Ready to drop upon me; that when I wak'd, Ste. This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I fhall have my mufick for nothing. Cal. When Profpero is destroy'd. Ste. That fhall be by and by: I remember the ftory. Trin. The found is going away; let's follow it, and after do our work. Ste. Lead, monfter; we'll follow. I would I could fee this taborer. He lays it on. Trin. Wilt come? I'll follow Stephano. s c CENE [Exeunt. III. Changes to another Part of the land.. Enter Alonfo, Sebastian, Anthonio, Gonzalo, Adrian, Francifco, &c. Gon. BY'R lakin, I can go no further, Sir, My old bones ake: here's a maze trod, indeed, Through forth-rights and meanders! by your patience, Alon. Old lord, I cannot blame thee, Seb. The next advantage Will we take throughly. 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're fresh. Seb. I fay, to night: no more. Solemn and ftrange mufick; and Profpero on the top.. invifible. Enter feveral strange shapes, bringing in a banquet; and dance about it with gentle actions of falutation; and, inviting the King, &c. to eat, they depart. Alon. What harmony is this? my good friends, hark! Gon. Marvellous fweet mufick! Alon. Give us kind keepers, heaven! 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, Gon. If in Naples I should report this now, would they believe me? (For, certes, these are people of the island) Who tho' they are of monftrous fhape, yet, note, Many; nay, almost any. Pro. Honeft lord, Thou haft faid well; for fome of you there present Are worse than devils. Alon. I cannot too much mufe, Such fhapes, fuch gefture, and fuch found, expreffing (Although they want the ufe of tongue) a kind Of excellent dumb difcourse. Pro. + Pro. Praise, in departing.. Fran. They vanish'd strangely. They've left their viands behind; for we have stomachs. ร Alon. Not I. [boys, Gon. Faith, Sir, you need not fear. When we were Who would believe, that there were mountaineers, Dew-lapt like bulls, whofe throats had hanging at 'em. Wallets of flesh, or that there were fuch men, Whofe heads stood in their breasts? which now we find, Alon. I will ftand to, and feed, Thunder and lightning. Enter Ariel like a barpy, claps his wings upon the table, and with a queint device the banquet vanifbes. Ari. You are three men of fin, whom destiny (That hath to inftrument this lower world, 4 Pro. Praife in departing.] This is a farcafm. They were praifing the mufic and attendance of this vifionary Entertainment: but their commendations were too hafty, for the Banquet was prefently fnatched from them: fo that the mufic was only a prelude to a Mockery. Profpero therefore fays, Stay your praifes 'till you bave ended your entertainment. Praife in departing. The phrafe alludes to the custom of Guests praifing their entertainment when they rise from the Banquet. 5 Each putter out on five for one-] A Satire on the Voyagers of that time, who had juft difcovered a new World; and, as was natural, gave very extravagant accounts of the wonders of it. Their Ventures in thefe expeditions are alluded to in the title, given them, of putters out on five for one. And And what is in't) the never-furfeited fea Of whom your fwords are temper'd, may as well One down that's in my plume: my fellow-minifters You and your ways; whofe wrath to guard you from, He vanishes in thunder: then, to faft mufick, Enter the fhapes again, and dance with mops and mowes, and. carrying out the table. Of Pro. Bravely the figure of this harpy haft thou Their feveral kinds have done; my high charms work, In their distractions: they are in my power; [Exit Profpero from above. Gon. I'th' name of fomething holy, Sir, why ftand you In this ftrange ftare? Alon. O, it is monftrous! monstrous! "Methoughts, the billows fpoke, and told me of it; "The winds did fing it to me; and the thunder, "That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd "The Name of Profper: it did bafe my trefpafs. Therefore my fon i' th' ooze is bedded; and I'll feek him deeper than e'er plummet founded, And with him there lye mudded. Seb. But one fiend at a time, I'll fight their legions o'er. Ant. I'll be thy fecond. [Exit. [Exeunt. Gon. All three of them are defperate; "their great guilt, "Like poifon giv'n to work a great time after, "Now 'gins to bite the fpirits. I do befeech you, That are of fuppler joints, follow them swiftly; And hinder them from what this ecftafie May now provoke them to. Adri. Follow, I pray you. [Exeunt. ACT |