Shew thee a jay's neft, and instruct thee how
To fnare the nimble marmozet; I'll bring thee
To cluft'ring filberds, and fometimes I'll get thee
Young 'fcamels from the rock: Wilt thou go
with me?

Cal. I'll shew thee every fertile inch o' the ifle; And I will kifs thy foot: I pr'ythee, be my god. Trin. By this light, a most perfidious and drunken monster; when his god's afleep, he'll rob his bottle. Cal. I'll kiss thy foot: I'll fwear myself thy fubSte. Come on then; down, and fwear. [ject. Ste. I pr'ythee now, lead the way, without any ; Trin. I fhall laugh myself to death at this puppy-more talking.-Trinculo, the king and all our comheaded monster: A most scurvy monfter! Ipany being drown'd, we will inherit here.-could find in my heart to beat him,—

Here; bear my bottle! Fellow Trinculo, we'll fill him by and by again.

Cal. [Sings drunkenly.] Farewell mafter; fare

well, farewell.

Trin. A howling monfter; a drunken monster.
Cal. No more dams I'll make for fijh;
Nor fetch in firing

At requiring,

Nor fcrape trencher, nor wash dish;

Ban' Ban', Ca-Caliban

Has a new mafer-Get a new Man. [grow; Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! freedom, hey-day, freedom!

Cal. I pr'ythee, let me bring thee where crabs And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts;

Ste. O brave monster! lead the way. [Exeunt,

Mira. It would become me

As well as it does you: and I should do it
With much more ease; for my good will is to it,
And yours it is againft.

Delight in them fets off: fome kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone; and most poor matters
Point to rich ends. This my mean task
Would be as heavy to me, as odious; but
The mistress, which I ferve, quickens what's dead,
And makes my labours pleasures: o, she is
Ten times more gentle, than her father's crabbed ;|
And he's compos'd of harshness. I must remove
Some thousands of thefe logs, and pile them up,
Upon a fore injunction: My fweet mistress
Weeps when the fees me work; and fays, fuch
Had ne'er like executor. 1 forget: [bafenefs
But thefe fweet thoughts do even refresh my la-I
Moft bufy-lefs, when I do it.

[bours;

Enter Miranda, and Profpero at a distance.
Mira. Alas, now! pray you,
Work not fo hard: I would, the lightning had
Burnt up thofe logs, that you are enjoin'd to pile!
Pray, fet it down, and reft you: when this burns,
"Twill weep for having weary'd you: My father
Is hard at ftudy; pray now, reft yourself;
He's fafe for these three hours.

Fer. O moft dear mistress,

The fun will fet before I fhall discharge

What I muft ftrive to do.

Mira. If you'll fit down,

Pro. Poor worm! thou art infected;
This vifitation fhews it.

Mira. You look wearily.

Fer. No, noble miftrefs; 'tis fresh morning with me,

When you are by at night. I do befeech you, (Chiefly that I might fet it in my prayers) What is your name?

Mira. Miranda :-O my father, have broke your hest to say fo! Fer. Admir'd Miranda!

Indeed, the top of admiration; worth

What's deareft to the world! Full many a lady
I have ey'd with best regard; and many a time
The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage
Brought my too diligent ear: for feveral virtues
Have I lik'd feveral women; never any
With fo full foul, but fome defect in her
Did quarrel with the nobleft grace the ow'd,
And put it to the foil: but you, o you,
So perfect, and fo pecrlefs, are created
Of every creature's best.

Mira. I do not know

I'll bear your logs the while: Pray, give me that; One of my fex; no woman's face remember, I'll carry 't to the pile.

Save, from my glafs, mine own; nor have I feen

1 Mr. Steevens fuppofes, that, by an error of the prefs, feamel has been here fubftituted for feamell, a lpecies of bird mentioned by Willoughby, 2 For beheft, or command.

More

to me.

Trin. Servant-monfter? the folly of this ifland! They fay there's but five upon this ifle: we are three of them; if the other two be brain'd like us, the state totters.

More that I may call men, than you, good friend, bear up, and board 'em: Servant-monster, drink
And my dear father: how features are abroad,
I am fkillefs of; but, by my modefty,
(The jewel in my dower) I would not with
Any companion in the world but you;
Nor can imagination form a fhape,
Befides yourself, to like of: But I prattle
Something too wildly, and my father's precepts
I therein do forget.

ber. I am, in my condition,

A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king;

Ste. Drink, fervant-monster, when I bid thee: thy eyes are almoft fet in thy head.

