Scene I.

THE TEMPEST.

Some wanton charm upon this man and maid,
Whose vows are, that no bed-right shall be
paid,

Till Hymen's torch be lighted: but in vain;
Mar's bot minion is return'd again;

Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows,
Swears he will shoot no more, but play with
sparrows,

And be a boy right out.

Cer. Highest queen of state,

Great Juno comes; I know her by her gait.
Enter JUNO.

Juno. How does my bounteous sister?
with me,

Go

To bless this twain, that they may prosperous

be,

And honour'd in their issue.

SONG.

Juno. Honour, riches, marriage-blessing,
Long continuance, and increasing,
Hourly joys be still upon you!
Juno sings her blessings on you.

Cer. Earth's increase, and foison* plenty ;
Barns, and garners never empty;
Vines, with clust'ring bunches grow-
ing;

Plants, with goodly burden bowing;
Spring come to you, at the farthest,
In the very end of harvest!

Scarcity, and want, shall shun you;
Ceres' blessing so is on you.
Fer. This is a most majestic vision, and
Harmonious charmingly May I be bold
To think these spirits ?

Pro. Spirits, which by mine art

I have from their confines call'd to enact
My present fancies.

Fer. Let me live here ever;

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

[Juno and Ceres whisper, and send IRIS
on employment.

Pro. Sweet now, Silence:
Juno and Ceres whisper seriously;

There's something else to do: hush, and be
mute,

Or else our spell is marr'd.

Mira. Never till this day,

Saw I him touch'd with anger so distemper'd.
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 baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemu 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
Is rounded with a sleep.-Sir, I am vex'd;
As dreams are made of, and our little life
bled.
Bear with my weakness; my old brain is trou

Be not disturb'd with my infirmity:

If you be pleas'd, retire into my cell,
And there repose; a turn or two I'll walk,
To still my beating mind.

[Exeunt.
Fer. Mira. We wish you peace.
Pro. Come with a thought :- thank you :-
Ariel, come.

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.

Pro. 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,
For kissing of their feet: yet always bending
Towards their project; Then I beat my tabor,
At which, like unback'd colts, they prick'd
their ears,

Advanc'd their eye-lids, lifted up their noses,
As they sinelt music; so I charin'd their ears,
lowing follow'd,
That, calf-like, they my

through

Tooth'd briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss, and thorns,

them Iris. You nymphs, call'd Naiads, of the wand- Which enter'd their frail shins; at last I left ring brooks,

With your sedg'd crowns, and ever harmless' the filthy mantled pool beyond your cell,

looks,

Leave your crisp channels, and on this green
land

Answer your summons; Juno does command:
Come, temperate nymphs, and help to cele-

brate

A contract of true love; be not too late.

Enter certain Nymphs.

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

dance;

Enter certain Reapers, properly habited: they
join with the Nymphs in a graceful
Cowards the end whereof PROSPERO starts
saddenly, and speaks; after which, to a
strange, hollow, and confused noise, they
Deavily vanish.

Pro. (Aside.] I had forgot that foul conspi-
racy

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

almost come.-To the spirits.] Well done; avoid-no more. Per. This is most strange: your father's in some passion That works him strongly..

Pro. A devil, a boru devil, on whose nature
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 apra-
rel, &c.
Even to roaring :-Come, hang them on this

line.

ARIEL remain invisible.
PROSPERO and
Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO;
all wet.

Cal. Pray you, tread softly, that the blind
mole may not

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.

• Vanished.

• Rack is the thin and subtil mist which may be seen encircling the tops of mountains immediately after Education. t Bart. Jack with a lantern.

sua-rise.

4 N

In the same fashion as you gave in charge;
Just as you left them, Sir; all prisoners
In the lime-grove which weather-feuds
cell;

Scene I.

THE TEMPEST.

Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd

пр

The pine, and cedar: graves, at my command,
Have waked their sleepers; oped, and let them
forth

By my so potent art: But this rough magic
I bere abjure: and, when I bave requir'd
Some heavenly music, (which even now I do,)
To work mine end upon their senses, that
This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound,
[Solemn music.
I'll drown my book.
Re-enter ARIEL: after him, ALONZO, 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
PROSPE RO obsertig, speaks.

A solemn air, and the best comforter
To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains,

Gon. All torment, trouble, wonder, and
amazement

Inhabits here: Some heavenly power guide us
Out of this fearful country !

Pro. Behold, Sir king!

The wronged duke of Milan, Prospero :
For more assurance that a living prince
Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body;
And to thee, and thy company, I bid
A hearty welcome.

Alon. Whe'r thou beest he, or no,
Or some enchanted trifle to abuse me,
As late I have been, I not know: thy pulse
Beats, as of flesh and blood; and since I saw
thee,

Th' affliction of my mind amends, with which,
I fear a madness held me: This must crave
(And if this be at all,) a most strange story.
Thy dukedom I resign; and do entreat
Thou pardon me my wrongs :-But how should
Prospero

Be living, and be here?

Pro. First, noble friend,

Let me embrace thine age; whose honour cannot

Now useless, boil'd within thy skull ! There Be measur'd, or confin'd.

stand,

For you are spell-stopp'd.

Holy Gonzalo, honourable man,

Mine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine,
Fall fellowly drops.the charm dissolves

apace;

And as the morning steals upon the night,
Melting the darkness, so their rising senses
Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
Their clearer reason.- my good Gonzalo,
My true preserver, and a loyal sir

To him thou follow'st; I will pay thy graces
Home, both in word and deed.-Most cruelly
Didst thou, Alonso, use me, and my daughter:
Thy brother was a furtherer in the act ;-

Thou'rt pinch'd for't now, Sebastian.-Flesh and
blood,

You brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, Expell'd remorse and nature; who, with Sebastian,

(Whose inward pinches therefore strong,)

are most

Would here have kill'd your king; I do forgive thee,

Unnatural though thou

standing

art!--Their under

Begins to swell; and the approaching tide
Will shortly fill the reasonable shores,
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;

[Exit ARIEL.

