[audience chattering] ♪ [thunder] ♪ [thunder] Father!

Father!

[thunder] Boatswain!

Here, master.

What cheers?

Good, speak to the mariners: fall to't, yarely, or we run ourselves aground.

Bestir, bestir.

Hey, my hearts!

Cheerly, cheerly, cheerly, my hearts!

Yare, yare!

Take in the topsail.

Tend to the master's whistle.

[thunder] Blow, till thou burst thy wind, if room enough!

Good Boatswain, have care.

Where's the master?

Play the men.

I pray now, keep below.

Where is the master, bos'n?

Do you not hear him?

You mar our labour: keep your cabins - you do assist the storm.

[crashing wave] Nay, good, be patient.

When the sea is.

Hence!

What cares these roarers for the name of king?

To Cabin.

Silence!

Trouble us not.

Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.

None that I more dearly love than myself.

You are a counsellor; if you can command these elements to silence, and work the peace of the present, we will not hand a rope more - use your authority.

[crashing wave] If you cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so hap.

[thunder] Father!

Father!

[thunder] Cheerly, good hearts!

Out of our way, I say.

I have great comfort from this fellow.

Methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows.

But if he be not born to be hanged, our case is miserable.

Down with the topmast!

Lower, lower!

Bring her to try with main-course.

[a cry within] A plague upon this howling!

They are louder than the weather or our office.

Yet again!

What do you here?

Shall we give o'er and drown?

Have you a mind to sink?

A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!

Work you, then.

Hang, cur, hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker!

[crashing wave] We are less afraid to be drowned than thou art.

I'll warrant him from drowning; though the ship were no stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an unstanched wench.

Lay her a-hold, a-hold!

set her two courses off to sea again; lay her off.

[thunder] Father!

[thunder] All lost!

To prayers, to prayers!

All lost!

What, must our mouths be cold?

The King and Prince at prayers!

Let's assist them, for our case is as theirs.

I'm out of patience.

We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards.

[crashing waves] This wide-chapp'd rascal- would thou mightst lie drowning.

The washing of ten tides!

He'll be hang'd yet.

[confused noise within] ♪ Mercy on us!

[crashing] 'Farewell, my wife and children!'

'We split, we split, we split!'

Farewell my brother!

Let's all sink with the king.

Let's take leave of him.

[thunder] [screaming] Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

The wills above be done, but I would fain die a dry death.

[thunder] Father!

Oh Father!

[thunder] If by your art, my dearest father, you have put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.

The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, dashes the fire out.

O, I have suffered with those that I saw suffer: a brave vessel, who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her - Dash'd all to pieces.

O, the cry did knock Against my very heart - Poor souls, they perish'd.

Had I been any god of power, I would have sunk the sea within the earth or ere it should the good ship so have swallowed and the fraughting souls within her.

Be collected!

No more amazement.

Tell your piteous heart there's no harm done.

O, woe the day!

No harm.

[thunder] I have done nothing but in care of thee, of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing from whence I am, [thunder] nor that I am more better than Prospero, master of a full poor cell, And thy no greater father.

More to know did never meddle with my thoughts.

[thunder] 'Tis time I should inform thee farther.

Lend thy hand, and pluck my magic garment from me.

So, so, so, have comfort.

[laughs] The direful spectacle of the wreck, that touched the very virtue of compassion in thee, I have with such provision in mine art so safely ordered that there is no soul- No, not so much perdition as an hair betid to any creature in the vessel which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink.

Wipe thou thine yes.

So lie there, my art.

♪ You have often begun to tell me what I am, but stopp'd and left me to a bootless inquisition, concluding 'Stay, not yet.'

The hours now come; Obey and be attentive.

Canst thou remember a time before we came unto this cell?

I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not out three years old.

Certainly, sir, I can.

'Tis far off And rather like a dream than an assurance that my remembrance warrants.

Had I not four or five women once that tended me?

Thou hadst, and more, twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since, thy father was the Duke of Milan, and A prince of power - Sir, are not you my father?

Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and she said thou wast my daughter; [audience laughter] [Miranda laughing] And they father was Duke of Milan.

And his only heir and princess no worse issued.

O the heavens!

What foul play had we, that we came from thence?

Or blessed was't we did?

Both, both, my girl.

By foul play, as thou say'st, were we heaved thence, but blessedly holp hither.

O, my heart bleeds to think of the trouble I have turn'd you to, which is from my remembrance!

Please you, farther.

My brother and thy uncle, call'd Antonio- I pray thee, mark me- that a brother should be so... [shouts] Perfidious !

He whom next thyself of all the world I loved and to him put the manage of my state; as it was then through all the signories the first and Prospero the prime duke, being so reputed in dignity, and for the liberal arts without a parallel; those being all my study, the government I cast upon my brother and to my state grew stranger, being transported and rapt in secret studies.

Oh!

Thy false uncle- Dost thou attend me?

Sir, most heedfully.

Thy false uncle - Once perfected how to grant suits, how to deny them New created the offices that were mine set all heart i' the state to what tune pleased his ear.

that now he was the ivy which had hid my princely trunk, and suck'd my verdure out on't.

Thou attend'st not.

O, good sir, I do.

I pray thee, mark me.

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated to closeness and the bettering of my mind in my false brother awaked an evil nature, and my trust, like a good parent, did beget of him a falsehood in its contrary as great as my trust was; which had indeed, no limit, a confidence sans bound.

He being thus being lorded, made such a sinner of his memory to credit his own lie, he did believe he was indeed the duke, dost thou hear?

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

[audience laughter] [laughs] Me, poor man, my library was dukedom large enough.

Of temporal royalties he thinks me now incapable; conspires with King of Naples to give him annual tribute, to him homage, subject his coronet to his crown and bend the dukedom yet unbowed - alas, poor Milan!

- To most ignoble stooping.

O, the heavens!

Mark his condition and th' event; then tell me if this might be a brother.

I should sin to think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.

[audience laughter] Good wombs have borne bad sons.

[laughing] Now the condition.

This King of Naples, being an enemy to me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit, which was that he, in lieu o' the premises should presently extirpate me and mine out of the dukedom and confer fair Milan With all the honours on my brother: whereon, a treacherous army levied, one midnight fated to the purpose did Antonio open the gates of Milan, and, i' the dead of darkness, the ministers for the purpose hurried thence me and thy crying self.

Alack, for pity!

I, not remembering how I cried out then, Will cry it o'er again - it is a hint that wrings mine eyes to't.

Wherefore did they not that hour destroy us?

Well demanded, wench: They durst not, so dear the love my people bore me, in few, they hurried us aboard a bark, bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared a rotten carcass of a butt, not rigg'd, nor tackle, sail, nor mast - [laughs] the very rats instinctively have quit it.

[laughing] There they hoist us, to cry to the sea that roar'd to us, to sigh to the winds whose pity, sighing back again, did us but loving wrong.

Alack, what trouble Was I then to you!

O, oh... a cherubim thou wast that did preserve me.

When I have deck'd the sea with drops full salt, thou didst smile, infused with a fortitude from heaven.

How came we ashore?

By Providence divine.

Some food we had and some fresh water that a noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo, out of his charity did give us, with rich garments, linens, stuffs and necessaries, Which since have steaded much; and of his gentleness, knowing I loved my books, he furnish'd me from mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

I might but ever see that man!

Ah.

Now I arise.

Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow.

Here in this island we arrived, and here have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit than other princes can who have more time for vainer hours and tutors not so careful.

Heavens thank you for't!

And now, I pray you, sir, for still 'tis beating in my mind, your reason for raising this sea-storm?

Ah.

[chuckles] Know thus far forth.

By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune, now my dear lady, hath mine enemies brought to this shore; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon a most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not but omit, my fortunes will ever after droop.

Here cease more questions: Thou art inclined to sleep.

♪ 'tis a good dulness, give it way: ♪ I know thou canst not choose.

Come away, servant, Come!

♪ I am ready now.

