Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices,
That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought.would open, and show riches
Ready to drop upon me; that, when I wak'd,
I cry'd to dream again.

Ste. This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing.

Cal. When Prospero is destroyed.

Sie. That shall be by and by: I remember the story.

Trin. The sound is going away: let's follow it, and after, do our work.

S'e. Lead, monster; we'll follow. I would I could see this taborer: he lays it on.

Trin. Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano. [Exeunt.
SCENE III-Another part of the Island.
Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO,
ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others.

Gon. By'r lakin, I can go no further, sir;
My old bones ache: here's a maze trod, indeed,
Through forth-rights, and meanders! by your pa-
tience.

I needs must rest me.
Alim.
Old lord, I cannot blame thee,
Who am myself attach'd with weariness,
To the dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
Ever, here I will put off my hope, and keep it
No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd,
Whom thus we stray to find; and the sea mocks
Our frustrate search on land: well, let him go.
Ant. I am right glad that he's so out of hope.
[Avile to SEBASTIAN.
Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose
That you resolv'd to effect.
Seb.

Will we take thoroughly.
Ant.

The next advantage

Let it be to-night;

For, now they are oppress'd with travel, they
Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance,
As when they are fresh.
Seb.
I say, to-night: no more.
Solemn and strange Music; and PROSPERO alore.
invisible. Enter several strange Shapes, bring
ing in a Banquet; they dance about it with
gentle actions of salutation; and, inviting the
King, &. to eat, they depart.

Alon. What harmony is this? my good friends,
hark!

Gon. Marvelous sweet music!

Alon. Give us kind keepers, heavens! What
were these?

Seb. A living drollery: Now I will believe,
That there are unicorns: that in Arabia
There is one tree, the phoenix' throne; one phoenix
At this hour reigning there.

I'll believe both;
And what does else want credit, come to me,
And I'll be sworn 'tis true: Travelers ne'er did lie,
Though fools at home condemn them.
G01.

If in Naples
I should report this now, would they believe me?
If I should say I saw such islanders,
For, certes. these are people of the island,)
Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet, note,
Their minners are more gentle-kind, than of
Jur human generation you shall find

Many, nay, almost any.

Pro.

Honest lord,

Thou hast said well for some of you there present tre worse than devils.

Our lady

[Aside.

• Show.

Alon.

2.

Such shapes, such gestures, and such sound, ex
I cannot too much muse
pressing

(Although they want the use of tongue) a kind
Of excellent dumb discourse.
Pro.
Praise in departing

Fran. They vanish'd strangely.
Seb.

Asile. No matter, since

They have left their viands behind; for we have stomachs.

Will't please you taste of what is here?

Abon.

Not 1.

Gon. Faith, sir, you need not fear: When we

were boys,

at them

Dew-lapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging
Who would believe that there were mountaineers,
Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men,
Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now
we find,

Each putter-out on five for one, will bring us
Good warrant of.
Alon.
I will stand to, and feed,
The best is past:
Although my last: no matter, since I feel
Brother, my lord the duke,
Stand to, and do as we.

Thunder and lightning. Enter ARIEL like a
harpy; claps his wings upon the table, and,
with a quaint device, the banquet vanishes.
Ari. You are three men of sin, whom destiny
(That hath to instrument this lower world,
And what is in't.) the never-surfeited sea
Hath caused to belch up; and on this island
Where man doth not inhabit; you 'mongst men
Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad:
[Seeing ALON., SEB., &. draw their swords.
And even with such like valor, men hang and.
Their proper selves.
drown
You fools! I and my fellows
Are ministers of fate; the elements
Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well
Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs
Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish
One dowle that's in my plume; my fellow-ministers
Are like invulnerable: if you could hurt,
Your swords are now too massy for your strengths,
And will not be uplifted: But remember,
(For that's my business to you,) that you three
From Milan did supplant good Prospero;
Expos'd unto the sea, which hath requit it,
Him, and his innocent child; for which foul deed
The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have
Incens'd the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
Against your peace: Thee of thy son, Alonso,
They have bereft! and do pronounce by me,
Lingering perd tion (worse than any death
Can be at once) shall step by step attend
You, and your ways; whose wrath to guard you

from

(Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls Upon your heads,) is nothing, but heart's sorrow, And a clear life ensuing.

He vanishes in thunder: then, to soft music, enter the Shapes again, and dance with mops and mowes, and curry out the table.

