(So dear the love my people bore me) nor set Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepar'd Mira. Was I then to you! Pro. Alack! what trouble O! a cherubim Thou wast, that did preserve me! Thou didst smile, Infused with a fortitude from heaven, When I have deck'd' the sea with drops full salt; Under my burden groan'd; which rais'd in me An undergoing stomach," to bear up Against what should ensue. Mira, Pro. By Providence divine. How came we ashore? Some food we had, and some fresh water, that Out of his charity, (who being then appointed Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries, I prize above my dukedom. 5 Sprinkled. 6 Stubborn resolution. Mira. 'Would I might Now I arise: But ever see that man! Pro. Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow. you, sir, you (For still 'tis beating in my mind,) your reason For raising this sea-storm? Pro. Know thus far forth. By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, Will ever after droop.-Here cease more questions; [MIRANDA sleeps, Come away, servant, come: I am ready now; Approach, my Ariel; come. Enter ARIEL. Ari. All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I 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? Ari. To every article. I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak, Pro. My brave spirit! Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil 8 Would not infect his reason? Ari. Not a soul But felt a fever of the mad, and play'd Some tricks of desperation: All, but mariners, Plung'd in the foaming brine, and quit the vessel, Then all a-fire with me: the king's son, Ferdinand, With hair up-staring (then like reeds, not hair,) Was the first man that leap'd; cried, Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.. But fresher than before: and, as thou bad'st me, Pro. The mariners, say, how thou hast dispos'd, Ari. Of the king's ship, Safely in harbour Is the king's ship; in the deep nook, where once Whom, with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour, I have left asleep and for the rest o' the fleet, : Which I dispers'd, they all have met again; Bound sadly home for Naples; Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd, And his great person perish. 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, 9 Bermudas. I Wave. Pro. Before the time be out? no more. I pray thee Ari. Remember, I have done thee worthy service; Told thee no lies, made no mistakings, serv'd Without or grudge or grumblings: thou didst promise To bate me a full year. Pro. Dost thou forget No. From what a torment I did free thee? Ari. 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, For mischiefs manifold, and sorceries terrible To enter human hearing, from Argier, 2 Algiers. |