Ant. Why, in good time. Gon. Sir, we were talking that our garments seem now as fresh as when we were at Tunis at the marriage of your daughter, who is now queen. Ant. And the rarest that e'er came there. Seb. 'Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido. Ant. O, widow Dido; ay, widow Dido. Ant. The latter end of his commonwealth forget the beginning. Gon. All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foizon, all abundance, Gon. Is not, sir, my doublet as fresh as the first To feed my innocent people. day I wore it? I mean, in a sort. Ant. That sort was well fish'd for. Gon. When I wore it at your daughter's marriage? Alon. You cram these words into mine ears, against The stomach of my sense: 'Would I had never I ne'er again shall see her. O thou mine heir Sir, he may live; No, no, he's gone. Prithee, peace. [wise, Alon. Seb. You were kneel'd to, and importun'd otherBy all of us; and the fair soul herself Weigh &, between lothness and obedience, at Which end o'the beam she'd bow. We have lost your son, Very foul. Gon. Had I plantation of this isle, my lord,Ant. He'd sow 't with nettle-seed. Seb. Or docks, or mallows. Gon. And were the king of it, What would I do? Seb. 'Scape being drunk, for want of wine. Gon. I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things; for no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known: riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none: No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil: No occupation; all men idle, all; And women too; but innocent and pure: No sovereignty: Seb. Yet he would be king on t Seb. No marrying 'inong his subjects? Ant. None, man; all idle; whores and knaves. Gon. I would with such perfection govern, sir, To excel the golden age. Seb. 'Save his majesty! Ant. Long live Gonzalo! Gon. to me. Gon. I do well believe your highness; and did it to minister occasion to these gentlemen, who are of such sensible and nimble lungs that they always use to laugh at nothing. Ant. "T was you we laugh'd at. Gon. Who, in this kind of merry fooling, am nothing to you: so you may continue, and laugh at nothing still. Ant. What a blow was there given! Gon. You are gentlemen of brave mettle; you would lift the moon out of her sphere, if she would continue in it five weeks without changing. Enter ARIEL, invisible, playing solemn music. Seb. We would so, and then go a bat-fowling. Ant. Nay, good my lord, be not angry. Gon. No, I warrant you; I will not adventure my discretion so weakly. Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy? Ant. Go sleep, and hear us. [All sleep but ALON., SEB., and ANT. Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts: I find Alon. What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes They are inclined to do so. Seb. Please you, sir, Do not omit the heavy offer of it: Seb. Ant. He's gone. [me, Then, tell me, Who's the next heir of Naples? Seb. Claribel. Ant. She that is Queen of Tunis: she that dwells Ten leagues beyond man's life; she that from Naples Can have no note, unless the sun were post, [chins (The man i' the moon 's too slow,) till new-born Be rough and razorable; she, from whom We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again; And by that destiny to perform an act, Whereof what 's past is prologue; what to come, In yours and my discharge. Seb. What stuff is this?-How say you? T is true my brother's daughter 's Queen of Tunis: So is the heir of Naples; 'twixt which regions Their is some space. Ant. A space whose every cubit Seems to cry out, "How shall that Claribel Measure us back to Naples ?"-Keep in Tunis, And let Sebastian wake!-Say, this were death That now hath seized them; why, they were no Ant. True: And look how well my garments sit upon me; Much feater than before: My brother's servants Were then my fellows, now they are my men. Seb. But, for your conscience Ant. Ay, sir; where lies that? if 't were a kybe, "T would put me to my slipper: But I feel not This deity in my bosom; twenty consciences, That stand 'twixt me and Milan, candied be they, And melt, ere they molest! Here lies your brother, No better than the earth he lies upon, If he were that which now he 's like, that 's dead; Seb. Draw together; Seb. O, but one word. [They converse apart. Ari. My master through his art foresees the That you, his friend, are in; and sends me forth, While you here do snoring lie, His time doth take: If of life you keep a care, Shake off slumber, and beware; Ant. Then let us both be sudden. [They awake. Alon. Why, how now, ho! awake! Why are you drawn? Wherefore this ghastly looking? Gon. What's the matter? Seb. Whiles we stood here securing your repose, Even now, we heard a hollow burst of bellowing Like bulls, or rather lions; did it not wake you? It struck mine ear most terribly. Alon. I heard nothing. Ant. O, 't was a din to fright a monster's ear; To make an earthquake! sure it was the roar Of a whole herd of lions. Alon. Heard you this, Gonzalo? Gon. Upon mine honour, sir, I heard a humming, And that a strange one too, which did awake me: I shak'd you, sir, and cried; as mine eyes open'd, I saw their weapons drawn:-there was a noise, That's verity: 'T is best we stand upon our guard; Or that we quit this place: let's draw our weapons. Alon. Leal off this ground; and let's make further search For my poor son. Gon. Heavens keep him from these beasts! For he is, sure, i' the island. Alon. Ari. Prosperc my lord shall know what I have done: Lead away. [Aside. [Exeunt So, king, go safely on to seek thy son. SCENE II.