Fetch us in fuel, and be quick; thou wert best, [for thee: 35 To answer other business. Shrug'st thou, malice? If thou neglect'st, or dost unwillingly

Pro. Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil 40 Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!

1 Baneful. 2 Perhaps put here for fairies. 'The dead waste, or middle of the night. in this place, seems to signify original disposition, inborn qualities. The erysipelas. from Magellan's voyage, that Setebos was the supreme God of the Patagons." "Silent.

Fer. The ditty does remember my drowned fa-20 This is no mortal business, no nor sound [ther:That the earth owes':-I hear it now above me. Pro.The finged curtains of thine eye advance, And say, what thou seest yond'.

Mira. What is't? a spirit?

Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir,
It carries a brave form:-But 'tis a spirit.
Pro. No, wench: it eats and sleeps, and hath
such senses

25

As we have, such: This gallant, which thou seest, 30|
Was in the wreck; and, but he's something stain'
With grief, that's beauty's canker, thou might'st
call him

A goodly person: he hath lost his fellows,
And strays about to find them.

Mir. I might call him

A thing divine; for nothing natural

I ever saw so noble.

Pro. It goes on I see, [Aside.]

[free thee

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As my soul prompts it:-Spirit, fine spirit, I'l 40
Within two days for this.

Fer. Most sure, the goddess

On whom these airs attend!Vouchsafe, my
prayer

May know, if you remain upon this island;
And that you will so ne good instruction give,
How I may bear me here: My prime request,
Which I do lat pronounce, is, O you wonder!
If you be maid, or no?

Mira. No wonder, sir;

But, certainly a maid.

Fer. My language! heavens!

I am the best of them that speak this speech,
Were I but where 'tis spoken.

Pro. How? the best?

Fer. O, if a virgin,

And your affection not gone forth, I'll make you
The queen of Naples.

Pro. Soft, sir; one word more.-
They are both in either's powers: but this swift

business

I must uneasy make, lest too light winning

[Aside. Make the prize light.-One word more; Icharge

thee,

That thou attend me: thou dost here usurp
The name thou owest not; and hast put thyself
Upon this island, as a spy, to win it
From me, the lord on't.

Fer. No, as I am a man.

Mira. There's nothing ill can dwell in such a
temple:

If the ill spirit have so fair an house,
Good things will strive to dwell with 't.
Pro. [To Ferd.] Follow me.-
Speak not you for him; he's a traitor.-Come,
I'll manacle thy neck and feet together:
Sea-water shalt thou drink, thy food shall be
The fresh-brook mussels, wither'd roots and husks
Wherein the acorn cradíed: Follow.

Fer. No;

I will resist such entertainment, till
Mine enemy has more power.
Mira. O dear father,

45 Make not too rash a trial of him, for
He's gentle, and not fearful'.

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[thee: 55

What wert thou, if the king of Naples heard
Fer. A single thing, as I am now, that wonders
To hear thee speak of Naples: He does hear me:
And that he does, I weep: my self am Naples;
Who with mine eyes, ne'er since at ebb, beheld 60
The king my father wreck'd.

Pro. What, I say,

[He draws.

My foot my tutor?-Put thy sword up, traitor;
Who mak'st a shew, but dares not strike, thy

To owe, signifies here, as in many other places of our author's plays, to own. 'Confute thee.

? Timorous.

Thou

Ant. Fie, what a spend-thrift is he of his tongue! 55 almost beyond credit)——
Aton. I pr'ythee, spare.

Seb. As many vouch'd rarities are.

Gon. That our garments, being, as they were, drench'd in the sea, hold notwithstanding ther freshness, a. d glosses being rather new ay'd, han 160 stain d with salt water.

1 Hint is that which recals to the memory. The cause that fills our minds with grief is common. Temperance here means temperature. In the puritanical times it was usual to charist in children from the titles of religious and moral virtues. * i. e. of a dark full colour, the opposite to pale and joint.

Ant. If but one of his pocl.ets could speak, would it not say, he lies?

Seb. Ay, or very falsely pocket up his report. Gon. Methinks, our garments are now as fresh as when we put them on first in Africk, at the marriage of the king's fair daughter Claribel to the king of Tunis.

Seb. "Twas a sweet marriage, and we prosper well in our return.

5

Alon. No, no, he's gone.

Seb. Sir, you may thank yourself for this great
loss;
[daughter,
That would not bless our Europe with your
But rather lose her to an African;
Where she, at least, is banish'd from your eye,
Who hath cause to wet the grief on't.
Alon. Pr'ythee, peace.

[otherwise Seb. You were kneel'd to, and importun'd

Adr. Tunis was never graced before with such 10 By all of us; and the fair soul herself

Ant. Why, in good time.

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Gon Sir, we were talking, that our garments seen now as fresh, as when we were at Tunis, at the marriage of your daughter, who is now queen. 35 Ant. And the rarest that e'er came there. Seb. Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido. Ant. O, widow Dido; ay, widow Dido. Gon. Is not, sir, my doublet as fresh as the first day I wore it? I mean, in a sort.

Ant. That sort was well fish'd for.

Gon. When I wore it at your daughter's marriage?

Alon. You crani these words into mine ears,
against

The stomach of my sense1: Would I had never
Marry'd my daughter there! for, coming thence,
My son is lost; and, in my rate, she too,
Who is so far from Italy remov'd,

I ne'er again shall see her. O thou mine heir
Of Naples and of Milan, what strange fish
Hath made his meal on thee?

Fran. Sir, he may live;

I saw him beat the surges under him,

Seb. Very well.

Ant. And most chirurgeonly.

Gon. It is foul weather in us all, good sir, When you are cloudy.

Seb. Foul weather!

Ant. Very foul.

