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Enter ALONSO , SEBASTIAN , ANTONIO , GONZALO , ADRIAN , FRANCISCO , and others
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Enter ALONSO , SEBASTIAN , ANTONIO , GONZALO , ADRIAN , FRANCISCO , and others
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GONZALO (to ALONSO) By 'r lakin, I can go no further, sir.
My old bones ache. Here’s a maze trod indeed
Through forthrights and meanders. By your patience,
I needs must rest me.
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GONZALO (to ALONSO) By 'r lakin, I can go no further, sir.
My old bones ache. Here’s a maze trod indeed
Through forthrights and meanders. By your patience,
I needs must rest me.
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ALONSO Old lord, I cannot blame thee,
5 Who am myself attached with weariness
To th' dulling of my spirits. Sit down and rest.
Even here I will put off my hope and keep it
No longer for my flatterer. He is drowned
Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks
10 Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go.
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ALONSO Old lord, I cannot blame thee,
Who am myself attached with weariness
To th' dulling of my spirits. Sit down and rest.
Even here I will put off my hope and keep it
No longer for my flatterer. He is drowned
Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks
Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go.
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ANTONIO (aside to SEBASTIAN) I am right glad that he’s so out of hope.
Do not for one repulse forego the purpose
That you resolved t' effect.
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ANTONIO (aside to SEBASTIAN) I am right glad that he’s so out of hope.
Do not for one repulse forego the purpose
That you resolved t' effect.
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SEBASTIAN (aside to ANTONIO) The next advantage
15 Will we take throughly.
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SEBASTIAN (aside to ANTONIO) The next advantage
Will we take throughly.
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ANTONIO (aside to SEBASTIAN) Let it be tonight,
For now they are oppressed with travel. They
Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance
As when they are fresh.
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ANTONIO (aside to SEBASTIAN) Let it be tonight,
For now they are oppressed with travel. They
Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance
As when they are fresh.
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Solemn and strange music
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Solemn and strange music
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Enter PROSPERO on the top, invisible
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Enter PROSPERO on the top, invisible
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SEBASTIAN |
SEBASTIAN |
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ALONSO What harmony is this? My good friends, hark!
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ALONSO What harmony is this? My good friends, hark!
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GONZALO Marvelous sweet music!
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GONZALO Marvelous sweet music!
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Enter several strange shapes, bringing in a banquet They dance about it with gentle actions of salutations, and, inviting the king and the others to eat, they depart
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Enter several strange shapes, bringing in a banquet They dance about it with gentle actions of salutations, and, inviting the king and the others to eat, they depart
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ALONSO Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these?
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ALONSO Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these?
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SEBASTIAN A living drollery. Now I will believe
25 That there are unicorns, that in Arabia
There is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one phoenix
At this hour reigning there.
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SEBASTIAN A living drollery. Now I will believe
That there are unicorns, that in Arabia
There is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one phoenix
At this hour reigning there.
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ANTONIO I’ll believe both
And what does else want credit, come to me,
And I’ll be sworn ’tis true. Travelers ne'er did lie,
30 Though fools at home condemn 'em.
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ANTONIO I’ll believe both
And what does else want credit, come to me,
And I’ll be sworn ’tis true. Travelers ne'er did lie,
Though fools at home condemn 'em.
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GONZALO If in Naples
I should report this now, would they believe me?
If I should say, I saw such islanders—
For, certes, these are people of the island—
Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet note,
35 Their manners are more gentle-kind than of
Our human generation you shall find
Many—nay, almost any.
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GONZALO If in Naples
I should report this now, would they believe me?
If I should say, I saw such islanders—
For, certes, these are people of the island—
Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet note,
Their manners are more gentle-kind than of
Our human generation you shall find
Many—nay, almost any.
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PROSPERO (aside) Honest lord,
Thou hast said well, for some of you there present
Are worse than devils.
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PROSPERO (aside) Honest lord,
Thou hast said well, for some of you there present
Are worse than devils.
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ALONSO I cannot too much muse
40 Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, expressing,
Although they want the use of tongue, a kind
Of excellent dumb discourse.
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ALONSO I cannot too much muse
Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, expressing,
Although they want the use of tongue, a kind
Of excellent dumb discourse.
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PROSPERO (aside) Praise in departing.
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PROSPERO (aside) Praise in departing.
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FRANCISCO They vanished strangely.
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FRANCISCO They vanished strangely.
