fack and drinking do. A murrain on your monster, and the devil take your fingers!

Cal. Ha, ha, ha.

-Ste. Now, forward with your tale; pr'ythee, ftand further off.

Cal. Beat him enough; after a little time I'll beat him too.

Ste. Stand further. Come, proceed.

Cal. Why, as I told thee, 'tis a cuftom with him
I'th' afternoon to fleep; there thou may'st brain him,
Having first seiz'd his books: or with a log
Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,
Or cut his wezand with thy knife. Remember,
Firft to poffefs his books; for without them
He's but a fot, as I am; nor hath not

One spirit to command. They all do hate him,
As rootedly as I. Burn but his books;
He has brave utenfils, (for fo he calls them,)
Which when he has an houfe, he'll deck withal.
And that moft deeply to confider, is

The beauty of his daughter; he himself

Calls her a non-pareil; I ne'er saw a woman,
But only Sycorax my dam, and she :

But fhe as far furpaffes Sycorax,

As greatest does the leaft.

Ste. Is it fo brave a Lass!

Cal. Ay, lord; fhe will become thy bed, I warrant, And bring thee forth brave brood.

Ste. Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and I will be King and Queen, fave our Graces: and Trinculo and thyself shall be Vice-Roys. Doft thou like the plot, Trinculo?

Trin. Excellent.

Ste. Give me thy hand; I am forry, I beat thee: but, while thou liv'ft, keep a good tongue in thy head. Cal. Within this half hour will he be asleep;

Wilt thou deftroy him then?

Ste. Ay, on my honour.

Cal. Thou mak'ft me merry; I am full of pleasure ; Let us be jocund. Will you troll the catch, You taught me while-ere?

Ste. At thy request, monfter, I will do reason, any reafon: come on, Trinculo, let us fing.

[Sings. Flout 'em, and fkout 'em; and fkout '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 fame?

Trin. This is the tune of our catch, plaid by the picture of no-body.

Ste. If thou be'ft a man, fhew thyself in the likenefs; if thou be'ft a devil, take't as thou list. Trin. O, forgive me my fins!

Ste. He that dies, pays all debts: I defy thee. Mercy upon us!

Cal. Art thou afraid?

Ste. No, monfter, not I.

Cal. Be not afraid; the isle is full of noises, [not. Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt Sometimes a thousand twanging inftruments

Will'hum about mine ears, and sometimes voices;
That, if I then had wak'd after long fleep,

Will make me fleep again; and then in dreaming,
The clouds, methought, would open, and fhew riches
Ready to drop upon me; that when I wak'd,
I cry'd to dream again.

Ste. This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my mufic for nothing.

Cal. When Profpero is destroy'd.

Ste. That fhall be by and by: I remember the ftory. Trin. The found is going away; let's follow it, and after do our work.

Ste. Lead, monfter; we'll follow. I would I could fee this taborer. He lays it on.

Trin. Wilt come? I'll follow Stephano.

[Exeunt. SCENE

SCENE III.

Changes to another part of the Island.

Enter Alonfo, Sebaftian, Anthonio, Gonzalo, Adrian, Francifco, &c.

Y'R lakin, I can go no further, Sir, [deed,

Gon.B My old bones ake: here's a maze trod, in

Through forth-rights and meanders! by your patiI needs muft reft me.

[ence,

Alon. Old lord, I cannot blame thee,
Who am myself attach'd with weariness,
To th' dulling of my spirits: fit down and rest.
Ev'n here I will put off my hope, and keep it
No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd,
Whom thus we ftray to find, and the fea mocks
Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go.
Ant. I am right glad that he's fo out of hope.
Do not, for one repulfe, forego the purpose
That you refolv'd t'effect.

Seb. The next advantage
Will we take throughly.
Ant. Let it be to night;

For, now they are opprefs'd with travel, they
Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance,
As when they're fresh.

Seb. I fay, to night: no more.

Solemn and ftrange mufic: and Profpero on the top, invifible. Enter feveral ftrange fhapes, bringing in a banquet; and dance about it with gentle actions of falutation; and, inviting the King, &c. to eat, they depart.

Alon. What harmony is this? my good friends,

hark!

Gon. Marvellous fweet mufic!

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Alon.

Alon. Give us kind keepers, heaven! what were these? Seb. A living drollery. Now I will believe, That there are unicorns; that, in Arabia

There is one tree, the phoenix' throne; one phoenix At this hour reigning there.

Ant. I'll believe both :

And what does elfe want credit, come to me,

And I'll be fworn 'tis true.

The

Travellers ne'er did lie,

fools at home condemn 'em.

Gon. If in Naples

I fhould report this now, would they believe me?
If I should say, I saw fuch islanders:

(For, certes, these are people of the island)
Who tho' they are of monftrous fhape, yet, note,
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of
Our human generation you shall find

Many; nay, almost any.

Pro. Honeft lord,

Thou haft faid well; for fome of you there prefent Are worse than devils.

Alon. I cannot too much muse,

Such fhapes, fuch gefture, and fuch found, expreffing (Although they want the use of tongue) a kind Of excellent dumb difcourfe..

Pro. * Praise, in departing.

Fran. They vanish'd strangely.

Seb. No matter, fince

They've left their viands behind; for we have ftomachs.

Wilt please you taste of what is here?

Pro. Praife in departing.] This is a farcasm. They were praising the Mufic and Attendance of this vifionary Entertainment: But their Commendations were too hafty, for the Banquet was presently fnatched from them: So that the Mufic was only a prelude to a Mockery. Profpero therefore fays, Stay your praifes 'till you have ended your

entertainment.

Praife in departing.

The Phrase alludes to the Cuftom of Guests praifing their Entertainment when they rise from the Banquet.

Alon.

Alon. Not I.

Gon. Faith, Sir, you need not fear. When we were boys,

Who would believe, that there were mountaineers, Dew-lapt like bulls, whose throats had hanging at

'em

Wallets of flesh, or that there were fuch men,

Whose heads ftood in their breafts? which now we

find,

*Each putter out on five for one will bring us
Good warrant of.

Alon. I will ftand to, and feed,
Although my laft; no matter, fince I feel
The beft is paft. 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.

OU are three men of fin, whom destiny

And what is in't) the never-furfeited fea
Hath caufed to belch up; and on this Island
Where man doth not inhabit, you 'mongst men
Being moft unfit to live. I have made you mad;
And ev'n with fuch like valour men hang and drown
Their proper felves. You fools! I and my fellows
Are minifters of fate; the elements,

Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well
Wound the loud winds, or with bemockt-at ftabs

* Each putter out on five for one-] A Satire on the Voyagers of that Time, who had just discovered a new World; and, as was natural, gave very extravagant Accounts of the Wonders of it. Their Ventures in these Expeditions are alluded to in the Title, given them, of putters out on five for one.

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