Gon. Had I the plantation of this isle, my lord,—
Ant. He'd sow it with nettle-seed.
Seb. Or docks, or mallows.

[do?

Gon. And were the king of it, What would I
Seb. 'Scape being drunk, for want of wine. [ries
Gon. I' the commonwealth, I would by contra-
Execute all things; for no kind of traffick
Would I admit; no name of magistrate;
Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,
And use of service, none; contract, succession,
Bourn', bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none:
40 No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil:
No occupation; all men idle, all,

45

And women too, but innocent and pure:
No sovereignty.

Seb. And yet he would be king on't.

Ant. The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the beginning.

Gon. All things in common nature should pro-
duce

Without sweat or endeavour: Treason, felony,
50 Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine,
Would I not have; but nature should bring forth,
Of its own kind, all foizon', all abundance
To feed my innocent people.

And ride upon their backs; he trod the water,|55|
Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted
The surge most swoln that met him his bold head
'Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oar'd
Himself with his good arms in lusty stroak

To the shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd 60
As stooping to relieve him: I not doubt
He came alive to land.

i Or, of my reason and natural affection. plenty.

Seb. No marrying 'mong his subjects?
Ant. None, man: all idle; whores, and knaves.
Gon. I would with such perfection govern, sir,
To excel the golden age.

Seb. 'Save his majesty!

Ant. Long live Gonzalo !

Gon. And, do you mark me, sir?

Alon. Pr'ythee, no more; thou dost talk nothing to me.

2 A limit, a land-mark.

A French word signifying

Gon.

Gon. I do well believe your highness; and did it to minister occasion to these gentlemen, who are of such sensible and nimble lungs, that they always use to laugh at nothing.

Ant. 'Twas you we laugh'd at.

Gon. Who, in this kind of merry fooling, am nothing to you; so you may continue, and laugh at nothing still.

Ant. What a blow was there given!
Seb. An it had not fallen flat-long.

Gon. You are gentlemen of brave metal; you would lift the moon out of her sphere, if she would continue in it five weeks without changing.

Trebles thee o'er.

Seb. Well, I am standing water.
Ant. I'll teach you how to flow.
Seb. Do so: to ebb,

5 Hereditary sloth instructs me.
Ant. O,

If you but knew, how you the purpose cherish,
Whilst thus you mock it! how, in stripping it,
You more invest it! Ebbing men, indeed,
10 Most often, do so near the bottom run,
By their own fear, or sloth.

Enter Ariel, playing solemn musick. Seb. We would so, and then go a bat-fowling. 15 Ant. Nay, my good lord, be not angry. Gon. No, I warrant you; I will not adventure my discretion so weakly. Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy?

Ant. Go, sleep, and hear us.

[Gonz. Adr. Fra. &c. sleep. Alon. What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine

eyes

[tind,

Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts: I
They are inclin'd to do so.

Seb. Please you, sir,

Do not omit the heavy offer of it:

It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth,

It is a comforter.

Ant. We two, my lord,

Will guard your person, while you take your rest,
And watch your safety.

Alon. Thank you: Wond'rous heavy

[All sleep but Seb. and Ant.

Seb. Pr'ythee, say on:

The setting of thine eye, and cheek, proclaim
A matter from thee: and a birth indeed,
Which throes thee much to yield.

Ant. Thus, sir:

Although this lord of weak remembrance, this,
(Who shall be of as little memory,
When he is earth'd) hath here almost persuaded,
20(For he's a spirit of persuasion, only

Professes to persuade) the king, his son's alive;
Tis as impossible that he's undrown'd,
As he, that sleeps here, swims.

Seb. I have no hope

25 That he's undrown'd.

Ant. O, out of that no hope,

What great hope have you! no hope, that way, is
Another way so high an hope, that even
Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond,

[me,

30 But doubts discovery there. Will you grant, with That Ferdinand is drown'd?

Seb. What a strange drowsiness possesses them!|35|
Ant. It is the quality o' the cliinate.

Seh. Why

Doth it not then our eye-lids sink? I find not
Myself dispos'd to sleep.

Ant. Nor I; my spirits are nimble.
They fell together all, as by consent;
They dropp'd, as by a thunder-stroke.

-What

Seb. He's gone.

Ant. Then, tell me,

Who's the next heir of Naples?

Seb. Claribel.

- [dwells

Ant. She that is queen of Tunis; she that Ten leagues beyond man's life: she that from

might,

[more:

Worthy Sebastian?

-O, what might ?

No
[and 45

And yet, methinks, I see it in thy face,

What thou should'st be: the occasion speaks thee;

Dropping upon thy head.

My strong imagination sees a crown

Seb. What, art thou waking?

Ant. Do you not hear me speak?

Seb. I do; and, surely,

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It is a sleepy language; and thou speak'st
Out of thy sleep: What is it thou didst say?
This is a strange repose, to be asleep
With eyes wide open; standing, speaking, moving; 55
And yet so fast asleep.

Seb. What stuff is this -How say you?
'Tis true my brother's daughter's queen of Tunis;
So is she heir of Naples; 'twixt which regions
There is some space.

Ant. A space, whose every cubit
Seems to cry out, How shall that Claribel
Measure us back to Naples ?-Keep in Tunis,
And let Sebastian wake!-Say this were death
That now hath seiz'd them; why, they were no
[Naples,

worse

Than now they are: There be, that can rule
As well as he that sleeps; lords, that can prate
As amply, and unnecessarily,

As this Gonzalo; I myself could make

60 A chough of as deep chat. O, that you bore
The mind that I do! what a sleep were this
For your advancement? Do you understand me?
Seb. Methinks, I do.

'A chough is a bird of the jack-daw kind, chiefly in Cornwal.

Ant.