BUNGAY: PRINTED BY JOHN CHILDS AND SON.
Stephano, a drunken Butler.
Alonso, King of Naples.
Sebastian, his Brother.
Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan.
Master of a Ship, Boatswain, and Mariners.
Antonio, his Brother, the usurping Duke of Miranda, Daughter to Prospero.
Ferdinand, Son to the King of Naples. Gonzalo, an honest old Counsellor of Naples. Adrian,
Francisco, Lords.
Caliban, a savage and deformed Slave. Trinculo, a Jester.
Iris, Ceres, Juno, Nymphs, Reapers,
Other Spirits attending on Prospero.
SCENE, The Sea, with a Ship; afterwards an uninhabited Island.
Bonts. Heigh, my hearts; cheerly, cheerly, my hearts; yare, yare: take in the topsail; Tend to the master's whistle.-Blow till thou burst thy wind, if room enough!
Enter Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, Ferdinand, Gonzalo, and others.
Alon. Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master? Play the men.
Boats. I pray now, keep below.
Aut. Where is the master, Boatswain? Boats. Do you not hear him? You mar our la- bour; Keep your cabins: you do assist the storm. Gon. Nay, good, be patient. Boats. When the sea is.
these roarers for the name of king? To cabin: si
Boats. Down with the top-mast; yare; lower, lower; bring her to try with main course. [A cry within.) A plague upon this howling! they are louder than the weather, or our office.
Re-enter Sebastian, Antonio, and Gonzalo. Yet again? what do you here? Shall we give o'er, and drown? Have you a mind to sink?
Seb. A pox o'your throat! you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!
Aut. Hang, cur, hang! you whoreson, insolent noise-maker, we are less afraid to be drowned than thou art.
Gon. I'll warrant him from drowning; though the ship were no stronger than a nut-shell, and as leaky as an unstanched wench.
Boats. Lay her a-hold, a-hold: set her twe courses; off to sea again, lay her off. Enter Mariners wet.
Mar. All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost! [Exeunt.
Boats. What, must our mouths be cold? Gon. The king and prince at prayers! let us as- sist them, For our case is as theirs.
Seb. I am out of patience. Ant. We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards.-
Gon. Good; yet remember whom thou hast aboard. Boats. None that I more love than myself. You This wide-chapp'd rascal ;-'Would, thou might'st are a counsellor; if you can command these elements to silence, and work the peace of the present, The washing of ten tides ! we will not hand a rope more; use your authority. If you cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so hap.-Cheerly, good hearts. Out of our way, I say. (Exit. Gon. I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows. Stand fast, good fate, to his hanging! make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our own doth little advantage! If he be not born to be hanged, our case is miserable.
He'll be hanged yet; Though every drop of water swear against it, And gape at wid'st to glut him. [A confused noise within.]-Mercy on us! We split, we split !-Farewell, my wife and children! Farewell, brother! We split, we split, we split!Ant. Let's all sink with the king. Seb. Let's take leave of him. Gon. Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground; long heath, brown furze, any thing: The wills above be done. [Exeunt. but I would fain die a dry death.
SCENE II. The Island: before the Cell of Prospero. |
Enter Prospero and Miranda.
Mira. If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them: The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffer'd With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel, Who had no doubt some noble creatures in her, Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls! they perish'd. Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er It should the good ship so have swallow'd, and The freighting souls within her. Be collected;
No more amazement: tell your piteous heart, There's no harm done.
No harm. I have done nothing but in care of thee, (Of thee, my dear one! thee, my daughter!) who Art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing Of whence I am; nor that I am more better Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell, And thy no greater father.
Did never meddle with my thoughts. Pro. 'Tis time I should inform thee further. Lend thy hand, And pluck my magic garment from me.-So; [Lays down his Mantle. Lie there, my art.-Wipe thou thine eyes; have comfort.