Trin. Where fhould they be fet elfe? he were a brave monfter indeed, if they were fet in his tail. Ste. My man-moniter hath drown'd his tongue in fack: for my part, the fea cannot drown me: I fwam, ere I could recover the shore, five-and

(1 would, not fo!) and would no more endure
This wooden flavery, than I would fufler (speak;--
The fleth-fly blow my mouth-Hear my foul thirty leagues, off and on, by this light.—Thou
The very inftant that I faw you, did

My heart fly to your fervice; there refides,
To make me flave to it; and, for your fake,
Am I this patient log-man.

Mira. Do you love me?

Fer. O heaven, o earth, bear witnefs to this found,
And crown what I profefs with kind event,
If I speak true; if hollowly, invert

What belt is boded me, to mischief! I,
Beyond all limit of what elfe i' the world,
Do love, prize, honour you.

Mira. I am a fool,

To weep at what I am glad of.

Pro. Fair encounter

halt be my lieutenant, moniter, or my standard. Trin. Your lieutenant, if you lift; he's no itandard 2.

Ste. We'll not run, monfieur monster.

Trin. Nor go neither: but you'll lie, like dogs; and yet fay nothing neither.

Ste. Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beeft a good moon-calf.

Cal. How does thy honour? Let me lick thy fhoe: I'll not ferve him, he is not valiant.

Trin. Thou lyft, moit ignorant moniter; I am in cafe to juftle a conftable: Why, thou deboth'd3 fifh thou, was there ever a man a coward, that hath drunk fo much fack as I to-day? Wilt thou

Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace tell a monitrous lie, being but half a tifh, and half On that which breeds between them!

Mira. Atmine unworthiness, that dare not offer
What I defire to give; and much less take,
What I fhall die to want: But this is trifling;
And all the more it feeks to hide itself,
The bigger bulk it fhews. Hence, bfhtul cunning
And prompt me, plain and holy innocence !
I am your wife, if you will marry me ;

If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow
You may deny me; but I'll be your fervant,
Whether you will or no.

Fer. My miftrefs, dearest,

And I thus humble ever.
Ma. My hulband then?

Fer. Av, with a heart as willing

As bondage e'er of freedom: here's my hand.
Mira. And mine with my heart in't: and now
Till half an hour hence.

Fer. A thoufand, thousand!

a monfter?

Cal. Lo, how he mocks me; wilt thou let him, my lord?

Trin. Lord, quoth he!-that a monfter fhould be fuch a natural !

Cal. Lo, lo, again: bite him to death, I pr'ythee.

St. Trincule, keep a good tongue in your head; if you prove a mutineer, the next treeThe poor monfter's my fubject, and he fhall not futfer indignity.

Cal. I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleas'd to hearken once again to the fuit I made to thee?

Ste. Marry will I: kneel, and repeat it; I will ftand, and to thall Trinculo.

Enter Ariel invifible.

Cal. As I told thee before, I am fubject to a [farewell, tyrant; a forcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated [Exeunt. me of the island.

Pro. So glad of this as they, I cannot be Who are furpriz'd with all; but my rejoicing At nothing can be more. I'll to my book; For yet, ere fupper-time, muft I perform Much bufinefs appertaining.

SCENE

1

II.

Another part of the island,

[Exit

Enter Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo, with a bottle.

Ari. Thou lyft.

St. Tell not me;-when the butt is out, we Proceed.

will drink water; not a drop before: therefore Cal. I fay, by forcery he got this isle;

1 Companion. 2 Meaning he is fo much intoxicated, as not to be able to ftand. The quibble between fundard an enlign, and ftandard a fruit-tree, that grows without fupport, is

evident. 3 Debauched.

. From

From me he got it. If thy greatness will
Revenge it on him (for, I know, thou dar'ft,
But this thing dare not-

Ste. That's most certain.

Cal. Thou shalt be lord of it, and I'll ferve thee. Ste. How now fhall this be compafs'd? Canft thou bring me to the party?

Cal. Yea, yea, my lord; I'll yield him thee asleep,
Where thou may'st knock a nail into his head.
Ari. Thou lyft, thou canst not.
patch!--
Cal. What a py'd ninny's this? Thou fcurvy
I do befeech thy greatnefs, give him blows,
And take his bottle from him: when that's gone,
He fhall drink nought but brine; for I'll not fhew
Where the quick freshes are.

[him

Ste. Give me thy hand; I am forry I beat thee:
but while thou liv'ft, keep a good tongue in thy head.
Cal. Within this half hour will he be asleep;
Wilt thou deftroy him then?

