Good; yet remember whom thou hast aboard. s. None that I more love than myself. You are sellor; if you can command these elements to siand work the peace of the present, we will not rope more; use your authority. If you cannot, anks you have lived so long, and make yourself n your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so Cheerly, good hearts. Out of our way, I say. [Ex. 7 I have great comfort from this fellow: mehe hath no drowning mark upon him; his comis perfect gallows, Stand fast, good fate, to his Bata. Work you, then. at. Hang, cur, hang! you whoreson, in er, we are less afraid to be drowned th Gom. I'll warrant him from drowning up were no stronger than a nut-shell, a instanched wench. Bata. Lay her a-hold, a-hold; set he Enter Mariners wet. bring her to try with main-cours Lay her a-hold, a-hold; To lay a shi his destiny our cable, for e! If he be not born to be e. mast; yare; lower, lower; ourse.8 [A cry within.] A hey are louder than the wea NTONIO, and GONZALO. ere? Shall we give o'er, and Lo sink? ! you bawling, blasphemous, you whoreson, insolent noiseto be drowned than thou art. from drowning; though the an a nut-shell, and as leaky as a-hold; set her two courses; off. Mariners wet. yers, to prayers! all lost! with main-course.] Probably from " And when the barke Had way, we e the sea to our friend, and tried out all urse." Malone. in Smith's Sea Grammar, 1627, 4to. andle a ship in a Storme: "Let us lie rse; that is, to hale the tacke aboord, oling set up, and the helme tied close ns. 1; To lay a ship a-hold, is to bring her = she can, in order to keep clear of the sea. Steevens. ses; off to sea again,] The courses are ail. This term is used by Raleigh, in his Johnson. Holt has observed, should be pointed, Set sion occurs in Decker's If this be not a good 1612: " off with your Drablers and your courses." Steevens. Boats. What, must our mouths be cold? Gon. The king and prince at prayers! let us assist them, or our case is as theirs. his wide-chapped rascal;-'Would thou might'st lie he washing of ten tides! Gon. hough every drop of water swear against it, nd gape at wid'st to glut him.3 A confused noise within] Mercy on us! - We split, we plit!-Farewell, my wife and children!-Farewell, broer! We split, we split, we split! Ant. Let's all sink with the king. 2-merely] In this place, signifies absolutely; in which nse it is used in Hamlet, Act I. sc. iii : "Things rank and gross in nature "Possess it merely." gain, in Ben Jonson's Poetaster : 4 Mercy on us! &c. Farewell, brother ! &c.] All these nes have been hitherto given to Gonzalo, who has no brother in e ship. It is probable that the lines succeeding the confused Dise within should be considered as spoken by no determinate naracters. Johnson. The hint for this stage direction, &c. might have been received om a passage in the second book of Sidney's Arcadia, where the hipwreck of Pyrocles is described, with this concluding circumance: "But a monstrous cry, begotten of many roaring yoyces. . Let's take leave of him. Gn. Now would I give a thousand fu are of barren ground; long heath, t ting: the wills above be done! but I death. The island: before the cell of Enter PROSPERO and MI Mira. If by your art, my dearest fa Pro. $ But that the sea, &c.] So, in "The sea in such a storm as "In hell-black night endur' "And quench'd the stelled Thus in Chapman's version of th as if his waves woul "And put out all the sphe areer-] i. e. before. So "Or ever the silver cord be ken." Again, in our aut or e'er I could "Give him that parting Pro. No harm.] I kno make Miranda speak thus : O, woe the day! no har To which D of him. ve a thousand furlongs of sea for d; long heath, brown furze, any be done! but I would fain die a SCENE IL. efore the cell of Prospero. SPERO and MIRANDA. et, my dearest father, you have this roar, allay them: ould pour down stinking pitch, bunting to the welkin's "cheek, heat: Ms. 1632 O, I have suffer'd w suffer! a brave vessel, ome noble creatures in her, O, the cry did knock art! Poor souls! they perish'd. I of power, I would within the earth, or e'ers ship so have swallowed, and Is within her. ent: Tell your piteous heart, lone. &c.] So, in King Lear : ach a storm as his bare head night endur'd, would have buoy'd up, d the stelled fires." Malone. version of the 21st Iliad: s waves would drowne the skie, t all the sphere of fire." Steevens. before. So in Ecclesiastes, xii. 6: er cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be bro n, in our author's Cymbeline : 'er I could peak thus: ay! no harm? ero properly answers: nothing but in care of thee. she speaks the words, O, woe the day! supposes, -" is in all the old pr. Copies. Theobald first 9 "That hale more greater than Cassandra now." Steevens. - full poor cell,] i. e. a cell in a great degree of poverty. , in Antony and Cleopatra: “I am full sorry." Steevens. 1 Did never meddle with my thoughts.] i. e. mix with them. Το eddle is often used, with this sense, by Chaucer. Hence the bstantive medley. The modern and familiar phrase by which Lat of Miranda may be explained, is never entered my thoughtsver came into my head. Steevens. It should rather mean to interfere, to trouble, to busy itself, as ill used in the North, e. g. Don't meddle with me; i. e. Let me one; Don't molest me. Ritson. See Howell's Dict. 1660, in v. to meddle; "se mesler de." TEMPEST. lave, with such provision in mine art, So safely order'd, that there is no soulNi, not so much perdition as an hair, letid to any creature in the vessel Which thou heard'st cry, which thou s Sit down; for thou must now know further. Mira. Yo legun to tell me what I am; but stop and left me to a bootless inquisition; Concluding, Stay, not yet. Pro. The hou The very minute bids thee ope thin Obey, and be attentive. Can'st tho A time before we came unto this c I do not think thou can'st; for ther Out three years old. Mira. Certainly, -that there is no soul-] Thus t On their sustaining garments not And Gonzalo, The rarity of it is, the -not so as Betid to any creature in the ve much perdition mind St. Paul's hortatory speech assures them that, though they an hair should fall from the head Ariel afterwards says |