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Trin. Monster, I do smell all horse-piss; at which my nose is in great indignation.

Ste. So is mine. Do you hear, monster? If I should take a displeasure against you; look you,

Trin. Thou wert but a lost monster. Cal. Good my lord, give me thy favour still: Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to Shall hood-wink this mischance :

speak softly.

All's hush'd as midnight yet.

therefore,

Trin. Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool,Ste. There is not only disgrace and dishonour In that, monster, but an infinite loss.

Trin. That's more to me than ny wetting: yet this is your harmless fairy, monster.

Ste. I will fetch off my bottle, though I be o'er ears for my labour.

Cal. Pr'ythee, my king, be quiet: Seest thou here,

This is the inouth of the cell: no noise, and enter :

Do that good mischief, which may make this island

Thine own for ever, and I, thy Caliban,
For aye, thy foot-licker.

Ste. Give me thy band: I do begin to have bloody thoughts.

Trin. O king Stephano! O peer ! O worthy Stephano! look, what a wardrobe here is for thee! Cal. Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash. Trin. O ho, monster; we know what belongs to a frippery :-O king Stephano!

Ste. Put off that gown, Trinculo; by this hand, I'll have that gown.

Trin. Thy grace shall have it.

Cal. The dropsy drown this fool! what

you mean,

do

To doat thus on such luggage? Let's along,
And do the murder first: if he awake,
From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with
pinches ;

Make us strange stuff.

Ste. Be you quiet, monster.-Mistress line, is not this my jerkin? Now is the jerkin under the line now, jerkin, you are like to lose your hair, and prove a bald jerkin.

Trin. Do, do; We steal by line and level, and't like your grace.

Ste. I thank thee for that jest: here's a garment for't: wit shall not go unrewarded, while I am king of this country: Steal by line and level, is an excellent pass of pate; there's another garment for't.

Trin. Monster, come, put some limet upon your fingers, and away with the rest.

Cal. I will have none on't: we shall lose our time,

And all be turn'd to barnacles, or to apes
With foreheads villianous low.

Ste. Monster, lay-to your fingers; help to bear this away, where my hogshead of wine is, or I'll turn you out of my kingdom: go to, carry this.

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They cannot budge, till you release. The king, His brother, and your's, abide all three distracted;

And the remainder moursing over them,
Brim-full of sorrow, and dismay: but chiefly
Him you term'd, Sir, The good old lord, Gon-
zalo;

His tears run down his beard, like winter's drops

From eaves of reeds: your charm so strongly works them,

That if you now behield them, your affections
Would become tender.

Pro. Dost thou think so, spirit?
Ari. Mine, would, Sir, were I human.
Pro. And mine shall.

Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling
Of their afflictions? and shall not myself,
One of their kiad, that relish all as sharply,
Passion as they, be kindlier mov'd than thou

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Ari. I'll fetch them, Sir. Pro. Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves;

And ye, that on the sands with printless foot When he comes back: you demi-puppets, that Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, By moonshine do the green-sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites; and you, whose

pastime

Is to make midnight-mushrooms; that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid (Weak masters though you be,) I have bedimm'd

The noon-tide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,

And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt: the strong-bas'd promon tory

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Have I made shake up

and by the spurs pluck'd | The pine, and cedar graves, at my command, Have waked their sleepers; oped, and let them forth

By my so potent art: But this rough magic
I bere abjure: and, when I have requir'd
Some heavenly music, (which even now I do,)
To work mine end upon their senses, that
This abry 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: after him, ALONZO, 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
PROSPE RO observig, speaks.

A solemn air, and the best comforter
To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains,

Gon. All torment, amazement

trouble, wonder, and

Inhabits here: Some heavenly power guide us
Out of this fearful country!

Pro. Behold, Sir king!

The wronged duke of Milan, Prospero :
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. Whe'r thou beest 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,

Th' affliction of my mind amends, with which,
I fear a madness held me: This must crave
(And if this be at all,) a most strange story.
Thy dukedom I resign; and do entreat
Thou pardon me my wrongs :-But how should
Prospero

Be living, and be here?

Pro. First, noble friend,

Let me embrace thine age; whose honour cannot

Now useless, boil'd within thy skull! There Be measur'd, or confin’d.

stand,

For you are spell-stopp'd.-

Holy Gonzalo, honourable man,

Mine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine, Fall fellowly drops.--the

apace;

charm dissolves

And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignoraut fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.-O my good Gonzalo, My true preserver, and a loyal sir

To him thou follow'st; I will pay thy graces Home, both in word and deed.-Most cruelly Didst thou, Alonso, use me, and my daughter: Thy brother was a furtherer in the act ;Thou'rt pinch'd for't now, Sebastian.-Flesh and blood,

You brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, Expell'd remorse and nature; who, with Sebastian,

(Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong,)

Gon. Whether this be,

Or be not, I'll not swear.