Approach, my Ariel, come.

[laughing] All hail, great master!

Grave sir, hail!

I come to answer thy best pleasure, be't to fly, to swim, to dive into the fire, to ride on the curled clouds, to thy strong bidding task Ariel and all her quality.

Spirit!

Has thou perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee?

To every article.

I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak, now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin, I flamed amazement.

Sometime I'd divide and burn in many places- on the topmast, the yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, then meet and join.

Jove's lightnings, the precursors of the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary and sight-outrunning were not; the fire and cracks of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble, Yea, his dread trident shake.

My brave spirit!

Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil would not infect his reason?

Not a soul but felt a fever of the mad, and played some tricks of desperation.

All but mariners plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel, Then all afire with me: the king's son, Ferdinand, With hair up-staring,-- then like reeds, not hair, -- Was the first man that leap'd; cried, 'Hell is empty and all the devils are here.'

[laughing] That's my spirit!

[laughs] But was not this nigh shore?

Close by, my master.

But are they, Ariel, safe?

Not a hair perished.

On their sustaining garments not a blemish, but fresher than before: and as thou bad'st me, in troops I have dispersed them 'bout the isle.

The king's son have I landed by himself; Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs in an odd angle of the isle and sitting, his arms in this sad knot.

[laughs] Of the king's ship, the mariners, say how thou hast disposed and all the rest o' the fleet.

Safely in harbour is the king's ship; in the deep nook, where once thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew from the still-vex'd Bermudas, there she's hid: The mariners all under hatches stowed, who, with a charm joined to their suffer'd labour, I have left asleep; as for the rest o'th fleet which I dispersed, they all have met again, and are upon the Mediterranean flote, bound sadly home for Naples, supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked, and his great person perish.

[chuckles] Ariel, thy charge exactly is perform'd: but there's more work.

Aye!

Aye?

What is the time o'th day?

Past the mid season.

At least two glasses.

The time 'twixt six and now must by us both be spent most preciously.

Is there more toil?

Uh-huh.

[audience laughter] Since thou dost give me pains, let me remember thee what thou hast promised, which is not yet performed me.

[drum boom How now?

Moody?

[audience laughter] What is't thou canst demand?

My liberty.

Before the time be out?

No more!

I prithee, remember I have done thee worthy service; told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served without or grudge or grumblings.

Thou didst promise to bate me a full year.

Dost thou forget from what a torment I did free thee?

- No.

Thou dost, and think'st it much to tread the ooze of the salt deep, to run upon the sharp wind of the north, to do me business in the veins o'th earth when it is baked with frost.

I do not, sir.

Thou liest, malignant thing!

[audience laughter] Hast thou forgot the foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy was grown into a hoop?

Hast thou forgot her?

No, sir.

Thou hast.

Where was she born?

Speak; tell me.

Sir, in Algiers.

O, was she so?

[laughs] I must once in a month recount what thou hast been, which thou forget'st.

O-la-la-la- la-la-la.

[audience laughter] This damn'd witch Sycorax, for mischiefs manifold and sorceries too terrible to enter human hearing, from Algiers.

Thou know'st was banished - for one thing she did they would not take her life.

Is not this true?

Ay, sir.

Ay, sir.

This blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child and here was left by th' sailors.

Thou, my slave, as thou report'st thyself, wast then her servant, and for thou wast a spirit too delicate to act her earthy and abhorred commands, she did confine thee, into a cloven pine, within which rift, imprisoned thou didst painfully remain a dozen years within which space she died and left thee there!

Oh-ho!

Thou best know'st what torment I did find thee in; Thy groans did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts of ever angry bears - it was a torment to lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax could not again undo: it was mine art, when I arrived and heard thee, that made gape the pine and let thee out.

I thank thee, master.

I thank thee, master.

If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak and peg thee in his knotty entrails till thou hast howled away twelve winters.

Pardon, master.

I will be correspondent to command and do my spiriting gently.

Do so, and after two days I will discharge thee.

That's my noble master!

[audience laugther] What shall I do?

Say what: what shall I do?

Go make thyself like a nymph o'th sea: be subject to no sight but thine and mine, invisible to every eyeball else.

Go take this shape and hither come in't: Go!

Hence!

Ah-ah-ah-ah!

With diligence!

[audience laughter] Awake, dear heart, awake!

[claps] Awake.

[chuckles] Thou hast slept well.

The strangest of your story put heaviness in me.

Shake it off.

Come!

We'll visit Caliban my slave, who never yields us kind answer.

'Tis a villain, sir, I do not love to look on.

Well he does make our fire.

and fetches us in wood and serves in offices that profit us.

As tis, we cannot miss him.

♪ What, ho, slave!

Caliban!

Thou earth, thou!

Speak!

There's wood enough within.

Come forth.

There's other business for thee.

[laughs] My quaint Ariel, A word, a word, in thine ear.

My lord, it shall be done.

Come!

Tortoise, poisonous slave, got by the devil himself upon thy wicked dam, come forth, I say!

As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you both!

a south-west blow on ye and blister you all o'er!

For this, be sure, tonight thou shall be pinched as thick as honeycomb, each pine more stinging than bees that made 'em.

I must eat my dinner.

[laughs] This island's mine by Sycorax my mother, which thou takest from me.

When thou camest first, Thou strokedst me and madest much of me, wouldst give me Water with berries in't, and teach me how to name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night: and then I loved thee And show'd thee all the qualities o' the isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile: Cursed be I that did so!

All the charms Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!

For I am all the subjects that you have, Which first was mine own king: and here you sty me In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me The rest o' the island.

Thou most lying slave, Whom stripes may move, not kindness!

I have used thee, Filth as thou art, with humane care, and lodged thee In mine own cell, where thou didst seek to violate The honour of my child.

O ho, O ho!

would't had been done!

Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else this isle with Calibans.

Abhorred slave, Which any print of goodness wilt not take, Being capable of all ill!

I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage, Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes With words that made them known.

But thy vile race, Though thou didst learn, had that in't which good natures Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou Deservedly confined into this rock, Who hadst deserved more than a prison.

You taught me language; and my profit on't, is I know how to curse.

The red plague rid you For learning me your language!

Hag-seed, hence!

Fetch us in fuel, be quick, thou'rt best to answer other business.

Shrug'st thou, malice?

I'll rack thee with old cramps, fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar that beasts shall tremble at thy din.

No, pray thee.

♪ I must obey.

His art is of such power, it would control my dam's god, Setebos, and make a vassal of him.

♪ ♪ Come unto these yellow sands, ♪ ♪ And then take hands: ♪ ♪ Courtsied when you have and kissed ♪ ♪ The wild waves whist, ♪ ♪ Foot it featly here and there, ♪ ♪ and sweet sprites bear the burden.

♪ ♪ Hark, hark!

♪ [whispers] Bow-wow.

♪ The watch-dogs bark!

♪ Hark, hark!

♪ ♪ I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer ♪ ♪ chanticleer ♪ Cry cock-a-diddle-dow.

♪ Cock-a-diddle-dow.

♪ Where should this music be?

In the air or the earth?

It sounds no more: and sure, it waits upon some god o' the island.

[laughing] Sitting on a bank, weeping again the king my father's wreck, this music crept by me upon the waters, allaying both their fury and my passion with its sweet air.

Thence I have follow'd it, or it hath drawn me rather; but tis gone.

♪ No, it begins again.

♪ ♪ Full fathom five thy father lies; ♪ ♪ Of his bones are coral made; ♪ ♪ ♪ Those are pearls that were his eyes: ♪ ♪ ♪ Nothing of him that doth fade ♪ ♪ ♪ Nothing of him that doth fade ♪ ♪ But doth suffer a sea-change ♪ ♪ Into something rich and strange.

♪ ♪ Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell.

♪ ♪ Ding dong.

-ding dong.♪ ♪ Ding dong.

-ding dong.♪ ♪ Hark!

♪ now I hear them, ♪ Ding-dong bell.

