TRIN. A howling monster; a drunken monster. No more dams I 'll make for fish; At requiring, Nor scrape trencher, nor wash dish: 'Ban, 'Ban, Ca-Caliban Has a new master-Get a new man. Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! freedom, hey-day, freedom! STE. O brave monster! lead the way. [Exeunt. ACT III. SCENE I-Before Prospero's Cell. Enter FERDINAND, bearing a log. FER. 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 Weeps when she sees me work; and says such baseness But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours; MIRA. Enter MIRANDA, and PROSPERO at a distance. Alas, now! pray you, Work not so hard; I would the lightning had Pray set it down, and rest you: when this burns, 'T will weep for having wearied you; My father Is hard at study; pray now rest yourself; He 's safe for these three hours. FER. What I must strive to do. MIRA. O most dear mistress, If you 'll sit down I'll bear your logs the while: Pray give me that; FER. No, precious creature: I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, Than you should such dishonour undergo, While I sit lazy by. MIRA. 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, PRO. This visitation shows it. MIRA. Poor worm! thou art infected; You look wearily. FER. No, noble mistress; 't is fresh morning with me, When you are by at night. I do beseech you, (Chiefly, that I might set it in my prayers,) What is your name? MIRA. Miranda:-O my father Admir'd Miranda! I have broke your hest to say so! FER. Full many a lady With so full soul, but some defect in her One of my sex; no woman's face remember, FER. I am, in my condition, A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king; (I would not so!) and would no more endure This wooden slavery, than to suffer The flesh-fly blow my mouth.-Hear my soul speak:- My heart fly to your service; there resides, To make me slave to it; and for your sake MIRA. Do you love me? FER. 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, MIRA. At mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give; and much less take And all the more it seeks to hide itself, The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning! I am your wife, if you will marry me; If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow FER. And I thus humble ever. MIRA. My mistress, dearest, My husband then? FER. Ay, with a heart as willing As bondage e'er of freedom: here 's my hand. MIRA. And mine, with my heart in 't: And now farewell, Till half an hour hence. FER. A thousand! thousand! [Exeunt FERDINAND and MIRANDA. PRO. So glad of this as they I cannot be, Who are surpris'd with all; but my rejoicing At nothing can be more. I'll to my book; For yet, ere supper-time, must I perform Much business appertaining. SCENE II.-Another part of the Island. [Exit. Enter STEPHANO and TRINCULO; CALIBAN following with a bottle. STE. Tell not me;-when the butt is out we will drink water; not a drop before: therefore bear up, and board 'em: Servant-monster, drink to me. TRIN. Servant-monster? the folly of this island! They say there's but five upon this isle: we are three of them; if the other two be brained like us, the state totters. STE. Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee; thy eyes are almost set in thy head. TRIN. Where should they be set else? he were a brave monster indeed, if they were set in his tail. STE. My man-monster hath drowned 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. By this light, thou shalt be my lieutenant, monster, or my standard. TRIN. Your lieutenant, if you list; he 's no standard. TRIN. Nor go neither: but you'll lie, like dogs; and yet say nothing neither. STE. Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a good moon-calf. CAL. How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe: I'll not serve him, he is not valiant. TRIN. Thou liest, most ignorant monster; I am in case to justle a constable: why, thou deboshed fish thou, was there ever a man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today? Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish, and half a monster? CAL. Lo, how he mocks me! wilt thou let him, my lord? TRIN. Lord, quoth he!-that a monster should be such a natural! CAL. Lo, lo, again! bite him to death, I prithee. STE. Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head; if you prove a mutineer, the next tree-The poor monster's my subject, and he shall not suffer indignity. CAL. I thank my nobie lord. Wilt thou be pleas'd To hearken once again to the suit I made to thee? STE. Marry will I: kneel and repeat it; I will stand, and so shall Trinculo. Enter ARIEL, invisible. CAL. As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant; A sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me Of the island. ARI. Thou liest. CAL. Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou; I would my valiant master would destroy thee: I do not lie. STE. Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in his tale, by this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth. TRIN. Why, I said nothing. STE. Mum then, and no more. [To CALIBAN.] Proceed. CAL. 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 dar'st; But this thing dare not. STE. That's most certain. |