'd the tempeft; say, my spirit, Ari. Confin'd In the fame fashion as you gave in charge; In the Lime-Grove which weather-fends your cell. That if you now beheld them, your affections Would become tender. Pro. Do'st thou think fo, fpirit? Ari. Mine would, Sir, were I human. Pro. And mine fball. Haft thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling One One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, In virtue than in vengeance; they being penitent, Not a frown further; go, release them, Ariel; Ari. I'll fetch them, Sir, SCENE II. [Exit. Pro. Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye, that on the fands with printless foot. And, And, deeper than did ever plummet found, I'll drown my book. [Solemn mufick, I SCENE III. Here enters Ariel before; then Alonfo with a frantick gefture, attended by Gonzalo. Sebaftian and An thonio in like manner, attended by Adrian and Francifco. They all enter the circle which Profpero bad made, and there ftand charm'd; which Profpero obServing, Speaks. A folemn air, and the best comforter Now useless, boil'd within thy skull! There ftand, Holy Gonzalo, honourable man, Mine eyes, ev'n fociable to th' fhew of thine, To him thou follow'it; I will pay thy graces Moft cruelly Thy brother was a furtherer in the A&t; Thou'rt pinch'd for't now, Sebaftian.-Flesh and blood Your brother mine, that entertain❜d ambition, That now lies foul and muddy. Not one of them, That That yet looks on me, or would know me-Ariel, Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell; I will dif-cafe me, and myself prefent, [Exit Ariel, and returns immediately. Quickly, Spirit; As I was fometime, Milan. Thou shalt e'er long be free. Ariel fings, and helps to attire him. Where the bee fucks, there fuck I; There I couch, when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fy, After Summer, merrily. 7 Merrily, merrily, fhall I live now, Under the bloffom, that hangs on the bough. Pro. Why, that's my dainty Ariel; I shall miss thee; But yet thou shalt have freedom. So, fo, fo.-—-—-—-—-- 7 After Summer, merrily.] This is the reading of all the Editions. Yet Mr. Theobald has fubftituted Sun-fet, becaule Ariel talks of riding on the Bat in this expedition. An idle fancy. That circumstance is given only to defgn the time of night in which fairies travel. One would think the confideration of the circumftances fhould have fet him right. Ariel was a fpirit of great delicacy, bound by the charms of Profpero, to a constant attendance on his occafions. So that he was confined to the land Winter and Summer. But the roughness of Winter is reprefented by Shakespear as difagreeable to fairies, and fuch like delicate fpirits, who on this account confantly follow Summer. Was not this then the most agreeable circumitance of Ariel's new reco To the King's fhip, invifible as thou art; And prefently, I pr'ythee. Ari. I drink the air before me, and return Or e'er your pulse twice beat. [Exit. Gon. All torment, trouble, wonder, and amaze ment Inhabits here; fome heav'nly power guide us Pro. Behold, Sir King, The wronged Duke of Milan, Profpero: Alon. Be'ft thou he or no, Or fome inchanted trifle to abuse me, As late I have been, I not know; thy pulfe Beats, as of flesh and blood; and fince I faw thee, Thou pardon me my wrongs. But how fhould Pref pero Be living and be here? Pro. First, noble friend, Let me embrace thine age, whofe honour cannot Gon. Whether this be, Or be not, I'll not fwear. Some fubtilties o' th' ifle, that will not let you 8 To drink the air is an expreffi:n of fwiftnefs of the fame kind as to devour the way in Henry IV. But |