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SEBASTIAN No matter, since
They have left their viands behind, for we have stomachs.
45 Will ’t please you taste of what is here?
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SEBASTIAN No matter, since
They have left their viands behind, for we have stomachs.
Will ’t please you taste of what is here?
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ALONSO Not I.
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ALONSO Not I.
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GONZALO Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys,
Who would believe that there were mountaineers
Dewlapped like bulls, whose throats had hanging at 'em
50 Wallets of flesh, or that there were such men
Whose heads stood in their breasts?—which now we find
Each putter-out of five for one will bring us
Good warrant of.
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GONZALO Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys,
Who would believe that there were mountaineers
Dewlapped like bulls, whose throats had hanging at 'em
Wallets of flesh, or that there were such men
Whose heads stood in their breasts?—which now we find
Each putter-out of five for one will bring us
Good warrant of.
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ALONSO I will stand to and feed,
Although my last. No matter, since I feel
55 The best is past. Brother, my lord the duke,
Stand to and do as we.
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ALONSO I will stand to and feed,
Although my last. No matter, since I feel
The best is past. Brother, my lord the duke,
Stand to and do as we.
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Thunder and lightning
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Thunder and lightning
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Enter ARIEL , like a harpy, claps his wings upon the table, and, with a quaint device, the banquet vanishes
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Enter ARIEL , like a harpy, claps his wings upon the table, and, with a quaint device, the banquet vanishes
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ARIEL (to ALONSO, ANTONIO, and SEBASTIAN )
You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,
That hath to instrument this lower world
60 And what is in ’t, the never-surfeited sea
Hath caused to belch up you—and on this island
Where man doth not inhabit, you ’mongst men
Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad,
And even with suchlike valor men hang and drown
You fools, I and my fellows
Are ministers of fate. The elements
Of whom your swords are tempered may as well
Wound the loud winds or with bemocked-at stabs
Kill the still-closing waters as diminish
70 One dowl that’s in my plume. My fellow ministers
Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,
Your swords are now too massy for your strengths
And will not be uplifted. But remember—
For that’s my business to you—that you three
75 From Milan did supplant good Prospero,
Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it,
Him and his innocent child. For which foul deed
The powers—delaying, not forgetting—have
Incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
80 Against your peace.—Thee of thy son, Alonso,
They have bereft, and do pronounce by me
Lingering perdition, worse than any death
Can be at once, shall step by step attend
You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from—
85 Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls
Upon your heads—is nothing but hearts' sorrow
And a clear life ensuing.
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ARIEL (to ALONSO, ANTONIO, and SEBASTIAN )
You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,
That hath to instrument this lower world
And what is in ’t, the never-surfeited sea
Hath caused to belch up you—and on this island
Where man doth not inhabit, you ’mongst men
Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad,
And even with suchlike valor men hang and drown
You fools, I and my fellows
Are ministers of fate. The elements
Of whom your swords are tempered may as well
Wound the loud winds or with bemocked-at stabs
Kill the still-closing waters as diminish
One dowl that’s in my plume. My fellow ministers
Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,
Your swords are now too massy for your strengths
And will not be uplifted. But remember—
For that’s my business to you—that you three
From Milan did supplant good Prospero,
Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it,
Him and his innocent child. For which foul deed
The powers—delaying, not forgetting—have
Incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
Against your peace.—Thee of thy son, Alonso,
They have bereft, and do pronounce by me
Lingering perdition, worse than any death
Can be at once, shall step by step attend
You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from—
Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls
Upon your heads—is nothing but hearts' sorrow
And a clear life ensuing.
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ARIEL vanishes in thunder
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ARIEL vanishes in thunder
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Then, to soft music enter the shapes again and dance, with mocks and mows, and carrying out the table
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Then, to soft music enter the shapes again and dance, with mocks and mows, and carrying out the table
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PROSPERO (aside) Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou
Performed, my Ariel. A grace it had, devouring.
90 Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated
In what thou hadst to say.—So with good life
And observation strange, my meaner ministers
Their several kinds have done. My high charms work
And these mine enemies are all knit up
95 In their distractions. They now are in my power,
And in these fits I leave them while I visit
Young Ferdinand, whom they suppose is drowned,
And his and mine loved darling.
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PROSPERO (aside) Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou
Performed, my Ariel. A grace it had, devouring.
Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated
In what thou hadst to say.—So with good life
And observation strange, my meaner ministers
Their several kinds have done. My high charms work
And these mine enemies are all knit up
In their distractions. They now are in my power,
And in these fits I leave them while I visit
Young Ferdinand, whom they suppose is drowned,
And his and mine loved darling.
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Exit PROSPERO above
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Exit PROSPERO above
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GONZALO (to ALONSO) I' th' name of something holy, sir, why stand you
100 In this strange stare?
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GONZALO (to ALONSO) I' th' name of something holy, sir, why stand you
In this strange stare?
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ALONSO Oh, it is monstrous, monstrous.
Methought the billows spoke and told me of it,
The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder,
That deep and dreadful organ pipe, pronounced
The name of Prosper. It did bass my trespass.
105 Therefore my son i' th' ooze is bedded, and
I’ll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded
And with him there lie mudded.
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ALONSO Oh, it is monstrous, monstrous.
Methought the billows spoke and told me of it,
The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder,
That deep and dreadful organ pipe, pronounced
The name of Prosper. It did bass my trespass.
Therefore my son i' th' ooze is bedded, and
I’ll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded
And with him there lie mudded.
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Exit ALONSO
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Exit ALONSO
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SEBASTIAN But one fiend at a time,
I’ll fight their legions o'er.
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SEBASTIAN But one fiend at a time,
I’ll fight their legions o'er.
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ANTONIO I’ll be thy second.
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ANTONIO I’ll be thy second.
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Exeunt SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO
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Exeunt SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO
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GONZALO All three of them are desperate. Their great guilt,
110 Like poison given to work a great time after,
Now 'gins to bite the spirits. I do beseech you
That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly
And hinder them from what this ecstasy
May now provoke them to.
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GONZALO All three of them are desperate. Their great guilt,
Like poison given to work a great time after,
Now 'gins to bite the spirits. I do beseech you
That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly
And hinder them from what this ecstasy
May now provoke them to.
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ADRIAN Follow, I pray you.
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ADRIAN Follow, I pray you.
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Exeunt omnes
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Exeunt omnes
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Original Text |
Modern Text |
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Enter ALONSO , SEBASTIAN , ANTONIO , GONZALO , ADRIAN , FRANCISCO , and others
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Enter ALONSO , SEBASTIAN , ANTONIO , GONZALO , ADRIAN , FRANCISCO , and others
|
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GONZALO (to ALONSO) By 'r lakin, I can go no further, sir.
My old bones ache. Here’s a maze trod indeed
Through forthrights and meanders. By your patience,
I needs must rest me.
|
GONZALO (to ALONSO) By 'r lakin, I can go no further, sir.
My old bones ache. Here’s a maze trod indeed
Through forthrights and meanders. By your patience,
I needs must rest me.
|
|
ALONSO Old lord, I cannot blame thee,
5 Who am myself attached with weariness
To th' dulling of my spirits. Sit down and rest.
Even here I will put off my hope and keep it
No longer for my flatterer. He is drowned
Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks
10 Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go.
|
ALONSO Old lord, I cannot blame thee,
Who am myself attached with weariness
To th' dulling of my spirits. Sit down and rest.
Even here I will put off my hope and keep it
No longer for my flatterer. He is drowned
Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks
Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go.
|
|
ANTONIO (aside to SEBASTIAN) I am right glad that he’s so out of hope.
Do not for one repulse forego the purpose
That you resolved t' effect.
|
ANTONIO (aside to SEBASTIAN) I am right glad that he’s so out of hope.
Do not for one repulse forego the purpose
That you resolved t' effect.
|
|
SEBASTIAN (aside to ANTONIO) The next advantage
15 Will we take throughly.
|
SEBASTIAN (aside to ANTONIO) The next advantage
Will we take throughly.
|
|
ANTONIO (aside to SEBASTIAN) Let it be tonight,
For now they are oppressed with travel. They
Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance
As when they are fresh.
|
ANTONIO (aside to SEBASTIAN) Let it be tonight,
For now they are oppressed with travel. They
Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance
As when they are fresh.
|
|
Solemn and strange music
|
Solemn and strange music
|
|
Enter PROSPERO on the top, invisible
|
Enter PROSPERO on the top, invisible
|
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SEBASTIAN |
SEBASTIAN |
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ALONSO What harmony is this? My good friends, hark!
|
ALONSO What harmony is this? My good friends, hark!
|
|
GONZALO Marvelous sweet music!