Pro. Asite. Bravely the figure of this harpy
hast thou

Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring:
Of my instruction hast thou nothing 'bated,
In what thou hadst to say: so, with good life,
And observation strange, my meaner ministers
Their several kinds have done: my high charms
work,

And these, mine enemies, are all knit up
In their distractions: they now are in my power
And in these fits I leave them, whilst I visit
Young Ferdinand. (whom they suppose is drown`d,)
And his and my lov'd darling.

SCENE I. Before Prospero's Cell.
Enter PROSPERO, FERDINAND, and MIRANDA.
Pro. If I have too austerely punish'd you,
Your compensation makes amends; for I
Have given you here a thread of mine own life,
Or that for which I live; whom once again
I tender to thy hand; all thy vexations
Were but my trials of thy love, and thou

Hast strangely stood the test: here, afore heaven,
I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand,
Do not smile at me, that I boast her off,
For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise,
And make it halt behind her.

Fer.

Against an oracle.

I do believe it,

Pro. Then, as my gift, and thine own acquisition
Worthily purchas'd, take my daughter: But
If thou dost break her virgin knot before
All sanctimonious ceremonies may
With full and holy rites be minister'd.
No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall
To make this contract grow; but barren hate,
Sour-ey'd disdain, and discord, shall bestrew
The union of your bed with weeds so loathly,
That you shall hate it both: therefore, take heed,
As Hymen's lamps shall light you.
Fer.

As I hope
For quiet days, fair issue, and long life,
With such love as 'tis now; the murkiest den,
The most opportune place, the strongest suggestion

Now come, my Ariel; bring a corollary
Rather than want a spirit: appear, and pertly.-
No tongue; all eyes; be silent. [Soft music
A Masque. Enter IRIS

Iris. Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas
Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats, and peas;
Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,
And flat meads thatch'd with stover, them to keep;
Thy banks with peonied and lillied brims,
Which spongy April at thy hest betrims,
To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy
broom groves,

Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,
Being lass-lorn; thy pole-clipt vineyard;
Where thou thyself dost air: The queen o' the sky,
And thy sea-marge, steril, and rocky-hard,
Whose wat ry arch, and messenger, am I,
Bids thee leave these; and with her sovereign grace,
Here, on this grass-plot, in this very place,
To come and sport: her peacocks ily amain;
Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.

Enter CERES.

Cer. Hail, many-colored messenger, that ne'er Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter; Who, with thy saffron wings, upon my flowers Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers; And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown My bosky acres, and my unshrubb'd down, Rich scarf to my proud earth; Why hath thy queen Our worser Genius can, shall never melt Summon'd me hither, to this short-grass'd green? Mine honor into lust; to take away Iris. A contract of true love to celebrate; The edge of that day's celebration, And some donation freely to estate When I shall think, or Phœbus' steeds are foun- On the bless'd lovers.

der'd,

Or night kept chair'd below.

Pro.

Fairly spoke:

Sit then, and talk with her, she is thine own.-
What, Ariel; my industrious servant Ariel!

Enter ARIEL.

Ari. What would my potent master? here I am.
Pro. Thou and thy meaner fellows your last ser-
vice

Did worthily perform; and I must use you
In such another trick: go, bring the rabble,
O'er whom I give thee power, here to this place:
Incite them to quick motion; for I must
Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple
Some vanity of mine art; it is my promise,
And they expect it from me.

Ari.

Pro. Ay, with a twink.

Presently?

Ari. Before you can say. Come, and go,
And breathe twice; and cry, 80, 80 ;
Each one tripping on his toe,

Will be here with mop and mowe;

Do you love me, master? no.

Pro. Dearly, my delicate Ariel: do not approach,
Till thou dost hear me call.
Ari.
Well I conceive. [Exit.
Pro. Look, thou be true; do not give dalliance
Too much the rein; the strongest oaths are straw
To the fire i the blood: be more abstemious,
Or else, good night, your vow!

Ver.

I warrant you, sir;
The white-cold virgin snow upon my heart
Abates the ardor of my liver.

Sprinkling.

So rare a wonder'd father and a wife,
Make this place paradise.

23

Ari. I told you, sir, they were red hot with drinking:

So full of valor, that they smote the air

For breathing in their faces: beat the ground
For kissing of their feet; yet always bending
Toward their project: Then I beat my tabor,
At which, like unback'd colts, they prick'd their ears,
Advanc'd 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, and
thorns,

Which enter'd their frail shins; at last I left them
I' the filthy mantled pool beyond your cell,
There dancing up to the chins, that the foul lake
O'er-stunk their feet.
This was well done, my bird
Thy shape invisible retain thou still:

Pro.

