mean, To dote thus on such luggage? Let's alone," From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches ; STE. Be you quiet, monster.-Mistress line, is not this my jerkin? Now is the jerkin under the line: now, jerkin, you are like to lose your hair, and prove a bald jerkin. TRIN. Do, do we steal by line and level, an't like your grace. STE. I thank thee for that jest: here's a garment for 't: wit shall not go unrewarded while I am king of this country. Steal by line and level is an excellent pass of pate; there's another garment for 't. TRIN. Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and away with the rest. CAL. I will have none on 't; we shall lose our And all be turn'd to barnacles, (3) or to apes a A frippery-] A frippery was the name of a shop for the sale of second-hand apparel; the proprietor of which was called a fripper. The chief mart of the frippers, Strype tells us, was Birchin Lane and Cornhill. b Let's alone,-] Theobald reads, "Let's along;" which, if Brim-full of sorrow and dismay; but chiefly zalo; His tears run down his beard, like winter's drops From eaves of reeds: your charm so strongly works 'em, That if you now beheld them, your affections PRO. quick, Yet, with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury b Passion as they,-] We should probably read, "Passion'd as they." Do I take part. The rarer action is ARI. And ye that on the sands with printless foot Re-enter ARIEL: after him, ALONSO, with a fran tic gesture, attended by GONZALO; SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO in like manner, attended by ADRIAN and FRANCISCO: they all enter the circle which PROSPERO had made, and there stand charmed; which PROSPERO observing, speaks. A solemn air, and the best comforter To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains, Now useless, boil'd* within thy skull! There stand, For you are spell-stopp'd. Holy Gonzalo, honourable man, a (*) Old text, boile. Holy Gonzalo, honourable man, Mine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine,-] On this passage Mr. Collier has the following observations in his last edition :-"Noble' and flow' are from the corrected folio, 1632, and, we may be confident, are restorations of the poet's language. Why has Prospero to call Gonzalo holy, as the epithet stands in the folios?-he was 'noble' and 'honourable,' but in no respect holy; the error of show for flow' is also transparent, and must have been occasioned chiefly by the mistake of the long s for f." In his anxiety to sustain the changes proposed by his annotator, Mr. Collier appears to have forgotten two or three Mine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine, To him thou follow'st! I will pay thy graces You brother mine, that entertain ambition, Expell'd remorse and nature; who, with Sebastian, Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong,Would here have kill'd your king; I do forgive thee, Unnatural though thou art.-Their understanding [Exit ARIEL. I will discase me, and myself present, A hearty welcome. ALON. Wher thou beest he, or no, Or some enchanted trifle to abuse me, As late I have been, I not know thy pulse Beats, as of flesh and blood; and, since I saw thee, The affliction of my mind amends, with which, I fear, a madness held me: this must crave An if this be at all-a most strange story. Thy dukedom I resign; and do entreat Thou pardon me my wrongs.-But how should Prospero Be living, and be here? PRO. [TO GON.] First, noble friend, I rather think, You have not sought her help; of whose soft grace, ALON. ALON. A daughter? O heavens! that they were living both in Naples, strangely [lords PRO. In this last tempest.-I perceive these At this encounter do so much admire, That they devour their reason, and scarce think Their eyes do offices of truth, their words Are natural breath: but, howsoe'er you have Been justled from your senses, know for certain That I am Prospero, and that very duke Which was thrust forth of Milan; who most [landed, Upon this shore, where you were wreck'd, was To be the lord on 't. No more yet of this; For 't is a chronicle of day by day, Not a relation for a breakfast, nor Befitting this first meeting. Welcome, sir; This cell's my court: here have I few attendants, And subjects none abroad: pray you, look in. My dukedom since you have given me again, I will requite you with as good a thing; At least, bring forth a wonder to content ye, As much as me my dukedom. ALON. What is this maid, with whom thou wast at play? Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours: FER. ALON. I am hers: But O, how oddly will it sound that I Must ask my child forgiveness! PRO. Let us not burden our remembrances with A heaviness that's gone. There, sir, stop; I have inly wept, GON. Or should have spoke ere this.-Look down, you gods, And on this couple drop a blessed crown! For it is you that have chalk'd forth the way Which brought us hither. ALON. I say, Amen, Gonzalo! GON. Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue Should become kings of Naples? O, rejoice ALON. [TO FERDINAND and MIRANDA.] Give me your hands: Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart GON. Be't so! Amen! Re-enter ARIEL, with the Master and Boatswain amazedly following. O look, sir, look, sir! here are more of us! found |