Ste. Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and I will be king and queen, fave our graces: and Trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys. Doft thou like the plot, Trinculo?

Trin. Excellent.

Ste. Give me thy hand; I am forry, I beat thee: but, while thou liv'ft, keep a good tongue in thy head.

Cal. Within this half hour will he be asleep;

Wilt thou destroy him then?

Ste. Ay, on my honour.

Ari. This will I tell my mafter.

Cal. Thou mak’st me merry; I am full of pleasure ;

Let us be jocund. Will you troul the catch

You taught me but while-ere?

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

[Sings.

Flout'em, and Scout'em; and Scout'em, and flout'em; thought

is free.

Cal. That's not the tune.

Trin. This is the tune of our catch, plaid by the picture of no-body.

Ste. If thou be'ft a man, fhew thyself in thy likeness; if thou be'ft a devil, take't as thou lift.

Trin. O forgive me my fins!

Ste. He that dies pays all debts: I defy thee. Mercy upon us!

Cal. Art thou afraid?

Ste. No, monfter, not I.

Cal. Be not afraid; the ifle is full of noifes,

Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twanging inftruments

Will hum about mine ears; and fometimes voices,

That, if I then had wak'd after long fleep,

Will make me fleep again; and then in dreaming,

The clouds, methought, would open, and shew riches
Ready to drop upon me; when I wak'd,

I cry'd to dream again.

Ste.

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

Cal. When Profpero is deftroy'd.

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

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 see this taborer: he lays it on.

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

[Exeunt.

Gon.

Changes again.

Enter Alonfo, Sebastian, Anthonio, Gonzalo, Adrian,

Francifco, &c.

Y'R lakin, I can go no further, fir,

BYR

My old bones ake: here's a maze trod, indeed,
Through forth-rights, and meanders: by your patience,
I needs muft reft me.

Alon. Old lord, I cannot blame thee,

Who am myself attach'd with weariness

To th' dulling of my spirits: fit down, and rest.
Ev'n here I will put off my hope, and keep it
No longer for my flatt'rer: he is drown'd,

Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks

Our fruftrate search on land. Well, let him go.

Ant. I am right glad that he's fo out of hope. [Afide to Seb. Do not, for one repulfe, forego the purpose

That you refolv'd t'effect.

Seb. The next advantage

Will we take throughly.

Ant. Let it be to-night;

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

As

As when they're fresh.

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

Solemn and Strange mufick, and Profpero on the top invifible. Enter feveral frange 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 musick!

Alon. Give us kind keepers, heaven! what are these?
Seb. A living drollery. Now I will believe

That there are unicorns; that in Arabia

There is one tree, the phoenix' throne; one phoenix
At this hour reigning there.

Ant. I'll believe both:

And what does elfe want credit, come to me,
And I'll be fworn 'tis true. Travellers ne'er lied,
Though fools at home condemn 'em.

Gon. If in Naples

I should report this now, would they believe me?
If I fhould fay, I saw such islanders:

(For, certes, these are people of the island)

Who though they are of monftrous shape, yet, note,
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of
Our human generation you shall find

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 use of tongue) a kind

Of excellent dumb difcourse.

Pro. Praise in departing.

Fran. They vanish'd strangely.

Seb. 'Tis no matter, fince

VOL. I.

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They've

They've left their viands behind; for we have ftomachs.
Will't please you taste of what is here?

Ant. Not I.

Gon. Faith, fir, you need not fear. When we were boys, Who would believe that there were mountaineers, Dew-lapt like bulls, whofe throats had hanging at 'em Wallets of flefh? or that there were fuch men,

a

Whofe heads ftood in their breafts? which now we find.
Each putter-out on five for one will bring us.
Good warrant of.

Alon. I will ftand to, and feed,

Although my laft; no matter, fince I feel
The best is past. Brother, my lord the duke,
Stand to, and do as we.

SCENE IV.

Thunder and lightning. Enter Ariel like a harpy, claps his wings upon the table, and with a queint device the banquet vanishes.

Ari. You are three men of fin, whom destiny.
(That hath to instrument this lower world,
And what is in't) the never-furfeited fea
Hath caused to belch up; and on this island,
Where man doth not inhabit, you 'mongst men.
Being most unfit to live: I have made you mad;
And ev❜n with fuch like valour men hang and drown
Their proper felves. You fools, I and my fellows

Are minifters of fate; the elements

[They draw their fwords.

Of which your fwords are temper'd, may as well
Wound the loud winds, or with bemockt-at ftabs.

* It was a custom heretofore for people upon their going forth to travel to put out fums of money upon contracts to receive the fame back with increase upon their return: which increase bore a proportion to the length and danger of the voyages they undertook; and upon thofe which were very long and very hazardous it fometimes rofe to 500 per cent.

See Ben. Jonfon. Every man out of his humour. Act. 2. Sc. 3.
See alfo Morifon's Itinerary. Part 1. p. 198.

Kill the ftill-clofing waters, as diminish

One down that's in my plume: my fellow-minifters
Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,

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

You, and your ways; whofe wraths to guard you from,
Which here in this moft defolate ifle else fall

Upon your heads, there's nothing but heart's forrow,
And a clear life ensuing.

He vanishes in thunder: then, to foft mufick, Enter the shapes again, and dance with mocks and mowes, and carrying out the table.

Pro. Bravely the figure of this harpy haft thou Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had devouring: my inftruction haft thou nothing 'bated,

Of

In what thou hadft to fay: fo, with good life,

And observation strange, my meaner minifters
Their several kinds have done; my high charms work;
And these, mine enemies, are all knit up

In their distractions: they are in my power;

And in these fits I leave them, whilft I vifit

Young Ferdinand, who, they fuppofe,‹ is drowned,

And his and my lov'd darling.

Gon. I' th' name of fomething holy, fir, why ftand you In this strange ftare?

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Alon.