♪ The ditty does remember my drowned father.

This is no mortal business, nor no sound That the earth owes.

I hear it now above me.

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance And say what thou seest yond.

What is't?

- a spirit?

Lord, how it looks about!

Believe me, sir, It carries a brave form.

[audience laughter] But 'tis a spirit.

No, wench; it eats and sleeps and hath such senses As we have, such.

This gallant which thou seest Was in the wreck; and but he's something stained with grief that's beauty's canker, thou mightst call him A goodly person: he hath lost his fellows and strays about to find them.

I might call him A thing divine, [audience laughter] for nothing natural I ever saw so noble.

It goes on, I see, As my soul prompts it.

Hm?

Mm?

No, no - [audience laugther] ♪ Most sure, the goddess On whom these airs attend!

Vouchsafe my prayer May know if you remain upon this island; And that you will some good instruction give How I may bear me here: my prime request, Which I do last pronounce, is, O you wonder!

If you be maid or no?

No wonder, sir; But certainly a maid.

My language!

Heavens!

I am the best of them that speak this speech, Were I but where 'tis spoken.

How?

The best?

What wert thou, if the King of Naples heard thee?

A single thing, as I am now, that wonders To hear thee speak of Naples.

He does hear me.

And that he does, I weep.

Myself am Naples.

Ah.

who with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld the King my father wrecked.

Alack, for mercy!

At the first sight They have changed eyes.

Delicate Ariel, I'll set thee free for this.

[giggles] One word, sir; I fear you have done yourself some wrong: a word.

Why speaks my father so ungently?

This Is the third man that e'er I saw, [audience laughter] the first that e'er I sigh'd for.

Pity move my father to be inclined my way!

O, if a virgin, And your affection not gone forth, I'll make you the queen of Naples.

[laughing] [audience laughter] They are both in either's powers; but this swift business I must uneasy make, lest too light winning Make the prize light.

One word, good sir!

thou dost here usurp The name thou owest not; and hast put thyself upon this island as a spy, to win it from me, the lord on't.

No, as I am a man.

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: [audience laugther] If the ill spirit have so fair a house, good things will strive to dwell with't.

Come Follow me.

Speak not you for him; he's a traitor.

Come, I'll manacle thy neck and feet together: Sea-water shalt thou drink; thy food shall be The fresh-brook muscles, wither'd roots and husks Wherein the acorn cradled.

Follow.

No; I will resist such entertainment till mine enemy has more power.

O dear father, Make not too rash a trial of him, for He's gentle and not fearful.

What, I say - My foot my tutor?

Put thy sword up, traitor; Which makest a show but darest not strike, thy conscience Is so possess'd with guilt: come from this posture, For I can here disarm thee with this stick And make thy weapon drop.

[audience laughter] Beseech you, father.

Hang not on my garments.

Sir, have pity; I'll be his surety.

Silence!

What!

An advocate for an imposter!

Hush!

Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch!

[audience laugther] Thou think'st there is no more such shapes as he, Having seen but him and Caliban: foolish wench!

To the most of men this is a Caliban And they to him are angels.

[audience laughter] My affections Are then most humble; I have no ambition To see a goodlier man.

Come on; obey: Thy nerves are in their infancy again And have no vigour in them.

So they are; [chuckles] [audience laugther] My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up.

My father's loss, the weakness which I feel, The wreck of all my friends, nor this man's threats, To whom I am subdued, are but light to me, Might I but through my prison once a day Behold this maid: all corners else o' the earth Let liberty make use of; space enough Have I in such a prison.

Come on.

Follow me!

Be of comfort; My father's of a better nature, sir, Than he appears by speech: [audience laughter] Oh come on!

Speak not for him.

[audience laughter] It works.

Thou shalt be as free as mountain winds.

♪ Beseech you, sir, be merry; you have cause, So have we all, of joy; for our escape Is much beyond our loss.

Our hint of woe Is common; every day some sailor's wife, The masters of some merchant and the merchant Have just our theme of woe; but for the miracle, I mean our preservation, few in millions Can speak like us: then wisely, good sir, weigh our sorrow with our comfort.

Prithee, peace.

He receives comfort like cold porridge.

Look Gonzalo's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

Sir,-- One.One.

When every grief is entertain'd that's offer'd, Comes to the entertainer- A dollar.

Dolour comes to him, indeed: you have spoken truer than you purposed.

You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should.

Therefore, my lord,-- Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!

I prithee, spare.

Well, I have done: but yet,-- He will be talking.

Which, of he or Adrian, for a good wager, first begins to crow?

The old cock.

The cockerel.

Done.

[audience laughter] Though this island seem to be desert,-- Ha, ha, ha!

So, you're paid.

Uninhabitable and almost inaccessible,-- Yet,--Yet, -- He could not miss't.

It must needs be of subtle, tender and delicate temperance.

Temperance was a delicate wench.

Ay, and a subtle; as he most learnedly delivered.

The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.

As if it had lungs and rotten ones.

Or as 'twere perfumed by a fen.

Here is everything advantageous to life.

True; save means to live.

Of that there's none, or little.

How lush and lusty the grass looks!

How green!

The ground indeed is tawny.

With an eye of green in't.

He misses not much.

No; he doth but mistake the truth totally.

Methinks our garments are now as fresh as when we put them on first in Afric, at the marriage of the king's fair daughter, Claribel, to the King of Tunis.

'Twas a sweet marriage, and we prosper well in our return.

Tunis was never before graced with such a paragon to their queen.

Not since widow Dido's time.

'Widow Dido' said you?

She was of Carthage, not of Tunis.

This Tunis, sir, was Carthage.

Carthage?

I assure you, Carthage.

What impossible matter will he make easy next?

Sir, we were talking that our garments seem now as fresh as when we were at Tunis at the marriage of your daughter, who is now queen.

And the rarest that e'er came there.

Is not, sir, my doublet as fresh as the first day I wore it?

I mean, in a sort.

That sort was well fished for.

When I wore it at your daughter's marriage?

You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.

Would I had never married my daughter there, for coming thence, my son is lost and, in my rate, she too, Who is so far from Italy removed I ne'er again shall see her.

O thou mine heir Of Naples and of Milan, what strange fish Hath made his meal on thee?

Sir, your son may live: I saw him beat the surges under him, And ride upon their backs; he trod the water, Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted The surge most swoln that met him; his bold head 'Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oar'd Himself with his good arms in lusty stroke To the shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd, As stooping to relieve him: I not doubt He came alive to land.

♪ No, no, he's gone.

Sir, you may thank yourself for this great loss, That would not bless our Europe with your daughter, But rather lose her to an African; Where she at least is banish'd from your eye, Who hath cause to wet the grief on't.

Prithee, peace.

You were kneel'd to and importuned otherwise By all of us, and the fair soul herself Weigh'd between loathness and obedience, at Which end o' the beam should bow.

We have lost your son, I fear, forever.

Milan and Naples have More widows in them of this business' making Than we bring men to comfort them: The fault's your own.

So is the dear'st o' the loss.

My lord Sebastian, The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness And time to speak it in: you rub the sore, When you should bring the plaster.

Very well.

And most surgeonly.

It is foul weather in us all, good sir, When you are cloudy.

Foul weather?

Very foul.

[clucking] [laughing] Had I plantation of this isle, my lord, -- He'ld sow't with nettle-seed.

Or docks, or mallows.

And were the king on't, what would I do?

'Scape being drunk for want of wine.

I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things; for no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, inheritance, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all; And women too, but innocent and pure; No sovereignty;-- Yet he would be king on't.

The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the beginning.

All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have; but nature should bring forth of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.

No marrying 'mong his subjects?

None, man; all idle: whores and knaves.

I would with such perfection govern, sir, To excel the golden age.

Save his majesty!

Long live Gonzalo!

And,--do you mark me, sir?

Prithee, no more: thou dost talk nothing to me.

[laughing] I do well believe your highness; and did it to minister occasion to these gentlemen, who are of such sensible and nimble lungs that they always use to laugh at nothing.

