Part 4

_Mir._ Alas, now, pray you, 15 Work not so hard: I would the lightning had Burnt up those logs that you are enjoin’d to pile! Pray, set it down, and rest you: when this burns, ’Twill weep for having wearied you. My father Is hard at study; pray, now, rest yourself; 20 He’s safe for these three hours.

_Fer._ O most dear mistress, The sun will set before I shall discharge What I must strive to do.

_Mir._ If you’ll sit down, I’ll bear your logs the while: pray, give me that; I’ll carry it to the pile.

_Fer._ No, precious creature; 25 I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, Than you should such dishonour undergo, While I sit lazy by.

_Mir._ 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, 30 And yours it is against.

_Pros._ Poor worm, thou art infected! This visitation shows it.

_Mir._ You look wearily.

_Fer._ No, noble mistress; ’tis fresh morning with me When you are by at night. I do beseech you,-- Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers,-- 35 What is your name?

_Mir._ Miranda. --O my father, I have broke your hest to say so!

_Fer._ Admired Miranda! Indeed the top of admiration! worth What’s dearest to the world! Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time 40 The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, 45 And put it to the foil: but you, O you, So perfect and so peerless, are created Of every creature’s best!

_Mir._ I do not know One of my sex; no woman’s face remember, Save, from my glass, mine own; nor have I seen 50 More that I may call men than you, good friend, And my dear father: how features are abroad, I am skilless of; but, by my modesty, The jewel in my dower, I would not wish Any companion in the world but you; 55 Nor can imagination form a shape, Besides yourself, to like of. But I prattle Something too wildly, and my father’s precepts I therein do forget.

_Fer._ I am, in my condition, A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king; 60 I would, not so!--and would no more endure This wooden slavery than to suffer The flesh-fly blow my mouth. Hear my soul speak: The very instant that I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides, 65 To make me slave to it; and for your sake Am I this patient log-man.

_Mir._ Do you love me?

_Fer._ O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound, And crown what I profess with kind event, If I speak true! if hollowly, invert 70 What best is boded me to mischief! I, Beyond all limit of what else i’ the world, Do love, prize, honour you.

_Mir._ I am a fool To weep at what I am glad of.

_Pros._ Fair encounter Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace 75 On that which breeds between ’em!

_Fer._ Wherefore weep you?

_Mir._ At mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give; and much less take What I shall die to want. But this is trifling; And all the more it seeks to hide itself, 80 The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful 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 servant, 85 Whether you will or no.

_Fer._ My mistress, dearest; And I thus humble ever.

_Mir._ My husband, then?

_Fer._ Ay, with a heart as willing As bondage e’er of freedom: here’s my hand.

_Mir._ And mine, with my heart in’t: and now farewell 90 Till half an hour hence.

_Fer._ A thousand thousand!

[_Exeunt Fer. and Mir. severally._

_Pros._ So glad of this as they I cannot be, Who are surprised withal; but my rejoicing At nothing can be more. I’ll to my book; For yet, ere supper-time, must I perform 95 Much business appertaining. [_Exit._

Notes: III, 1.

1: _and_] _but_ Pope. 2: _sets_] Rowe. _set_ Ff. 4, 5: _my ... odious_] _my mean task would be As heavy to me as ’tis odious_ Pope. 9: _remove_] _move_ Pope. 14: _labours_] _labour_ Hanmer. 15: _Most busy lest_] F1. _Most busy least_ F2 F3 F4. _Least busy_ Pope. _Most busie-less_ Theobald._ Most busiest_ Holt White conj. _Most busy felt_ Staunton. _Most busy still_ Staunton conj. _Most busy-blest_ Collier MS. _Most busiliest_ Bullock conj. _Most busy lest, when I do_ (_doe_ F1 F2 F3) _it_] _Most busy when least I do it_ Brae conj. _Most busiest when idlest_ Spedding conj. _Most busy left when idlest_ Edd. conj. See note (XIII). at a distance, unseen] Rowe. 17: _you are_] F1. _thou art_ F2 F3 F4. 31: _it is_] _is it_ Steevens conj. (ed. 1, 2, and 3). om. Steevens (ed. 4) (Farmer conj.). 34, 35: _I do beseech you,--Chiefly_] _I do beseech you Chiefly_ Ff. 59: _I therein do_] _I do_ Pope. _Therein_ Steevens. 62: _wooden_] _wodden_ F1. _than to_] _than I would_ Pope. 72: _what else_] _aught else_ Malone conj. (withdrawn). 80: _seeks_] _seekd_ F3 F4. 88: _as_] F1. _so_ F2 F3 F4. 91: _severally_] Capell. 93: _withal_] Theobald. _with all_ Ff.