The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd The very virtue of compassion in thee, I have with such provision in mine art So safely order'd, that there is no soul- No, not so much perdition as an hair, Betid to any creature in the vessel
Mira. O, my heart bleeds To think o'the teen that I have turn'd you to, Which is from my remembrance! Please you fur. ther.
Pro. My brother, and thy uncle, call'd Antonio,- I pray thee, mark me,--that a brother should Be so perfidious!-he whom, next thyself, Of all the world I lov'd, and to him put The manage of my state; as, at that time, Through all the signiories it was the first, And Prospero the prime duke; being so reputed In dignity, and, for the liberal arts, Without a parallel; those being all my study, The government I cast upon my brother, And to my state grew stranger, being transported, And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle- Dost thou attend me?
Pro. Being once perfected how to grant suits, How to deny them; whom to advance, and whom To trash for over-topping; new created The creatures that were mine; I say, or chang'd them,
Or else new form'd them: having both the key Of officer and office, set all hearts
To what tune pleas'd his ear; that now he was The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, not: And suck'd my verdure out on't. Thou attend'st I pray thee, mark me.
Mira. O good sir, I do. Pro. I thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicate To closeness and the bettering of my mind With that, which, but by being so retir'd, O'erpriz'd all popular rate, in my false brother, Awak'd an evil nature: and my trust, Like a good parent, did beget of him A falsehood, in its contrary as great
As my trust was; which had, indeed, no limit, A confidence sans bound. He being thus lorded, Not only with what my revenue yielded, But what my power might else exact,-like one,
Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. Who having, unto truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie, he did believe He was the duke; out of the substitution, And executing the outward face of royalty, With all prerogative:-Hence his ambition Growing,-Dost hear?
Mira. Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. Pro. To have no screen between this part he And him he play'd it for, he needs will be [play'd, Absolute Milan: me, poor man! my library Was dukedom large enough; of temporal royalties He thinks me now incapable: confederates (So dry he was for sway) with the king of Naples, To give him annual tribute, do him homage; Subject his coronet to his crown, and bend The dukedom, yet unbow'd, (alas, poor Milan !) To most ignoble stooping.
Mira. O the heavens! Pro. Mark his condition, and the event; then If this might be a brother. [tell me, Mira. I should sin To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons. Pro. Now the condition. This king of Naples, being an enemy To me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit; Which was, that he in lieu o'the premises,-- Of homage, and I know not how much tribute,- Should presently extirpate me and mine Out of the dukedom; and confer fair Milan, With all the honours, on my brother: whereon A treacherous army levied, one midnight Fated to the purpose, did Antonio open The gates of Milan; and i'the dead of darkness, The ministers for the purpose hurried thence Me, and thy crying self.
I, not rememb'ring how I cried out then, Will cry it o'er again; it is a hint, That wrings mine eyes.
My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not;
(So dear the love my people bore me) nor set
A mark so bloody on the business; but With colours fairer painted their foul ends. In few, they hurried us aboard a bark; Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepar'd A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigg'd, Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats Instinctively had quit it: there they hoist us, To cry to the sea that roar'd to us; to sigh To the winds, whose pity, sighing back again, Did us but loving wrong.
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.
How came we ashore? Pro. By Providence divine. Some food we had, and some fresh water, that A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo, Out of his charity (who being then appointed Master of this design) did give us; with Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries, Which since have steaded much; so, of his gentle- Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me, [ness, From my own library, with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. Mira.
Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow. Here in this island we arriv'd; and here Have I, thy school-master, made thee more profit Than other princes can, that have more time For vainer hours, and tutors not so careful.
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 starting (then like reeds, not hair,) Was the first man that leap'd; cried, Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.
But was not this nigh shore?
Pro. But are they, Ariel, safe? Ari.
On their sustaining garments not a blemish, But fresher than before: and, as thou bad'st me, In troops I have dispers'd them 'bout the isle : The king's son have I landed by himself; Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs, In an odd angle of the isle, and sitting, His arms in this sad knot. Pro. Of the king's ship, The mariners, say, how thou hast dispos'd, And all the rest o'the fleet?