'Twas you we laughed at.

Who in this kind of merry fooling am nothing to you: so you may continue and laugh at nothing still.

What a blow was there given!

An it had not fallen flat-long.

You are gentlemen of brave metal; you would lift the moon out of her sphere, if she would continue in it five weeks without changing.

Nay, good my lord, be not angry.

No, I warrant you; I will not adventure my discretion so weakly.

Will you... laugh me asleep, for I am very... ♪ heavy?

Go sleep, and hear us.

[laughing] What, all so soon asleep!

I wish mine eyes would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts: ♪ I find they are inclined to do so.

[audience laughter] Please you, sir, Do not omit the heavy offer of it: It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth, It is a comforter.

We two, my lord, will guard your person while you take your rest, And watch your safety.

Thank you.

Wondrous heavy.

What a strange drowsiness possesses them!

It is the quality o' the climate.

Why Doth it not then our eyelids sink?

I find not Myself disposed to sleep.

Nor I; my spirits are nimble.

[laughing] They fell together all, as by consent; They dropp'd, as by a thunder-stroke.

What might, Worthy Sebastian?

O, what might?

No more:-- And yet methinks I see it in thy face, What thou shouldst be: the occasion speaks thee, and my strong imagination sees a crown Dropping upon thy head.

[laughs] What, art thou waking?

Do you not hear me speak?

I do; and surely It is a sleepy language and thou speak'st Out of thy sleep.

What is it thou didst say?

This is a strange repose, to be asleep With eyes wide open; standing, speaking, moving, And yet so fast asleep.

Noble Sebastian, Thou let'st thy fortune sleep- die, rather; wink'st Whiles thou art waking.

Thou dost snore distinctly; There's meaning in thy snores.

I am more serious than my custom: you Must be so too, if heed me; which to do Trebles thee o'er.

Well, I am standing water.

I'll teach you how to flow.

Prithee, say on: The setting of thine eye and cheek proclaim A matter from thee, and a birth indeed Which throes thee much to yield.

Thus, sir: Although this lord of weak remembrance, this, Who shall be of as little memory When he is earth'd, hath here almost persuaded,-- the King his son's alive, 'Tis as impossible that he's undrowned as he that sleeps here swims.

I have no hope That he's undrown'd.

O, out of that 'no hope' What great hope have you!

No hope that way is Another way so high a hope that even ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond, Will you grant with me That Ferdinand is drown'd?

He's gone.

Then, tell me, Who's the next heir of Naples?

His sister, Claribel.

She that is queen of Tunis; she that dwells Ten leagues beyond man's life; she that from Naples Can have no note, unless the sun were post- The man i' the moon's too slow- till new-born chins Be rough and razorable; she that-from whom we all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again, And by that destiny to perform an act whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

What stuff is this!

How say you?

'Tis true, my brother's daughter's queen of Tunis; So is she heir of Naples; 'twixt which regions There is some space.

A space whose every cubit Seems to cry out, 'How shall that Claribel Measure us back to Naples?

Keep in Tunis, [audience laughter] And let Sebastian wake.'

Say, this were death That now hath seized them; why, they were no worse Than now they are.

There be that can rule Naples As well as he that sleeps; lords that can prate As amply and unnecessarily As this Gonzalo; O, that you bore The mind that I do!

what a sleep were this For your advancement!

Do you understand me?

Methinks I do.

And how does your content Tender your own good fortune?

I remember You did supplant your brother Prospero.

True: And look how well my garments sit upon me; Much feater than before: my brother's servants Were then my fellows; now they are my men.

But, for your conscience?

Ay, sir; where lies that?

[audience laughter] I feel not This deity in my bosom: twenty consciences, That stand 'twixt me and Milan, candied be they And melt ere they molest!

Here lies your brother, No better than the earth he lies upon, If he were that which now he's like, that's dead; Whom I, with this obedient steel, three inches of it, Can put to bed forever; whiles you, doing thus, To the perpetual wink might put This ancient morsel, this Sir Prudence, who Should not upbraid our course.

For the rest, They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk; They'll tell the clock to any business We say befits the hour.

Thy case, dear friend, Shall be my precedent; as thou got'st Milan, I'll come by Naples.

Draw thy sword: one stroke Shall free thee from the tribute which thou payest; And I the king shall love thee.

Draw together; ♪ And when I rear my hand, do you the like, To fall it on Gonzalo.

O, but one word.

My master through his art foresees the danger That you, his friend, are in; and sends me forth- For else his project dies- to keep them living.

♪ While you here do snoring lie, ♪ ♪ Open-eyed conspiracy His time doth take.

♪ ♪ If of life you keep a care, ♪ ♪ Shake off slumber, and beware: ♪ ♪ Awake, awake!

♪ Then let us both be sudden.

Now, good angels Preserve the king.

Why, how now?

Awake!

Why are you drawn?

Wherefore this ghastly looking?

What's the matter?

Whiles we stood here securing your repose, Even now, we heard a hollow burst of bellowing Like bulls, or rather lions: did't not wake you?

It struck mine ear most terribly.

I heard nothing.

O, 'twas a din to fright a monster's ear, To make an earthquake!

sure, it was the roar Of a whole herd of lions.

[audience laughter] Heard you this, Gonzalo?

Upon mine honour, sir, I heard a humming, And that a strange one too, which did awake me: I shaked you, sir, and cried: as mine eyes open'd, I saw their weapons drawn: there was a noise, That's verily.

'Tis best we stand upon our guard, Or that we quit this place; let's draw our weapons.

♪ Lead off this ground; and let's make further search For my poor son.

Heavens keep him from these beasts!

For he is, sure, i' the island.

Lead away.

Prospero my lord shall know what I have done: So, king, go safely on to seek thy son.

[grungint] All the infections that the sun sucks up From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall and make him By inch-meal a disease!

[thunder] His spirits hear me And yet I needs must curse.

But they'll nor pinch, Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i' the mire, Nor lead me, like a firebrand, in the dark Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but For every trifle are they set upon me; Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me And after bite me, then like hedgehogs which Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount Their pricks at my footfall; sometime am I All wound with adders who with cloven tongues Do hiss me into madness.

[bumping sound] Ow!

[audience laughter] Lo, no lo - Here comes another spirit of his, and to torment me For bringing wood in slowly.

I'll fall flat; Perchance he will not mind me.

[thunder] [panting] [audience laughter] [puffing, panting] Here's neither bush nor shrub, to bear off any weather at all, and another storm brewing; I hear it sing i' the wind: yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor.

If it should thunder as it did before, I know not where to hide my head: yond same cloud cannot choose but fall by pailfuls.

What have we here?

[audience laughter] a man... or a fish?

dead or alive?

[audience laughter] A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell; [audience laughter] A strange fish.

Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a man; any strange beast there makes a man: [audience laughter] when they will not give a pence to relieve a lame beggar, they will lazy out ten to see a dead Indian.

[audience laughter] Legged like a man and his fins like arms!

He's warm!

O'my troth I do now let loose my opinion; hold it no longer: this is no fish, but an islander, that hath lately suffered by a thunderbolt.

[thunder] [screams] Alas, the storm is come again!

My best way is to creep under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter hereabouts: [audience laughter] misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows.

[audience laughter] I will here shroud till the dregs of the storm be past.

[thunder] [audience laughter] ♪I shall no more to sea, 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.

[audience laughter] [flute sound] ♪ The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I, ♪ ♪ The gunner and his mate ♪ ♪ Loved Mall, Meg and Marian and Margery, ♪ ♪ But none of us cared for Kate; ♪ [audience laughter] ♪ For she had a tongue with a tang, ♪ ♪ Would cry to a sailor, ♪ Go hang!

♪ She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch, ♪ ♪ Yet a tailor might scratch her ♪ ♪ where'er she did itch: [audience laughter] ♪ Well to sea, boys, ♪ ♪ and let her go hang!