[JUNO and CERES whisper, and send IRIS The trumpery in my house, go, bring it hither,
m employment.

Pro.
Juno and Ceres whisper seriously;
Sweet now, silence:
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 wan-
d'ring brooks,

With your sedg'd crowns, and ever harmless looks,
Leave your crisp channels, and on this green land
Answer your summons; Juno does command:
Come, temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate
A contract of true love; be not too late.

Enter certain Nymphs.

You sunburn'd sicklemen, of August weary,
Come hither from the furrow, and be merry;
Make holy-day: your rye-straw hats put on,
And these fresh nymphs encounter every one
In country footing.

Enter certain Reapers, properly habited: they join
with the Nymphs in a graceful dance; toward
the end whereof PROSPERO starts suddenly and
speaks; after which, to a strange, hollow, and
confuset noise, they heavily vanish.

Pro, [Aside.] 1 had forgot that foul conspiracy

Of the beast Caliban, and his confederates,
Against my life; the minute of their plot

Is almost come.-\To the Spirits.] Well done;-
avoid; no more.

Fer. This is most strange: your father's in some passion

That works him strongly.

Mira.

Saw I him touch'd with anger so distemper d.
Never till this day,
Pro. You do look, my son, in a mov'd 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 biseless 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,
Leave not a rack behind: We are such stuff
As dreams are made of, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vex'd;
Bear with my weakness: my old brain is troubled.
Be not disturb'd with my infirmity:

If you be pleas'd, retire into my cell,

And there repose; a turn or two I'l walk,
To still my beating mind,
Fer. Mira.

We wish you peace.

Exeunt.

Pro. Come with a thought:-I thank you :-
Ariel, come.

Enter ARIEL.

For stale to catch these thieves.
Ari.

go,

Pro. A devil, a born devil, on whose nature
T go. [Exit.
Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains,
Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost;
And as, with age, his body uglier grows,
So his mind cankers: I will plague them all,
Re-enter ARIEL, loaden with glistering apparel,
Even to roaring: - Come, hang them on this line.
PROSPERO and ARIEL remain invisible. Enter
CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO, all wet.
Cal. Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole
may not

&c.

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.

which my nose is in great indignation.
Trin. Monster, I do smell all horse-piss, at

should take a displeasure against you; look you,-
Ste. So is mine. Do you hear, monster? If I
Trin. Thou wert but a lost monster.

Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to
Cal. Good my lord, give me thy favor still:

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's not only disgrace and dishonor 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 ears for my labor.

Cul. Prythee. my king, be quiet: Seest thou here, This is the mouth of 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 belongs to

-

a frippery 90 king Stephano!

Sie. 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
And do the murder first: if he awake,
From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches
Make us strange stuff.

Ste. Be you quiet, monster.- - Mistress line, is

Art. Thy thoughts I cleave to; What's thy plea- not this my jerkin? Now is the jerkin under the sure?

Pro.

Spirit,

We must prepare to meet with Caliban.

Ari. Ay, my commander: when I presented
Ceres,

I thought to have told thee of it; but I fear'd,
Lesti might anger thee.

Pro, Say again, where didst thou leave these
variets?

•Able to produce such wonders

line: now, jerkin, you are like to lose your hair,
and prove a bald jerkin.

like your grace.
Trin. Do, do: We steal by line and level, a'nt

Ste. I thank thee for that jest; here's a garment for't: wit shall not go unrewarded, while I am king cellent pass of pate; there's another garment for't of this country: Sleat by line and level, is an ex

Bait.

Education. Jack with a lantern.
A shop for sale of old clothes.

TEMPEST.

Trin Monster, come, put some lime1 upon your
fingers, and away with the rest.

Ca'. 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.

Ste. Monster, lay-to your fingers; help to bear
this away, where my hogshead of wine is, or I'll
turr you out of my kingdom; go to, carry this.
Frin. And this.

Ste. Ay, and this.

A noise of hunters heard. Enter divers Spirits, in
shape of hounds, and hunt then about; PROS-
PERO and ARIEL setting them on.
Pro. Hey, Mountain, hey!

ACT V.

Ari. Silver! there it
Pro. Fury! Fury! there, Tyrunt, there! hark,
goes, Silver!
hark!
CAL., STE., and TRIN. are driven out.
With dry convulsions; shorten up their sinews
Go, charge my goblins that they grind their joints
With aged cramps; and more pinch-spotted make
them,

Than pard, or cat o' mountain.
Lie at my mercy all mine enemies:
Ari.
Shortly shall all my labors end, and thou
Pro. Let them be hunted soundly: at this hour
Hark, they roar.
Shalt have the air at freedom: for a little,
Follow, and do me service.