## SCENE II. _Another part of the island._

_Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO._

_Ste._ Tell not me;--when the butt is out, we will drink water; not a drop before: therefore bear up, and board ’em. Servant-monster, drink to me.

_Trin._ Servant-monster! the folly of this island! They say there’s but five upon this isle: we are three of them; if 5 th’ other two be brained like us, the state totters.

_Ste._ Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee: thy eyes are almost set in thy head.

_Trin._ Where should they be set else? he were a brave monster indeed, if they were set in his tail. 10

_Ste._ My man-monster hath drowned his tongue in sack: for my part, the sea cannot drown me; I swam, ere I could recover the shore, five-and-thirty leagues off and on. By this light, thou shalt be my lieutenant, monster, or my standard. 15

_Trin._ Your lieutenant, if you list; he’s no standard.

_Ste._ We’ll not run, Monsieur Monster.

_Trin._ Nor go neither; but you’ll lie, like dogs, and yet say nothing neither.

_Ste._ Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a 20 good moon-calf.

_Cal._ How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe. I’ll not serve him, he is not valiant.

_Trin._ Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou debauched fish, thou, was 25 there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I to-day? Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?

_Cal._ Lo, how he mocks me! wilt thou let him, my lord?

_Trin._ ‘Lord,’ quoth he! That a monster should be 30 such a natural!

_Cal._ Lo, lo, again! bite him to death, I prithee.

_Ste._ Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head: if you prove a mutineer,--the next tree! The poor monster’s my subject, and he shall not suffer indignity. 35

_Cal._ I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleased to hearken once again to the suit I made to thee?

_Ste._ Marry, will I: kneel and repeat it; I will stand, and so shall Trinculo.

_Enter ARIEL, invisible._

_Cal._ As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a 40 sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island.

_Ari._ Thou liest.

_Cal._ Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou: I would my valiant master would destroy thee! I do not lie.

_Ste._ Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in’s tale, by 45 this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.

_Trin._ Why, I said nothing.

_Ste._ Mum, then, and no more. Proceed.

_Cal._ I say, by sorcery he got this isle; From me he got it. If thy greatness will 50 Revenge it on him,--for I know thou darest, But this thing dare not,--

_Ste._ That’s most certain.

_Cal._ Thou shalt be lord of it, and I’ll serve thee.

_Ste._ How now shall this be compassed? Canst thou 55 bring me to the party?

_Cal._ Yea, yea, my lord: I’ll yield him thee asleep, Where thou mayst knock a nail into his head.

_Ari._ Thou liest; thou canst not.

_Cal._ What a pied ninny’s this! Thou scurvy patch! 60 I do beseech thy Greatness, give him blows, And take his bottle from him: when that’s gone, He shall drink nought but brine; for I’ll not show him Where the quick freshes are.

_Ste._ Trinculo, run into no further danger: interrupt the 65 monster one word further, and, by this hand, I’ll turn my mercy out o’ doors, and make a stock-fish of thee.

_Trin._ Why, what did I? I did nothing. I’ll go farther off.

_Ste._ Didst thou not say he lied? 70

_Ari._ Thou liest.

_Ste._ Do I so? take thou that. [_Beats him._] As you like this, give me the lie another time.

_Trin._ I did not give the lie. Out o’ your wits, and hearing too? A pox o’ your bottle! this can sack and 75 drinking do. A murrain on your monster, and the devil take your fingers!

_Cal._ Ha, ha, ha!

