dine; there is no other shelter hereabout: Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows. I will here shroud, till the dregs of the storm be past.

Enter STEPHANO, singing; a Bottle in his hand.
to sea,

STE. I shall no more to sea,

Here shall I die ashore ;

This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's funeral:
Well, here's my comfort.

The master, the swabber, the boatswain, and I,
The gunner, and his mate,

Lov'd Mall, Meg, and Marian, and Margery,

But none of us car'd for Kate:
For she had a tongue with a tang,
Would cry to a sailor, Go, hang!

Then to sea, boys, and let her go hang.

This is a scurvy tune too: But here's my comfort.

CAL. Do not torment me: O!

[Drinks.

[Drinks.

STE. What's the matter? Have we devils here? Do you put tricks upon us with savages, and men of Inde? Ha! I have not scap'd drowning, to be afeard now of your four legs; for it hath been said, As proper a man as ever went on four legs, cannot make him give ground: and it shall be said so again, while Stephano breathes at nostrils.

CAL. The spirit torments me: O!

STE. This is some monster of the isle, with four legs; who hath got, as I take it, an ague: Where should he learn our language? I will give him some relief, if it be but for that. If I can recover him, and keep him tame, and get to Naples with him, he's a present for any emperor that ever trod on neat'sleather.

CAL. Do not torment me, pr'y thee; I'll bring my wood

home faster.

STE. He's in his fit now; and does not talk after the wisest. He shall taste of my bottle: if he have never drunk wine afore,

it will go near to remove his fit. If I can recover him, and keep him tame, I will not take too much for him: he shall pay for him that hath him, and that soundly.

CAL. Thou dost me yet but little hurt; thou wilt anon, I know it by thy trembling: now Prosper works upon thee.

STE. Come on your ways; open your mouth; here is that which will give language to you, cat; open your mouth: this will shake your shaking, I can tell you, and that soundly: you cannot tell who's your friend: open your chaps again.

TRIN. I should know that voice. It should be-But he is drowned; and these are devils: O! defend me!—

STE. Four legs, and two voices; a most delicate monster! His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend; his backward voice is to utter foul speeches, and to detract. If all the wine in my bottle will recover him, I will help his ague. Come, Amen! I will pour some in thy other mouth.

TRIN. Stephano,

STE. Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy! mercy! This is a devil, and no monster: I will leave him; I have no long spoon.

TRIN. Stephano!-If thou beest Stephano, touch me, and speak to me; for I am Trinculo;-be not afeard,―thy good friend Trinculo.

STE. If thou beest Trinculo, come forth; I'll pull thee by the lesser legs: If any be Trinculo's legs, these are they. Thou art very Trinculo, indeed! How cam'st thou to be the siege of this moon-calf?

TRIN. I took him to be killed with a thunder-stroke :-But art thou not drowned, Stephano? I hope now, thou art not drowned. Is the storm overblown? I hid me under the dead moon-calf's gaberdine, for fear of the storm: And art thou living, Stephano? O Stephano! two Neapolitans 'scaped!

STE. Pr'y thee, do not turn me about; my stomach is not constant.

CAL. These be fine things, an if they be not sprites.

That's a brave god, and bears celestial liquor:

I will kneel to him.

STE. How did'st thou 'scape? How cam'st thou hither? swear by this bottle, how thou cam'st hither. I escaped upon a butt of sack, which the sailors heaved over-board, by this bottle! which I made of the bark of a tree, with mine own hands, since I was cast a-shore.

CAL. I'll swear, upon that bottle, to be thy true subject; for the liquor is not earthly.

STE. Here; swear then how thou escap'dst.

G

TRIN. Swam a-shore, man, like a duck; I can swim like a duck, I'll be sworn.

STE. Here, kiss the book: Though thou canst swim like a duck, thou art made like a goose

TRIN. O Stephano! hast any more of this?

STE. The whole butt, man; my cellar is in a rock by the seaside, where my wine is hid. How now, moon-calf? how does thine ague?

CAL. Hast thou not dropped from heaven?

STE. Out o' the moon, I do assure thee: I was the man in the moon, when time was.

CAL. I have seen thee in her, and I do adore thee; my mistress shewed me thee, and thy dog, and thy bush.

STE. Come, swear to that: kiss the book: I will furnish it anon with new contents: swear.

TRIN. By this good light, this is a very shallow monster :—I afeard of him ?—a very weak monster :-The man i̇' the moon ! -a most poor credulous monster :-Well drawn, monster, in good sooth.

CAL. I'll shew thee every fertile inch o' the island; and I will kiss thy foot. I pr'y thee, be my god.

TRIN. By this light, a most perfidious and drunken monster; when his god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle.

CAL. I'll kiss thy foot: I'll swear myself thy subject.

STE. Come on, then; down, and swear.

TRIN. I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster: A most scurvy monster: I could find in my heart to beat him,

STE. Come, kiss.

TRIN.-but that the poor monster's in drink. An abominable monster!

CAL. I'll shew thee the best springs; I'll pluck thee berries: I'll fish for thee, and get thee wood enough.

A plague upon the tyrant that I serve!

I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee,
Thou wondrous man.

TRIN. A most ridiculous monster; to make a wonder of a poor drunkard.

CAL. I pr'y thee, let me bring thee where crabs grow;
And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts;
Shew thee a jay's nest, and instruct thee how
To snare the nimble marmozet: I'll bring thee
To clust'ring filberts, and sometimes I'll get thec
Young scamels from the rock: Wilt thou go with me?

STE. I pr'y thee now, lead the way, without any more talking. -Trinculo, the king and all our company else being drown'd, we will inherit here.-Here; bear my bottle. Fellow Trinculo, we'll fill him by and by again.

CAL. Farewell, master; farewell, farewell.

[Sings drunkenly.

TRIN. A howling monster; a drunken monster.

CAL. No more dams I'll make for fish ;
Nor fetch in firing

At requiring,

Nor scrape trencher, nor wash dish;

'Ban, 'Ban, Ca-Caliban,

Has a new master-Get a new man.

Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! freedom, hey-day, free

dom!

STE. O brave monster! lead the way.

[Exeunt.