|
GONZALO Marvelous sweet music!
|
|
Enter several strange shapes, bringing in a banquet They dance about it with gentle actions of salutations, and, inviting the king and the others to eat, they depart
|
Enter several strange shapes, bringing in a banquet They dance about it with gentle actions of salutations, and, inviting the king and the others to eat, they depart
|
|
ALONSO Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these?
|
ALONSO Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these?
|
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SEBASTIAN A living drollery. Now I will believe
25 That there are unicorns, that in Arabia
There is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one phoenix
At this hour reigning there.
|
SEBASTIAN A living drollery. Now I will believe
That there are unicorns, that in Arabia
There is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one phoenix
At this hour reigning there.
|
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ANTONIO I’ll believe both
And what does else want credit, come to me,
And I’ll be sworn ’tis true. Travelers ne'er did lie,
30 Though fools at home condemn 'em.
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ANTONIO I’ll believe both
And what does else want credit, come to me,
And I’ll be sworn ’tis true. Travelers ne'er did lie,
Though fools at home condemn 'em.
|
|
GONZALO If in Naples
I should report this now, would they believe me?
If I should say, I saw such islanders—
For, certes, these are people of the island—
Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet note,
35 Their manners are more gentle-kind than of
Our human generation you shall find
Many—nay, almost any.
|
GONZALO If in Naples
I should report this now, would they believe me?
If I should say, I saw such islanders—
For, certes, these are people of the island—
Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet note,
Their manners are more gentle-kind than of
Our human generation you shall find
Many—nay, almost any.
|
|
PROSPERO (aside) Honest lord,
Thou hast said well, for some of you there present
Are worse than devils.
|
PROSPERO (aside) Honest lord,
Thou hast said well, for some of you there present
Are worse than devils.
|
|
ALONSO I cannot too much muse
40 Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, expressing,
Although they want the use of tongue, a kind
Of excellent dumb discourse.
|
ALONSO I cannot too much muse
Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, expressing,
Although they want the use of tongue, a kind
Of excellent dumb discourse.
|
|
PROSPERO (aside) Praise in departing.
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PROSPERO (aside) Praise in departing.
|
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FRANCISCO They vanished strangely.
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FRANCISCO They vanished strangely.
|
|
SEBASTIAN No matter, since
They have left their viands behind, for we have stomachs.
45 Will ’t please you taste of what is here?
|
SEBASTIAN No matter, since
They have left their viands behind, for we have stomachs.
Will ’t please you taste of what is here?
|
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ALONSO Not I.
|
ALONSO Not I.
|
|
GONZALO Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys,
Who would believe that there were mountaineers
Dewlapped like bulls, whose throats had hanging at 'em
50 Wallets of flesh, or that there were such men
Whose heads stood in their breasts?—which now we find
Each putter-out of five for one will bring us
Good warrant of.
|
GONZALO Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys,
Who would believe that there were mountaineers
Dewlapped like bulls, whose throats had hanging at 'em
Wallets of flesh, or that there were such men
Whose heads stood in their breasts?—which now we find
Each putter-out of five for one will bring us
Good warrant of.
|
|
ALONSO I will stand to and feed,
Although my last. No matter, since I feel
55 The best is past. Brother, my lord the duke,
Stand to and do as we.
|
ALONSO I will stand to and feed,
Although my last. No matter, since I feel
The best is past. Brother, my lord the duke,
Stand to and do as we.
|
|
Thunder and lightning
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Thunder and lightning
|
|
Enter ARIEL , like a harpy, claps his wings upon the table, and, with a quaint device, the banquet vanishes
|
Enter ARIEL , like a harpy, claps his wings upon the table, and, with a quaint device, the banquet vanishes
|
|
ARIEL (to ALONSO, ANTONIO, and SEBASTIAN )
You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,
That hath to instrument this lower world
60 And what is in ’t, the never-surfeited sea
Hath caused to belch up you—and on this island
Where man doth not inhabit, you ’mongst men
Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad,
And even with suchlike valor men hang and drown
You fools, I and my fellows
Are ministers of fate. The elements
Of whom your swords are tempered may as well
Wound the loud winds or with bemocked-at stabs
Kill the still-closing waters as diminish
70 One dowl that’s in my plume. My fellow ministers
Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,
Your swords are now too massy for your strengths
And will not be uplifted. But remember—
For that’s my business to you—that you three
75 From Milan did supplant good Prospero,
Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it,
Him and his innocent child. For which foul deed
The powers—delaying, not forgetting—have
Incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
80 Against your peace.—Thee of thy son, Alonso,
They have bereft, and do pronounce by me
Lingering perdition, worse than any death
Can be at once, shall step by step attend
You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from—
85 Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls
Upon your heads—is nothing but hearts' sorrow
And a clear life ensuing.
