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Being lass-lorn'; thy pole-clipt vineyard;
And thy sea-marge, steril, and rocky hard,
Where thou thyself do'st air: The queen o' the sky,
Whose watery arch, and messenger, am I,

Bids thee leave these; and with her sovereign grace, 5
Here on this grass-plot, in this very place,
To come and sport: her peacocks fly amain;
Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.
Enter Ceres.

Cer. Hail, many-colour'd messenger, that ne'er
Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter;
Who, with thy saffron wings, upon my flowers
Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers;
And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown
My2bosky acres, and my unshrubb'd down,
Rich scarf to my proud earth: Why hath thy queen
Summon'd me hither, to this short-grass'd green?
Iris. A contract of true love to celebrate;
And some donation freely to estate

On the bless'd lovers.

Cer. Tell me, heavenly bow,

If Venus, or her son, as thou do'st know,

Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot
The means, that dusky Dis my daughter got,
Her and her blind boy's scandal'd company
I have førsworn.

Iris. Of her society

Be not afraid: I met her deity

I have from their confines call'd to enact My present fancies.

Fr. Let me live here ever;

So rare a wonder'd father, and a wife,
Make this place paradise.

Pro. Sweet now, silence:
Juno, and Ceres, whisper seriously;

There's something else to do: husii, and be mute, Or else our spell is marr'd.

[ment. 10[Juno and Ceres whisper, and send Iris on employIris. Younymphs, call'd Naiads, of the wand'ring

brooks,

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With your sedg'd crowns, and ever harmless looks,' Leave your crisp * channels, and on this green land' 15 Answer your summons; Juno does command: Come, temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate A contract of true love; be not too late.

Enter certain nymphs.

20 You sun-burn'd sicklemen, of August weary,' Come hither from the turrow, and be merry; Make holy-day: your rye-straw hats put on, And these fresh nymphs encounter every one In country footing.

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Cutting the clouds towards Paphos; and her son
Dove-drawn with her: here thought they to have 30

done

Some wanton charm upon this man and maid,
Whose vows are, that no bed-rite shall be paid
Till Hymen's torch be lighted: but in vain;
Mars's hot minion is return'd again;
Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows,
Swears he will shoot no more, but play with

sparrows

And be a boy right out.

Cer. High queen of state,

Great Juno comes; I know her by her gait.
Enter Juno.

Jun. How does my bounteous sister? Gowithme, To bless this twain, that they may prosperous be, And honour'd in their issue.

Jun. Honour, riches, marriage-blessing,

Long continuance, and increasing
Hourly joys be still upon you!
Juno sings her blessings on you.

Cer. Earth's increase, and foison plenty 3;
Barns, and garners, never empty;
Vines, with clust'ring bunches growing;
Plants, with goodly burden bowing;
Spring come to you, at the farthest,
In the very end of harvest!
Scarcity, and want, shall shun you;
Ceres blessing so is on you.

Fer. This is a most majestic vision, and
Harmonious charmingly: May I be bold
To think these spirits?

Pro. Spirits, which by mine art

'That is, forsaken of his mistress.

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Enter certain reapers, properly habited: they join with the nymphs in a graceful dance; towards, the end whereof Prospero starts suddenly, and speaks; after which, to a strange, hollow, and confused noise, they vanish heavily.

Pro. [Aside.] I had forgot that foul conspiracy Of the beast Caliban, and his confederates, Against my life; the minute of their plot Is almost come.-[To the spirits] Well done;avoid;-no more. [passion Fer. This is strange: your father's in some That works him strongly.

Mira. Never till this day

Saw I him touch'd with anger so distemper'd.
Pro. You do look, my son, in a mov'd sort,
As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, sir:
Our revels now are ended: these our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:

45 And, like the baseless fabrick of this vision,
The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve;
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
50 Leave not a rack behind: We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.- -Sir, I am vex'd;
Bear with my weakness; my old brain is troubled:
Be not disturb'd with my infirmity:

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55 If thou be pleas'd, retire into my cell,
And there repose; a turn or two I'll walk,
To still my beating mind.

