The Tempest (Folio 1, 1623)
Peer Reviewed
80
Scena Secunda.
¶
Enter Prospero and Miranda.
¶Put the wild waters in this Rore; alay them:
85But that the Sea, mounting to th' welkins cheeke,
¶(Who had no doubt some noble creature in her)
¶Dash'd all to peeces: O the cry did knocke
¶Had I byn any God of power, I would
¶Haue suncke the Sea within the Earth, or ere
¶The fraughting Soules within her.
95Pros. Be collected,
¶No more amazement: Tell your pitteous heart
¶there's no harme done.
¶Mira. O woe, the day.
¶Pros. No harme:
100I haue done nothing, but in care of thee
¶(Of thee my deere one; thee my daughter) who
¶Art ignorant of what thou art. naught knowing
¶Of whence I am: nor that I am more better
105And thy no greater Father.
¶Mira. More to know
¶Did neuer medle with my thoughts.
¶Pros. 'Tis time
¶I should informe thee farther: Lend thy hand
110And plucke my Magick garment from me: So,
¶Lye there my Art: wipe thou thine eyes, haue comfort,
¶The direfull spectacle of the wracke which touch'd
¶No not so much perdition as an hayre
¶For thou must now know farther.
120Mira. You haue often
¶Begun to tell me what I am, but stopt
¶Concluding, stay: not yet.
¶Pros. The howr's now come
125The very minute byds thee ope thine eare,
¶Obey, and be attentiue. Canst thou remember
¶A time before we came vnto this Cell?
¶I doe not thinke thou canst, for then thou was't not
¶Out three yeeres old.
130Mira. Certainely Sir, I can.
¶Of any thing the Image, tell me, that
¶Hath kept with thy remembrance.
¶Mira. 'Tis farre off:
¶That my remembrance warrants: Had I not
¶Fowre, or fiue women once, that tended me?
140In the dark-backward and Abisme of Time?
¶Mira. But that I doe not.
145Thy father was the Duke of Millaine and
¶A Prince of power:
¶Mira. Sir, are not you my Father?
¶Pros. Thy Mother was a peece of vertue, and
150Was Duke of Millaine, and his onely heire,
¶Mira. O the heauens,
¶What fowle play had we, that we came from thence?
155Pros. Both, both my Girle.
¶Mira. O my heart bleedes
¶To thinke oth' teene that I haue turn'd you to,
160Which is from my remembrance, please you, farther;
¶Pros. My brother and thy vncle, call'd Anthonio:
¶I pray thee marke me, that a brother should
¶Of all the world I lou'd, and to him put
165The mannage of my state, as at that time
¶In dignity; and for the liberall Artes,
170The Gouernment I cast vpon my brother,
¶(Do'st thou attend me?)
¶how to deny them: who t'aduance, and who
¶To trash for ouer-topping; new created
¶The creatures that were mine, I say, or chang'd 'em,
¶Or els new form'd 'em; hauing both the key,
¶To what tune pleas'd his eare, that now he was
¶The Iuy which had hid my princely Trunck,
¶Mira. O good Sir, I doe.
185Pros. I pray thee marke me:
¶I thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
¶To closenes, and the bettering of my mind
¶with that, which but by being so retir'd
¶Ore-priz'd all popular rate: in my false brother
190Awak'd an euill nature, and my trust
¶Like a good parent, did beget of him
¶A falsehood in it's contrarie, as great
¶As my trust was, which had indeede no limit,
¶A confidence sans bound. He being thus Lorded,
195Not onely with what my reuenew yeelded,
¶But what my power might els exact. Like one
¶Who hauing into truth, by telling of it,
¶To credite his owne lie, he did beleeue
200He was indeed the Duke, out o'th' Substitution
¶And executing th'outward face of Roialtie
¶With all prerogatiue: hence his Ambition growing:
205Pros. To haue no Schreene between this part he plaid,
¶And him he plaid it for, he needes will be
¶Absolute Millaine, Me (poore man) my Librarie
¶Was Dukedome large enough: of temporall roalties
¶He thinks me now incapable. Confederates
210(so drie he was for Sway) with King of Naples
¶To giue him Annuall tribute, doe him homage
¶Subiect his Coronet, to his Crowne and bend
¶The Dukedom yet vnbow'd (alas poore Millaine)
215Mira. Oh the heauens:
¶Pros. Marke his condition, and th'euent, then tell me
¶If this might be a brother.
¶To thinke but Noblie of my Grand-mother,
220Good wombes haue borne bad sonnes.
¶Pro. Now the Condition.
¶This King of Naples being an Enemy
¶To me inueterate, hearkens my Brothers suit,
¶Which was, That he in lieu o'th' premises,
225Of homage, and I know not how much Tribute,
¶Should presently extirpate me and mine
¶Out of the Dukedome, and confer faire Millaine
¶With all the Honors, on my brother: Whereon
¶A treacherous Armie leuied, one mid-night
230Fated to th' purpose, did Anthonio open
¶Me, and thy crying selfe.
