That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, Ste. This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing. Cal. When Prospero is destroyed. Ste. That shall be by and by: I remember the story. Trin. The sound is going away: let's follow it, and after, do our work. Ste. Lead, monster; we'll follow.-I would, I could see this taborer: he lays it on. Trin. Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano. [Exeunt. SCENE III. Another Part of the Island. Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others. Gon. By'r lakin, 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. Alon. To the dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest. [Aside to Sebastian. Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose Will we take thoroughly. Ant. The next advantage Let it be to-night; For, now they are oppress'd with travel, they As when they are fresh. Seb. I say, to-night: no more. Solemn and strange Music; and PROSPERO above, in— visible. Enter several strange Shapes, bringing in a Banquet; they dance about it with gentle Actions of Salutation; and inviting the King, &c. to eat, they depart. Alon. What harmony is this? my good friends, hark! Gon. Marvellous sweet music! [these? Ant. Gon. If in Naples I should report this now, would they believe me? If I should say I saw such islanders (For, certes, these are people of the island,) Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet, note, Our human generation you shall find Many, nay, Pro. almost any. Honest lord, Thou hast said well; for some of you there present, Are worse than devils. Alon. [Aside. I cannot too much muse, Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, expressing (Although they want the use of tongue,) a kind Of excellent dumb discourse. They have left their viands behind; for we have stomachs. Will't please you taste of what is here? Alon. Not I. Gon. Faith, sir, you need not fear; When we were boys, Who would believe that there were mountaineers, Dew-lapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at them Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men, Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find, Each putter-out on five for one, will bring us Good warrant of. Alon. I will stand to, and feed, Thunder and Lightning. Enter ARIEL like a Harpy: claps his Wings upon the Table, and, with a quaint Device, the Banquet vanishes. Ari. You are three men of sin, whom destiny [Seeing Alon. Seb. &c. draw their Swords. 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 One dowle that's in my plume; my fellow-ministers Your swords are now too massy for your strengths, Lingering perdition (worse than any death Can be at once) shall step by step attend You and your ways; whose wrath to guard you from (Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls Upon your heads,) is nothing, but heart's sorrow, And a clear life ensuing. He vanishes in Thunder: then, to soft Music, enter the Shapes again, and dance with Mops and Mowes, and carry out the Table. Pro. [Aside.] Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou In their distractions: they now are in my power; Young Ferdinand (whom they suppose is drown'd,) [Exit Prospero from above. Gon. I'the name of something holy, sir, why stand you In this strange stare? Alon. 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, pronounc'd The name of Prospero; 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. [Exit. But one fiend at a time, I'll be thy second. [Exeunt Seb. and Ant. Gon. 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 ecstacy May now provoke them to. Adr. SCENE 1. Before PROSPERO's Cell. Enter PROSPERO, FERDINAND, and MIRANDA. For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise, Fer. Against an oracle. I do believe it, Pro. Then, as my gift, and thine own acquisition Worthily purchas'd, take my daughter: But If thou dost break her virgin knot before All sanctimonious ceremonies may |