When I shall think, or Phœbus' steeds are To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy founder 'd, Or Night kept chain'd below. PROS. Enter ARIEL. broom-groves, Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves, ARI. What would my potent master? here Whose watery arch and messenger am I, I am. ARI. Before you can say 'come,' and 'go,' Till thou dost hear me call. ARI. Too much the rein: the strongest oaths are 71 Bids thee leave these; and with her sovereign Here, on this grass-plot, in this very place, CER. Hail, many-colour'd messenger, that ne'er Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter; me hither, to this short-grass'd green? Of her society 90 13 peonied and reedy (?) 16 woody 17 cleared slopes 18 bestow 19 Pluto (who carried off Proserpina) 6 illusion 19 surplusage 7 at once 11 nimbly 8 grimace (about the 12 coarse hay Be not afraid: I met her deity Some wanton charm upon this man and maid, And be a boy right out. JUNO. How does my bounteous sister? Go with me To bless this twain, that they may prosperous be, And honour'd in their issue. JUNO. [They sing Honour, riches, marriage-blessing, Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you! Juno sings her blessings on you. CER. Earth's increase, foison21 plenty, FER. This is a most majestic vision, and PROS. 110 Come, temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate 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. PROS. [Aside] I had forgot that foul conspiracy 140 Of the beast Caliban and his confederates FER. This is strange: your father's in some passion That works him strongly. MIR. Never till this day Saw I him touch'd with anger so distemper'd. PROS. You do look, my son, in a moved 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 fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, 150 Spirits, which by mine art 120 Leave not a rack25 behind. We are such stuff I have from their confines call'd to enact FER. Let me live here ever; So rare a wonder 'd father and a wise Makes this place Paradise. PROS. [JUNO and CERES whisper, and send IRIS on employment. Sweet, now, silence! Juno and Ceres whisper seriously; There's something else to do: hush, and be mute, Or else our spell is marr'd. IRIS. You nymphs, call'd Naiads, of the winding brooks, With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks, Leave your crisp22 channels, and on this green land 130 As dreams are made on;26 and our little life Be not disturbed with my infirmity: FER. MIR. 160 We wish you peace. [Exeunt. PROS. Come with a thought.27 I thank thee, Ariel: come. I thought to have told thee of it; but I fear'd Shall hoodwinkss this mischance: therefore Lest I might anger thee. speak softly. PROS. Say again, where didst thou leave All's hush'd as midnight yet. these varlets? 170 TRIN. Ay, but to lose our bottles in the ARI. I told you, sir, they were red-hot with pool,— drinking; 210 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 So full of valour that they smote the air Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses As they smelt music: so I charm'd their ears, That, calf-like, they my lowing follow'd through Tooth'd briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss,30 and thorns, 180 Which enter'd their frail shins: at last I left I' the filthy-mantled pool beyond your cell, PROS. CAL. Prithee, my king, be quiet. See 'st thou This is the mouth o' the cell: no noise, and Do that good mischief which may make this Thine own for ever, and I, thy Caliban, STE. Give me thy hand. I do begin to have bloody thoughts. 220 TRIN. O King Stephano! O peer! O worthy Stephano! look what a wardrobe here is for This was well done, my bird. thee! Thy shape invisible retain thou still: CAL. Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash. TRIN. O, ho, monster! we know what belongs to a frippery.34 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 230 To dote thus on such luggage? Let's alone,35 And do the murder first: if he awake, From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches, tracted, CAL. I will have none on 't: we shall lose His brother, and yours, abide all three disour time, And all be turn'd to barnacles, or to apes With foreheads villanous low. 250 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. Enter divers SPIRITS, in shape of dogs and hounds, hunting them about; PROSPERO and ARIEL setting them on. PROS. Hey, Mountain, hey! And the remainder mourning over them, His tears run down his beard, like winter's From eaves of reeds. Your charm so strongly works 'em, PROS. That if you now beheld them, your affections AR. Silver! there it goes, Silver! [CAL., STE., and TRIN. are driven out. Go charge my goblins that they grind their joints With dry convulsions; shorten up their sinews Than pard or cat o' mountain. Hark, they roar! 261 PROS. Let them be hunted soundly. At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies: Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou ACT V. SCENE I. [Exeunt. One of their kind, that relish all as sharply,3 Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art? Though with their high wrongs I am struck to Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury In virtue than in vengeance: they being peni- The sole drift of my purpose doth extend ARI. lakes, and groves; And ye that on the sands with printless foot 40 Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck'd up Some heavenly music,-which even now I do,— There I couch when owls do cry. Merrily, merrily shall I live now 90 PROS. Why, that's my dainty Ariel! I shall miss thee; Re-enter ARIEL before: then ALONSO, with a attended by ADRIAN and FRANCISCO: they A solemn air, and the best comforter stand, For you are spell-stopp'd. Holy Gonzalo, honourable man, There 61 Mine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine, Fall fellowly drops. The charm dissolves Under the hatches; the master and the boatswain Being awake, enforce them to this place, 100 And presently, I prithee. ARI. I drink the air before me, and return Or ere your pulse twice beat. [Erit. GON. All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us Behold, sir king, 110 Whether thou be 'st he or no, Or some enchanted trifle to abuse10 me, As late I have been, I not know: thy pulse Beats, as of flesh and blood; and, since I saw thee, Flesh The affliction of my mind amends, with which, You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, Expell'd remorse and nature; who, with Sebastian, Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong, Would here have kill'd your king; I do forgive thec, 80 Unnatural though thou art. Their understanding That yet looks on me, or would know me: Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell: ARIEL sings and helps to attire him. Where the bee sucks, there suck I: 7 sympathetic with s fully 9 shore of reason 10 deceive 12 prove 11 strange concoctions |