ACT II. SCENE I. — Another part of the island. 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 Alon. Seb. A dollar. [spoken truer than you purposed. Gon. Well, I have done: but yet,- [first begins to crow? Ant. Which, of he or Adrian, for a good wager, Seb. The old cock. Ant. He could not miss 't. [cate temperance. [green! Seb. Of that there 's none, or little. Seb. No; he doth but mistake the truth totally. Gon. But the rarity of it is,-which is indeed almost beyond credit, Seb. As many vouched rarities are. Gon. That our garments, being, as they were, drenched in the sea, hold notwithstanding their freshness and glosses, being rather new-dyed than stained with salt water. [it not say he lies? Ant. If but one of his pockets could speak,would Seb. Ay, or very falsely pocket up his report. Gon. Methinks our garments are now as fresh as when we put them on first in Afric, at the marriage of the king's fair daughter Claribel to the King of Tunis. [well in our return. Seb. "T was a sweet marriage, and we prosper Adr. Tunis was never graced before with such a paragon to their queen. Gon. Not since widow Dido's time. Ant. Widow! a pox o' that! How came that widow in? widow Dido! Seb. What if he had said 'widower Æneas' too? Good Lord, how you take it! Adr. Widow Dido' said you? you make me study of that: she was of Carthage, not of Tunis. Gon. This Tunis, sir, was Carthage. Adr. Carthage? Gon. I assure you, Carthage. Seb. His word is more than the miraculous harp; he hath raised the wall and houses too. Ant. What impossible matter will he make easy next? Seb. I think he will carry this island home in his pocket and give it his son for an apple. Ant. And, sowing the kernels of it in the sea, Gon. Ay. [bring forth more islands. Ant. Why, in good time. Gon. Sir, we were talking that our garments seem now as fresh as when we were at Tunis at the marriage of your daughter, who is now queen. Ant. And the rarest that e'er came there. Seb. Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido. Ant. O, widow Dido! ay, widow Dido. Gon. Is not, sir, my doublet as fresh as the first day I wore it? I mean, in a sort. Ant. That sort was well fished for. I ne'er again shall see her. O thou mine heir Fran. Sir, he may live: I saw him beat the surges under him, Prithee, peace. Alon. No, no, he's gone. [loss, Seb. Sir, you may thank yourself for this great That would not bless our Europe with your daughBut rather lose her to an African; [ter, Where she at least is banish'd from your eye, Who hath cause to wet the grief on 't. Alon. Seb. You were kneel'd to and importuned otherBy all of us, and the fair soul herself [wise Weigh'd between loathness and obedience, at Which end o' the beam should bow. We have lost I fear, for ever: Milan and Naples have [your son, More widows in them of this business' making Than we bring men to comfort them: The fault's your own. Alon. So is the dear'st o' the loss. Gon. My lord Sebastian, The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness And time to speak it in: you rub the sore, When you should bring the plaster. Seb. Very well. Ant. And most chirurgeonly. Gon. It is foul weather in us all, good sir, When you are cloudy. Seb. Ant. Foul weather? Very foul. Gon. Had I plantation of this isle, my lord,— Ant. He 'ld sow 't with nettle-seed. Seb. Seb. 'Scape being drunk for want of wine. And women too, but innocent and pure; Seb. Yet he would be king on't. Ant. The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the beginning. Gon. All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people. Seb. No marrying 'mong his subjects? Ant. None, man; all idle: whores and knaves. Gon. I would with such perfection govern, sir, To excel the golden age. God save his majesty! Seb. Ant. Long live Gonzalo! Gon. And, do you mark me, sir? Alon. Prithee, no more: thou dost talk nothing to me. Gon. I do well believe your highness; and did it to minister occasion to these gentlemen, who are of such sensible and nimble lungs that they always use to laugh at nothing. Ant. Twas you we laughed at. [still. Gon. Who in this kind of merry fooling am nothing to you: so you may continue and laugh at nothing Ant. What a blow was there given! Seb. An it had not fallen flat-long. Gon. You are gentlemen of brave mettle; you would lift the moon out of her sphere, if she would continue in it five weeks without changing. Enter Ariel, invisible, playing solemn music. Seb. We would so, and then go a bat-fowling. Ant. Nay, good my lord, be not angry. Gon. No, I warrant you; I will not adventure my discretion so weakly. Will you laugh me asleep, for Ant. Go sleep, and hear us. [I am very heavy? [All sleep except Alon., Seb., and Ant. Alon. What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts: I find They are inclined to do so. Seb. Please you, sir, Do not omit the heavy offer of it: It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth, It is a comforter. Ant. We two, my lord, Will guard your person while you take your rest, And watch your safety. Seb. Ant. What, art thou waking? Ant. Do you not hear me speak? Seb. I do; and surely Then, tell me, Claribel. Who's the next heir of Naples? Ant. Ant. True: And look how well my garments sit upon me; Ant. Ay, sir; where lies that? if 't were a kibe, If he were that which now he 's like, that 's dead; Seb. Draw together; Ant. O, but one word. [They talk apart. Ari. My master through his art foresees the danger That you, his friend, are in; and sends me forth For else his project dies—to keep them living. [Sings in Gonzalo's ear. While you here do snoring lie, Open-eyed conspiracy His time doth take. If of life you keep a care, Ant. Then let us both be sudden. Alon. I heard nothing. Ant. O, 't was a din to fright a monster's ear, To make an earthquake! sure, it was the roar Of a whole herd of lions. Alon. Heard you this, Gonzalo? Gon. Upon mine honour, sir, I heard a humming, And that a strange one too, which did awake me: I shaked you, sir, and cried: as mine eyes open'd, I saw their weapons drawn: there was a noise, That's verily. T is best we stand upon our guard, Or that we quit this place: let 's draw our weapons. Alon. Lead off this ground; and let's make furFor my poor son. [ther search Gon. Heavens keep him from these beasts! For he is, sure, i' the island. Alon. Lead away. [done: Ari. Prospero my lord shall know what I have So, king, go safely on to seek thy son. [Exeunt. SCENE II. — Another part of the island. Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i' the mire, Enter Trinculo. Lo, now, lo! Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me Trin. Here's neither bush nor shrub, to bear off any weather at all, and another storm brewing; I hear it sing i' the wind: yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. If it should thunder as it did before, I know not where to hide my head: yond same What cloud cannot choose but fall by pailfuls. have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest Poor-John. A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a man; any strange beast there makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legged like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm o' my troth! I do now let loose my opinion; hold it no longer: this is no fish, but an islander, that hath lately suffered by a thunderbolt. [Thunder.] Alas, the storm is come again! my best way is to creep under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter hereabout: misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows. I will here shroud till the dregs of the storm be past. Enter Stephano, singing: a bottle in his hand. This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I, Loved Mall, Meg and Marian and Margery, She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch, Cal. Do not torment me: Oh! Ste. What's the matter? Have we devils here? Do you put tricks upon 's with savages and men of Ind, ha? I have not scaped drowning to be afeard now of your four legs; for it hath been said, As proper a man as ever went on four legs cannot make him give ground; and it shall be said so again while Stephano breathes at 's nostrils. Cal. The spirit torments me; Oh! Ste. This is some monster of the isle with four legs, who hath got, as I take it, an ague. Where the devil should he learn our language? I will give 'Enter Caliban with a burden of wood. A noise of him some relief, if it be but for that. If I can re thunder heard. Cal. All the infections that the sun sucks up From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall and make him By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me And yet I needs must curse. But they 'll nor pinch, cover him and keep him tame and get to Naples with him, he's a present for any emperor that ever trod on neat's-leather. Cal. Do not torment me, prithee; I'll bring my wood home faster. Ste. He's in his fit now and does not talk after the wisest. He shall taste of my bottle: if he have never drunk wine afore, it will go near to remove his fit. If I can recover him and keep him tame, I will not take too much for him; he shall pay for him that hath him, and that soundly. Cal. Thou dost me yet but little hurt; thou wilt anon, I know it by thy trembling: now Prosper works upon thee. Ste. Come on your ways; open your mouth; here is that which will give language to you, cat: open your mouth; this will shake your shaking, I can tell you, and that soundly: you cannot tell who's your friend: open your chaps again. Trin. I should know that voice: it should bebut he is drowned; and these are devils: O defend me! Ste. Four legs and two voices: a most delicate monster! His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend; his backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract. If all the wine in my bottle will recover him, I will help his ague. Come. Amen! I will pour some in thy other mouth. Trin. Stephano! Ste. Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy, mercy! This is a devil, and no monster: I will leave him; I have no long spoon. Trin. Stephano! If thou beest Stephano, touch me and speak to me; for I am Trinculo-be not afeard thy good friend Trinculo. Ste. If thou beest Trinculo, come forth: I'll pull thee by the lesser legs: if any be Trinculo's legs, these are they. Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How camest thou to be the siege of this moon-calf? can he vent Trinculos? Trin. I took him to be killed with a thunderstroke. But art thou not drowned, Stephano? I hope now thou art not drowned. Is the storm overblown? I hid me under the dead moon-calf's gaberdine for fear of the storm. And art thou living, Stephano? O Stephano, two Neapolitans 'scaped! Ste. Prithee, do not turn me about; my stomach is not constant. Cal. [Aside] These be fine things, an if they be not sprites. That's a brave god and bears celestial liquor. Ste. How didst thou 'scape? How camest thou hither? swear by this bottle how thou camest hither. I escaped upon a butt of sack which the sailors heaved o'erboard, by this bottle! which I made of the bark of a tree with mine own hands since I was cast ashore. Cal. I'll swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject; for the liquor is not earthly. Ste. Here; swear then how thou escapedst. Trin. Swum ashore, man, like a duck: I