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

[thunder] Do not torment me: Oh!

[audience laughter] What's the matter?

[audience laughter] Have we devils here?

Do you put tricks upon's with savages and men of Ind, ha?

[cries out] [audience laughter] I have not scaped drowning to be afeard now of your... [audience laughter] Four legs; [audience laughter] 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's nostrils.

The spirit torments me; Oh!

This is some monster of the isle with four legs, who hath got, as I take it, an ague.

Well how the devil 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 fit for any emperor that ever trod on neat's leather.

Do not torment me, prithee; I'll bring my wood home faster.

[cries] [audience laughter] 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 will go near to remove his fit.

If I can recover him and keep him tame, Oh he shall pay for him that hath him, ay and that soundly.

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

Come on your ways; open your mouth; [audience laughter] here is that which will give language to you, cat: [audience laughter] open your mouth; this will shake your shaking, I can tell you.

Ay, and that soundly: [coughs] you cannot tell who's your friend: open your chaps again.

[audience laughter] I should know that voice: it should be- but he is drowned; and these are devils: O defend me!

[audience laughter] Four legs and two voices: it's a most delicate monster!

[audience laughter] His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend; [spitting sound] [audience laughter] his backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

[audience laughter] If all the wine in my bottle will recover him, I will help his ague.

Come.

Come on.

There you go.

Amen!

I will pour some in thy other mouth.

Stephano!

[audience laughter] Doth thy other mouth call me?

Mercy, mercy!

This is a devil, and no monster: I will leave him; I have no long spoon.

Stephano!

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

If thou beest Trinculo, come forth: I'll pull thee by... [audience laughter] the rounder legs: [audience laughter] if any be Trinculo's legs, these be they.

[struggling sounds] [whining sounds] [audience laughter] Thou art very Trinculo indeed!

How camest thou to be the turd of this moon-calf?

[audience laughter] Can he vent Trinculos?

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.

But art thou living, Stephano?

O Stephano, two Neapolitans 'scaped!

Prithee, do not turn me about; my stomach is not constant.

[audience laughter] These be fine things, an if they be not sprites.

That's a brave god and bears celestial liquor.

I will kneel to him.

How didst thou 'scape?

How camest thou hither?

swear on this bottle how thou camest hither.

I escaped upon a butt of sack which the sailors heaved o'erboard, by this bottle; I'll swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject; for the liquor is not earthly.

Swear then how thou escapedst.

Swum ashore, man, like a duck: I can swim like a duck, I'll be sworn.

Here, kiss the book.

Though thou canst swim like a duck, thou art made like a goose.

[audience laughter] O Stephano.

hast any more of this?

The whole butt, man: my cellar is in a rock by the sea-side where my wine is hid.

[laughing] How now, moon-calf!

how does thine ague?

[laughing] Hast thou not dropp'd from heaven?

Ay, Out o' the moon, I do assurethee: I was the man i' the moon when time was.

I have seen thee in her and I do adore thee: My mistress show'd me thee and thy dog and thy bush.

[laughing] Come on then, swear to that; kiss the book: Ah - I will furnish it anon with new contents.

Swear - By this good light, this is a very shallow monster!

I afeard of him!

I'll show thee fertile inch o' th' island; And I will kiss thy foot: I prithee, be my god.

By this light, a most perfidious drunken monster!

I'll kiss thy foot; I'll swear myself thy subject.

Come on then; down, and swear.

A most scurvy monster!

I could find in my heart to beat him,-- Come, kiss.

But that the poor monster's in drink: an abominable monster!

I'll show thee the best springs; I'll pluck thee berries; [audience laughter] 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.

I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow; And I with my long nails will dig thee pignuts; Show thee a jay's nest and instruct thee how To snare the nimble marmoset; I'll bring thee To clustering filberts and sometimes I'll get thee Young scamels from the rock.

Wilt thou go with me?

I prithee, no more talking.

Lead the way.

Trinculo, the King and all our company else being drowned we will inherit here: here; bear my bottle: fellow Trinculo, we'll fill him by and by again.

♪ ♪ Farewell, ♪ master, farewell.

♪ ♪ Farewell... ♪ Farewell master, ♪ Farewell, farewell... ♪ Oh brave monster, lead the way.

♪ ♪ No more dams I'll make for fish, ♪ ♪ Nor fetch in firing, at requiring ♪ ♪ Nor fetch in firing, at requiring ♪ ♪ Nor scrape trenchering, nor wash dish ♪ ♪ Nor scrape trenchering, nor wash dish ♪ ♪ Ban, Ban, Ban Cal-Caliban ♪ ♪ Ban, Ban, Ban Cal-Caliban ♪ ♪ Has a new master - get a new man - ♪ ♪ Has a new master - get a new man - ♪ ♪ Freedom ♪ drumming ♪ Freedom ♪ High day!

♪ High day!

♪ Freedom ♪ Freedom ♪ High day!

High day!♪ ♪ High day!

♪ Free-Free-Free- Dommmm!

♪ ♪ [applause] There be some sports are painful, and their labour Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness Are nobly undergone and most poor matters Point to rich ends.

This my mean task would be as heavy to me as odious, [thud] but the mistress which I serve quickens what's dead And makes my labours pleasures: [audience laughter] [thud] O, she is ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed, And he's composed of harshness.

I must remove Some thousands of these logs and pile them up, upon a sore injunction: my sweet mistress Weeps when she sees me work, and says, such baseness Had never like executor.

I forget: But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours, Most busy lest, when I do it.

Alas, now, pray you, Work not so hard: [thud] I would the lightning had Burnt up those logs that you are enjoin'd to pile!

Pray, set it down and rest you: [thud] My father Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself; He's safe for these three hours.

O most dear mistress, The sun will set before I shall discharge What I must strive to do.

If you'll sit down, I'll bear your logs the while: pray, give me that; I'll carry it to the pile.

[thud] No, precious creature; I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, Than you should such dishonour undergo, While I sit lazy by.

It would become me As well as it does you: and I should do it With much more ease; for my good will is to it, And yours it is against.

[laughing] Poor worm, thou art infected!

You look wearily.

No, noble mistress; 'tis fresh morning with me When you are by at night.

[loud groan] I do beseech you- Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers- What is your name?

Miranda.

-O my father, I have broke your hest to say so!

[laughs] Admired Miranda!

Indeed the top of admiration!

[audience laughter] [giggles] Worth what's dearest to the world!

Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard and many a time the harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed And put it to the foil: but you, O you, So perfect and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best!

I do not know One of my sex; no woman's face remember, Save, from my glass, mine own; nor have I seen More that I may call men than you, good friend, And my dear father: how features are abroad, I am skilless of; but, by my modesty, The jewel in my dower, I would not wish any companion in the world but you, Nor can imagination form a shape, Besides yourself, to like of.

But what I prattle Something too wildly and my father's precepts I therein do forget.

Hear my soul speak: The very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly to your service; there resides, To make me slave to it; and for your sake Am I this patient log-man.

[audience laughter] Do you love me?

O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound And crown what I profess with kind event If I speak true!

if hollowly, invert what best is boded me to mischief!

I Beyond all limit of what else i' the world Do love, prize, honour you.

I am a fool to weep at what I am glad of.

Fair encounter Of two most rare affections!

Heavens rain grace on that which breeds between 'em!

Wherefore weep you?

At mine unworthiness which dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want.

But this is trifling; And all the more it seeks to hide itself, The bigger bulk it shows.

Hence, bashful cunning!

And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!

I am your wife, if you will marry me; [Prospero laughing] If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow You may deny me; but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no.

My mistress, dearest; And I thus humble ever.

My husband, then?

Ay, with a heart as willing As bondage e'er of freedom: here's my hand.

And mine, [audience laughter] with my heart in't; and so farewell Till half an hour hence.

A thousand thousand!

[giggling] [audience laugther] So glad of this as they I cannot be, Who are surprised withal; I'll to my book, For yet ere supper-time must I perform Much business appertaining.

