We are such stuff Sir, I am vex'd; Leave not a rack behind. As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. Bear with my weakness; my old brain is troubled: If you be pleased, retire into my cell And there repose: a turn or two I'll walk, To still my beating brain. Fer. Mir. We wish your peace. 160 [Exeunt. Pros. Come with a thought. I thank thee, Ariel : come, Enter ARIEL. Ari. Thy thoughts I cleave to. What's thy pleasure? Pros. 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 Lest I might anger thee. Pos. Say again, where didst thou leave these varlets? Ari. I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; So full of valour that they smote the air For breathing in their faces; beat the ground Towards their project. Then I beat my tabor; At which, like unpack'd colts, they prick'd their ears, 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, 180 Which entered 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 Pros. This was well done, my bird. Thy shape invisible retain thou still : The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither, Ari. [Exit. 190 Re-enter ARIEL, loaden with glistering apparel, &c.` SCENE I.] THE TEMPEST. 55 Enter CALIBAN, PROSPERO and ARIEL remain, invisible, Cal. Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not Ste. Monster, your fairy, which you say is a harmless fairy, has done little better than played the Jack with us. Trin. Monster, I do smell all horse-piss; at which my nose is in great indignation. Ste. So is mine. Do you hear, monster? If I should take a displeasure against you, look you,— Cal. Good my lord, give me thy favour still. Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to Shall hoodwink this mischance therefore speak softly. Trin. Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool, 200 Ste. There is not only disgrace and dishonour in that, monster, but an infinite loss. 210 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 labour. Cal. Prithee, my king, be quiet. See'st thou here, For aye thy foot-licker. 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 thee ! Cal. Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash. Trin. O, ho, monster! we know what belongs to a frippery. 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 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 not this my jerkin? Now is the jerkin under the line: now, jerkin, you are like to lose your hair and prove a bald jerkin. Trin. Do, do we steal by line and level, an't like your grace. 240 Ste. I thank thee for that jest: here's a garment for't: wit shall not go unrewarded while I am king of this coun try. "Steal by line and level" is an excellent pass of pate; there's another garment for't. Trin. Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and away with the rest. Cal. I will have none on't we shall lose our time, And all be turn'd to barnacles, or to apes With foreheads villanous low. Ste. Monster, lay-to your fingers 250 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, and hunt them about, PROSPERO and ARIEL setting them on. Pros. Hey, Mountain, hey! Ari. Silver! there it goes, Silver ! Pros. Fury, Fury! there, Tyrant, there, hark! hark! [Cal., Ste., and Trin. are driven out. Go charge my goblins that they grind their joints With dry convulsions, shorten up their sinews With aged cramps, and more pinch-spotted make them Ari. At this hour Hark, they roar !. Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou [Exeunt ACT V. SCENE I. Before PROSPERO's cell. Enter PROSPERO in his magic robes, and ARIEL. Pros. I did say so When first I raised the tempest. Say, my spirit, Ari. Confined together In the same fashion as you gave in charge, In the line-grove. which weather-fends your cell; Brimful of sorrow and dismay; but chiefly 66 Him that you term'd, sir, The good old lord, Gonzalo;" His tears ran down his beard, like winter's drops From eaves of reeds. Your charm so strongly works 'em That if you now beheld them, your affections Would become tender. Pros. Dost thou think so, spirit? Ari. Mine would, sir, were I human. And mine shall. 20 Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art? Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, 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 : 30 I'll fetch them, sir. [Exit. My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, Ari. Pros. Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot 40. The pine and cedar: graves at my command 50 [Solemn music. Re-enter ARIEL before then ALONSO, with a frantic gesture, attended 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 To an unsettled fancy cure thy brains, Now useless, boil'd within thy skull! There stand, Holy Gonzalo, honourable man, Mine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine, Flesh and blood, To him thou follow'st! I will pay thy graces Will shortly fill the reasonable shore That now lies foul and muddy. Not one of them That yet looks on me, or would know me: Ariel, I will discase me, and myself present 70 80 |