PRO, [Aside to ARIEL, above.] Now I arise:Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow. Here in this island we arriv'd; and here Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit Than other princess' can, that have more time For vainer hours, and tutors not so careful. MIRA. Heavens thank you for't! And now, I pray you, sir, For still 'tis beating in my mind, your reason For raising this sea-storm? PRO. A most auspicious star, whose influence Will ever after droop.-Here cease more questions: Thou art inclin'd to sleep; 't is a good dulness, And give it way;-I know thou canst not choose.[MIRANDA sleeps. Come away, servant, come! I am ready now: Approach, my Ariel; come! Enter ARIEL.(2) To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, PRO. I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak, precursors O' the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary And sight-outrunning were not the fire, and cracks Of sulphurous roaring, the most mighty Neptune Seem to besiege, and make his bold waves tremble, Yea, his dread trident shake. a Now I arise:-] The purport of these words has never been satisfactorily explained, because they have been always understood as addressed to Miranda. If we suppose them directed not to her, but aside to Ariel, who has entered, invisible except to Prospero, after having "Perform'd to point the tempest," and whose arrival occasions Prospero to operate his sleepy charm (t) Old text, Lightening. (*) Old text, Bore-spritt. upon Miranda, they are perfectly intelligible. That they were so intended becomes almost certain from Prospero's language presently, when the charm has taken effect, "Come away, servant, come! I am ready now: b Distinctly,-] That is, separately. PRO. My brave spirit! Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil Would not infect his reason? ARI. Not a soul But felt a fever of the mad, and play'd Some tricks of desperation. All, but mariners, Plung'd in the foaming brine, and quit the vessel, Then all a-fire with me: the king's son, Ferdinand, With hair up-staring,-then like reeds, not hair,Was the first man that leap'd; cried, Hell is empty, And all the devils are here. Safely in harbour The mariners, say how thou hast dispos'd, And all the rest o' the fleet. ARI. Is the king's ship; in the deep nook, where once Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd, PRO. Past the mid season. play of "The Spanish Gipsie," Act I. Sc. 5, "it did not More check my rash attempt, than draw to ebb The float of those desires." 11 a At least two glasses-the time, 'twixt six and nowMust by us both be spent most preciously.] By the customary punctuation of this passage, Prospero is made to ask a question and answer it. The pointing we adopt obviates this inconsistency, and renders any change in the distribution of the speeches needless. b Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, serv'd-] The second thee, which overloads the line, was probably repeated by the compositor through inadvertence. Argier.] The old English name for Algiers. To do me business in the veins o' the earth When it is bak'd with frost. I do not, sir. ARI. PRO. Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot The foul witch Sycorax, who, with age and envy, Was grown into a hoop? hast thou forgot her? ARI. No, sir. PRO. Thou hast. Where was she born? speak; tell me. ARI. Sir, in Argier. PRO. O, was she so? I must Once in a month recount what thou hast been, Which thou forgett'st. This damn'd witch Sycorax, For mischiefs manifold, and sorceries terrible PRO. This blue-ey'd hag was hither brought with child,d And here was left by the sailors: Thou, my slave, As thou report'st thyself, wast then her servant; PRO. Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban, ARI. Pardon, master: I will be correspondent to command, PRO. ARI, My lord, it shall be done. [Exit. PRO, Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself Upon thy wicked dam, come forth! Enter CALIBAN,(5) CAL. As wickedd dew as e'er my mother brush'd PRO. For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins I will discharge thee. CAL. Thou strok'dst me, and mad'st much of me; Water with berries in 't; and teach me how Cursed be I that did so!-All the charms beings; as in "The Merry Wives of Windsor," Act IV. Sc. 4,"we'll dress Like urchins, ouphes, and fairies," &c. f Vast of night-] By "vast of night" the poet may have meant the chasm or vacuity of night, as in "Hamlet," Act I. Sc. 2,"In the dead vast and middle of the night." But some critics have conjectured we should read," urchins Shall for that, fast of night." Which first was mine own king: and here you sty me In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me PRO. Filth as thou art, with human care; and lodg'd thee In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate CAL. O ho, O ho!-would it had been done! PRO. Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness will not take, Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage, a PRO.] This speech, in the folios, has the prefix "Mira," but it plainly belongs to Prospero, to whom Theobald assigned it, and who has retained it ever since. b Which any print of goodness will not take, Here, as in many other places, capable signifies impressible, susceptible. e Race,-] That is, Nature, essence. d The red plague rid you,-] See note (a), p. 447, Vol. II. Fill all thy bones with aches,-] Mr. Collier remarks that "this word, of old, was used either as a monosyllable or as a dissyllable, as the case might require." This may be questioned. "Ake," says Baret in his "Alvearie," "is the Verbe of the substantive Ach, ch being turned into k." As a substantive, then, |