¶Mir. Alack, for pitty:
235I not remembring how I cride out then
¶Will cry it ore againe: it is a hint
¶That wrings mine eyes too't.
¶Pro. Heare a little further,
240Which now's vpon's: without the which, this Story
¶Were most impertinent.
¶Mir. Wherefore did they not
¶That howre destroy vs?
¶Pro. Well demanded, wench:
¶So deare the loue my people bore me: nor set
¶With colours fairer, painted their foule ends.
¶In few, they hurried vs a-boord a Barke,
250Bore vs some Leagues to Sea, where they prepared
¶To cry to th' Sea, that roard to vs; to sigh
¶Did vs but louing wrong.
¶Mir. Alack, what trouble
¶Was I then to you?
¶Pro. O, a Cherubin
¶Infused with a fortitude from heauen,
¶Vnder my burthen groan'd, which rais'd in me
¶An vndergoing stomacke, to beare vp
¶Pro. By prouidence diuine,
¶A noble Neopolitan Gonzalo
270Out of his Charity, (who being then appointed
¶Knowing I lou'd my bookes, he furnishd me
275From mine owne Library, with volumes, that
¶I prize aboue my Dukedome.
¶Mir. Would I might
¶But euer see that man.
¶Heere in this Iland we arriu'd, and heere
¶Haue I, thy Schoolemaster, made thee more profit
¶For vainer howres; and Tutors, not so carefull.
285Mir. Heuens thank you for't. And now I pray you Sir,
¶Pro. Know thus far forth,
290(Now my deere Lady) hath mine enemies
¶I finde my Zenith doth depend vpon
¶If now I court not, but omit; my fortunes
¶Come away, Seruant, come; I am ready now,
¶Approach my Ariel. Come.
Enter Ariel.
¶To swim, to diue into the fire: to ride
¶Ariel, and all his Qualitie.
¶Performd to point, the Tempest that I bad thee.
¶Ar. To euery Article.
¶I boorded the Kings ship: now on the Beake,
¶Now in the Waste, the Decke, in euery Cabyn,
310I flam'd amazement, sometime I'ld diuide
¶And burne in many places; on the Top-mast,
¶Then meete, and ioyne. Ioues Lightning, the precursers
¶O'th dreadfull Thunder-claps more momentarie
315And sight out-running were not; the fire, and cracks
¶Seeme to besiege, and make his bold waues tremble,
¶Yea, his dread Trident shake.
¶Pro. My braue Spirit,
¶Would not infect his reason?
¶But felt a Feauer of the madde, and plaid
¶Some tricks of desperation; all but Mariners
¶Then all a fire with me the Kings sonne Ferdinand
¶With haire vp-staring (then like reeds, not haire)
¶Was the first man that leapt; cride hell is empty,
¶And all the Diuels are heere.
¶But was not this nye shore?
¶Whom I left cooling of the Ayre with sighes,
¶His armes in this sad knot.
¶And all the rest o'th' Fleete?
345Ar. Safely in harbour
¶Is the Kings shippe, in the deepe Nooke, where once
¶Thou calldst me vp at midnight to fetch dewe
¶The Marriners all vnder hatches stowed,
350Who, with a Charme ioynd to their suffred labour
¶(Which I dispers'd) they all haue met againe,
¶And are vpon the Mediterranian Flote
¶Bound sadly home for Naples,
¶Pro. Ariel, thy charge
¶Exactly is perform'd; but there's more worke:
¶What is the time o'th'day?
¶Let me remember thee what thou hast promis'd,
365Which is not yet perform'd me.
¶Pro. How now? moodie?
¶What is't thou canst demand?
¶Ar. My Libertie.
¶Pro. Before the time be out? no more:
370Ar. I prethee,
¶Remember I haue done thee worthy seruice,
¶Without or grudge, or grumblings; thou did promise
¶To bate me a full yeere.
¶From what a torment I did free thee?
Ar.No._
¶Of the salt deepe;
¶To run vpon the sharpe winde of the North,
¶When it is bak'd with frost.
¶Ar. I doe not Sir.
¶The fowle Witch Sycorax, who with Age and Enuy
385Was growne into a hoope? hast thou forgot her?
¶Ar. No Sir.
¶Ar. Sir, in Argier.
390Once in a moneth recount what thou hast bin,
¶Which thou forgetst. This damn'd Witch Sycorax
¶To enter humane hearing, from Argier
395They wold not take her life: Is not this true?
Ar. I, Sir.
¶And here was left by th' Saylors; thou my slaue,
¶And for thou wast a Spirit too delicate
400To act her earthy, and abhord commands,
¶By helpe of her more potent Ministers,
¶And in her most vnmittigable rage,
¶Into a clouen Pyne, within which rift
¶And left thee there: where thou didst vent thy groanes
¶(Saue for the Son, that he did littour heere,
410A frekelld whelpe, hag-borne) not honour'd with
¶A humane shape.