|
ARIEL (to ALONSO, ANTONIO, and SEBASTIAN )
You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,
That hath to instrument this lower world
And what is in ’t, the never-surfeited sea
Hath caused to belch up you—and on this island
Where man doth not inhabit, you ’mongst men
Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad,
And even with suchlike valor men hang and drown
You fools, I and my fellows
Are ministers of fate. The elements
Of whom your swords are tempered may as well
Wound the loud winds or with bemocked-at stabs
Kill the still-closing waters as diminish
One dowl that’s in my plume. My fellow ministers
Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,
Your swords are now too massy for your strengths
And will not be uplifted. But remember—
For that’s my business to you—that you three
From Milan did supplant good Prospero,
Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it,
Him and his innocent child. For which foul deed
The powers—delaying, not forgetting—have
Incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
Against your peace.—Thee of thy son, Alonso,
They have bereft, and do pronounce by me
Lingering perdition, worse than any death
Can be at once, shall step by step attend
You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from—
Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls
Upon your heads—is nothing but hearts' sorrow
And a clear life ensuing.
|
|
ARIEL vanishes in thunder
|
ARIEL vanishes in thunder
|
|
Then, to soft music enter the shapes again and dance, with mocks and mows, and carrying out the table
|
Then, to soft music enter the shapes again and dance, with mocks and mows, and carrying out the table
|
|
PROSPERO (aside) Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou
Performed, my Ariel. A grace it had, devouring.
90 Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated
In what thou hadst to say.—So with good life
And observation strange, my meaner ministers
Their several kinds have done. My high charms work
And these mine enemies are all knit up
95 In their distractions. They now are in my power,
And in these fits I leave them while I visit
Young Ferdinand, whom they suppose is drowned,
And his and mine loved darling.
|
PROSPERO (aside) Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou
Performed, my Ariel. A grace it had, devouring.
Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated
In what thou hadst to say.—So with good life
And observation strange, my meaner ministers
Their several kinds have done. My high charms work
And these mine enemies are all knit up
In their distractions. They now are in my power,
And in these fits I leave them while I visit
Young Ferdinand, whom they suppose is drowned,
And his and mine loved darling.
|
|
Exit PROSPERO above
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Exit PROSPERO above
|
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GONZALO (to ALONSO) I' th' name of something holy, sir, why stand you
100 In this strange stare?
|
GONZALO (to ALONSO) I' th' name of something holy, sir, why stand you
In this strange stare?
|
|
ALONSO Oh, it is monstrous, monstrous.
Methought the billows spoke and told me of it,
The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder,
That deep and dreadful organ pipe, pronounced
The name of Prosper. It did bass my trespass.
105 Therefore my son i' th' ooze is bedded, and
I’ll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded
And with him there lie mudded.
|
ALONSO Oh, it is monstrous, monstrous.
Methought the billows spoke and told me of it,
The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder,
That deep and dreadful organ pipe, pronounced
The name of Prosper. It did bass my trespass.
Therefore my son i' th' ooze is bedded, and
I’ll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded
And with him there lie mudded.
|
|
Exit ALONSO
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Exit ALONSO
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SEBASTIAN But one fiend at a time,
I’ll fight their legions o'er.
|
SEBASTIAN But one fiend at a time,
I’ll fight their legions o'er.
|
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ANTONIO I’ll be thy second.
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ANTONIO I’ll be thy second.
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Exeunt SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO
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Exeunt SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO
|
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GONZALO All three of them are desperate. Their great guilt,
110 Like poison given to work a great time after,
Now 'gins to bite the spirits. I do beseech you
That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly
And hinder them from what this ecstasy
May now provoke them to.
|
GONZALO All three of them are desperate. Their great guilt,
Like poison given to work a great time after,
Now 'gins to bite the spirits. I do beseech you
That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly
And hinder them from what this ecstasy
May now provoke them to.
|
|
ADRIAN Follow, I pray you.
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ADRIAN Follow, I pray you.
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Exeunt omnes
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Exeunt omnes
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