Fer. Mira. We wish you peace. [Exeunt Fer. and Mira. 60 Pro. Come with a thought :-I thank thee:Ariel, come.

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foison signifying plenty. 4 That is, curling, winding.

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That is, plenty to the utmost abundance; "The winds," (says lord Bacon) "which"

the clouds above, which we call the ruck, and are not perceived below, pass without noise." C

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Advanc'd their eye-lids, lifted up their noses,
As they smelt musick; so I charm'd their ears,
That, calf-like, they my lowing follow'd, through
Tooth'd briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss, and
thorns,

Which enter'd their frail shins: at last I left them
I' the filthy mantled pool beyond your cell,
There dancing up to the chins, that the foul lake
O'er-stunk their feet.

Tri. Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool,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.

Ste. I will fetch off my bottle, though I be o'er ears for my labour.

Cal. Prythee, my king, be quiet: See'st thou
here,

This is the mouth o' the cell; no noise, and enter:
Do that good mischief, which may make this island
Thine own for ever, and I, thy Caliban,

For aye thy foot-licker.

Ste. Give me thy hand: I do begin to have 15 bloody thoughts. [Stephano! Trin. O king Stephano! O peer! O worthy Look what a wardrobe here is for thee!

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Pro. This was well done, my bird:
Thy shape invisible retain thou still:
The trumpery in my house, go, bring it hither, 30
For' stale to catch these thieves.

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Ari. I go, go.

[Exit.
Pro. A devil, a born devil, on whose nature
Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains,
Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost;
And as, with age, his body uglier grows,
So his mind cankers: I will plague them all,
Even to roaring:-Come, hang them on this line.
[Prospero remains invisib e.
Enter Ariel loaden with glistering apparel, &c.
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.

Cal. Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash. Trin. Oh, 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,

To doat thus on such luggage? Let's along,
And do the murder first: if he awake,
From toe to crown he'll fill our skin with pinches;
Make us strange stuff.

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 35 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 gar40ment for't.

Ste. Monster, your fairy, which, you say, is a4 harmless fairy, has done little better than play'd the Jack with us".

Trin. Mouster, I do smell all horse-piss; at which my nose is in great indignation.

Ste. So is mine. Do you hea", monster? If 150 should take a displeasure against you; look youTrin. 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 [softly;
Shall hood-wink this mischance: therefore, speak 55
All's hush'd as midnight yet.

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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 villainous low.

Ste. Monster, lay to your fingers; help to bear this away, where my hogshead of wine is, or I'll urn you out of my kingdom: go to, carry this. Trin. And this.

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SCENE I.
Before the cell.

ACT V.

Enter Prospero in his magick robes, and Ariel.
Pro. 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 shall cease.

Pro. I did say so,

15 Whereof the ewe not bites; and you, whose

pastime

Is to make midnight mushrooms; that rejoice
To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid
(Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd
20 The noon-tide sun, call forth the mutinous winds,
And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault
Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder
Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak
With his own bolt: the strong-bas'd promontory

When first I rais'd the tempest. Say, my spirit, 25 Have I made shake; and by the spurs pluck'd up

How fares the king and his followers?

Ari. Confin'd together

In the same fashion as you gave in charge;
Just as you left them; all prisoners, sir,

In the lime-grove which weather-fends your cell: 30
They cannot budge, till your release. The king.
His brother, and yours, abide all three distracted;
And the remainder mourning over them,
Brim-full of sorrow and dismay; but, chiefly,
Him that you term'd The good old lord, Gonzalo, 35
His tears run down his beard, like winter drops
From eaves of reeds: your charm so strongly
works 'em,

That if you now beheld them, your affections
Would become tender.

Pro. Do'st thou think so, spirit?

Ari. Mine would, sir, were I human.

Pro. And mine shall.

Hast thou, which art but air, a touch', a feeling
Of their afflictions? and shall not myself,

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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,

Yet, with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury
Do I take part: the rarer action is
In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,
The sole drift of my purpose doth extend

Not a frown further: Go, release them, Ariel;
My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore,
And they shall be themselves.