_Ste._ Now, forward with your tale. --Prithee, stand farther off. 80

_Cal._ Beat him enough: after a little time, I’ll beat him too.

_Ste._ Stand farther. Come, proceed.

_Cal._ Why, as I told thee, ’tis a custom with him I’ th’ afternoon to sleep: there thou mayst brain him, Having first seized his books; or with a log 85 Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, Or cut his wezand with thy knife. Remember First to possess his books; for without them He’s but a sot, as I am, nor hath not One spirit to command: they all do hate him 90 As rootedly as I. Burn but his books. He has brave utensils,--for so he calls them,-- Which, when he has a house, he’ll deck withal. And that most deeply to consider is The beauty of his daughter; he himself 95 Calls her a nonpareil: I never saw a woman, But only Sycorax my dam and she; But she as far surpasseth Sycorax As great’st does least.

_Ste._ Is it so brave a lass?

_Cal._ Ay, lord; she will become thy bed, I warrant, 100 And bring thee forth brave brood.

_Ste._ Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and I will be king and queen,--save our Graces!--and Trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys. Dost thou like the plot, Trinculo? 105

_Trin._ Excellent.

_Ste._ Give me thy hand: I am sorry I beat thee; but, while thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head.

_Cal._ Within this half hour will he be asleep: Wilt thou destroy him then?

_Ste._ Ay, on mine honour. 110

_Ari._ This will I tell my master.

_Cal._ Thou makest me merry; I am full of pleasure: Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch You taught me but while-ere?

_Ste._ At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any 115 reason. --Come on. Trinculo, let us sing. [_Sings._

Flout ’em and scout ’em, and scout ’em and flout ’em; Thought is free.

_Cal._ That’s not the tune.

[_Ariel plays the tune on a tabor and pipe._

_Ste._ What is this same? 120

_Trin._ This is the tune of our catch, played by the picture of Nobody.

_Ste._ If thou beest a man, show thyself in thy likeness: if thou beest a devil, take’t as thou list.

_Trin._ O, forgive me my sins! 125

_Ste._ He that dies pays all debts: I defy thee. Mercy upon us!

_Cal._ Art thou afeard?

_Ste._ No, monster, not I.

_Cal._ Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, 130 Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, 135 The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.

_Ste._ This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing. 140

_Cal._ When Prospero is destroyed.

_Ste._ That shall be by and by: I remember the story.

_Trin._ The sound is going away; let’s follow it, and after do our work.

_Ste._ Lead, monster; we’ll follow. I would I could see 145 this taborer; he lays it on.

_Trin._ Wilt come? I’ll follow, Stephano. [_Exeunt._

Notes: III, 2.

## SCENE II. Another...] Theobald. The other... Pope.

Enter ...] Enter S. and T. reeling, Caliban following with a bottle. Capell. Enter C. S. and T. with a bottle. Johnson.] 8: _head_] F1. _heart_ F2 F3 F4. 13, 14: _on. By this light, thou_] _on, by this light thou_ Ff. _on, by this light. --Thou_ Capell. 25: _debauched_] _debosh’d_ Ff. 37: _to the suit I made to thee_] _the suit I made thee_ Steevens, who prints all Caliban’s speeches as verse. 60: Johnson conjectured that this line was spoken by Stephano. 68: _farther_] F1 _no further_ F2 F3 F4. 72: [Beats him.] Rowe. 84: _there_] _then_ Collier MS. 89: _nor_] _and_ Pope. 93: _deck_] _deck’t_ Hanmer. 96: _I never saw a woman_] _I ne’er saw woman_ Pope. 99: _great’st does least_] _greatest does the least_ Rowe. 115, 116:] Printed as verse in Ff. 115: _any_] F1. _and_ F2 F3 F4. 117: _scout ’em, and scout ’em_] Pope. _cout ’em and skowt ’em_ Ff. 125: _sins_] _sin_ F4. 132: _twangling_] _twanging_ Pope. 133: _sometime_] F1. _sometimes_ F2 F3 F4. 137: _that_] om. Pope. 147: Trin. _Will come? I’ll follow, Stephano_] Trin. _Wilt come?_ Ste. _I’ll follow._ Capell. Ste. _... Wilt come?_ Trin. _I’ll follow, Stephano._ Ritson conj.