-Another part of the Island. Enter CALIBAN, with a burthen of wood. A noise of thunder heard. Cal. All the infections that the sun sucks up Here comes a spirit of his; and to torment me, Trin. Here's neither bush nor shrub, to bear off any weather at all, and another storm brewing; I hear it sing i' the wind: yond' same black cloud, yon huge one, looks like a foul bumbard that would shed his liquor. If it should thunder as it did before, I know not where to hide my head: yond' same cloud cannot choose but fall by pail fuls. What have we here? a man or a fish? Dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of, not of the newest, Poor John. A strange fish! Were I in England now, (as once I was,) and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a man: any strange beast there makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legged like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm, o' my troth! I do now let loose my opinion, hold it no longer; this is no fish, but an islander, that hath lately suffered by a thunderbolt. [Thunder.] Alas! the storm is come again: my best way is to creep under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter him some relief, if it be but for that: If I can re cover him and keep him tame, and get to Naples with him, he's a present for any emperor that ever trod on neat's-leather. Cal. Do not torment me, prithee; I'll bring my wood home faster. Ste. He's in his fit now; and does not talk after the wisest. He shall taste of my bottle: if he have never drunk wine afore, it will go near to remove his fit: if I can recover him, and keep him tame, I will not take too much for him: he shall pay for him that hath him, and that soundly. Cal. Thou dost me yet but little hurt; thou wilt anon, I know it by thy trembling: Now thee. Prosper works upon Ste. Come on your ways; open your mouth: here is that which will give language to you, cat; open your mouth: this will shake your shaking, I can tell you, and that soundly: you cannot tell who 's your friend: open your chaps again. Trin. I should know that voice: It should be But he is drowned; and these are devils: O! defend me! Ste. Four legs, and two voices; a most delicate monster! His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend; his backward voice is to utter foul speeches, and to detract. If all the wine in my bottle will recover him, I will help his ague: Come-Amen! I will pour some in thy other mouth. Trin. Stephano, Ste. Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy! mercy! This is a devil, and no monster: I will leave him; I have no long spoon. Trin. Stephano!-if thou beest Stephano, touch me, and speak to me; for I am Trinculo;-be not afeard, thy good friend Trinculo. Ste. If thou beest Trinculo, come forth; I'll pull the by thee lesser legs: if any be Trinculo's legs, these are they. Thou art very Trinculo, indeed: How camest thou to be the siege of this moon-calf? Can he vent Trinculos? Trin. I took him to be killed with a thunderstroke-But art thou not drowned, Stephano? I hope I hid me under the dead moon-calf's hereabout: Misery acquaints a man with strange overblow, thou art not drowned. Is the storm bedfellows. I will here shroud till the dregs of the storm be past. Enter STEPHANO, singing, a bottle in his hand. Ste. I shall no more to sea, to sea, Here shall I die ashore; This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's funeral: Well, here's my comfort. [Drinks. The master. the swabber, the boatswain, and I, Lov'd Mall, Meg, and Marian, and Margery, For she had a tongue with a tang, She lov'd not the savour of tar nor of pitch, Cal. The spirit torments me: O! Ste. This is some monster of the isle, with four legs; who hath got, as I take it, an ague: Where the devil should he learn our language? I will give gaberdine, for fear of the storm: And art thou living, Stephano? O Stephano, two Neapolitans [is not constant. 