And look how well my garments sit upon me; Seb. But, for your conscience Ant. Ay, sir; where lies that? if it were a "kybe, If he were that which now he's like, that's dead, Seb. Thy case, dear friend, Shall be my precedent: as thou got'st Milan, Ant. Draw together; And when I rear my hand, do you the like, Seb. O! but one word. [They converse apart. Ari. My master through his art foresees the ger (For else his project dies) to keep them living. His time doth take. If of life you keep a care, Ant. Then, let us both be sudden. [They wake. Alon. Why, how now, ho! awake! Why are you drawn? Wherefore thus ghastly looking? Gon. Alon. Heard you this, Gonzalo? Lead away. [Exeunt. Ari. Prospero, my lord, shall know what I have Cal. All the infections that the sun sucks up my Enter TRINCULO. 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 dan-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 cloud can not choose but fall by pailfuls. -What have we here? [Seeing Caliban.] a man or a fish? Dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like 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 monmake a man: any strange beast there makes ster "Cast," i. e., cast up.-b"In yours and my discharge," i. c., depends on what you and I are to perform. Jackdaw. a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a Much feater," i. e., more neatly, deftly.-"If it were a kybe," i. e., if conscience were a chilblain, it would mar my activity. A hint. Fairy- Make mouths- A black jack of leather to hold beer. i. e., Make a man's fortune. lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd 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 thunder-bolt. [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 bedfellows. I will here shroud, till the 1 drench of the storm be past. Enter STEPHANO, singing; a bottle in his hand. Ste. I shall no more to sea, to sea, Here shall I die a-shore. This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's funeral. Lov'd Mall, Meg, and Marian, and Margery, For she had a tongue with abtang, Cal. Do not torment me: O! Ste. What's the matter? Have we devils here? Do you put tricks upon us with savages, and men of Inde? Ha! I have not 'scap'd drowning, to be afeard now of your four legs; for it hath been said, as proper a man as ever went on four legs can not make him give ground, and it shall be said so again, while Stephano breathes at nostrils. Cal. The spirit torments me: 0! 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 him some relief, if it be but for that: if I can recover 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, pr'ythee: 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. [CALIBAN drinks. 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! A coarse outer garment.-b Sting.- "Too much," an ironical expression, implying a great sum; ever so much. 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 cam'st 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. Pr'ythee, do not turn me about: my stomach is not constant. Cal. These be fine things, an if they be not sprites. That's a brave god, and bears celestial liquor: I will kneel to him. Ste. How didst thou 'scape? How cam'st thou hither? swear by this bottle, how thou cam'st hither. I escaped upon a butt of sack, which the sailors heaved over-board, by this bottle! which I made of the bark of a tree, with mine own hands, since I was cast a-shore. Cal. I'll swear, upon that bottle, to be thy true 3[Kneels. subject, for the liquor is not earthly. Ste. Here: swear, then, how thou escap'dst. Trin. Swam a-shore, 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? by the sea-side, where my wine is hid. How now, moon-calf! how does thine ague? Cal. Hast thou not dropped from heaven? the man in the moon, when time was. Ste. Out o' the moon, I do assure thee: I was my mistress showed me thee, and thy dog, and thy Cal. I have seen thee in her, and I do adore thee: bush. furnish it anon with new contents. Ste. Come, swear to that; kiss the book: I will 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, island; and I will kiss thy foot. I pr'ythee, be my Cal. I'll show thee every fertile inch o' the god. Trin. By this light, a most perfidious and drunken monster: when his god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle. Cal. I'll kiss thy foot: I'll swear myself thy sub ject. Ste. Come on, then; down and swear. [CALIBAN lies down. Trin. I shall laugh myself to death at this puppyheaded monster. find in my heart to beat him,— A most scurvy monster: I could Ste. Come, kiss. An abominable monster! Trin. But that the poor monster's in drink. Cal. I'll show thee the best springs; I'll pluck thee berries; I'll fish for thee, and get thee wood enough. An allusion to the proverb, "He who eats with the devil had need of a lorg spoon."- Stool (excrement). וי A plague upon the tyrant that I serve! Trin. A most ridiculous monster, to make a wonder of a poor drunkard! Cal. I pr'ythee, 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 marmozet: I'll bring thee To clustering filberds, and sometimes I'll get thee Young scamels from the rock: Wilt thou go with me? Ste. I pr'ythee 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 again. Cal. Farewell, master; farewell, farewell. [Sings drunkenly. Trin. A howling monster; a drunken monster. Cal. No more dams I'll make for fish; Nor fetch in firing At requiring, Nor scrape trencher, nor wash dish; 'Ban 'Ban, Ca-Caliban, Has a new master-Get a new man. Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! hey-day, freedom! Ste. O brave monster! lead the way. ACT III. freedom! [Exeunt. SCENE I.-Before PROSPERO'S Cell. Enter FERDINAND, bearing a log. Indeed, the top of admiration; worth Mira. I do not know One of my sex; no woman's face remember, Save, from my glass, mine own; nor have I seen More that I may call men, than you, good friend, And my dear father. How features are abroad, I am skill-less of; but, by my modesty, (The jewel in my dower) I would not wish Any companion in the world but you; Nor can imagination form a shape, Besides yourself, to like of. But I prattle Something too wildly, and my father's precepts Fer. There be some sports are painful, and their I therein do forget. labor Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labors; Enter MIRANDA; and PROSPERO 4 behind. Mira. Alas! now, pray you, Work not so hard: I would, the lightning had Burnt up those logs that you are enjoin'd to pile. Pray, set it down, and rest you: when this burns, "Twill weep for having wearied you. My father Is hard at study; pray now rest yourself: He's safe for these three hours. Fer. O, most dear mistress! The sun will set, before I shall discharge What I must strive to do. Fer. The flesh-fly blow my mouth.-Hear my soul speak: My heart fly to your service; there resides, Mira. Do you love me? I am a fool, To weep at what I am glad of. 8[Aside. Pro. Fair encounter Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace On that which breeds between them! Fer. Wherefore weep you? Mira. 