THE NAMES OF THE PRINCIPAL ACTORS IN ALL THESE PLAYS

PERSONS

ALONSO: KING OF NAPLES.

SEBASTIAN: HIS BROTHER.

PROSPERO: THE RIGHT DUKE OF MILAN.

ANTONIO: HIS BROTHER, THE USURPING DUKE OF MILAN.

FERDINAND: SON TO THE KING OF NAPLES.

GONZALO: AN HONEST OLD COUNSELLOR OF Naples.

ADRIAN: 1

LORDS.

REPRESENTED

FRANCISCO:

CALIBAN: A SAVAGE AND DEFORMED SLAVE.

TRINCULO: A JESTER.

STEPHANO: A DRUNKEN BUTLER.

MASTER OF A SHIP, BOATSWAIN, AND MARINERS.

MAST. Boatswain!

BOATS. Here, Master; what cheer?

MAST. Good, speak to th' mariners: fall to 't yarely,1 or
we run ourselves a-ground; bestir, bestir.
[exit.

Enter Mariners.

BOATS. Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to th' Master's whistle. [Exeunt Mariners.]-Blow till thou burst thy wind, if room enough!

Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND,
GONZALO, and others.

ALON. Good Boatswain, have care.

Play the men.

BOATS. I pray now, keep below.

ANT. Where is the Master, boson?

Where's the Master?

IO

BOATS. Do you not hear him? You mar our labour:

keep your cabins; you do assist the storm.

GON. Nay, good, be patient.
BOATS. When
the sea 15.
Hence ! What care these
roarers for the name of King? To cabin: silence!
trouble us not. Mixed

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GON. Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.
BOATS. None that I more love than myself. You are
a counsellor if you can command these elements to
silence, and work the peace of the present, we will not

briskly.

2 (slang) bullies.