Now come, my Ariel: bring a corollary, Iris. Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich lease To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broom groves, Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves, Bids thee leave these; and with her sovereign grace, Jun. Honour, riches, marriage-blessing, In the very end of harvest! Scarcity and want shall shun you; Fer. This is a most majestic vision, and Pro. Spirits, which by mine art I have from their confines called to enact You sun-burn'd sicklemen, of August weary, 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 heavily vanish. Pro. [aside.] I had forgot that foul conspiracy Fer. This is most strange: your father's in some That works him strongly. Mira. Bear with my weakness; my old brain is troubled. If you be pleas'd, retire into my cell, Fer. Mira. We wish your peace. [Exeunt. Pro. Come with a thought: I thank you: — Ariel, come. Pro. Say again, where didst thou leave these vorlets? Ari. I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking: So full of valour, that they smote the air For breathing in their faces; beat the ground ears, Advanc'd their eye-lids, lifted up their noses, Which enter'd their frail shins: at last I left them Pro. This was well done, my bird; Thy shape invisible retain thou still : Ari. Cal. Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not Hear a foot fall: 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. 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 cars for my labour. Cal. Prythee, 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! Cal. Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash. Trin. O, ho, monster; we know what betongs 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, From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches ; 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 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 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. ACT V. In the same fashion as you gave in charge; In the lime-grove which weather-fends your cell; That if you now beheld them, your affections My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, groves; And ye, that on the sands with printless foot Re-enter ARIEL: after him, ALONSO, with a frantick gesture, attended by GONZALO; SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO in like manner, attended by ADRIAN and FRANCISCO: they all enter the circle which PROSPERO had made, and there stand charmed; which PROSPERO observing, speaks. A solemn air, and the best comforter Now useless, boil'd within thy skull! There stand, C Mine eyes, even sociable to the shew of thine, Let me embrace thine age; whose honour cannot Be measur'd, or confin'd. Gon. Or be not, I'll not swear. Pro. First, noble friend, Whether this be, You do yet taste Some subtilties o' the isle, that will not let you Believe things certain :- - Welcome, my friends all: To him thou follow'st; I will pay thy graces blood, You brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, [Exit ARIEL. I will dis-case me, and myself present, ARIEL re-enters, singing, and helps to attire PROSPERO. ARI. Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie : There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily: Merrily, merrily, shall 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.- Ari. I drink the air before me, and return [Exit ARIEL. O 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 Where my son lies. When did you lose your daugh ter? Pro. In this last tempest. I perceive, these lords At this encounter do so much admire, That they devour their reason; and scarce think Their eyes do offices of truth, their words Are natural breath: but, howsoe'er you have Been justled from your senses, know for certain, That I am Prospero, and that very duke Which was thrust forth of Milan; who most strangely Upon this shore, where you were wreck'd, was landed, To be the lord on't. No more yet of this; For 'tis a chronicle of day by day, Not a relation for a breakfast, nor Befitting this first meeting. Welcome, sir; The entrance of the Cell opens, and discovers FER- Mira. Sweet lord, you play me false. Fer. I would not for the world. No, my dearest love, wrangle, Mira. Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should | Is tight, and yare, and bravely rigg'd, as when And I would call it fair play. Alon. A vision of the island, one dear son Shall I twice lose. If this prove Aside. Alon. These are not natural events; they strengthen, From strange to stranger:- Say, how came you hither? Boats. If I did think, sir, I were well awake, I'd strive to tell you. We were dead of sleep, And (how, we know not,) all clapp'd under hatches, Where, but even now, with strange and several noises Of roaring, shrieking, howling, gingling chains, And more diversity of sounds, all horrible, We were awak'd; straitway, at liberty: Where we, in all her trim, freshly beheld Our royal, good, and gallant ship; our master Capering to eye her: On a trice, so please you, Even in a dream, were we divided from them, And were brought moping hither. Ari. Was't well done? There are yet missing of your company Ste. Every man shift for all the rest, and let n man take care for himself; for all is but fortune: 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 He will chastise me. Seb. Ha, ha; What things are these, my lord Antonio! Ant. Very like; one of them Is a plain fish, and, no doubt, marketable. Pro. Mark but the badges of these men, my lords, Then say, if they be true: This mis-shapen knave, His mother was a witch; and one so strong Cal. |