Ari. I'll fetch them, sir.

[Exit.

Pro. 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,
When he comes back; you demy-puppets, that
By moon-shine do the green sour ringlets make,

A touch is a sensation.

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The pine and cedar: graves, at my command,
Havewak'd their sleepers; op'd, and let them forth
By my so potent art: But this rough magick
I here abjure: and, when I have requir'd
Some heavenly musick, (which even now I do)`
To work mine end upon their senses, that
This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And, deeper than did ever plummet sound,
I'll drown my book.
[Solemn musick.
Re-enter Ariel: after him Alonso with a frantick
gesture, attended by Gonzalo. Sebastian and
Anthonio in like manner, attended by Adrian
and Francisco. They all enter the circle
which Prospero had made, and there stund
charm'd; 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,
45 For you are spell-stopp'd-

Holy Gonzalo, honourable man,

Mine eyes, even sociable to the shew of thine,
Fall fellowly drops.-The charm dissolves apace;
And as the morning steals upon the night,
50 Melting the darkness, so their rising senses
Begin to chace the ignorant fumes that mantle
Their clearer reason.-O good Gonzalo
My true preserver, and a loyal sir

To him thou follow'st; I will pay thy graces
55 Home, both in word and deed.-Most cruelly
Didst thou, Alonso, use me and my daughter:
Thy brother was a furtherer in the act ;-
Thou'rt pinch'd for't now, Sebastian.-Flesh and
blood,

60 You brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, Expell'd remorse, and nature; who, with Sebastian,

(Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong)

Passion is frequently used as a verb in Shakspeare.
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As I was sometime Milan:-
Thou shalt e'er long be free.

[Exit Ariel. -quickly, spirit;

[Ariel enters singing, and helps to attire him. Where the bee sucks, there suck I;

In a cowslip's beli I lie:

There I couch when owls do cry.

On the but's back I do'fly

After summer, merrily:

Merrily, merrily, shatt I live now,

Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

Pro. 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 pr'ythee.

Ari. I drink the air before me, and return
Or e'er your pulse beat.

[Exit. Gon. All torment, trouble, wonder, and amaze

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Inhabits here: Some heavenly power guide us
Out of this fearful country!

Pro. 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;
And to thee, and thy company, I bid

A hearty welcome.

Alon. Whe'r thou best he, or no,

Or some inchanted trifle to abuse me,
As late I have been, I not know: thy pulse

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Alon. A daughter?

300 heavens! that they were living both in Naples,
The king and queen there! That they were, I wish
Myself were mudded in that oozy bed. [ter?
Wheremy son lies. When did you lose your daugh-

Pro. In this last tempest. I perceive, these lords 35 At this encounter do so much admire,

That they devour their reason; and scarce think,
The r eyes do offices of truth, their words
Are natural breath; but, howsoe'er you have
Been justled from your senses, know for certain,

40 That I am Prospero, and that very duke
Which was thrust forth of Milan; who most strangely
Upon this shore, where you were wrecked, was land-
To be the lord on't. No more yet of this;
For 'tis a chronicle of day by day,

Beats, as of flesh and blood; and, since I saw thee, 45 Not a relation for a breakfast, nor

The affliction of my mind amends, with which,
I fear, a madness held me: this must crave
(An if this be at all) a most strange story.
Thy dukedom I resign; and do intreat, [Prospero
Thou pardon me my wrongs:-But how should
Be living, and be here?

Pro. First, noble friend,

[To Gon.

Let me embrace thine age; whose honour cannot
Be measur'd, or contin'd.

Gon. Whether this be,

Or be not, I'll not swear.

Pro. You do yet taste

Some subtilties of the isle, that will not let you
Believe things certain:--Welcome, my friends all:
But
brace of lords, were I so minded,
you, my

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Befitting this first meeting. Welcome, sir;
The cell's my court; here have I few attendants,
And subjects none abroad: pray you look in;
My dukedom since you have given me again,
50I will requite you with as good a thing;
At least, bring forth a wonder to content ye,
As much as me my dukedom.