Ste. Ay, on mine honour.
Ari. This will I tell my mafter.

[fure;

Cal. Thou mak'it me merry: I am full of plea-
Let us be jocund: Will you troul 2 the catch,
You taught me but while-ere?

Ste. At thy request, monfter, I will do reafon,
any reafon: Come on, Trinculo, let us fing. [Sings.
Flout'em, and fkout'em; and fhout'em and flout'em ;
Thought is free.

Cal. That's not the tune.
Ste. What is this fame?.
Trin. This is the tune of
the picture of no-body.

[Ariel plays the tune on

[a tabor and pipe. our catch, play'd by

Ste. If thou bee'ft a man, fhew thyself in thy likenefs: if thou bee'st a devil, take 't as thou lift. Trin. O, forgive me my fins!

Ste. He that dies, pays all debts: I defy thee: Mercy upon us!

Cal. Art thou affeard 3?

Ste. No, monster, not I.

Cal. Be not affeard; the ifle is full of noises,
Sounds, and fweet airs, that give delight, and hurt
Sometimes a thousand twangling inftruments [not.
Will hum about mine ears; and fometimes voices,
That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep,
Will make me fleep again: and then, in dreaming,

Ste. Now, forward with your tale. Pr'ythee, The clouds, methought,would open, and fhew riches ftand further off.

Cal. Beat him enough: after a little time, I'll beat him too.

Ste. Stand further.-Come, proceed.

Cal. Why, as I told thee, 'tis a cuttom with him
I' the afternoon to fleep: there thou may'it brain
Having first seized his books; or with a log [him,
Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,
Or cut his wezand with thy knife: Remember,
First to poffefs his books: for without them
He's but a fot, as I am; nor hath not
One fpirit to command: They all do hate him,
As rootedly as I: Burn but his books;
He has brave utenfils (for fo he calls them)
Which, when he has an house, he'll deck withal.
And that most deeply to confider, is
The beauty of his daughter; he himself
Calls her, a non-pareil: I never faw a woman,
But only Sycorax my dam, and she;
But fhe as far furpaifes Sycorax,

As greatest does leaft.

Ste. Is it fo brave a lafs?

Cal. Ay, lord, fhe will become thy bed, I warAnd bring thee forth brave brood.

Ready to drop upon me; that, when I wak'd,
I cry'd to dream again.

[story.

[where
Ste. This will prove a brave kingdom to me,
I fhall have my mufick for nothing.
Cal. When Profpero is destroy'd.
Ste. That thall be by and by: I remember the
Trin. The found is going away: let's follow it,
And after, do our work.

Ste. Lead, monfter; we'll follow.-I wou'd, I could fee this taborer: he lays it on.

Trin. Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano.

Changes to another part of the island.

Enter Alonso, Sebaftian, Anthonio, Gonzalo, Adrian,
Francifco, &c.

Gon. By'r lakin 4, I can go no further, fir;
My old bones ache: here's a maze trod, indeed,
Through forth-rights, and meanders! By your pa-
I needs muft reft me.
[tience,

Alon. Old lord, I cannot blame thee, Who am myself attach'd with wearinefs, To the dulling of my fpirits: fit down and rest. [rant, Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it Ste. Monfter, I will kill this man: his daughter No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd, and I will be king and queen; (fave our graces!) Whom thus we ftray to find; and the fea mocks and Trinculo and thyself thall be vice-roys :-Doft Our fruftrate fearch on land: Well, let him go. thou like the plot, Trinculo? Ant. [Afide to Sebaftian.] I am right glad that he's fo out of hope.

Trin. Excellent.

1 Alluding to the ftriped, or fool's coat worn by Trinculo, who in the ancient dramatis perfonæ is called a jefter, and not a failor. 2 Means probably to dismiss it trippingly from the tongue. 3 The provincial mode in Staffordshire and the adjoining counties of pronouncing the word afraid. i. c. The diminutive only of our lady, i. c. ladykin.

Do

Do not, for one repulfe, forego the purpose
That you refolv'd to effect.

Seb. The next advantage
Will we take thoroughly.

Ant. Let it be to-night;

For, now they are opprefs'd with travel, they
Will not, nor cannot, ufe fuch vigilance,
As when they are fresh.

Seb. I fay, to-night; no more.
Solemn and frange mufic; and Profpero on the top,
invifible. Enter feveral ftrange fhapes, bringing
in a banquet; they dance about it with gentle ac-
tions of falutation; and, inviting the king, &c. to
eat, they depart.