## SCENE III. _Another part of the island._

_Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others._

_Gon._ By’r lakin, I can go no further, sir; My old bones ache: here’s a maze trod, indeed, Through forth-rights and meanders! By your patience, I needs must rest me.

_Alon._ Old lord, I cannot blame thee, Who am myself attach’d with weariness, 5 To the dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest. Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it No longer for my flatterer: he is drown’d Whom thus we stray to find; and the sea mocks Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go. 10

_Ant._ [_Aside to Seb._] I am right glad that he’s so out of hope. Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose That you resolved to effect.

_Seb._ [_Aside to Ant._] The next advantage Will we take throughly.

_Ant._ [_Aside to Seb._] Let it be to-night; For, now they are oppress’d with travel, they 15 Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance As when they are fresh.

_Seb._ [_Aside to Ant._] I say, to-night: no more.

[_Solemn and strange music._

_Alon._ What harmony is this?--My good friends, hark!

_Gon._ Marvellous sweet music!

_Enter PROSPERO above, invisible. Enter several strange Shapes, bringing in a banquet: they dance about it with gentle actions of salutation; and, inviting the King, &c. to eat, they depart._

_Alon._ Give us kind keepers, heavens!--What were these? 20

_Seb._ A living drollery. Now I will believe That there are unicorns; that in Arabia There is one tree, the phœnix’ throne; one phœnix At this hour reigning there.

_Ant._ I’ll believe both; And what does else want credit, come to me, 25 And I’ll be sworn ’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 say, I saw such islanders,-- For, certes, these are people of the island,-- 30 Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet, note, Their manners are more gentle-kind than of Our human generation you shall find Many, nay, almost any.

_Pros._ [_Aside_] Honest lord, Thou hast said well; for some of you there present 35 Are worse than devils.

_Alon._ I cannot too much muse Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, expressing-- Although they want the use of tongue--a kind Of excellent dumb discourse.

_Pros._ [_Aside_] Praise in departing.

_Fran._ They vanish’d strangely.

_Seb._ No matter, since 40 They have left their viands behind; for we have stomachs.-- Will’t please you taste of what is here?

_Alon._ Not I.

_Gon._ Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys, Who would believe that there were mountaineers Dew-lapp’d like bulls, whose throats had hanging at ’em 45 Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find Each putter-out of five for one will bring us Good warrant of.

_Alon._ I will stand to, and feed, Although my last: no matter, since I feel 50 The best is past. 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 sin, whom Destiny,-- That hath to instrument this lower world And what is in’t,--the never-surfeited sea 55 Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island, Where man doth not inhabit,--you ’mongst men Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad; And even with such-like valour men hang and drown Their proper selves. [_Alon., Seb. &c. draw their swords._ You fools! I and my fellows 60 Are ministers of Fate: the elements, Of whom your swords are temper’d, may as well Wound the loud winds, or with bemock’d-at stabs Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish One dowle that’s in my plume: my fellow-ministers 65 Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt, Your swords are now too massy for your strengths, And will not be uplifted. But remember,-- For that’s my business to you,--that you three From Milan did supplant good Prospero; 70 Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it, Him and his innocent child: for which foul deed The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have Incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures, Against your peace. Thee of thy son, Alonso, 75 They have bereft; and do pronounce by me: Lingering perdition--worse than any death Can be at once--shall step by step attend You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from,-- Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls 80 Upon your heads,--is nothing but heart-sorrow And a clear life ensuing.

_He vanishes in thunder; then, to soft music, enter the Shapes again, and dance, with mocks and mows, and carrying out the table._

_Pros._ Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou Perform’d, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring: Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated 85 In what thou hadst to say: so, with good life And observation strange, my meaner ministers Their several kinds have done. My high charms work, And these mine enemies are all knit up In their distractions: they now are in my power; 90 And in these fits I leave them, while I visit Young Ferdinand,--whom they suppose is drown’d,-- And his and mine loved darling. [_Exit above._

_Gon._ I’ the name of something holy, sir, why stand you In this strange stare?