Safely in harbour Is the king's ship; in the deep nook, where once Thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew From the still-vex'd Bermoothes, there she's hid The mariners all under hatches stowed; 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; And are upon the Mediterranean flote, Bound sadly home for Naples; Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd, And his great person perish.
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, Ari. Is there more toil ? Since thou dost give me. pains,
Mira. Heavens thank you for't! And now, I Must by us both be spent most preciously.
Know thus far forth.- By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore: and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon
A most auspicious star; whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.-Here cease more questions; Thou art inclin'd to sleep; 'tis a good dulness, And give it way;-I know thou canst not choose. [Miranda sleeps. Come away, servant, come: I'm ready now; Approach, my Ariel; come.
Ari. All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come To run upon the sharp wind of the north; 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 Ariel, and all his quality.
To enter human hearing, from Argier, Thou know'st, was banish'd; for one thing she did, They would not take her life: Is not this true? Ari. Ay, sir.
Pro. This blue-ey'd hag was hither brought with child,
And here was left by the sailors: Thou, my slave, As thou report'st thyself, wast then her servant : And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate To act her earthy and abhorr'd commands, Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee, By help of her more potent ministers, And in her most unmitigable rage, Into a cloven pine; within which rift Imprison'd, thou didst painfully remain A dozen years; within which space she died, And left thee there; where thou didst vent thy groans,
As fast as mill-wheels strike: Then was this island, (Save for the son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp, hag-born,) not honour'd with A human shape.
I will be correspondent to command, And do my sprighting gently.
Do so; and after two days
I will discharge thee. Ari. That's my noble master! What shall I do? say what? what shall I do? Pro. Go make thyself like a nymph of the sea; Be subject to no sight but thine and mine; invisible To every eye-ball else. Go, take this shape, And hither come in't: go hence, with diligence. [Exit Ariel. Awake, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well; Awake!
Mira. The strangeness of your story put Heaviness in me.
Pro. Shake it off: come on;
We'll visit Caliban, my slave, who never
Yields us kind answer.
I do not love to look on.
All exercise on thee: thou shalt be pinch'd As thick as honey-combs, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made them. I must eat my dinner. This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou tak'st from me. When thou camest first, Thou strok'dst me, and mad'st much of me; wouldst give me
Water with berries in't; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night: and then I lov'd thee, And shew'd thee all the qualities o'the isle, The fresh springs, brine pits, barren place, and fer- Cursed be I that did so!-All the charms [tile; Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!" For I am all the subjects that you have, [me Which first was mine own king: and here you sty In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me The rest of the island. Pro.
Thou most lying slave, Whom stripes may move, not kindness: I have us'd thee,
Filth as thou art, with human care; and lodg'd thee In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate The honour of my child.
Cal. O ho, O ho!-'would it had been done! Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else This isle with Calibans.
Abhorred slave; Which any print of goodness will not take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known: But thy vile race, [natures Though thou didst learn, had that in't which good Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou Deservedly confin'd into this rock, Who hadst deserv'd more than a prison.
Cal. You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse: the red plague rid you, For learning me your language!
Hag-seed, hence! Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou wert best, To answer other business. Shrug'st thou, malice? If thou neglect'st, or dost unwillingly What I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps; Fill all thy bones with aches; make thee roar, That beasts shall tremble at thy din.
No, pray thee!I must obey: his art is of such power, It would control my dam's god, Setebos, And make a vassal of him. Pro.
Re-enter Ariel invisible, playing and singing; Ferdinand following him.
The strain of strutting chanticlere, Cry, Cock-a-doodle-doo.
Fer. Where should this music be? i'the air, or
It sounds no more:-and sure, it waits upon Some god of the island. Sitting on a bank, Weeping again the king my father's wreck, This music crept by me upon the waters; Allaying both their fury, and my passion, With its sweet air: thence I have follow'd it,
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