Utis, a merry festiva Utterance, a phrase in combat, extremity. W. Waft, to beckon. Wage, to fight, to combat, to prescribe to. Wages, is equal to. Waist, the part between the quarter-deck and the forecastle. Waist, the middle. Walk, a district in a forest. Watch, a watch-light. Waren, increase. Wealth, advantage, happiness. Wear, the fashion. Wee, little. Weeds, clothing. Ween, to think, to imagine. Weigh, to value or esteem, to deliberate. Welkin, the colour of the sky, blue. Well-found, of acknowledged excellence. Well-liking, plump, embonpoint. Wen, swollen excrescence. Wend, to go. Whelked, varied with protuber ances. Whe'r, whether. Where, whereas. Work, a term of fortification. Workings, labours of thought. Whiffler, an officer who walks World, to go to the, to be mar first in processions. Whiles, until. Whip, the crack, the best. White death, the chlorosis. Whiting-time, bleaching time, spring. Whitsters, the bleachers of linen. Whittle, a species of knife. Whooping, measure or reckoning. Wide, remotely from, wide of the mark. Wilderness, wildness. Witch, to charm, to bewitch. Wittol, knowing, conscious of. Woman, to affect suddenly and deeply. Woman-tired, hea pecked. Wondered, able to perform wonders. Wood, crazy, frantic. Woodman, an attendant on the forester. Woolward, a phrase appro priated to pilgrims and penitentiaries. Words, dispute, contention. ried. Worm, a serpent. Worship, dignity, authority. Wrest, an instrument for tuning the harp. Wrested, obtained by violence. Wrongs, the persons who wrong Y. Yarely, readily, nimbly. Yeild, to inform of, condescend to. Yeild, to reward. Yeoman, a bailiff's follower. Z. Zany, a buffoon, a merry andrew Other spirits attending on Prospero CALIBAN, a savage ani deformed slave.bete STEPHANO, a drunken butler. Master of a ship, Boatswain, and Mariners. SCENE,―The sea, with a Ship: afterwards an uninhabited Island. Boats Heigh, my hearts; cheerly, cheerly, my hearts; yare, yare: take in the top sail; Tend to we master's whistle. Blow till thou burst thy wind, if room enough! Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND, | Alon. Good Boatswain, have care. master? Play the men. Where's the Boats. I pray now, keep below. Boats. Do you not hear him? You mar our la bour; Keep your cabins: you do assist the storm. Gon. Nay, good. be patient. Gon. Good; yet remember whom thou hast aboard. Boats When the sea is. Hence! What care Boats. None that I more love than myself. You are a counsellor; if you can command these elements to silence, and work the peace of the present we will not hand a rope mole; use your authority. If you cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so hap-Cheerly, good hearts.-Out of our way, I say. [Exit. Gon. I have great comfort from this fellow : me thinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows. Stand fast, good fate, to his hanging! make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our own doth little advantage! If he be not born to be hanged our case is miserable. [Exeunt Re-enter Boatswain. Boats. Down with the topmast; yare; lower, lower; bring her to try with main-course. [A cry within.] A plague upon this howling! they are louder than the weather, to your oflice.- Re-enter SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, and GONZALO, Yet again? what do you here? Shall we give over these roarers for the name of king? To cabin: si-and drown? Have you a mind to sink? lence: trouble us not. Seb. A pox o' your throat! you bawling, blas phemous, incharitable dog! B Mar. All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost! [Exeunt. Boats. What, must our mouths be cold? Gon. The king and prince at prayers! let us assist them, For our case is as theirs. Seb. I am out of patience. Ant. We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards. This wide-chapped rascal; - 'Would, thou might'st lie drowning, The washing of ten tides! Gon. He'll be hanged yet; Though every drop of water swear against it, [A confused noise within.]—Mercy on us! We [Exit. Exit. Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA. Mira. If by your art, my dearest father, you have Pro. Lie there my art. - Wipe thou thine eyes; have comfort. The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd For thou must now know further. Mira. You have often Begun to tell me what I am; but stopp'd And left me to a bootless inquisition; Concluding, Stay, not yet. Pro. The hour's now come; And rather like a dream than an assurance That this lives in thy mind? What see'st thou else Mira. But that I do not. Pro. Twelve years since, Miranda, twelve years since, Thy father was the duke of Milan, and A prince of power. Mira. Sir, are not you my father? Pro. Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and She said -thou wast my daughter; and thy father Was duke of Milan; and his only heir A princess; no worse issued. I ther. Pro. My brother, and thy uncle, call'd Antonio, pray thee, mark me, — that a brother should Be so perfidious! -he whom, next thyself, Of all the world I lov'd, and to him put The manage of my state; as, at that ume, Through all the signiories it was the first, And Prospero the prime duke; being so reputed In dignity, and, for the liberal arts, Without a parallel: those being all my study, The government I cast upon my brother, And to my state grew stranger, being transported, And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle Dost thou attend me? Mira. Sir, most heedfully. Pro. Being once perfected how to grant suits, --Mira. Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. Pro. To have no screen between this part he play'd, And him he play'd it for, he needs will be Mira. O the heavens! Pro. Mark his condition, and the event; then tell me, If this might be a brother. I should sin Mira. To think but nobly of my grandmother : Good wombs have borne bad sons. Pro. Now the condition. The gates of Milan; and, i' the dead of darkness, Mira. Alack, for pity! (So dear the love my people bore me) nor set Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepar'd Mira. Was I then to you! Pro. Thou wast, that did preserve me! Thou didst smile, Infused with a fortitude from heaven, When I have deck'd the sea with drops full salt; Under my burden groan'd; which rais'd in me An undergoing stomach, to bear up Against what should ensue. Mira. How came we ashore ? Pro. By Providence divine. Some food we had, and some fresh water, that Out of his charity (who being then appointed 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, | Remember, I have done thee worthy service; Perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee? I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak, But was not this nigh shore Why, that's my spirit! Close by, my master. Not a hair perish'd; Of the king's ship Whom, with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour, Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd, Pr. Ariel, thy charge Exactly is perform'd; but there's more work : What is the time o' the day? Past the mid season. Art. and now, Must by us both be spent most preciously. Pro. Thou dost; and think'st Ari. I do not, sir. Pro. Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot Robin one envy, The foul witch Sycorax, who, with Thou hast: Where was she born? Pro. This blue-ey'd hag was hither brought with And here was left by the sailors: Thou, my slave, groans, As fast as mill-wheels strike: Then was this island, Ari. Yes; Caliban her son. Ari. Ari. Is there more toil? Since thou dost give Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters. Let me remember thee what thou hast promis'd, Which is not yet perform'd me. |