_Alon._ O, it is monstrous, monstrous! 95 Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i’ th’ ooze is bedded; and 100 I’ll seek him deeper than e’er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded. [_Exit._

_Seb._ But one fiend at a time, I’ll fight their legions o’er.

_Ant._ I’ll be thy second.

[_Exeunt Seb. and Ant._

_Gon._ All three of them are desperate: their great guilt, Like poison given to work a great time after, 105 Now ’gins to bite the spirits. I do beseech you, That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly, And hinder them from what this ecstasy May now provoke them to.

_Adr._ Follow, I pray you. [_Exeunt._

Notes: III, 3.

2: _ache_] _ake_ F2 F3 F4. _akes_ F1. 3: _forth-rights_] F2 F3 F4. _fourth rights_ F1. 8: _flatterer_] F1. _flatterers_ F2 F3 F4. 17: Prospero above] Malone. Prosper on the top Ff. See note (XIV). 20: _were_] F1 F2 F3. _are_ F4. 26: _’tis true_] _to ’t_ Steevens conj. _did lie_] _lied_ Hanmer. 29: _islanders_] F2 F3 F4. _islands_ F1. 32: _gentle-kind_] Theobald. _gentle, kind_ Ff. _gentle kind_ Rowe. 36: _muse_] F1 F2 F3. _muse_, F4. _muse_; Capell. 48: _of five for one_] Ff. _on five for one_ Theobald. _of one for five_ Malone, (Thirlby conj.) See note (XV). 49-51: _I will ... past_] Mason conjectured that these lines formed a rhyming couplet. 53: SCENE IV. Pope. 54: _instrument_] _instruments_ F4. 56: _belch up you_] F1 F2 F3. _belch you up_ F4. _belch up_ Theobald. 60: [... draw their swords] Hanmer. 65: _dowle_] _down_ Pope.] _plume_] Rowe. _plumbe_ F1 F2 F3. _plumb_ F4. 67: _strengths_] _strength_ F4. 79: _wraths_] _wrath_ Theobald. 81: _heart-sorrow_] Edd. _hearts-sorrow_ Ff. _heart’s-sorrow_ Rowe. _heart’s sorrow_ Pope. 82: mocks] mopps Theobald. 86: _life_] _list_ Johnson conj. 90: _now_] om. Pope. 92: _whom_] _who_ Hanmer. 93: _mine_] _my_ Rowe. [Exit above] Theobald.] 94: _something holy, sir_,] _something, holy Sir_, F4. 99: _bass_] Johnson. _base_ Ff. 106: _do_] om. Pope.

## ACT IV.

## SCENE I. _Before PROSPERO’S cell._

_Enter PROSPERO, FERDINAND, and MIRANDA._

_Pros._ If I have too austerely punish’d you, Your compensation makes amends; for I Have given you here a third of mine own life, Or that for which I live; who once again I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations 5 Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test: here, afore Heaven, I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand, Do not smile at me that I boast her off, For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise, 10 And make it halt behind her.

_Fer._ I do believe it Against an oracle.

_Pros._ Then, as my gift, and thine own acquisition Worthily purchased, take my daughter: but If thou dost break her virgin-knot before 15 All sanctimonious ceremonies may With full and holy rite be minister’d, No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall To make this contract grow; but barren hate, Sour-eyed disdain and discord shall bestrew 20 The union of your bed with weeds so 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 issue and long life, With such love as ’tis now, the murkiest den, 25 The most opportune place, the strong’st suggestion Our worser Genius can, shall never melt Mine honour into lust, to take away The edge of that day’s celebration When I shall think, or Phœbus’ steeds are founder’d, 30 Or Night kept chain’d below.

_Pros._ Fairly spoke. Sit, then, and talk with her; she is thine own. What, Ariel! my industrious servant, Ariel!

_Enter ARIEL._

_Ari._ What would my potent master? here I am.