Trin. Monster, come, put fome lime upon your fingers, and away with the reft.

Cal. I will have none on't: we shall lofe our time, And all be turn'd to barnacles, or to apes With foreheads villanous low.

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

Ste. Ay, and this.

A noife of hunters heard. Enter divers fpirits in fhape ofhounds, hunting them about; PROSPERO and ARIEL fetting them on.

Pro. Hay, Mountain, hey!

Ari. Silver! there it goes, Silver!

Pro. Fury, Fury! there, Tyrant, there! hark, hark!

[To Ariel.] Go, charge my goblins that they grind their joints

With dry convulfions; fhorten up their finews With aged cramps; and more pinch-spotted make Than pard, or cat o' mountain.

Ari. Hark, they roar.

[them

Pro. Let them be hunted foundly: At this hour Lie at thy mercy all mine enemies;

Shortly fhall all my labours end, and thou
Shalt have the air at freedom: for a little,
Follow, and do me service.

F 3

[Exeunt.

ACT

ACT V.

SCENE I. Before the Cell.

Enter PROSPERO in his magick robes, and ARIEL. Profpero.

Now does my project gather to a head:

My charms crack not; my fpirits obey; and Time Goes upright with his carriage. How's the day? Ari. On the fixth hour; at which time, my lord, You faid our work fhould cease.

Pro. I did fay fo,

When first I rais'd the tempeft, Say, my fpirit, How fares the king and his followers?

Ari. Confin'd together

In the fame fashion as you gave in charge;
Just as you left them; all prifoners, fir,

In the lime-grove which weather-fends your cell;
They cannot budge, till you releafe. The king,
His brother, and yours, abide all three distracted;
And the remainder mourning over them,
Brim-full of forrow, and difmay; but chiefly,
Him that you term'd The good old lord, Gonzalo;
His tears run down his beard, like winter-drops
From eaves of reeds: your charms fo ftrongly work
'em,

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

Pro. Do'st thou think fo, fpirit?

Ari. Mine would, fir, were I human.
Pro. And mine fhall.

Haft

Haft thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling
Of their afflictions? and fhall not myself,
One of their kind, that relish all as sharply,
Paffion as they, be kindlier mov'd than thou art?
Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the
quick,

Yet, with my nobler reafon, 'gainst my fury
Do I take part: the rarer action is

In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,
The fole drift of my purpose doth extend

Not a frown further: Go, release them, Ariel; My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, And they shall be themselves.

Ari. I'll fetch them, fir.

[Exit. Pro. Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes,

and groves

And ye, that on the fands with printless foot
Do chafe the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him
When he comes back; you demy-puppets, that
By moon-fhine do the green four ringlets make,
Whereof the ewe not bites; and you, whose pastime
Is to make midnight mushrooms; that rejoice
To hear the folemn curfew; by whofe aid
(Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd
The noon-tide fun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,
And 'twixt the green fea, 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 ftrong-bas'd promontory
Have I made shake: and by the fpurs pluck'd up
The pine, and cedar: graves, at my command,
Have wak'd their fleepers; op'd, and let them forth
By my fo potent art: but this rough magick
I here abjure: and, when I have requir'd

Some

Some heavenly mufick (which even now I do),
To work mine end upon their fenfes, that
This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,

And, deeper than did ever plummet found,
I'll drown my book.
[Solemn mufick.]

Re-enter ARIEL, after him ALONSO, with a frantick
gefture attended by GONZALO. SEBASTIAN, and
ANTHONIO in like manner, attended by ADRIAN, and
FRANCISCO. They all enter the circle which PROS-
PERO had made, and there ftand charm'd; which
PROSPERO obferving, speaks.

A folemn air, and the best comforter
To an unfettled fancy, cure thy brains,

Now useless, boil'd within thy fcull! there ftand,
For you are fpell-stopp'd..

Holy Gonzalo, honourable man,

Mine eyes, even fociable to the fhew of thine,
Fall fellowly drops.-The charm diffolves apace;
And, as the morning steals upon the night,
Melting the darknefs, fo the rifing fenfes
Begin to chafe the ignorant fumes that mantle
Their clearer reafon.-O good Gonzalo,
My true preferver, and a loyal fir

To him thou follow'ft; I will pay thy graces
Home, both in word and deed

-Most cruelly Didit thou, Alonfo, ufe 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, Expel'd remorfe, and nature; who, with Sebaftian (Whofe inward pinches therefore are most strong),

Would

Would here have kill'd your king; I do forgive thee,
Unnatural though thou art!-Their understanding
Begins to fwell; and the approaching tide
Wil fhortly fill the reafonable fhore,

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 dif-cafe me, and myself present,

[Exit ARIEL. As I was fometime Milan :quickly, fpirit; Thou shalt e'er long be free.

ARIEL enters finging, and helps to attire him.

Where the bee fucks, there fuck I;

In a cowflip's bell I lie:

There I couch when owls do cry.

On the bat's back I do fly,

After fummer, merrily:
Merrily, merrily, fhall I live now,

Under the bloom that hangs on the bough.

Pro. Why, that's my dainty Ariel; I fhall mifs

thee;

But yet Ithou fhalt have freedom: So, so, so.— To the king's fhip invifible as thou art:

There fhalt thou find the mariners afleep

Under the hatches; the master, and the boatfwain, Being awake, force them to this place;

And prefently, I pr'ythee.

Ari. I drink the air before me, and return

Or e'er your pulfe twice beat.

[Exit.

Gon. All torment, trouble, wonder, and amaze

ment

Inhabits here; fome heavenly power guide us

Out