♪ ♪ Caliban, Stephano and Trinculo singing ♪ Tell not me; when the butt is out, we will drink water; not a drop before: therefore bear up, and board 'em.

A drink to me, servant monster.

Servant-monster!

the folly of this island!

They say there's but five upon this isle: we are three of them; if th' other two be brained like us, the state totters.

[audience laughter] Drink, drink when I bid thee, servant monster.

O thy eyes are almost set in thy head.

Where should they be set else?

he were a brave monster indeed, if they were set in his tail.

[audience laughter] My man-monster hath drown'd his tongue in sack: for my part, the sea cannot drown me; I swam, ere I could recover the shore, five and thirty leagues off and on.

[audience laughter] By this light, thou shalt be my lieutenant, monster, or my standard.

Your lieutenant, if you list; he's no standard.

[laughs] We'll not run, Monsieur Monster.

Nor walk neither; but you'll lie like dogs and say nothing neither.

Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a good moon-calf.

How does thy honour?

Let me lick thy shoe.

I'll not serve him; he's not valiant.

Thou liest!

I am in case to justle a constable.

Why, thou deboshed fish thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I to-day?

Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?

Lo, how he mocks me!

wilt thou let him, my lord?

'Lord' quoth he!

A most ignorant monster!

Lo, lo, again!

bite him to death, I prithee.

Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head: if you prove a mutineer,-- the next tree!

The poor monster is my subject.

He shall not suffer indignity.

I thank my noble lord.

Wilt thou be pleased to hearken once again to the suit I made to thee?

Marry, will I kneel and repeat it; I will stand, and so shall Trinculo.

As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island.

Thou liest.

Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou: I would my valiant master would destroy thee!

I do not lie.

Trinculo, trouble him in's tale one more and by this hand, I shall supplant some of your teeth.

Why, I said nothing.

Mum, then, and no more.

Proceed.

I say, by sorcery he got this isle; From me he got it.

if thy greatness will Revenge it on him, -- for I know thou darest, But this thing dare not,-- That's most certain.

Thou shalt be lord of it and I'll serve thee.

How now shall this be compassed?

Canst thou bring me to the party?

Yea, yea, my lord: I'll yield him thee asleep, Where thou mayst knock a nail into his bead.

Thou liest; [audience laughter] What a pied ninny's this!

Thou scurvy patch!

I do beseech thy greatness, give him blows And take his bottle from him: Ah!

[audience laughter] when that's gone he shall drink nought but brine; for I'll not show him Where the quick freshes are.

Trinculo, run into no furtherdanger: interrupt the monster one word further, and by this hand, I shall turn my mercy out o' doors and I'll make a stock-fish of thee.

Why, what did I?

I did nothing.

Didst thou not say he lied?

Thou liest.

[audience laughter] Do I so?

Take thou that.

Ah!

And that.

As you like this, give me the lie another time.

I did not give the lie.

Out o' your wits and hearing too?

Ah!

A pox o' your bottle!

this can sack and drinking do.

[audience laughter] A murrain on your monster, and the devil take your fingers!

Ah!

[audience laughter] [laughing] Now then, forward with your tale.

I Prithee, stand farther off.

Beat him enough: after a little time I'll beat him too.

Stand farther.

Proceed.

Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him, I' th' afternoon to sleep: there thou mayst brain him, Having first seized his books, or with a log Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, Or cut his wezand with thy knife.

Remember first to possess his books; for without them He's but a sot, as I am, nor hath not One spirit to command: they all do hate him As rootedly as I.

Burn but his books.

And that most deeply to consider is the beauty of his daughter He himself Calls her a nonpareil: I never knew a woman, But only Sycorax my dam and she; But she as far surpasseth Sycorax As great'st does least.

Is it so brave a lass?

Ay, lord; she will become thy bed, I warrant.

And bring thee forth brave brood.

Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and I shall be king and queen- save our graces!

-- and Trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys.

Dost thou like the plot, Trinculo?

Excellent.

Give me thy hand: I am sorry I beat thee; [audience laughter] but, while thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head.

Within this half hour will he be asleep: Wilt thou destroy him then?

Ay, on mine honour.

[laughing] This will I tell my master.

Thou makest me merry; I am full of pleasure: [laughing] Let us be jocund: [laughing] will you troll the catch You taught me but while-ere?

At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any reason.

Come on, Trinculo, let us sing.

♪ Flout 'em and cout 'em ♪ ♪ And scout 'em and flout 'em ♪ ♪ Thought is free.

That's not the tune.

♪ What is this same?

This is the tune of our catch, played by the picture of nobody.

If thou beest a man, show thyself in thy likeness: if thou beest a devil, take't as thou list.

O, forgive me my sins!

He that dies pays all debts: I defy thee.

Mercy upon us!

Art thou afeard?

No, monster, not I.

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.

Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices That if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me that when I waked, I cried to dream again.

♪ This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing.

When Prospero is destroyed.

That shall be by and by: I remember the story.

The sound is going away; let's follow it, and after do our work.

Monster, lead the way.

We'll follow.

I would I could see this tabourer; he lays it on.

♪ By'r lady, I can go no further, sir; My old bones ache: here's a maze trod indeed Through forth-rights and meanders!

By your patience, I needs must rest me.

Old lord, I cannot blame thee, Who am myself attach'd with weariness, To the dulling of my spirits: sit 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 sea mocks our frustrate search on land.

Well, let him go.

I am right glad that he's so out of hope.

Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose Which you resolved to effect.

The next advantage Will we take throughly.

Let it be to-night; For now they are oppress'd with travel, they will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance As when they are fresh.

I say, to-night: no more.

♪ Solemn and strange music ♪ What harmony is this?

My good friends, hark!

Marvellous sweet music!

Give us kind keepers, heavens!

♪ What were these?

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.

I'll believe both; And what does else want credit, come to me and I'll be sworn 'tis true: travellers ne'er did lie, Though fools at home condemn 'em.

If in Naples I should report this now, would they believe me?

If I should say, I saw such islanders- For certain these are people of the island- Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet, note, Their manners are more gentle-kind than of Our human generation you shall find many, nay, almost any.

Honest lord, Thou hast said well; for some of you there present Are worse than devils.

They vanish'd strangely.

No matter, since they have left their viands behind; for we have stomachs.

Will't please you taste of what is here?

Not I. I will feed, Although my last: no matter since I feel The best is past.

♪ Brother, my lord the duke, Stand to and do as we.

[Thunder] ♪ You are three men of sin, whom Destiny, That hath to instrument this lower world And what is in't, the never-surfeited sea Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island Where man doth not inhabit; you 'mongst men Being most unfit to live.

I have made you mad; And even with such-like valour men hang and drown Their proper selves.

You fools!

I and my fellows Are ministers of Fate: the elements of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well Wound the loud winds, If you could hurt, Your swords are now too massy for your strengths And will not be uplifted.

But remember- For that's my business to you- that you three From Milan did supplant good Prospero; Prospero!

Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it, Him and his innocent child: for which foul deed The powers delaying, not forgetting, have incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures, Against your peace.

Thee of thy son, Alonso, They have bereft; and do pronounce by me: Lingering perdition, worse than any death Can be at once, shall step by step attend you and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from- Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls Upon your heads- is nothing but heart-sorrow And a clear life ensuing.

[thunder] Bravely the figure of his harpy hast thou performed, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring.

Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated In what thou hadst to say: My high charms work And these mine enemies are all knit up In their distractions; they now are in my power; And in these fits I leave them, while I visit Young Ferdinand, whom they suppose is drown'd, And his and mine loved darling.

[thunder] I' the name of something holy, sir, why stand you In this strange stare?

O, it is monstrous, monstrous: Methought the billows spoke and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass.

Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded, and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded And with him there lie mudded.

But one fiend at a time, I'll fight their legions o'er.

I'll be thy second.

All three of them are desperate: their great guilt, Like poison given to work a great time after, Now 'gins to bite the spirits.

