But that our soft conditions* and our hearts, TEMPEST. ACT I. AN USURPING SUBSTITUTE COMPARED TO JOY. THAT now he was The ivy, which had hid my princely trunk, ARIEL'S DESCRIPTION OF MANAGING THE STORM. I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak, The yards, and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, sors O'the dreadful thunder claps, more momentary -Not a soul, But felt a fever of the mad, and play'd Some tricks of desperation: All, but mariners, Plung'd in the foaming brine, and quit the vessel, Then all a-fire with me: the king's son, Ferdinand, With hair up-starting (then like reeds, not hair,) Was the first man that leap'd; cried, Hell is empty, And all the devils are here. PROSPERO REPROVING ARIEL. Thou dost; and think'st It much, to tread the ooze of the salt deep; * Gentle tempers. CALIBAN'S CURSES. Cal 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! Pro. For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins* Shall, for that vast of night that they may work, All exercise on thee: thou shalt be pinch'd As thick as honeycombs, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made them. Cal. I must eat my dinner. This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou taks't from me. When thou cam❜st first, Thou strok'dst me, and mad'st much of me; would'st give me Water with berries in't; and teach me how Cursed be I that did so!-All the charms Which first was mine own king; and here you sty me CALIBAN'S EXULTATION AFTER PROSPERO TELLS HIM HE SOUGHT TO VIOLATE THE HONOUR OF O ho, O ho!-'would it nad been done! MUSIC. Where should this music be? i' the air, or the earth, It sounds no more:-and sure, it waits upon *Faries. Some god of the island. Sitting on a bank, ARIEL'S SONG. Full fathom five thy father lies; Hark! now I hear them,-ding-dong, bell. My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up. ACT II. DESCRIPTION OF FERDINAND'S SWIMMING ASHORE. 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, SLEEP. Do not omit the heavy offer of it; RESOLUTION: I know not: If they speak but truth of her, Nor fortune made such havoc of my means, THE DESIRE OF BELOVED OBJECTS HEIGHTENED BY For it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, And every lovely organ of her life Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, Into the eye and prospect of his soul, TALKING BRAGGARTS. But manhood is melted into courtesies,§ valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules, that only tells a lie, and swears it. I ACT V. COUNSEL OF NO WEIGHT IN MISERY. pray thee, cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless *While. † Over-rate. + By. § Ceremony As water in a seive; give not me counsel;. But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine. Measure his wo the length and breadth of mine, But there is no such man: For, brother, men To be so moral, when he shall endure SATIRE ON THE STOIC PHILOSOPHERS. I pray thee, peace: I will be flesh and blood; TALKING BRAGGARTS. Hold you content: What man! I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple. Scrambling, out-facing, fashion-meng'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave and slander, Go antickly, and show outward hideousness. |