Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies A most auspicious star; whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.-Here cease more questions; Thou art inclin'd to sleep; 'tis a good dulness, And give it way;-I know thou can'st not choose. [Miranda sleeps. Come away, servant, come: I am ready now; Approach, my Ariel; come. Enter Ariel. Ari. All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! Į come To answer thy best pleasure; be' t to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curl'd clouds; to thy strong bidding, task Pro. Hast thou, spirit, Perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee? I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak, The yards, and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly; cursors O' the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary And sight-outrunning were not: the fire, and cracks Of sulphurous roaring, the most mighty Neptune Seem'd to besiege, and make his bold waves tremble; Yea, his dread trident shake. Pro. My brave spirit! Who was so firm, so constant, that this coilt The minutest article. + Bustle, tumult, Ari. Not a soul But felt a fever of the mad, and play'd Not a hair perish'd; On their sustaining garments not a blemish, Pro. Of the king's ship, The mariners, say, how thou hast dispos'd, Ari. Whom, with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour, Bound sadly home for Naples ;" Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd, Pro. Ariel, thy charge Exactly is perform'd; but there's more work: What is the time o' the day? Ari. Past the mid season. Pro. At least two glasses: the time 'twixt six and now, Must by us both be spent most preciously. Ari. Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains, Let me remember thee what thou hast promis'd, Pro. What is't thou can'st demand? Ari. How now ? moody? My liberty. I pray thee Pro. Before the time be out? no more. Ari. Remember, I have done thee worthy service; Told thee no lies, made no mistakings, serv'd Without or grudge or grumblings: thou didst pro Pro. Thou dost; and think'st It much, to tread the ooze of the salt deep; Ari. I do not, sir. Pro. Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot The foul witch Sycorax, who, with age, and envy, Was grown into a hoop? hast thou forgot her? Once in a month, recount what thou hast been, Which thou forget'st. This damn'd witch, Sycorax, • Algiers. For mischiefs manifold, and sorceries terrible Thou know'st, was banish'd; for one thing she did, Pro. This blue-ey'd hag was hither brought with child, And here was left by the sailors. Thou, my slave, Into a cloven pine; within which rift A dozen years; within which space she died, groans, As fast as mill-wheels strike: then was this island (Save for the son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp, hag-born), not honour'd with Ari. Yes; Caliban, her son. Pro. Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban, When I arriv'd, and heard thee, that made gape Ari. I thank thee, master. Pro. If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak, And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters. Commands. Ari. Pardon, master: I will be correspondent to command, Pro. I will discharge thee. Ari. Do so; and after two days That's my noble master! What shall I do? say what: what shall I do? Pro. Go make thyself like to a nymph o' the sea; Be subject to no sight but mine; invisible To every eye-ball else. Go, take this shape, [Exit Ariel. Awake, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well; Awake! Mira. The strangeness of your story put Heaviness in me. Pro. We'll visit Caliban, my slave, who never Yields us kind answer. Mira Shake it off: come on; "Tis a villain, sir, But, as 'tis, I do not love to look on. Pro We cannot miss him: he does make our fire, Cal. [Within.] There's wood enough within. for thee; Come forth, thou tortoise! when? Re-enter Ariel, like a water-nymph. Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel, Hark in thine ear. Ari. My lord, it shall be done. [Exit. Pro. Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil him self Upon thy wicked dam, come forth! Do without. |