Alon. What harmony is this? my good friends, [hark! Alon. Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were thefe?

Gon. Marvellous fweet mufic!

Seb. 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.

Ant. I'll believe both;

And what does elfe want credit, come to me,
And I'll be fworn 'tis true: Travellers ne'er did lie,
Though fools at home condemn 'em.

Gon. If in Naples

I should report this now, would they believe me?
If I should fay, I saw such islanders,
(For, certes 2, thefe are people of the island)
Who though they are of monftrous fhape, yet note,
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of
Our human generation you shall find
Many, nay, almost any.

Pra. Honeft lord,

Thou haft faid well; for fome of you there prefent,
Are worse than devils.

Alon. I cannot too much mufe 3

[Afide.

Such shapes, fuch gefture, and fuch found expreffing (Although they want the ufe of tongue) a kind

Of excellent dumb difcourfe.

Pro. Praife in departing.

Fran. They vanish'd ftrangely.

Seb. No matter, fince

[Afide.

[machs.

Alon. I will ftand to, and feed,
Although my laft; no matter, fince I feel
The beft is paft:--Brother, my lord the duke,
Stand to, and do as we.

Thunder and lightning. Enter Ariel like a harpy:
claps his wings upon the table, and, with a quaint
device, the banquet vanishes.

Ari. You are three men of fin, whom destiny,
(That hath to instrument this lower world,
And what is in 't) the never-furfeited fea
Hath caufed to belch up; and on this island
Where man doth not inhabit; you 'mongst men
Being moft unfit to live. I have made you mad;
And even with fuch like valour men hang and drown
Their proper felves. [Alonfo, Sebastian, and the reft
Ye fools! I and my fellows [draw their fwords.
Are ministers of fate; the elements
Of whom your fwords are temper'd, may as well
Wound the loud winds, or with bemock't-at ftabs
Kill the ftill-clofing waters, as diminish

One dowle that's in my plume; my fellow-ministers
Are like invulnerable: if you could hurt,
Your fwords are now too maffy for your strengths,
And will not be uplifted: But remember,
(For that's my business to you) that you three
From Milan did fupplant good Profpero;
Expos'd unto the sea, which hath requit it,
Him, and his innocent child: for which foul deed
The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have
Incens'd the feas and thores, yea, all the creatures,
Against your peace: Thee, of thy fon, Alonfo,
They have bereft; and do pronounce by me,
Ling'ring perdition (worse than any death
Can be at once) shall step by step attend
You, and your ways; whofe wraths to guard you from
(Which here, in this most defolate ifle, elle falls
Upon your heads) is nothing, but heart's forrow,
And a clear 7 life enfuing.

He vanishes in thunder: then to foft mufic, enter the
hapes again, and dance with mops and mores 8,
and carry out the table.

Pro. [Alde] Bravely the figure of this harpy haft thou
Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had devouring;
Of my instruction haft thou nothing 'bated,

They have left their viands behind; for we have sto-In what thou hadst to fay: fo, with good life,
Will 't please you tafte of what is here?

Alon. Not I.
[were boys,
Gar. Faith, fir, you need not fear: When we
Who would believe that there were mountaineers,
Dew-lapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at
Wallets of flesh? or that there were fuch men, ['em
Whofe heads ftood in their breafts4? which now
we find,

Each putter out on five for one 5, will bring us
Good warrant of.

And obfervation ftrange, my meaner minifters
Their feveral kinds have done: my high charms work,
And thefe, mine enemies, are all knit up
In their diftractions: they now are in my power;
And in these fits I leave them, whilft I vifit
Young Ferdinand (whom they fuppofe is drown'd)
And his and my lov'd darling.

[Exit Profpero from above.
Gon. I' the name of fomething holy, fir, why
In this ftrange ftare?
[stand you

1 Shows, called drolleries, were in Shakspeare's time performed by puppets only. 2 Certainly. 3 Admire. 4 Our author might have had this intelligence from the tranflation of Pliny, b. V. ch. 8. "The Blemmyi, by report, have no heads, but mouth and eies both in their breall." 5 This paffage alludes to an ancient forgotten custom, now very obfcure, when it was customary for those who engaged in long expeditions, to place out a fum of money on condition of receiving great intereft for it at their return home. Bailey, in his Dictionary, fays, that dowle is a feather, or rather the fingle particles of the down. 7 Blamelets, innocent. To mop and to mowe feem to have the fame meaning, i. e. to make mouths or wry faces. 9 With honest alacrity, or

shearfulness.