can swim like a duck, I'll be sworn. Ste. Here, kiss the book. Though thou canst swim like a duck, thou art made like a goose. Trin. O Stephano, hast any more of this? Ste. The whole butt, man: my cellar is in a rock by the sea-side where my wine is hid. How now, moon-calf! how does thine ague? Cal. Hast thou not dropp'd from heaven? Ste. Out o' the moon, I do assure thee: I was the man i' the moon when time was. Cal. I have seen thee in her and I do adore thee: My mistress show'd me thee and thy dog and thy bush. Ste. Come, swear to that; kiss the book: I will furnish it anon with new contents: swear. Trin. By this good light, this is a very shallow monster! I afeard of him! A very weak monster! The man i'the moon! A most poor credulous monster! Well drawn, monster, in good sooth! Cal. I'll show thee every fertile inch o' th' island; And I will kiss thy foot: I prithee, be my god. Trin. By this light, a most perfidious and drunken monster! when 's god's asleep, he 'll rob his bottle. Cal. I'll kiss thy foot; I'll swear myself thy subSte. Come on then; down, and swear. [ject. Trin. I shall laugh myself to death at this puppyheaded monster. A most scurvy monster! I could Ste. Come, kiss. [find in my heart to beat him,Trin. But that the poor monster's in drink: an abominable monster! [thee berries; Cal. I'll show thee the best springs; I'll pluck I'll fish for thee and get thee wood enough. A plague upon the tyrant that I serve! I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee, Thou wondrous man. Trin. A most ridiculous monster, to make a wonder of a poor drunkard! Cal. I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow; And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts; Show thee a jay's nest and instruct thee how To snare the nimble marmoset; I'll bring thee To clustering filberts and sometimes I'll get thee Young scamels from the rock. Wilt thou go with me? Ste. I prithee now, lead the way without any more talking. Trinculo, the king and all our company else being drowned, we will inherit here: here; bear my bottle: fellow Trinculo, we 'll fill him by and by Cal. [Sings drunkenly] [again. Farewell, master; farewell, farewell! Trin. A howling monster; a drunken monster! Cul. No more dams I'll make for fish; Nor fetch in firing At requiring; Nor scrape trencher, nor wash dish: Has a new master: get a new man. [Exeunt. SCENE I.- Before Prospero's cell. Enter Ferdinand, bearing a log. Fer. There be some sports are painful, and their labour Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness [ness Some thousands of these logs and pile them up, But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours, Enter Miranda; and Prospero at a distance, unseen. Miranda. O my father, I have broke your hest to say so! Admired Miranda! I do not know Mir. I am skilless of; but, by my modesty, Fer. I am in my condition A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king; I would, not so!-and would no more endure The flesh-fly blow my mouth. Hear my soul speak: Mir. Do you love me? Fer. O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound And crown what I profess with kind event If I speak true! if hollowly, invert What best is boded me to mischief! I Beyond all limit of what else i' the world Do love, prize, honour you. Mir. I am a fool To weep at what I am glad of. Pros. Fair encounter Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace On that which breeds between 'em! Fer. Wherefore weep you? Mir. At mine unworthiness that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want. But this is trifling; And all the more it seeks to hide itself, The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning! And prompt me, plain and holy innocence! My husband, then? Fer. Ay, with a heart as willing As bondage e'er of freedom: here's my hand. [Exit. SCENE II.—Another part of the island. Enter Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo. Ste. Tell not me; when the butt is out, we will drink water; not a drop before: therefore bear up, and board 'em. Servant-monster, drink to me. Trin. Servant-monster! the folly of this island! They say there's but five upon this isle: we are three of them; if th' other two be brained like us, the state totters. Ste. Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee: thy eyes are almost set in thy head. Trin. Where should they be set else? he were a brave monster indeed, if they were set in his tail. Ste. My man-monster hath drown'd his tongue in sack for my part, the sea cannot drown me; I swam, ere I could recover the shore, five and thirty leagues off and on. By this light, thou shalt be my lieutenant, monster, or my standard. [ard. Trin. Your lieutenant, if you list; he's no standSte. We'll not run, Monsieur Monster. Trin. Nor go neither; but you'll lie like dogs and yet say nothing neither. Ste. Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a good moon-calf. [shoe. Cal. How does thy honour? Let me lick thy I'll not serve him; he 's not valiant. Trin. Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I to-day? Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster? [my lord? Cal. Lo, how he mocks me! wilt thou let him, Trin. Lord' quoth he! That a monster should be such a natural! Cal. Lo, lo, again! bite him to death, I prithee. Ste. Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head: if you prove a mutineer,-the next tree! The poor monster's my subject and he shall not suffer indignity. Cal. I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleased to hearken once again to the suit I made to thee? Ste. Marry, will I kneel and repeat it; I will stand, and so shall Trinculo. |