Enter MIRANDA; and PROSPERO at a distance, unseen. Mir. Alas, now, pray you, 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; He's safe for these three hours. O most dear mistress, Fer. 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; Anon. conj. (N. and Q. 1850). labour's Most busy hest when Brae conj. labour Most baseless when D. Wilson conj. labour Most, when busyless Beale conj. (N. and Q. 1875). labour's Most busy haste when Id. conj. (N. and Q. 1876). labours Most busy,-lost, when Corson conj. (N. and Q. 1877). labour. Most busy, least when Watkiss Lloyd conj. (Athen. 1878). labour, Most busiest when Parchment Libr. ed. (Kinnear conj.) labour; Most busie-when Meredith conj. 15 Most busy lest,] Most busie lest, F1. Most busie least, F2FF. Least busie Pope. Most busie-less Theobald. Most busiest Holt conj. Most busy left, Jackson conj. Most busy, least Collier. Most busy, blest Collier MS. Most busy felt Staunton. Most busy still Id. conj. Most busiliest Bulloch conj. Most busily Bailey conj. Most busy rest Wetherell conj. (Athen. 1864). Most busied Beisly conj. (N. and Q. 1864). Most busy beat Herr conj. Most busy, least, Sprague conj. (Shakespeariana, 1884). Most busy lest, when I do (doe F1F2F3) Enter...] Rowe. Enter Miranda and 17 you are] F1. thou art F2F3F4 I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, While I sit lazy by. Mir. It would become me As well as it does you and I should do it This visitation shows it. Mir. Poor worm, thou art infected! 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,— What is your name? Mir. Miranda. O my father, Admired Miranda ! I have broke your hest to say so! worth Full many a lady Fer. Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, So perfect and so peerless, are created Mir. I do not know One of my sex; no woman's face remember, 31 it is] om. Steevens, 1793 (Anon. ap. Grey conj.). is it Steevens conj. (apart) behinde. Collier MS. 32 This] and this Hanmer, reading infected...it as one line. 30 335 40 45 34, 35 I do beseech you,-Chiefly] I do beseech you Cheefely Ff. 36 [to herselfe. Collier MS. Save, from my glass, mine own; nor have I seen I am skilless of; but, by my modesty, Besides yourself, to like of. But I prattle Something too wildly, and my father's precepts Fer. I am, in my condition, A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king; 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: very My heart fly to your service; there resides, To make me slave to it; and for your sake 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 What best is boded me to mischief! I, Beyond all limit of what else i' the world, Mir. I am a fool To weep at what I am glad of. 51 you] thou Delius (an error). 59 I therein do] I do Pope. Therein Steevens (1793). 62 This] At home this Elze conj. (N.' and Q. 1883). wooden] wodden F. sudden D. Wilson conj. 50 55 60 65 70 than to] than I would Pope. than I would to Anon. conj. 71-73 I,...Do love] Aye!...Do I love Allen conj. 72 what else] aught else Hanmer. what's else Keightley. what else's Allen conj. Pros. Fair encounter Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace Fer. 75 Wherefore weep you? Mir. At mine unworthiness, that dare not offer The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning! Fer. Ay, with a heart as willing As bondage e'er of freedom: here's my hand. 80 85 Mir. And mine, with my heart in't: and now farewell Till half an hour hence. Fer. A thousand thousand! 91 [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 Much business appertaining. 76 [apart. Collier MS. 80 all] yet or still Grey conj. seeks] seekd F3F4 87 [kneeles. Collier MS. [Kneeling. Collier. 88 as] F1. so F2F3F4· [rise. Collier MS. [Rising. Collier. 95 [Exit. 91 [Exeunt...severally] Capell. Exeunt. 93 are] am Hudson (Harvard ed.). 96 appertaining] appertaining to my 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 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. 6 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. Trin. Your lieutenant, if you list; he's no standard. 15 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 good moon-calf. Cal. How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe. I'll not serve him, he is not valiant. 21 Trin. Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in case 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. 3, 4 Servant-monster] Theobald. Servant Monster Ff. 4 the...island!] The folly of this island!' (as a toast) Nicholson conj. 8 head] F1. heart F2F3F4. 14 on. By this light, thou] on, by this light thou Ff. on, by this light.Thou Capell. |