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! I am your wife, if you will marry me; e If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow You may deny me; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no. Behest; command. -Owned. -d "Put it to the foil," i. e., set it off by contrast.- Companion. Cal. Yea, yea, my lord: I'll yield him thee asleep, [Exit. Where thou may'st knock a nail into his head. Ari. Thou liest; thou canst not. [patch!Cal. What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy I do beseech thy greatness, give him blows, And take his bottle from him: when that's gone, He shall drink nought but brine; for I'll not show him Where the quick freshes are. SCENE II.-Another part of the Island. Enter STEPHANO and TRINCULO; CALIBAN following with a bottle. 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 the 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 drowned 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 a standard. Trin. Your lieutenant, if you list; he's no standard. Ste. 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. Cal. How does thy honor? Let me lick thy shoe. I'll not serve him, he is not valiant. Trin. Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou debauched 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? Cal. Lo, how he mocks me! wilt thou let him, Trin. Lord, quoth he!-that a monster should be my lord? such a natural! Cal. Lo, lo, again! bite him to death, I pr'ythee. 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 pleas'd 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. 3[CALIBAN kneels. Enter ARIEL, invisible. Cal. As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant; a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island. Ari. Thou liest. Cal. Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou; I would, my valiant master would destroy thee: I do not lie. a Standard-bearer. с rupt the monster one word farther, and, by this Ste. Trinculo, run into no farther danger: interhand, I'll turn my mercy out of doors, and make a stock-fish of thee. Trin. Why, what did I? I did nothing. I'll go farther off. Ste. Didst thou not say, he lied? Ste. Do I so? take thou that. [Strikes him.] As you like this, give me the lie another time. and hearing too?-A pox o' your bottle! this can Trin. I did not give the lie.-Out o' your wits, and the devil take your fingers! sack, and drinking do.-A murrain on your monster, Cal. Ha, ha, ha! d Cal. Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him I' the afternoon to sleep: then thou may'st brain him, Having first seiz'd his books; or with a log Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, or cut his wezand with thy knife. Remember, First to possess his books; for without them He's but a sot, as I am, nor hath not One spirit to command: they all do hate him, As rootedly as I. Burn but his books; Which, when he has a house, he'll deck withal: He has brave utensils, (for so he calls them) And that most deeply to consider is The beauty of his daughter; he himself But only Sycorax my dam, and she ; Calls her a nonpareil: I never saw a woman, But she as far surpasseth Sycorax, As great'st does least. Ste. Is it so brave a lass? And bring thee forth brave brood. Cal. Ay, lord; she will become thy bed, I warrant, and I will be king and queen; (save our graces!) Ste. Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and Trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys.-Dost thou like the plot, Trinculo? Trin. Excellent. Thought is free. Cal. That's not the tune. [ARIEL plays the tune on a Tabor and Pipe. Ste. What is this same? Trin. This is the tune of our catch, played by the picture of No-body. Ste. If thou beest a man, show thyself in thy likeness: if thou beest a devil, take't as thou list. Trin. O, forgive me my sins! Ste. He that dies, pays all debts: I defy thee.Mercy upon us! Cal. Art thou afeard? Ste. No, monster, not I. Cal. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds, methought, would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I wak'd I cry'd to dream again. Ste. This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing. Cal. When Prospero is destroyed. Ste. That shall be by and by: I remember the story. Trin. The sound is going away: let's follow it, and after do our work. Ste. Lead, monster; we'll follow.-I would, I could see this taborer: he lays it on. Trin. Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano. [Exeunt. I needs must rest me. Alon. [tience Old lord, I cannot blame thee, Who am myself fattach'd with weariness, To the dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest. Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd, Whom thus we stray to find; and the sea mocks Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go. Ant. I am right glad that he's so out of hope. [Aside to SEBASTIAN. Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose That you resolv'd to effect. Seb. Will we take thoroughly. Ant. The next advantage Let it be to-night; For, now they are oppress'd with travel, they tions of salutations; and, inviting the King, &c., to eat, they depart.] Alon. What harmony is this? my good friends, hark! Gon. Marvellous sweet music! Alon. Give us kind keepers, heavens! 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 else want credit, come to me, And I'll be sworn 'tis true: travellers ne'er did lie, Though fools at home condemn them. If in Naples Gon. Who would believe that there were mountaineers 'Dew-lapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at them Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men, Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now, we Each putter-out of five for one will bring us [find, Good warrant of. m Alon. I will stand to, and feed, Although my last: no matter, since I feel The best is past.-Brother, my lord the duke, Stand to, and do as wc. Thunder and lightning. Enter ARIEL like a harpy, claps his wings upon the table, and, with a quaint device, the banquet vanishes. Ari. You are three men of sin, whom destiny (That hath to "instrument this lower world, And what is in't) the never-surfeited sea Hath caused to belch up, and on this island Where man doth not inhabit; you 'mongst men Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad;3 And even with such like valor men hang and drown Their proper selves. You fools! I and my fellows Are ministers of fate: the elements, [ALON., SEB., &c., draw their Swords. Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish One dowle that's in my plume: my fellow-ministers si. e., A puppet-show with living personages. Certainly. Wonder. A proverbial phrase, signifying, Do not be in haste to approve.-"Dew-lapp'd like bulls," an allusion, probably, to the disease of the goitre- i. c., Each traveller. ni. e., To play upon as an "instrument."- Feather. |