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Step. Come, swear to that ;-[Gives CALIBAN the Keg.]-kiss the book: I will furnish it anon with new [CALIBAN drinks greedily. Trin. By this good light, this is a very shallow monster :-I afeard of him ?-a very weak monster —the man i'the moon!-A most poor, credulous

monster.

Step. Well drawn, monster, in good sooth.

[Takes the Keg from CALIBAN. Cal. I'll show thee every fertile inch o' the island ; And I'll kiss thy foot: I pr'ythee, be my god.

Trin. By this light, a most perfidious and drunken monster; when his god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle. Cal. I'll show thee the best springs; I'll pluck thee berries;

I'll fish for thee, and get thee wood enough.

A plague upon the tyrant that I serve!

I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee,
Thou wond'rous man.

Trin. A most ridiculous monster to make a wonder of a poor drunkard.—Ah me!

Cal. Ipr'ythee, let me bring thee where crabs grow: And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts; Show thee a jay's nest, and instruct thee how To snare the nimble marmozet; I'll bring thee To clust'ring filberts, and sometimes I'll get thee Young sea-mells from the rock: Wilt thou go with me? Step. I pr'ythee now, lead the way, without any more talking.-What, Trinculo,-weeping ?-You spill your wine out of your eyes; you shall drink no

more.

Trin. This will be a doleful day with my poor girl : she gave me a gilt nutmeg at parting: that's lost too. -But, come, sorrow is dry,-[Takes the Keg.] Here's to you, Stephano. [Drinks.

Step. Beshrew thy heart, for putting me in mind of my wife: It's a good old jade ;--she has but one eye left, and she will weep out that too, when she

hears that I am drowned.- [Takes the Keg.] But here's my comfort.

[Drinks. Trin. A man had as good e'en be a fish as a man, for any comfort is likely to be got in this island :We may lie at hull here till the wind blow north and by south, ere we can cry-" A sail! a sail !”—at sight of a white apron.

Step. Trinculo, the king, and all our company, being drowned, we will inherit here.-Here; bear my bottle, [Gives the Keg to CALIBAN, who drinks it empty.] -and lead the way, monster.-Fellow Trinculo, we'll fill him by and by again.

CALIBAN sings drunkenly.

No more dams I'll make for fish;
Nor fetch in firing,

At requiring,

Nor scrape trench'ring, nor wash dish
'Ban, 'Ban, Ca-Caliban,

;

Has a new master;—Get a new man.

Trin. Step. S'Ban, 'Ban, Ca-Caliban,

and Cal. Has a new master ;—Get a new man.

[Exeunt.

SCENE VI.

A wild and beautiful Part of the Island, on the Seashore.

Enter ARIEL and other SPIRITS.

SONG BY ARIEL.

Come unto these yellow sands,

And then take hands;

Enter other SPIRITS, dancing.

Foot it featly here and there;
And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.

Chorus of SPIRITS.

Hark! hark!

The watch-dogs bark:
Hark! hark! I hear

The strain of Chanticleer,

Enter FERDINAND, with his Sword drawn.-ARIEL and the other SPIRITS are invisible to him.

Fer. Where should this music be? I'the air, or the earth?

It sounds no more :—and sure, it waits upon
Some god o'th' 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,
Or it hath drawn me rather :--
-But 'tis gone

No, it begins again

SONG BY ARIEL.

Full fathom five, thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that does fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change,
Into something rich and strange.

[Music.

Chorus of SPIRITS.

Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell ;

Hark! now I hear them,-ding-dong, bell.

Fer. This ditty does remember my drown'd father :

This is no mortal business, nor no sound

That the earth owes.

[ARIEL waves FERDINAND after him.

Chorus of SPIRITS.

Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell;

Hark! now I hear them,-ding-dong, bell.

ACT THE THIRD.

SCENE I.

[Exeunt.

The Cell of PROspero.

ARIEL and other SPIRITS, still invisible to FERDINAND,

sing without.

Chorus of SPIRITS.

Sea nymphs hourly ring his knell;

Hark! now I hear them,-ding-dong, bell.

[While they are singing,

Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA.

Pro. The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say, what thou see'st yond'.

Mir. What is't, a spirit?

Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir,

It carries a brave form :-But 'tis a spirit?

Pro. No, wench; it eats, and sleeps, and hath such

senses

As we have, such: This gallant, which thou seest, Was in the wreck; and, but he's something stain'd With grief, that's beauty's canker, thou might'st call him

A goodly person.

Enter ARIEL, waving FERDINAND after him, followed by other SPIRITS,

Mir. I might call him

A thing divine; for nothing natural
I ever saw so noble.

Pro. It goes on,

As my soul prompts it:-Spirit, fine spirit! I'll free

thee

Within two days for this.

Fer. Most sure, the goddess,

On whom these airs attend!-Vouchsafe my prayer
May know, if you remain upon this island;
And that you will some good instruction give,
How I may bear me here: My prime request,
Which I do last pronounce, is,-0 you wonder!-

If

you be maid, or no?

Mir. No wonder, sir;

But certainly a maid.

Fer. My language!-Heavens !

I am the best of them, that speak this speech,
Were I but where 'tis spoken.

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