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The entrance of the cell opens, and discovers Fer-
dinand and Miranda playing at chess.
Mira. Sweet lord, you play me false.

Fer. No, my dearest love,

I would not for the world.

[wrangle,

Mir. Yes, for a score of kingdoms, you should

And I would call it fair play.

Alon. If this prove

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[Aside to Seb. and Ant.

A vision of the island, one dear son

To drink the air, is an expression of swiftness of the same kind as to decour the way, in Henry VI. 2 That is, I am sorry for it. To be woe, is often used by old writers to siguify, to be sorry. ing, My loss is as great as yours, and has as lately happened to me.

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Shall I twice lose.

Seb. A most high miracle!

Fer. Tho' the seas threaten, they are merciful; I have curs'd them without cause.

4.on. Now all the blessings [Ferdinand kneels. 5 Of a glad father compass thee about! Arise, and say how thou cam'st here.

Mira. O! wonder!

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Or should have spoke ere this. Look down, you
And on this couple drop a blessed crown;
For it is you, that have chalk'd forth the way
Which brought us hither!

Alon. I say, Amen, Gonzalo !

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Gon. Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his Should become kings of Naples? O, rejoice Beyond a common joy; and set it down With gold on lasting pillars: In one voyage Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis; And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife, Where he himself was lost; Prospero his dukedom, In a poor isle; and all of us, ourselves,

When' no man was his own.

Alon. Give me your hands:

Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart,
That doth not wish you joy!

Gon. Be't so, Amen!

Re-enter Ariel, with the Master and Boatswain amazedly following.

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Which but three glasses since, we gave out split,is tight and yare, and bravely rigg'd, as when We first put out to sea.

Ari. Sir, all this service Have I done since I went. Pro. My tricksy 2 spirit!

[Aside.

Alon. These arenotnaturalevents; theystrengthen From strange to stranger:-Say, how came you hiBoats. It I did think, sir, I were well awake, [ther? i'd strive to tell you. We were dead asleep, And (how, we know not) all clapp'd under hatches, Where, but even now, withstrangeandseveralnoises Of roaring, shrieking, how ling, gingling chains, And more diversity of sounds, all horrible, 15 We were awak'd; straightway, at liberty: Where we, in all her trim, freshly beheld Our royal, good, and gallant ship; our master Cap'ring to eye her: On a trice, so please you, Even in a dream, were we divided from them, 20 And were brought moping hither.

Ari. Was 't well done?

Pro. Bravely, my diligence. Thou[Aside. shalt be free.

Alon. This is as strange a maze as e'erinen trod; 25 And there is in this business more than nature Was ever conduct of; some oracle Must rectify our knowledge.

Pro. Sir, my liege,

Do not infest your mind with beating on 30 The strangeness of this business; at pick'd leisure, Which shall be shortly, single I'll resolve you (Which to you shall seem probable) of every These happen'd accidents: till when, be cheerful, And think of each thing well. Come hither, spirit; Set Caliban and his companions free: [To Ariel. Untie the spell. How fares my gracious sir? There are yet missing of your company

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[Aside.

40 Some few odd lads that you remember not. Re-enter Ariel, driving in Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo, in their stolen apparel. Ste. Every man shift for all the rest, and let no man take care for himself; for all is but fortune:45 Coragio, bully-monster, Coragio!

Trin. If these be true spies which I wear in my head, here's a goodly sight.

Cal. O Setebos, these be brave spirits, indeed! How fine my master is! I am afraid 50 He will chastise me.

O look, sir, look, sir, here are more of us!
I prophesy'd, if a gallows were on land,
This fellow could not drown:-Now, blasphemy, 55
That swear'st grace o'erboard,not an oath on shore
Hast thou no mouth by land? What is the news?

Bouts. The best news is, that we have safely found
Our king, and company: the next, our ship,-

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For when perhaps should be read where. 2 That is, my clever, adroit spirit. conductor. Beating may mean hammering, working in the mind, dwelling long upon. Coragio is an exclamation of encouragement. "That is, honest. A true man is, in the language of that time, opposed to a thief. The sense is, Mark what these men wear, and say if they are honest.

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