Pro. You do yet taste

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For you, most wicked Sir, whom to call brother
Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive
Thy rankest fault; all of them; and require
My dukedom of thee, which, perforce, I know,
Thou must restore.

Alon. If thou beest Prospero,
Give us particulars of thy preservation :
How thou hast met us here, who three hours
since

Would here have kill'd your king; I do forgive Were wreck'd upon this shore: where I have

Unnatural though thou art --Their under

thee, standing

Begins to swell; and the approaching tide
Will shortly fill the reasonable shores,

That now lie foul and muddy. Not one of them,
That yet looks on me, or would know me:-
Ariel,

Fetch me the bat and rapier in my cell;

[Exit ARIEL.

I will dis-case me and myself present,
As I was sometime Milan :-quickly, spirit;
Thou shalt ere long be free.

lost,

How sharp the point of this remembrance is ! My dear son Ferdinand.

Pro. I am woe + for't, sir.

Alon. Irreparable is the loss and Patience Says, it is past her cure.

Pro. I rather think,

You have not sought her help of whose soft

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ARIEL re-enters, singing, and helps to attire To make the dear loss, have I means much

PROSPERO.

Ari. 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.

Pro. Why, that's my dainty Ariel: I shall
miss thee;

But yet thou shalt have freedom: so, so, so.-
To the king's ship, invisible as thou art:
There shalt thou find the mariners asleep
Under the hatches; the master, and the
swain,

Being awake, enforce them to this place;
And presently, I pr'ythee.

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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?

Pro. 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
boat- Are natural breath: but howsoe'er you have
Been justled from your senses, know for certain,
That I am Prospero, and that very duke
Which was thrust forth of Milan; who most
strangely

Ari. I drink the air before me, and return
Or e'er your pulse twice beat. [Exit ARIEL.

Pity, of tenderness of heart.

• Whether.

+ Sorry.

* Bearable,

Upon this shore, where you were wreck'd, was landed,

To be the lord on't. No more yet of this;
For 'tis a chronicle of day by day,
Not a relation for a breakfast, nor
Befitting this first meeting. Welcome, Sir;
This cell's my court: here have 1 few attend-
ants,

And subjects none abroad: pray you, look in.
My dukedom since you have given me again,
I will requite you with as good a thing;

At least, bring forth a wonder, to content ye,
As much as me my dukedom.

The entrance of the cell opens, and discovers FERDINAND and MIRANDA playing at chess.

Mira. Sweet lord, you play me false.
Fer. No, my dearest love,

I would not for the world.

Mira. Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should

wrangle,

And I would call it fair play.

Alon. If this prove

A vision of the island, one dear son

Shall I twice lose.

Seb. A most high miracle !

Re-enter ARIEL, with the MASTER and BOAT.
SWAIN amazedly following.

O look, Sir, look, Sir; here are more of us!
I prophesied, if a gallows were on land,
This fellow could not drown-Now, blas.
phemy,

That swear'st grace o'erboard, not an oath on shore ?

Hast thou no mouth by land? What is the news?

Boats. The best news is, that we have safely found

Our king and company: the next our ship,-
Which, but three glasses since, we gave ou
split,-
Is tight and yare,' and bravely rigged, as when
We first put out to sea.
Ari. Sir, all this service
Have I done since I went.

[Aside. [Aside.

Pro. My tricksy + spirit!
Alon. These are not natural events; they

strengthen,

bither?

From strange to stranger:-Say, how came you

Boats. If I did think, Sir, I were well awake, I'd strive to tell you. We were dead of sleep,

Fer. Tho' the seas threaten, they are merci- And, (how, we know not,) all clapp'd under

ful:

I have curs'd them without cause.

batches,

Where, but even now, with strange and several noises

(FERD. kneels to ALON. Of roaring, shrieking, howling, gingling chains,

Alon. Now all the blessings Of a glad father compass thee about! Arise, and say how thou cam'st here.

Mira. O wonder !

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And on this couple drop a blessed crown; For it is you, that have chalk'd forth the way Which brought us hither!

Alon. I say, Amen, Gonzalo !

And more diversity of sounds, all horrible,
We were awak'd; straitway, at liberty:
Where we, in all her trim, freshly beheld
Our royal, good, and gallant ship; our master
Cap'ring to eye her: On a trice, so please you,
Even in a dream, were we divided from them,
And were brought moping hither.

Ari. Was't well done?

[Aside.

Pro. Bravely, my diligence. Thou shalt be [Aside.

free.

Alon. This is as strange a maze as e'er men

trod :

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Do not infest your mind with beating on

The strangeness of this business; at pick'd

leisure,

Which shall be shortly, single I'll resolve you (Which to you shall seem probable,) of every These happen'd accidents: till when, be cheerful,

And think of each thing well.-Come hither, spirit; [Aside.

