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With his own bolt; the strong-based

Thou art pinch'd for't now, Sebastian. Flesh and blood,

promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs You, brother mine, that entertain'd

pluck'd up

The pine and cedar: graves at my command

Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let | 'em forth

ambition,

Expell'd remorse and nature; who, with Sebastian,

Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong,

By my so potent art. But this rough Would here have kill'd your king; I do magic

I here abjure, and, when I have required|
Some heavenly music, which even now

I do,

To work mine end upon their senses that
This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I'll drown my book. [Solemn music.

Re-enter ARIEL before: then ALONSO, with a frantic 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,

forgive thee,

Unnatural though thou art. Their understanding

Begins to swell, and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shore That now lies foul and muddy. Not one of them

That yet looks on me, or would know me: Ariel,

Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell:
I will discase me, and myself present
As I was sometime Milan : quickly, spirit;

Thou shalt ere long be free.

ARIEL sings and helps to attire him.
Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip's bell I lie;

There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily.

Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

Pros. Why, that's my dainty Ariel!
I shall miss thee;

Mine eyes, even sociable to the show of But yet thou shalt have freedom: so,

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For more assurance that a living prince Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body;

And to thee and thy company I bid
A hearty welcome.

Alon. Whether thou be'st 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.

should Prospero

Be living and be here?

Pros.

But how

First, noble friend,

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For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother

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O heavens, that they were living both in Naples,

The king and queen there! that they were, I wish

Myself were mudded in that oozy bed Where my son lies. When did you lose

your daughter? Pros. In this last tempest. I perceive,

these lords

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 Would even infect my mouth, I do for- Which was thrust forth of Milan, who most give

Thy rankest fault; all of them; and require My dukedom of thee, which perforce, I know,

Thou must restore.

Alon. If thou be'st Prospero, Give us particulars of thy preservation; How thou hast met us here, who three hours since

strangely

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Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three O, look, sir, look, sir! here is more of us :

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Which, but three glasses since, we gave out split

Is tight and yare and bravely rigg'd as when

We first put out to sea.

Ari. [Aside to Pros.] Sir, all this service

Have I done since I went.

Pros. [Aside to Ari.] My tricksy spirit!
Alon. These are not natural events;

they strengthen
From strange to stranger. Say, how
came you hither?

Boats. If I did think, sir, I were well awake,

I'ld strive to tell you.

And think of each thing well. [Aside to
Ari.] Come hither, spirit:

Set Caliban and his companions free;
Untie the spell. [Exit Ariel.] How
fares my gracious sir?

There are yet missing of your company
Some few odd lads that you remember

not.

Re-enter ARIEL, driving in CALIBAN, STEPHANO and TRINCULO, in their stolen apparel.

Ste. Every man shift for all the rest, and let no man take care for himself; for all is but fortune. Coragio, bully-monster,

We were dead of coragio!

sleep, And-how we know not-all clapp'd under hatches;

Where but even now with strange and several noises

Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling
chains,

And moe diversity of sounds, all horrible,
We were awaked; straightway, at liberty;
Where we, in all her trim, freshly beheld
Our royal, good and gallant ship, our

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Trin. If these be true spies which I wear in my head, here's a goodly sight. Cal. O Setebos, these be brave spirits indeed!

I am afraid

How fine my master is!
He will chastise me.
Seb.
Ha, ha!
What things are these, my lord Antonio ?
Will money buy 'em?

Ant.
Very like; one of them
Is a plain fish, and, no doubt, marketable.
Pros. Mark but the badges of these

men, my lords,

Then say if they be true. This misshapen knave,

His mother was a witch, and one so strong

That could control the moon, make flows and ebbs,

And deal in her command without her

power.

These three have robb'd me; and this demi-devil

For he's a bastard one-had plotted with them

To take my life. Two of these fellows

you

Must know and own; this thing of darkness I

Acknowledge mine.

Cal. I shall be pinch'd to death. Alon. Is not this Stephano, my drunken butler?

Seb. He is drunk now: where had he wine?

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SPOKEN BY PROSPERO.

Now my charms are all o'erthrown,
And what strength I have's mine own,
Which is most faint: now, 'tis true,
I must be here confined by you,
Or sent to Naples. Let me not,
Since I have my dukedom got
And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell
In this bare island by your spell;
But release me from my bands
With the help of your good hands:
Gentle breath of yours my sails
Must fill, or else my project fails,
Which was to please. Now I want
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant,
And my ending is despair,
Unless I be relieved by prayer,
Which pierces so that it assaults
Mercy itself and frees all faults.

As you from crimes would pardon'd be,
Let your indulgence set me free.

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