I do beseech you That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly And hinder them from what this ecstasy may now provoke them to.

Follow, I pray you.

♪ [thunder] ♪ [applause] ♪ [laughing] ♪ [laughing] If I have too austerely punish'd you, Your compensation makes amends, for I Have given you here a third of mine own life, Or that for which I live; all thy vexations have been but my trials of thy love and thou Hast strangely stood the test here, afore Heaven, I ratify this my rich gift.

O Ferdinand, Do not smile at me that I boast of her, For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise And make it halt behind her.

I do believe it Against an oracle.

Then, as my gift and thine own acquisition Worthily purchased take my daughter: but... [audience laughter] If thou dost break her virgin-knot before all sanctimonious ceremonies may With full and holy rite be minister'd, No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall To make this contract grow: but barren hate, Sour-eyed disdain and discord shall bestrew The union of your bed with weeds so loathly That you shall hate it both: [audience laughter] therefore take heed, [audience laughter] As Hymen's lamps shall light you.

As I hope For quiet days, fair issue and long life, With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den, The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion.

Our worser genius can, shall never melt Mine honour into lust, to take away the edge of that day's celebration Fairly spoke.

Sit then and talk with her; [audience laughter] she is thine own.

What, Ariel!

My industrious servant, Ariel!

Here I am.

[laughing] What would, my potent master?

Go bring the rabble, O'er whom I give thee power, here to this place: Incite them to quick motion; [Miranda giggling] for I must bestow upon the eyes of this young couple Some vanity of mine art: it is my promise, And they expect it from me.

Presently?

Ay, with a twink.

Before you can say 'come' and 'go, ' And breathe twice and cry 'so, so,' Each one, tripping on his toe, Will be here with mop and mow.

[audience laughter] Do you love me, master?

No?

Dearly my delicate Ariel.

But do not approach Till thou dost hear me call.

Well, I conceive.

Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!

[audience laughter] Look thou be true; do not give dalliance too much the rein.

be more abstemious, Or else, good night your vow!

I warrant you sir; The white cold virgin snow upon my heart Abates the ardour of my liver.

[audience laughter] Ah... [chuckles] [audience laughter] Well.

[audience laughter] All eyes!

Be silent.

Appear!

♪ Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats and peas; Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatch'd with stover, them to keep; Juno Queen o' the sky, Whose watery arch and messenger am I, Bids thee leave these, and with her sovereign grace, Here on this grass-plot, in this very place, To come and sport: [cawing] her peacocks fly amain: Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.

Hail, many-colour'd messenger, that ne'er Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter; Who with thy saffron wings upon my flowers Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers, why hath thy queen Summon'd me hither, to this short-grass'd green?

A contract of true love to celebrate; And some donation freely to estate On the blest lovers.

High'st queen of state, [Iris and Ceres] Great Juno, comes; How does my bounteous sister?

Go with me To bless this twain, that they may prosperous be [all together] And honour'd in their issue.

♪ ♪ Honour, riches, marriage-blessing, ♪ ♪ Long continuance, and increasing, ♪ ♪ Hourly joys be still upon you!

♪ ♪ Juno sings her blessings upon you.

♪ ♪ This is a most majestic vision, and harmonious charmingly.

May I be bold To think these spirits?

Spirits, which by mine art I have call'd to enact My present fancies.

Let me live here ever; So rare a wonder'd father and a wife Makes this place Paradise.

♪ ♪ Earth's increase, foison plenty, ♪ ♪ barns and garners never empty, ♪ ♪ vines with clust'ring bunches growing, ♪ ♪ plants with goodly burden bowing; ♪ ♪ ♪ Spring come to you at the farthest, ♪ ♪ in every end of harvest!

♪ Scarcity and want shall shun you.

♪ ♪ Ceres blessing so is on you.

♪ ♪ Enough!

No more!

Be gone!

[thunder] I had forgot the foul conspiracy of the beast Caliban and his confederates against my life.

The minute of their plot is almost come.

No more!

No more!

No more!

This is strange: your father's in some passion That moves him strongly.

Never till this day Saw I him touch'd with anger so distemper'd.

[audience laughter] You do look, my son, in a moved sort, As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, sir.

Our revels now are ended.

These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve and like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind.

We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

Sir, I am vex'd; Bear with my weakness; my ol' brain is troubled: [chuckles] Be not disturb'd with my infirmity: If you be pleased, retire you to my cell And there repose awhile.

♪ A turn or two I'll take, To still my beating mind.

[Mirand and Ferdinand] We wish your peace.

Come with a thought I thank thee, Ariel: come.

Thy thoughts I cleave to.

What's thy pleasure?

Spirit, We must prepare to meet with Caliban.

Ay, my commander.

Say again, where didst thou leave these varlets?

I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; So full of valour that they smote the air For breathing in their faces; beat the ground For kissing of their feet; yet always bending Towards their project.

so I charm'd their ears That calf-like they my lowing follow'd through tooth'd briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss and thorns, Which entered their frail shins: at last I left them I' the filthy-mantled pool beyond your cell, There dancing up to the chins, that the foul lake O'erstunk their feet.

[laughing] This was well done, my bird.

Thy shape invisible retain thou still: The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither, as means to catch these thieves.

I go, I go.

A devil, a born devil, on whom my pains, Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost; And as with age his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers.

I will plague them all, Even to roaring.

[shouting in background] Pray you, t read softly, that the blind mole may not Hear a foot fall: we now are near his cell.

[audience laughter] Monster, your fairy, which you say is a harmless fairy, has done little better than played the Jack with us.

Monster, I do smell all horse-piss; [audience laughter] at which my nose is in great indignation.

So is mine.

Do you hear, monster?

If I should take a displeasure against you, look you,-- Thou wert but a lost monster.

Good my lord, give me thy favour still.

Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to Shall hoodwink this mischance: therefore speak softly.

All's hush'd as midnight yet.

Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool, -- [audience laughter] There is not only disgrace and dishonour in that, monster, but an infinite loss.

That's more to me than my wetting: and this is your harmless fairy, monster.

I shall fetch after my bottle, though I be o'er ears for my labour.

Good , my king, be quiet.

Seest thou here, This is the mouth o' 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.

Give me thy hand.

I do begin to have bloody thoughts.

♪ O king Stephano!

O peer!

O worthy Stephano!

look what a wardrobe here is for thee!

Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash.

O, ho, monster!

we know what belongs to a frippery.

O king Stephano!

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

[audience laughter] Thy grace shall have it.

The dropsy drown this fool what do you mean to dote thus on such luggage?

Let it alone And do the murder first: if he awake, From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches, Be you quiet, monster.

Monster, put some lime on your fingers, and away with the rest.

Wit shall not go unrewarded while I am King of this Country.

Put lime on his fingers, [laughs] tis a most excellent pass of pate.

Here is a garment for't.

We shall lose our time, and all be turned to barnacles, or to apes with foreheads villainous low.

Monster, lay to your fingers.

And help bear this away where my hogsead of wine is hid or I'll turn you out of my kingdom.

[laughing] Go to!

And help carry this.

And this.

And this.

Hey, Mountain, hey, mountain!

Silver!

There it goes!

Silver!

Fury, Fury!

Fury, Fury!

There!

There!

Tyrant, tyrant!

There!

Go charge my goblins that they grind their joints With dry convulsions!

Aaaaaah!

Hark, they roar!

Let them be hunted soundly.

sAt this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.

♪ Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou shalt have the air at freedom.

Now does my project gather to a head: My charms crack not; my spirits obey; and time goes upright with his carriage.

How's the day?

On the sixth hour; at which time, my lord, You said our work should cease.

I did say so, When first I raised the tempest.

Say, my spirit, How fares the king and his followers?

Confined together In the same fashion as you gave in charge, Just as you left them; all prisoners, sir, In the line-grove which weather-fends your cell; Ah.

They cannot budge till your release.

