Instinctively had quit it; there they hoist us, Mira. Alack! what trouble was I then to you! Thou wast, that did preserve me! Thou didst smile, When I have deck'd the sea with drops full salt; Mira. How came we ashore? Some food we had, and some fresh water, that Out of his charity, (who being then appointed Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries, Which since have steaded much; so, of his gentle. ness, Knowing I loved my books, he furnish'd me, I prize above my dukedom. Mira. 'Would I might But ever see that man! Pro. Now I arise: Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow. Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit (For still 'tis beating in my mind) your reason Pro. Know thus far forth. By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, Brought to this shore: and by my prescience A most auspicious star; whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.-Here cease more questions; *Sprinkled. + Stubborn resolution. C Come away, servant, come: I am ready now; Enter ARIEL. Ari. All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride. On the curl'd clouds; to thy strong bidding, task Ariel, and all his quality. Pro. Hast thou, spirit, Perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee? I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak, sors O' the dreadful thunder claps, more momentary And sight-out-running were not: the fire and cracks Of sulphurous roaring, the most mighty Neptune Seem'd to besiege, and make his bold waves tremble, Yea his dread trident shake. Pro. My brave spirit! Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil + Ari. Not a soul But felt a fever of the mad, and play'd Some tricks of desperation: all, but mariners, Plunged in the foaming brine, and quit the vessel, Then all a fire with me: the king's s n, Ferdinand, With hair up-staring (then like reeds, not hair) Was the first man that leap'd; cried, Hell is empty, And all the devils are here. Pro. Why, that's my spirit! But was not this nigh shore? Pro. But are they, Ariel, safe? On their sustaining garments not a blemish, But fresher than before; and, as thou bad'st me, * The minutest article. +Bustle, tumult. His arms in this sad knot. Pro. Of the king's ship, The mariners, say, how thou hast disposed, Ari. Safely in harbour Is the king's ship; in the deep nook, where once Whom, with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour, Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd, Pro. Ariel, thy charge Exactly is perform'd; but there's more work : Ari. Past the mid season. Pro. At least two glasses: the time 'twixt six and Must by us both be spent most preciously. [now, Ari. Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains, Let me remember thee what thou hast promised, Pro. How now ? moody? What is't thou canst demand? Ari. My liberty. Pro. Before the time be out? no more. Ari. I pray thee Remember, I have done thee worthy service; Told thee no lies, made no mistakings, served Without or grudge, or grumblings: thou didst promise To bate me a full year. Pro. Dost thou forget From what a torment I did free thee? Ari. No. Pro. Thou dost! and think'st It much, to tread the ooze of the salt deep; Ari. I do not, Sir. Pro. Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot The foul witch Sycorax, who, with age, and envy, Was grown into a hoop? hast thou forgot her? Ari. No, Sir. Pro. Thou hast: Where was she born? speak; tell me. Ari. Sir, in Argier.* Pro. O, was she so? I must, Once in a month, recount what thou hast been, Thou know'st, was banish'd; for one thing she did, Pro. This blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child, And here was left by the sailors. Thou, my slave, To act her earthly and abhorr'd commands, And in her most unmitigable rage, Into a cloven pine; within which rift A dozen years; within which space she died, As fast as mill-wheels strike: then was this island (Save for the son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp, hag-born) not honour'd with Ari. Yes; Caliban her son. Pro. Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban, To lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax When I arrived, and heard thee, that made gape Ari. I thank thee, master. Pro. If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak, And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters. Ari. Pardon, master: I will be correspondent to command, Pro. Do so; and after two days I will discharge thee Ari. That's my noble master! What shall I do? say what? what shall I do? To every eye-ball else. Go, take this shape, Mira. The strangeness of your story put Pro. Shake it off: come on; We'll visit Caliban, my slave, who never Mira. Tis a villain, Sir, I do not love to look on. We cannot miss him: he does make our fire, Cal. [Within.] There's wood enough within. Pro. Come forth, I say; there's other business for Come forth, thou tortoise! when? Re-enter ARIEL, like a Water Nymph. Ari. My lord, it shall be done. [thee: [Exit. Pro. Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself Upon thy wicked dam, come forth! Enter CALIBAN. Cal. As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd Pro. For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins + Shall, for that vast of night that they may work, All exercise on thee: thou shalt be pinch'd As thick as honey-combs, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made them. Cal. I must eat my dinner. |