Alon.

Alon. O, it is monftrous! monstrous! Methought, the billows spoke, and told me of it; The winds did fing it to me; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Profper; it did bafs1 my trespass. Therefore my fon i' the ooze is bedded; and I'll feek him deeper than e'er plummet founded, And with him there lie mudded.

Seb. But one fiend at a time,

[Exit.

[I'll fight their legions o'er.

Ant. I'll be thy fecond.
[Exeunt.
Gon. All three of them are defperate; their great
Like poifon given to work a great time after, [guilt,
Now 'gins to bite the fpirits:-I do beseech you
That are of fuppier joints, follow them fwiftly,
And hinder them from what this ecftafy 2
May now provoke them to.

Adr. Follow, I pray you.

[Excant.

ACT

SCENE I

Profpero's cell.

Enter Profpero, Ferdinand, and Miranda.

Pro. IF
F I have too aufterely punish'd you,
Your compenfation makes amends; for
Have given you here a third of mine own life,
Or that for which I live; whom once again

I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations
Were but my trials of thy love, and thou

Haft strangely stood the test: here, afore Heaven,
I ratify this my rich gift: O Ferdinand,
Do not fmile at me, that I boast her off,
For thou shalt find the will outstrip all praise,
And make it halt behind her.

Fer. I do believe it,

Against an oracle.

Pro. Then, as my gift, and thine own acquifition
Worthily purchas'd, take my daughter: But
If thou doft break her virgin knot, before
All fanctimonious ceremonies may
With full and holy rite be minifter'd,
No fweet afperfion 3 fhall the Heavens let fall
To make this contract grow; but barren hate,
Sour-ey'd difdain, and difcord, fhall beftrew
The union of your bed with weeds fo loathly,
That you shall hate it both: therefore take heed,
As Hymen's lamps shall light you.

Fer. As I hope

For quiet days, fair iffue, and long life,

With fuch love as 'tis now; the murkieft den,
The most opportune place, the ftrong'ft fuggeftion
Our worfer Genius can, fhall never melt
Mine honour into luft; to take away
The edge of that day's celebration,

1

Ari. What would my potent mafter? here I am.
Pro. Thou and thy meaner fellows your laft fervice
Did worthily perform, and I must use you
In fuch another trick: go, bring the rabble,
O'er whom I give thee power, here, to this place:

Incite them to quick motion; for I muft
Beftow upon the eyes of this young couple
Some vanity of mine art; it is my promife,
And they expect it from me.
Ari. Prefently?

Pro. Ay, with a twink.

Ari. Before you can fay, Come, and go,
And breathe twice; and cry, fo, foi
Each one, tripping on his toe,

Will be here with mop and moe:
Do you love me,
mafter? no.

Pro. Dearly, my delicate Ariel: Do not approach,
Till thou dost hear me call.

Now come, my Ariel; bring a 4 corollary,
Rather than want a fpirit; appear, and pertly.-
No tongue; all eyes; be filent. [Soft mafie.

Amafque. Enter Iris.
Iris. Ceres, moft bounteous lady, thy rich leas
Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats, and peafe;
Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling theep,

When I shall think, or Phoebus' fteeds are founder'd, And flat meads thatch'd with stover 5,them to keep; Or night kept chain'd below.

Pro. Fairly fpoke:

Sit then, and talk with her, fhe is thine own.--
What, Ariel; my induftrious fervant Ariel!---

Thy banks with pionied and twilled brims,
Which fpungy April at thy heft betrims, [groves,
To make cold nymphs chafte crowns; and thy broom
Whofe fhadow the difmiffed batchelor loves,

That is, told it me in a rough bafs found. 2 Ecftafy here fignifies alienation of mind. 3 Afperfion is here ufed in its primitive fenfe of fprinkling. 4 That is, bring more than are fufficient, rather than fail for want of numbers. Corollary means furplus. 5 Stover, from Eflovers, a law word, fignifies an allowance in food or other neceffarics of life. It is here ufed for provifion in general for animals. Difappointed lovers are ftill faid to wear the willow, and in thefe lines broom groves are afligned to that unfortunate tribe for a retreat. This may allude to fome old cuftom. We fill fay that a husband hangs out the broom when his wife goes from home for a fhort time; and on fuch occafions a broom befona has been exhibited as a fignal that the house was freed from uxorial refliaint, and where the mafter might be confidered as a temporary bachelor. Broom grotes may fignify broom Sufhes