'scaped! Ste. Prithee, do not turn me about; my stomach Cal. These be fine things, an if they be not sprites. That's a brave god, and bears celestial liquor: I will kneel to him. Ste. How didst thou 'scape? How camest thou hither? swear by this bottle, how thou camest hither. I escaped upon a butt of sack, which the sailors heaved overboard, by this bottle? which I made of the bark of a tree, with mine own hands, since I was cast ashore. Cal. I'll swear, upon that bottle, to be thy trus subject; for the liquor is not earthly. Ste. Here; swear then how thou escapedst. Trin. Swam ashore, man, like a duck; I can swim like a duck, I'll be sworn. Ste. Here, kiss the book: Though thou canst swim like a duck, thou art made like a goose. Trin. O Stephano, hast any more of this? Ste. The whole butt, man; my cellar is in a rock by the sea-side, where my wine is hid. How now, moon-calf? how does thine ague? Cal. Hast thou not dropped from heaven? the man in the moon, when time was. [thee; Cal. I have seen thee in her, and I do adore My mistress show'd me thee, and thy dog and bush. Ste. Come, swear to that; kiss the book; I will furnish it anon with new contents: swear. Trin. By this good light, this is a very shallow monster:-I afeard of him! a very weak monster: The man i' the moon!-a most poor credulous monster: Well drawn, monster, in good sooth. Cal. I show thee every fertile inch of the island; and I will kiss thy foot: I prithee, be my god. Trin. By this light, a most perfidious and drunken monster; when his god's asleep he 11 rob his bottle. [subject. Cal. I'll kiss thy foot: I'll swear myself thy Ste. Come on then; down and swear. Trin. I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster: a most scurvy monster! I could find in my heart to beat him,Ste. Come, kiss. Trin. —but that the poor monster 's in drink; an abominable monster! Cal. I'll show thee the best springs; I'll pluck thee berries; [ 11 fish for thee, and get thee wood enough. A plague upon the tyrant that I serve! I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee, Trin. A most ridiculous monster! to make a wonder of a poor drunkard. Cal. I prithee let me bring thee where crabs grow Ste. I prithee now, lead the way, without any more talking. Trinculo, the king and all our com pany else being drowned, we will inherit here.Here; bear my bottle. Fellow Trinculo, we l fill him by and by again. Cal. Farewell, master; farewell, farewell. Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness baseness Had never like executor. I forget: Pro. Poor worm! thou art infected; You look wearily. This visitation shows it. Mira. Fer. No, noble mistress; 't is fresh morning with me, When you are by at night. I do beseech you, (Chiefly, that I might set it in my prayers,) What is your name? Mira. Miranda :-O my father But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my With so full soul, but some defect in her labours; Most busy-less when I do it. Enter MIRANDA, and PROSPERO at a distance. Fer. Mira. If you ll sit down I'll bear your logs the while: Pray give me that; Fer. No, precious creature: I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, Mira. It would become me Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow'd, Mira. Mira. I am a fool, To weep at what I am glad of. Fair encounter Wherefore weep you? The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning! Fer. And I thus humble ever. My mistress, dearest, My husband then? Fer. Ay, with a heart as willing Till half-an-hour hence. Fer. A thousand! thousand! [Exit. SCENE II.-Another part of the Island. Enter STEPHANO and TRINCULO; CALIBAN following with a bottle. Ste. Tell not me;-when the butt is out we will drink water; not a drop before: therefore bear up, and board 'em: 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 any part, the sea cannot drown me: I swam, ers 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. 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 [shoe: beest a good moon-calf. Cal. How does thy honour? Let me lick thy 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, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I to-day? Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish, and half a monster? [my lord? Cal. Lo, how he mocks me! wilt thou let him, Trin. Lord, quoth he—that a monster should be such a natural! Cal. Lo, lo, again! bite him to death, I prithee. Ste. Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head, if you prove a mutineer, the next tree-The poor monster 's my subject, and he shall not suffer indignity. [pleas'd Wilt thou be Cal. I thank my noble lord. Enter ARIEL, invisible. Cal. As I told thee before, I am subject to a A sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me Ari. Thou liest. Cal. Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou; would my valiant master would destroy thee: I do not lie. Ste. Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in his tale, by this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth. Trin. Why, I said nothing. Ste. Mum then, and no more.-[To CALIBAN. Cal. I say, by sorcery he got this isle; Ste. That 's most certain. Cal. Thou shalt be lord of it, and I 'll serve thee Cal. What a pied ninny 's this! Thou scurvy Where the quick freshes are. 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 [further off. a stockfish of thee. Trin. Why, what did I? I did nothing; I'll go Ste. Do I so? take thou that. [Strikes him.] A 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. stand further off. Prithee Cal. Beat him enough; after a little time, Ste. Stand further.-Come, proceed. Having first seiz'd his books; or with a log, |