I will dis-case me and myself present,
As I was sometime Milan :-quickly, spirit ;
Thou shalt ere long be free.

Gon. Whether this be,
Or be not, I'll not swear.

Pro. You do yet taste

Some subtilties o'tne isle, that will not let you
Believe things certain :-Welcome, my friends

all:

But you, my brace of lords, were I so minded,
[Aside to SEB. and ANT.

I here could pluck his highness' frown upon you,
And justify you traitors; at this time
I'll tell no tales.

Seb. The devil speaks in him.
Pro. No:-

[Aside.

For you, most wicked Sir, whom to call brother
Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive
Thy rankest fault; all of them; and require
My dukedom of thee, which, perforce, I know,
Thou must restore.

Alon. If thou beest Prospero,
Give us particulars of thy preservation;
How thou hast met us here, who three hours
since

were wreck'd upon this shore: where I have

lost,

How sharp the point of this remembrance is 1
My dear son Ferdinand.

Pro. I am woe for't, sir.

Alon. Irreparable is the loss: and Patience Says, it is past her cure.

Pro. I rather think,

You have not sought her help of whose soft

grace,

For the like loss, I have her sovereign aid,

And rest myself content.

Alon. You the like loss?

Pro. As great to me, as late; and, portable t

ARIEL re-enters, singing, and helps to attire To make the dear loss, have I means much

PROSPERO.

Ari. Where the bee sucks, there suck 1:
In a cowslip's bell I lie:
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat's back I do fly,
After summer merrily;
Merrily, merrity, 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.-
To the king's ship, invisible as thou art:
There shalt thou find the mariners asleep
Luder the hatches; the master, and the boat-
swain,

Being awake, enforce them to this place;
And presently, I pr'ythee.

Ari. I drink the air before me, and return
[Exit ARIEL.
Or e'er your pulse twice beat.

Pity, or tenderness of heart.

O heaveus! that they were living both in Naples.
The king and queen there! that they were, I
wish

Myself were mudded in that oozy bed
Where my son lies. When did you lose your
daughter?

Pro. In this last tempest. I perceive, these
lords

At this encounter do so much admire,
That they devour their reason; and scarce think
Their eyes do offices of truth, their words
Are natural breath; but howsoe'er you have
Been justled from your senses, know for certain,
That I am Prospero, and that very duke
Which was thrust forth of Milan; who most
strangely

Upon this shore, where you were wreck'd, was | Re-enter ARIEL, with the MASTER and BOAT.

Boats. If I did think, Sir, I were well awake, I'd strive to tell you. We were dead of sleep,

Fer. Tho' the seas threaten, they are merci- And, (how, we know not,) all clapp'd user

[FERD. kneels to ALON. Of roaring, shrieking, howling, gingling chains,

Then say, if they be true :-This misshapen knave, ↑ For this one night; which (part of it,) I'll waste
His mother was a witch; and one so strong
That could control the moon, make flows and
ebbs,

And deal in her command, without her power:
These three have robb'd me; and this demi-devil
(For he's a bastard one,) had plotted with them
To take my life; two of these fellows you
Must know, and own; this thing of darkness I
Acknowledge mine.

Cal. I shall be pinch'd to death.

With such discourse, as, I not doubt shall make it
Go quick away: the story of my life,
And the particular accidents, gone by,
Since I came to this isle: And in the morn,
I'll bring you to your ship, and so to Naples,
Where I have hope to see the nuptial
Of these our dear-beloved solemniz'd;
And thence retire me to my Milan, where
Every third thought shall be my grave.
Alon. I long

Alon. Is not this Stephano, my drunken but-To hear the story of your life, which must

ler ?

Seb. He is drunk now: Where had he wine?
Alon. And Trinculo is reeling ripe: Where
should they

Find this grand liquor that hath gilded them?
How cam'st thou in this pickle ?

Trin. I have been in such a pickle, since I saw you last, that, I fear me, will never out of my bones: I shall not fear fly-blowing.

Seb. Why, how now, Stephano?

Ste. O touch me not; I am not Stephano,
but a cramp.

Pro. You'd be king of the isle, sirrah ?
Ste. I should have been a sore one then.
Alon. This is as strange a thing as e'er I
look'd on. [Pointing to CALIBAN.
Pro. He is as disproportion'd in his manners,
As in his shape :-Go, sirrah, to my cell;
Take with you your companions; as you look
To have my pardon, trim it handsomely.

Cal. Ay, that I will; and I'll be wise here

Take the ear strangely.

Pro. I'll deliver all;

And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales,
And sail so expeditious, that shall catch
Your royal fleet far off.-My Ariel ;-chick,-
That is thy charge; then to the elements
Be free, and fare thou well!-[Aside.] Please
you, draw near.
[Exeunt.

EPILOGUE.

SPOKEN BY PROSPERO.

Now my charms are all o'erthrown,
And what strength I have's mine own:
Which is most faint: now, 'tis true,
I must be bere confin'd by you,
Or sent to Naples: Let me not,
Since I have my dukedom got,
And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell
In this bare island, by your spell;
But release me from my bands,
With the help of your good hands.
Gentle breath of your's my sails
Must fill, or else my project fails,
Which was to please: Now I want
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant;
And my ending is despair,
Unless I be reliev'd by prayer:
Which pierces so that it assaults
Mercy itself, and frees all faults.
As you from crimes would pardon'd be,
Let your indulgence set me free.

• Applause noise was supposed to dissolve a spell.