The king, His brother and yours, abide all three distracted And the remainder mourning over them, Brimful of sorrow and dismay; but chiefly Him that you term'd, sir, 'The good old lord Gonzalo;' His tears run down his beard, like winter's drops From eaves of reeds.

Your charm so strongly works 'em That if you now beheld them, your affections Would become tender.

Dost thou think so, spirit?

Mine would, sir, were I human.

And mine shall.

Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, be kindlier moved than thou art?

Ah.

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance: Go release them, Ariel: I'll fetch them, sir.

They being penitent the sole drift of my purpose doth extend not a frown further.

♪ My charms I'll break, theirs senses I'll restore, and they shall be themselves.

Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back; you demi-puppets that 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 ye be, I have bedimm'd The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azured 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-based promontory Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar: graves at my command Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth By my so potent art.

But this rough magic I here abjure, and when I have required Some heavenly music, which even now I do, To work mine end upon their senses that this airy 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 A solemn air and the best comforter To an unsettled fancy cure thy brains, Now useless, which boil within thy skull!

The charm dissolves apace, And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.

Their understanding Begins to swell, and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shore That now lies foul and muddy.

There stand, for you are spell stopped.

♪ Not one of them that yet looks on me, or doth know me.

Ariel, fetch the robe of office from my cell.

Quickly spirit!

Thou shalt ere long be free.

♪ ♪ 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 from the bough.

♪ ♪ Why, that's my dainty Ariel!

I shall miss thee: So, so, so.

To the king's ship, invisible as thou art the master and the boatswain being awake, enforce them to this place, And presently, I prithee.

♪ All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us Out of this fearful country!

Behold, sir king, The wronged Duke of Milan, Prospero.

[group chattering] For more assurance that a living prince Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body; And to thee and to thy company I bid A hearty welcome.

Whether 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, The affliction of my mind amends, with which, I fear, a madness held me: this must crave, An 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?

First, noble friend, Holy Gonzalo, Let me embrace thine age, whose honour cannot Be measured or confined.

Whether this be Or be not, I'll not swear.

You do yet taste Some subtilties o' the isle, which will not let you Believe things certain.

You are welcome, my friends all!

But you, my brace of lords, were I so minded, I here could pluck his highness' frown upon you And justify you traitors: at this time I will tell no tales.

The devil speaks in him.

No.

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

If thou beest Prospero, Give us particulars of thy preservation; How thou hast met us here, who three hours since Were wreck'd upon this shore; where I have lost- How sharp the point of this remembrance is!

-- My dear son Ferdinand.

I am woe for't, sir.

For I have lost a daughter.

A daughter?

O heavens, that were both living 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?

In this last tempest.

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 Upon this shore, where you were wreck'd, was landed, To be the lord on't.

You are Welcome, sir; 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 thee.

Sweet lord, you play me false.

No, my dear'st love, I would not for the world.

Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle, And I would call it, fair play.

If this prove A vision of the Island, one dear son Shall I twice lose.

A most high miracle!

Though the seas threaten, they are merciful; I have cursed them without cause.

Now all the blessings Of a glad father compass thee about!

Arise, and say how thou camest here.

O wonder!

How many goodly creatures are there here!

[audience laughter] How beauteous mankind is!

O brave new world, That has such people in't!

'Tis new to thee.

[audience laughter] What is this maid with whom thou wast at play?

Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours: Is she the goddess that hath sever'd us, And brought us thus together?

Sir, she is mortal; But by immortal Providence she's mine: I chose her when I could not ask my father For his advice, nor thought I had one.

She Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan, Of whom so often I have heard renown, But never saw before; of whom I have Received a second life; and second father This lady makes him to me.

I am hers: But, O, how oddly will it sound that I must ask my child forgiveness!

I have inly wept, Or should have spoke ere this.

Look down, you gods, And on this couple drop a blessed crown!

For it is you that have chalk'd forth the way Which brought us hither.

I say, Amen, Gonzalo!

Amen!

Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue Should become kings of Naples?

O, rejoice Beyond a common joy, and set it down With gold on lasting pillars: In one voyage did Claribel her husband find at Tunis, And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife Where he himself was lost, Prospero his dukedom In a poor isle and all of us ourselves When no man was his own.

Give me your hands: Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart That doth not wish you joy!

Be it so!

Amen!

Amen!

O, look, sir, look, sir!

Here is more of us: I prophesied, if a gallows were on land, This fellow could not drown.

[laughing] Now, blasphemy, That swear'st grace o'erboard, not an oath on shore?

Hast thou no mouth on land?

What is the news?

The best news is, that we have safely found Our king and company; the next, our ship- Which, but three glasses since, we gave out split- Is tight and yare and bravely rigg'd as when we first put out to sea.

Sir, all this service Have I done since I went.

My tricksy spirit!

These are not natural events; they strengthen From strange to stranger.

Say, how came you hither?

If I did think, sir, I were well awake, I'd strive to tell you.

We were dead of sleep, And- how we know not- all clapp'd under hatches; Where but with strange and several noises Of roarings, shriekings, howlings, jingling chains, [Ariel cackles] And more diversity of sounds, all horrible, We were awaked; straightway, at liberty; Where we, in all her trim, freshly beheld our royal, good and gallant ship, our master Capering to eye her: [Ariel cackles] on a trice, so please you, Even in a dream, were we divided from them and were brought moping hither.

Was't well done?

Bravely, my diligence.

Thou shalt be free.

This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod And there is in this business more than nature Was ever conduct of: some oracle Must rectify our knowledge.

Sir, my liege, Do not infest your mind with beating on the strangeness of this business; I'll resolve you, till then, be patient and think of each thing well.

Come hither, spirit: Set Caliban and his companions free; Untie the spell.

Most gracious sir?

There are yet missing of your company Some few odd lads that you remember not.

Every man shift for all the rest, and let no man take care for himself; for all is but fortune.

Coragio, bully-monster, coragio!

If these be true spies which I wear in my head, here's a goodly sight.

O Setebos, these be brave spirits indeed!

How fine my master is!

I am afraid He will chastise me.

What things are these, my lord Antonio?

Will money buy 'em?

Very like; one of them Is a plain fish, and no doubt, marketable.

[Ariel cackles] Mark but the badges of these men, my lords, and then say if they be true.

This mis-shapen 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.

I shall be pinch'd to death.

[audience laughter] Is not this Stephano, my drunken butler?

He is drunk now: where had he wine?

And Trinculo is reeling ripe: where should they Find this grand liquor that hath gilded 'em?

How camest thou in this pickle?

I have been in such a pickle since I saw you last that I fear me, will never out of my bones: Why, how now, Stephano!

I prithee, touch me not.

For I am not Stephano, but a cramp.

You'ld be king o' the isle, sirrah?

I should be a sore one then.

This is a strange thing as e'er I look'd on.

He is as disproportioned in his manners As in his shape.

Go, sirrah, to my cell; Take with you your companions; and as you look To have my pardon, trim it handsomely.

Ay, that I will; and I'll be wise hereafter And seek for grace.

What a thrice-double ass Was I, to take this drunkard for a god And worship this dull fool!

Go to, away!

Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it.

[laughing] Sir, I invite your highness and your train To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest For this one night; which, part of it, I'll waste With such discourse as, I not doubt, will make it Go quick away; the story of my life And the particular accidents gone by Since I came to this isle: and in the morn I'll bring you to your ship and so to Naples, Where I have hope to see the nuptial Of these our dear-beloved solemnized; [giggles] And thence retire me to my Milan, where every third thought shall be my grave.

I long to hear the story of your life, which must take the ear strangely.

I'll deliver all; And promise you calm seas, [laughing] auspicious gales ♪ And sail so expeditious it shall catch Your royal fleet far off.

My Ariel, chick, That is thy charge: then to the elements Be free, ♪ and fare thou well!

♪ Please you, draw near.

Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have is mine own, Which is most faint: now, 'tis true, I must be here confined 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 yours 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 relieved 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.

♪ [applause] ♪ [applause continues] ♪ [applause] ♪