I am a fool, To weep at what I am glad of. ') Fair encounter The bigger bulk it shews. Hence, bashful cunning! If not, I'll die your maid; to be your fellow 10) And I thus humble ever. My mistress, dearest, My husband then? Fer. Ay, with a heart as willing As bondage e'er of freedom: here's my hand. Mira. And mine with my heart in't: 1) And now farewell, Ste. Tell not me; when the butt is out, we will drink water; not a drop before: therefore bear up, and board 'em: 13) 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 standard. Trin. Your lieutenant, if you list; he's no standard, 14) 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 honour? 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 deboshed fish thou, 15) was there ever a man a coward, that hath drunk so much sack as I to-day? Wilt thou tell a Cal. I say, by sorcery he got this isle; From me he got it. If thy greatness will Revenge it on him for, I know, thou dar'st; But this thing dare not. Ste. That's most certain. Cal. Thou shalt be lord of it, and I'll serve thee. Ste. How now shall this be compassed? Canst thou bring me to the party? Cal. Yea, yea, my lord; I'll yield him thee asleep, Where thou may'st knock a nail into his head. Ari. Thou liest, thou canst not. Cal. What a pied ninny's this? 8) Thou scurvy patch! And take his bottle from him: when that's gone, Ste. Trinculo, run into no further danger: interrupt the monster one word further, and, by this hand, 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 further 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. Trin. I did not give the lie: - Out o' your wits, and hearing too? A pox o' your bottle! this can sack, and drinking do. - A murrain on your monster, and the devil take your fingers! Cal. Ha, ha, ha! Ste. Now, forward with your tale. Pr'ythee stand further off. Cal. Beat him enough: after a little time, I'll beat him too. One spirit to command: They all do hate him, Ste. Is it so brave a lass? Cal. Ay, my lord; she will become thy bed, I warrant, And bring thee forth brave brood. Ste. Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and I will be king and queen; (save our graces!) and Trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys: - Dost thou like the plot, Trinculo? Trin. Excellent. Ste. Give me thy hand; I am sorry I beat thee: but, while thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head. Cal. Within this half hour will he be asleep; Wilt thou destroy him then? Ste. Ay, on mine honour. Ari. This will I tell my master. Cal. Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; Let us be jocund: Will you troll the catch 21) You taught me but while-ere? Ste. At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any reason: Come on, Trinculo, let us sing. Flout 'em, and skout 'em; and skout 'em, Thought is free. Cal. That's not the tune. [Sings. Through forth-rights and meanders! by your patience, [Aside to SEBASTIAN. Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose I say, to-night: no more. Solemn and strange Musick; and PROSPERO above, invisible. Enter several strange Shapes, bringing in a Banquet; they dance about it with gentle actions of salutation; and inviting the King, &c. to eat, they depart. Alon. What harmony is this? my good friends, hark! Gon. Marvellous sweet musick! Alon. Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these? Seb. A living drollery: 27) Now I will believe, That there are unicorns; that, in Arabia There is one tree, the phoenix' throne; 28) 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. Gon. If in Naples I should report this now, would they believe me? If I should say, I saw such islanders, (For, certes, 29) these are people of the island,) Ste. He that dies, pays all debts: I defy thee:- Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet, note, Mercy upon us! Cal. Art thou afeard? 23) 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 sometime 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 shew 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 musick 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. 24) [Exeunt. SCENE III. Another part of the Island. Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others. Gon. By'r lakin, 25) I can go no further, sir; My old bones ache: here's a maze trod, indeed, Their manners are more gentle-kind, 3") than of Pro. Honest lord, Thunder and lightning. Enter ARIEL like a harpy ; Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well One dowle that's in my plume; 39) my fellow-ministers He vanishes in thunder: then to soft musick, enter the|| Pro. [aside.] Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou And these, mine enemies, are all knit up In their distractions: they now are in my power; [Exit PROSPERO from above. O, it is monstrous! monstrous! [Exit. But one fiend at a time, I'll be thy second. ACT IV. SCENE I. Before Prospero's Cell. Fer. Against an oracle. I do believe it, Pro. Then, as my gift, and thine own acquisition Enter ARIEL. Ari. What would my potent master? here I am. Pro. Aye, with a twink. Presently? Ari. Before you can say, Come, and go, Will be here with mop and mowe; Pro. Dearly, my delicate Ariel: Do not approach, Pro. Well. Now come, my Ariel: bring a corollary, 8) Follow, I pray you. [Exeunt. || Rather than want a spirit: appear, and pertly.— A Masque. Enter IRIS. Iris. Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats, and pease; Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatch'd with stover, 10) them to keep; Thy banks with peonied and lilied brims, 11) Which spongy April at thy hest betrims, To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broom groves, 12) Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves, Enter CERES. Cer. Hail, many-colour'd messenger, that ne'er Cer. Iris. Of her society Be not afraid; I met her deity Cutting the clouds towards Paphos; and her son Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows, Enter JUNO. Jun. How does my bounteous sister? Go with me, To bless this twain, that they may prosperous be, And honour'd in their issue. Song. Jun. Honour, riches, marriage-blessing, Cer. Earth's increase, and foison plenty, 17) Vines, with clust ring bunches growing; Scarcity, and want, shall shun you; Pro. Spirits, which by mine art I have from their confines call'd to enact My present fancies. Fer. Let me live here ever; So rare a wonder'd father, 18) and a wife, [JUNO and CERES whisper, and send IRIS on employment. Iris. You nymphs, call'd Naiads, of the wand'ring brooks, 19) With your sedg'd crowns, and ever-harmless looks, Enter certain Nymphs. You sun-burn'd sicklemen, of August weary, Enter certain Reapers, properly habited; they join [to the Spirits.] Well done; avoid; no more. Fer. This is most strange: 21) your father's in some passion 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: And, like the baseless fabrick of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, 22) shall dissolve; And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, 23) Leave not a rack behind: 2+) We are such stuff As dreams are made of, 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: - If you be pleas'd, retire into my cell, come. Enter ARIEL. Ari.Thy thoughts I cleave to:25) what's thy pleasure? Pro. Say again, where did'st thou leave these varlets? For kissing of their feet; yet always bending Which enter'd their frail shins: at last I left them Pro. This was well done, my bird; Thy shape invisible retain thou still: The trumpery in my house, go, bring it hither, For stale to catch these thieves. 28) Ari. I go, I go. [Exit. Pro. A devil, a born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick;29) on whom my pains, Humanely taken, all, all lost, 30) quite lost: And as, with age, his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers: 31) I will plague them all, Re-enter ARIEL loaden with glistering Apparel, &c. Even to roaring:—Come, hang them on this line. PROSPERO and ARIEL remain invisible. Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO and TRINCULO, all wet. Cal. Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not Hear a foot fall: 32) we now are near his cell. Ste. Monster, your fairy, which, you say, is a harmless fairy, has done little better than played the Jack with us. 33) Trin. Monster, I do smell all horse-piss; at which my nose is in great indignation. Ste. So is mine. Do you hear, monster? If I should take a displeasure against you; look you, Trin. 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 Shall hood-wink this mischance: therefore, speak softly, All's hush'd as midnight yet. Trin. 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. Pr'ythee, my king, be quiet: Seest 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 bloody thoughts. Trin. O king Stephano! O peer! O worthy Stephano! look, what a wardrobe here is for thee!34) Cal. Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash. Trin. O, ho, monster; we know what belongs to a frippery: 35) 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, 36) And do the murder first: if he awake, From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches; Make us strange stuff. this Ste. Be you quiet, monster. Mistress line, is not my jerkin? Now is the jerkin under the line: 37) 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 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 garment for't. Trin. Monster, come, put some lime 3) 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 39) With foreheads villainous low. 49) Ste. Monster, lay-to your fingers; help to bear this away, where my hogshead of wine is, or I'll turn you out of my kingdom: go to, carry this. Trin. And this. Ste. Ay, and this. A noise of Hunters heard. 41) Enter divers Spirits, in shape of hounds, and hunt them about. PROSPERO and ARIEL, setting them on. Pro. Hey, Mountain, hey! Ari. Silver! there it goes, Silver! Pro. Fury, Fury! there, Tyrant, there! hark, hark! [CAL. STE. and TRIN. are driven out. Go, charge my goblins that they grind their joints With dry convulsions; shorten up their sinews With aged cramps; and more pinch-spotted make them, Than pard, or cat o'mountain. Ari. Hark, they roar. Pro. Let them be hunted soundly: At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies: Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou Shalt have the air at freedom: for a little, Follow, and do me service. ACT V. [Exeunt. In the same fashion as you gave in charge; That if you now beheld them, your affections Pro. Dost 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 4) Of their afflictions? and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, 5) 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 |