Wilt thou destroy him then?
Ste. Ay, on mine honour.

Ari. This will I tell

my master.

Cal Thoumak ft me merry: I am full of pleasure Let us be jocund: Will you troul the catch, You taught me but while-ère?

Ste. At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any eafon: Come on, Trinculo, let us fing.

[Sings. *Flout 'em, and fhout 'em; and fhout'em, and flout'em, Thought is free.

Cal. That's not the tune. [ARIEL plays the tune on Ste. What is this fame? [a tabor and pipe. Trin. This the tune of our catch, play'd by the picture of nobody.

Ste. If thou be't a man, fhew thyfelf in thy 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 affeard?

Ste. No, monster, not I.

Cal. Be not affeard; the ifle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt Sometimes a thoufand twangling inftruments [not. Will hum about mine ears; and fometimes 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 fhall have my mufic for nothing. Cal. When Profpero is deftroy'd.

Ste.

Ste. That fhall be by and bye: I remember the ftory.

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Trin. The found is going away: let's follow it, And after do our work.

Ste. Lead, monster; we'll follow.

I wou'd, I could fee this taborer: he lays it on.

Trin. Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano. [Exeunt.

SCENE III. Changes to another Part of the Island. Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTHONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, &c.

Gon. By'r lakin, I can go no further, fir; My old bones ache: here's a maze trod, indeed, Through forth-rights, and meanders! by your pa I needs must reft me.

Alon. Old lord, I cannot blame thee,

Who am myself attach'd with wearinefs,

[tience,

To the dulling of my spirits: fit down, and rest.
Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it
No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd,
Whom thus we stray to find; and the fea mocks
Our fruftrate fearch on land: Well, let him go.
Ant. [Afide to Sebaftian.] I am right glad that
he's fo out of hope.

Do, not for one repulfe, forego the purpose
That you refolv'd to effect.

Seb. The next advantage
Will we take thoroughly.

Ant. Let it be to-night;

For now they are opprefs'd with travel, they
Will not, nor cannot, ufe fuch vigilance,

As when they are fresh.

Seb. I fay, to-night: no more.

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Solemn

Solemn and strange mufick; and Profpero on the top, invifible. Enter several strange shapes, bringing in a banquet; they dance about it with gentle actions of falutation; and, inviting the king, &c. to eat, they depart.

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Alon. What harmony is this? my good friends, Gon. Marvellous fweet mufick! [hark! Alon. Give us kind keepers, heavens! 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: Travellers, ne'er did lie,
Though fools at home condemn 'em.

Gon. If in Naples,

I fhould report this now, would they believe me?
If I fhould fay, I faw fuch iflanders,

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

Many, nay almost any.

Pro. Honeft lord,

Thou haft faid well; for fome of you there prefent

Are worfe than devils.

Alon. I cannot too much mufe,

[Afide.

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

Pro. Praife in departing.

[Afide.

Fran

Fran. They vanish'd ftrangely.
Seb. No matter, fince

They have left their viands behind; for we have ftoWill't please you taste of what is here? [machsAlon. Not I.

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

Who would believe that there were mountaineers, Dew-lapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging

at 'em

Wallets of flesh; or that there were fuch men, Whofe heads flood in their breafts? which now, we Each putter out on five for one, will bring us [find, Good warrant of.

Alon. I will ftand to, and feed,

Although my laft; no matter, fince I feel
The belt 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. You are three men of fin, whom destiny (That hath to inftrument this lower world, And what is in't), the never-furfeited fea Hath caused to belch up; and on this ifland Where man doth not inhabit; you 'mongst men Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad; And even with fuch like valour menhang and drown Their proper felves. [ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, and the Ye fools! I and my fellows [reft draw their Swords.. Are minifters of fate; the elements, Of whom your fwords are temper'd, may as well Wound the loud winds, or with bemock't-at ftabs

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Kill

Kill the ftill-clofing waters, as diminish

One dowle that's in my plume; my fellow minifters Are like invulnerable; if you could hurt,

Your fwords are now too maffy for your strengths,
And will not be up-lifted: But remember,
(For that's my business to you) that you three
From Milan did fupplant good Profpero;
Expos'd unto the fea, which had requit it,
Him, and his innocent child: for which foul deed
The powers, delaying not forgetting, have
Incens'd the feas and fhores, yea, all the creatures
Against your peace: Thee, of thy fon, Alonfo,
They have bereft; and do pronounce by me,
Ling'ring perdition (worfe than any death
Can be at once) fhall step by step attend

You, and your ways; whofe wraths to guard you from
(Which here, in this moft defolate ifle, elfe falls
Upon your heads) is nothing but heart's forrow,
And a clear life enfuing.

He vanifes in thunder: then to foft mufick, enter the fhapes again, and dance with mops, and morwes, and carry out the table..

Pro. [Afide.] Bravely the figure of this harpy
haft thou

Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring;
Of my inftruction haft thou nothing 'bated
In what thou had'it to fay: fo, with good life,
And obfervation ftrange, my meaner minifters
Their feveral kinds have done: my high charms
And thefe mine enemies, are all knit up [work,
In their distractions: they now are in my power;
And in thefe fits I leave them, whilft I vifit
Young Ferdinand (whom they fuppofe is drown'd),

And