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, STг. PHANO, and TRINCULO, in their stolen apparel.

Ste. Every man shift for all the rest, and let

Gon. Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his no man take care for himself: for all is but for

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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.

For this one night; which (part of it,) I'll waste
With such discourse, as, I not doubt, shall make it
Go quick away: the story of my life,
And the particular accidents, gone by,
Since came to this isle: And in the moru,
Pil bring you to your ship, and so to Naples,
Where I have hope to see the nuptial
Of these our dear-beloved solemniz'd;
And thence retire me to my Milan, where
Every third thought shall be my grave.
Alon. I long

Alon. Is not this Stephano, my drunken but- To hear the story of your life, which must ler ?

Seb. He is drunk now: Where had he wine?
Alon. And Trinculo is reeling ripe: Where
should they

Find this grand liquor that hath gilded them?
How cam'st thou in this pickle ?

Trin. I have been in such a pickle, since I saw you last, that, I fear me, will never out of my bones: I shall not fear fly-blowing,

Seb. Why, how now, Stephano?

Ste. O touch me not; I am not Stephano,
but a cramp.

Pro. You'd be king of the isle, sirrah?
Ste. I should have been a sore one then.
Alon. This is as strange a thing as e'er I
look'd on. [Pointing to CALIBAN.
Pro. He is as disproportion'd in his manners,
As in his shape :-Go, sirrah, to my cell;
Take with you your companions; as you look
To have my pardon, trim it handsomely.

Cal. Ay, that I will; and I'll be wise here-
after,

And seek for grace: What a thrice-double ass
Was I, to take this drunkard for a god,
And worship this dull fool?

Pro. Go to; away!

Alon. Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it.

Seb. Or stole it, rather.

[Exeunt CAL. STE. and TRIN. Pro. Sir, I invite your highness, and your train,

To my poor cell where you shall take your rest • flonest.

Take the ear strangely.

Pro. I'll deliver all;

And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales,
And sail so expeditious, that shall catch
Your royal fleet far off.-My Ariel ;-chick,—
That is thy charge; then to the elements
Be free, and fare thou well!-[Aside.] Please
you, draw near.
[Exeunt.

EPILOGUE.

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 confin'd 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 your's 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 reliev'd 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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THE lighter seenes of this entertaining comedy are entirely the production of Shakspeare; and for its more serious portions he was probably indebted to the Histories Tragiques of Belleforest, who had them from Bandello. Malone quotes the "Fifth Egiog of Barnaby Googe," published with other poems of his in 1563, and now an exceedingly rare book, to show that Shakspeare might have borrowed from it the circumstances of the Duke sending his page to plead his cause with the lady, and of the lady's falling in love with the page. "This play (says Dr. Johnson,) is in the graver part elegant and easy, and in some of the lighter scenes exquisitely humourous." Its progress is full of spirit, and the entanglement of characters and circumstances is pleasingly unravelled in the final catastrophe. The self-sufficiency of Malvolio is charmingly depicted, and very laughably punished; whilst the excesses of Sir Toby Belch are almost excused by his smattering of wit, and his unqualified good-humour. The sudden attachment of Viola is much more improbable than tha obstinate repugnance of Olivia: but the romantic nature of her love," feeding in concealment on her damask cheek," gives an interest to her situation, whilst a victim to the tender passion, which the undisguised declarations of the other, though placed in the same predicament, must generally fail in producing.

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A Sea-captain, Friend to Viola.

MALVOLIO, Steward to Olivia.
FABIAN, Servants to Olivia.

CLOWN,

OLIVIA, a rich Countess.
VIOLA, in love with the Duke.

VALENTINE, Gentlemen attending on the MARIA, Olivia's Woman.
CURIO,

Duke.

Sir TOBY BELCH, Uncle of Olivia.
Sir ANDREW AGUE CHEEK.

Lords, Priests, Sailors, Officers, Musiciant, and other Attendants.

SCENE-A City in Illyria; and the Sea-coast near it.

ACT I.

SCENE 1.-An Apartment in the DUKE'S

Palace.

Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; Musicians

attending.

Even in a minute! So full of shapes is fancy,
That it alone is high-fantastical.⚫
Cur. Will you go hunt, my lord ?

Duke. What, Curio?

Cur. The hart.

Duke. Why, so I do, the noblest that I have: Oh! when mine eyes did see Olivia first,

Duke. If music be the food of love, play on; Methought she purg'd the air of pestilence;

Give me excess of it; that, sufeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.-
That strain again ;-it had a dying fall:
Oh! it came o'er my ear like the sweet south,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing, and giving odour.-Enough;
'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before.
O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou!
That notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,

Of what validity and pitch soever,

But falls into abatement and low price,

• Valne.

no more;

That instant was I turn'd into a hart;
And my desires, like fell and cruel bounds,
E'er since pursue me.-How now? what news
from her?

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