Which is from my remembrance! Please you, farther. Pros. My brother, and thy uncle, call'd Antonio, I pray thee, mark me,—that a brother should Be so perfidious!—he whom, next thyself, Pros. I pray thee, mark me. A falsehood, in its contrary as great A confidence sans 21 bound. He being thus lorded, But what my power might else exact,—like one," He was indeed the duke; out o' the substitution, 20. Trash for over-topping. These are sporting terms, the former meaning to check, stop, or correct a hound; the latter, outrunning the rest of the pack. Shakespeare often metaphorises thus, using technicalities in a figurative sense. He frequently, too, makes a nominative serve, unrepeated, through a long sentence; as in this speech, "thy uncle" (named in Prospero's previous speech) serves to govern the whole nar ration. 21. Sans. French, without. n. Like one, who having, unto truth, &c. This phrase, somewhat obscurely expressed, seems to mean, "One who, having long repeated a lie, sins against truth by forgetting it and believing his own falsehood instead." 23 Me, poor man, &c. Here "for" is understood before Pros. Now the condition. This King of Naples, being an enemy To me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit; Which was, that he, in lieu o' 27 the premises,Of homage, and I know not how much tribute,— Should presently extirpate me and mine Out of the dukedom, and confer fair Milan, With all the honours, on my brother: whereon, A treacherous army levied, one midnight Fated to the purpose, did Antonio open The gates of Milan; and, i' the dead of darkness, The ministers for the purpose hurried thence Me, and thy crying self. Mir. Alack, for pity! So dear the love my people bore me, nor set Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepar'd Mir. Was I then to you! Pros. Alack, what trouble Oh, a cherubin Mir. Heavens thank you for't! And now, I pray you, sir, For still 'tis beating in my mind,—your reason For raising this sea-storm? By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune— A most auspicious star, whose influence Which I dispers'd, they all have met again, Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd, Pros. Ariel, thy charge Exactly is perform'd: but there's more work. What is the time o' the day? Ari. Past the mid season. Pros. At least two glasses.43 The time 'twixt six and now Must by us both be spent most preciously. Thou know'st, was banish'd: for one thing she did, Pros. This blue-eyed 45 hag was hither brought with child, And here was left by the sailors. Thou, my slave, Ari. Is there more toil? Since thou dost give Into a cloven pine; within which rift me pains, Imprison'd, thou didst painfully remain. A dozen years; within which space she died, As fast as mill-wheels strike. Then was this island- Pros. Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban, thank thee, master. Pros. If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an 48. We cannot miss him. We cannot do without him; an expression still in provincial use. 49 Thou earth, thou! The terms in which Caliban is summoned suffice to proclaim the essence of his being. He is earthiness itself, grossly material; in elemental and entire contrast to Ariel. 50. When? An exclamation denoting impatience. 51. Wicked dew. "Wicked" is here used by Shakespeare as Spenser uses it in his expression "wicked weed," for baneful or harmful property. So, on the contrary, we still say the "virtues," or "virtuous" qualities in medicinal herbs and plants. 52. Urchins. An old name for hedgehogs; and also for evil sprites and mischievous fairies. That burn by day and night: and then I lov'd thee, Cursed be I that did so!-All the charms In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me For learning me your language! 57 Pros. Hag-seed, hence! Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou'rt best, To answer other business. Shrug'st thou, malice? If thou neglect'st, or dost unwillingly |