SCENE V. Enter Ariel loaden with glistering apparel, &c. Enter Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo, all wet. Cal. Pray you, tread foftly, that the blind mole may not Hear a foot fall; we now are near his cell. Ste. Monster, your Fairy, which you fay is a harmless Fairy, has done little better than play'd the Jack with us. Trin. Moniter, I do fmell all horfe-pifs, at which my nofe is in great indignation. Ste. So is mine: do you hear, monster? if I should take a displeasure against you; look you →→→→ Trin. Thou wert but a loft monster. Cal. 'Good, good my lord, give me thy favour still: Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to Shall hood-wink this mifchance; therefore fpeak foftly; All's husht as midnight yet. Trin. Ay, but to lofe our bottles in the pool Ste. There is not only difgrace and difhonour in that, monfter, but an infinite lofs. 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 4 'o'er head and ears for my labour. Cal. Pr'ythee, my King, be quiet: feeft thou here, For ay 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. Oh, oh, monster; we know what belongs to a frippery, O King Stephano. Ste. Ste. Put off that gown, Trinculo; by this hand I'll have that gown. Trin. Thy Grace fhall have it. Cal. The dropfie drown this fool! what do you mean To doat thus on fuch luggage? let it alone, And do the murder firft: if he awake, From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches ; Ste. Be you quiet, monster. Miftrefs 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 fteal by line and level, and't like your Grace. Ste. I thank thee for that jeft, here's a garment for't: wit fhall not go unrewarded while I am King of this country: Steal by line and level, is an excellent pafs of pate; there's another garment for't. Trin. Monster, come put fome lime upon your fingers, and away with the reft. Cal. I will have none on't; we fhall lofe our time, And all be turn'd to barnacles, or apes, With foreheads villainous low. Ste. Monster, lay to your fingers; help to bear this away where my hogfhead of wine is, or I'll turn you out of my kingdom; go to, carry this. Trin. And this. Ste. Ay, and this. A noife of bunters heard. Enter divers fpirits in shape of bounds, bunting them about; Profpero and Ariel fetting them on. Pro. Hey, Mountain, hey! Ari. Silver; there it goes, Silver! Pro. Fury, Fury; there, Tyrant, there; hark, hark; Go, charge my goblins that they grind their joints With dry convulfions, fhorten up their finews With aged cramps, and more pinch-fpotted make them Than pard, or cat o' mountain, Ari. Ari. Hark, they roar. Pro. Let them be hunted foundly. At this hour Shortly fhall all my labours end, and thou [Exeunt.. A CT V. SCENE I. Enter Profpero in his magick robes, and Ariel. PROSPERO. TOW does my project gather to a head; My charms crack not; my fpirits obey, and time Goes upright with his carriage: how's the day? Ari. On the fixth hour, at which time, my lord, You faid our work fhould ceafe. Pro. I did fay fo, When first I rais'd the tempeft; fay, my spirit, Ari. Confin'd In the fame fashion as you gave in charge, 5 'He that you term'd the good old lord Gonzalo, From eaves of reeds; your charm fo ftrongly works 'em, Pro. Pro. Do'st thou think fo, fpirit? Ari. Mine would, Sir, were I human. Pro. And mine fhall. Haft thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Do I take part; the. rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance; they being penitent, Ari. I'll fetch them, Sir. SCENE [Exit. II. Pro. Ye elves of hills, brooks, ftanding lakes and groves, And ye that on the fands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back; you demy-puppets that By moon-fhine do the green four ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites; and you whofe paftime Is to make midnight mufhrooms; that rejoice To hear the folemn curfew; by whofe aid (Weak 'minifters tho' ye be) I have be-dimm'd The noon-tide fun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green fea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread ratling thunder Have I giv'n fire, and rifted Jove's ftout oak With his own bolt: the ftrong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake, and by the fpurs pluckt up The pine and cedar: graves at my command Have wak'd their fleepers; op'd, and let 'em forth By my fo potent art. But this rough magick 6 mafters I here I here abjure; and when I have requir'd And deeper than did ever plummet found SCENE [Solemn mufick. III. Here enters Ariel before; then Alonfo with a frantick gefture, attended by Gonzalo. Sebaftian and Anthonio in like manner, attended by Adrian and Francifco. They all enter the circle which Profpero had made, and there ftand charm'd; which Profpero observing, speaks: A folemn air, and the best comforter To an unfettled fancy, cure thy brains Now useless, boil'd within thy skull! There stand, Holy Gonzalo, honourable man, Mine eyes, ev'n fociable to th' fhew of thine, Fall fellow-drops the charm diffolves apace, And as the morning fteals upon the night, To him thou follow'ft; I will pay thy graces Moft cruelly Didft thou, Alonso, ufe me and my daughter: Thy brother was a furtherer in the act; Thou'rt pinch'd for't now, Sebaftian. Flesh and blood, Expell'd remorfe and nature; who with Sebaftian Begins |