[Exeunt

SCENE 1.

ACT V.

Before the Cell of Prospero.

Enter PROSPERO in his magic robes, and ARIEL.
Pro. Now does my project gather to a head:
My charms crack not: my spirits obey; and time
Goes upright with his carriage. How's the day?
Ari. On the sixth hour; at which time, my lord,

You said our work should cease.
Pro.

When first I rais'd the tempest.
How fares the king and his!

Ari.

Say, my spirit,
I did say so.

Confin'd together

In the same fashion as you gave in charge;
Just as you left them, sir; all prisoners
In the lime-grove which weather-fends your cell;
They cannot budge, till you release.
His brother, and yours, abide all three distracted;
The king,
And the remainder mourning over them,
Brim-full of sorrow and dismay; but chiefly
Him you term'd, sir, The good old lord, Gonzalo;
His tears run down his beard, like winter's drops
From eaves of reeds: your charm so strongly works
them,

That if you now beheld them, your affections
Would become tender.

Pro.

Ari. Mine would, sir, were I human.
Dost thou think so, spirit?
Pro.
Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling
And mine shall.
Of their afflictions? and shall not myself.
One of their kind, that relish all as sharply
Passion as they, be kindlier mov'd than thou art?
Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the
quick,

Yet, with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury
Do I take part the rarer action is

In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,
The sole drift of my purpose doth extend
Not a frown further: Go, release them. Ariel;
My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore,
And they shall be themselves.
Ari.

I'll fetch them. sir.
Pro. Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes,
Eri.
and groves;

And ye, that on the sands with printless foot
Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him,
When he comes back; you demi-puppets, that
By moon-shine do the green-sour ringlets make,
Whereof the ewe not bites; and you, whose pastime
Is to make midnight-mushrooms; that rejoice
To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid
(Weak masters though you be I have be-tim'n'd
The noon-tide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,
And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault
Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder
Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak
With his own bolt: the strong-bas'd promontory
Have I made shake; and by the spurs pluck'd up
The pine, and cedar graves, at my command.
Have wak'd their sleepers; oped, and let them forth|
By my so potent art: But this rough magic
I here abjure: and, when I have requir'd
Some heaven.y music, (which even now I do.)
Defends from bad weather.

■ Bird-lime.

Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
To work mine end upon their senses, that
This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound,
I'll drown my book.
[Solemn Music.

Re-enter ARIEL: cfler him ALONSO, with a frantic
gesture, attendel 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, boiled within thy skull! There stand,
To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains,
For you are spell-stopp'd.

Holy Gonzalo, honorable man,

Mine eyes, even sociable to the shew of thine,
And as the morning steals upon the night,
rall fellowly drops.— The charm dissolves apace;
Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
Melting the darkness, so their rising senses
Their clearer reason.-O my good Gonzalo,
My true preserver, and a loyal sir

Home both in word and deed. Most cruelly
To him thou follow'st; I will pay thy graces
Thy brother was a furtherer in the act; --
Didst thou, Alonso, use me and my daughter.
Thou'rt pinch'd for't now, Sebastian.-Flesh and
blood,

You brother mine. that entertain'd ambition,
(Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong,)
Expell'd remorses and nature; who, with Sebastian,
Would here have kill'd your king; I do forgive thee,
Unnatural though thou art!-The runderstanding
Will shortly fill the reasonable shores,
Begins to swell; and the approaching tide

That now lie foul and muddy. Not one of them,
That yet looks on me, or would know me:—Ariel,
Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell;

I will dis-case me, and my self present,
Exit ARIEL.
Thou shalt ere long be free.
As I was sometime Milan:- - quickly, spirit:

ARIEL re-enters, singing, and helps to attire
PROSPERO.

Ari. Where the bee sucks, there suck I;

In a coreslip's hell I lie:

There I couch when owls do cry.

On the bal's back I do fly,

After summer merrilu:

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.
There shalt thou find the mariners asleep
To the king's ship, invisible as thou art :
Being awake, enforce them to this place;
Under the hatches; the master and the batswain
And presently, I pry thee.

Ari. I drink the air before me and return
Or e'er your pulse twice beat. [Exit ARIEL
Pity or tendert (sa cf heart

Leopard.