415What torment I did finde thee in; thy grones
¶Did make wolues howle, and penetrate the breasts
¶Of euer-angry Beares; it was a torment
¶To lay vpon the damn'd, which Sycorax
¶Could not againe vndoe: it was mine Art,
420When I arriu'd, and heard thee, that made gape
¶The Pyne, and let thee out.
¶And peg-thee in his knotty entrailes, till
425Thou hast howl'd away twelue winters.
¶I will be correspondent to command
¶And doe my spryting, gently.
430I will discharge thee.
¶And hither come in't: goe: hence
¶With diligence.
Exit.
¶Awake.
¶Pro. Shake it off: Come on,
¶Yeelds vs kinde answere.
445Mir. 'Tis a villaine Sir, I doe not loue to looke on.
¶Pro. But as 'tis
¶Fetch in our wood, and serues in Offices
¶That profit vs: What hoa: slaue: Caliban:
450Thou Earth, thou: speake.
¶Come thou Tortoys, when?
Enter Ariel like a water-
455Hearke in thine eare.
¶Vpon thy wicked Dam; come forth.
Enter Caliban.
460With Rauens feather from vnwholesome Fen
¶Drop on you both: A Southwest blow on yee,
¶And blister you all ore.
465Shall for that vast of night, that they may worke
¶As thicke as hony-combe, each pinch more stinging
¶Then Bees that made 'em.
470This Island's mine by Sycorax my mother,
¶Water with berries in't: and teach me how
475That burne by day, and night: and then I lou'd thee
¶The fresh Springs, Brine-pits; barren place and fertill,
¶Curs'd be I that did so: All the Charmes
¶Of Sycorax: Toades, Beetles, Batts light on you:
480For I am all the Subiects that you haue,
¶In this hard Rocke, whiles you doe keepe from me
485Whom stripes may moue, not kindnes: I haue vs'd thee
¶(Filth as thou art) with humane care, and lodg'd thee
¶The honor of my childe.
¶Cal. Oh ho, oh ho, would't had bene done:
¶This Isle with Calibans.
¶Mira. Abhorred Slaue,
¶Being capable of all ill: I pittied thee,
495Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each houre
¶One thing or other: when thou didst not (Sauage)
¶Know thine owne meaning; but wouldst gabble, like
¶With words that made them knowne: But thy vild race
500(Tho thou didst learn) had that in't, which good natures
¶Could not ab ide to be with; therefore wast thou
¶Cal. You taught me Language, and my profit on't
505Is, I know how to curse: the red-plague rid you
¶For learning me your language.
¶Fetch vs in Fewell, and be quicke thou'rt best
¶What I command, Ile racke thee with old Crampes,
¶Fill all thy bones with Aches, make thee rore,
¶Cal. No, 'pray thee.
¶It would controll my Dams god Setebos,
¶
Enter Ferdinand & Ariel, inuisible playing & singing.
¶_and then take hands:¶Foote it featly heere, and there, and sweete Sprights beare525_the burthen.
Burthen dispersedly.
¶
Harke, harke, bowgh wawgh: the watch-Dogges barke,
¶bowgh-wawgh.
¶cry cockadidle-dowe.
¶Some God 'oth' Iland, sitting on a banke,
¶Weeping againe the King my Fathers wracke.
¶This Musicke crept by me vpon the waters,
¶With it's sweet ayre: thence I haue follow'd it
¶(Or it hath drawne me rather) but 'tis gone.
¶No, it begins againe.
540Of his bones are Corrall made:
¶
Burthen: ding dong.
¶
_Harke now I heare them, ding-dong bell.
¶Fer. The Ditty do's remember my drown'd father,
550That the earth owes: I heare it now aboue me.
¶Pro. The fringed Curtaines of thine eye aduance,
¶Mira. What is't a Spirit?
¶Lord, how it lookes about: Beleeue me sir,
555It carries a braue forme. But 'tis a spirit.
¶With greefe (that's beauties canker) yu might'st call him
¶And strayes about to finde 'em.
¶Mir. I might call him
¶A thing diuine, for nothing naturall
¶Within two dayes for this.
570May know if you remaine vpon this Island,
¶How I may beare me heere: my prime request
¶(Which I do last pronounce) is (O you wonder)
¶If you be Mayd, or no?
575Mir. No wonder Sir,
¶But certainly a Mayd.
¶Fer. My Language? Heauens:
¶Were I but where 'tis spoken.
¶What wer't thou if the King of Naples heard thee?
¶To heare thee speake of Naples: he do's heare me,
¶And that he do's, I weepe: my selfe am Naples,
585Who, with mine eyes (neuer since at ebbe) beheld
¶The King my Father wrack't.
¶Mir. Alacke, for mercy.
¶Fer. Yes faith, & all his Lords, the Duke of Millaine
¶And his braue sonne, being twaine.
590Pro. The Duke of Millaine
¶And his more brauer daughter, could controll thee
¶They haue chang'd eyes: Delicate Ariel,
¶Ile set thee free for this. A word good Sir,
¶That ere I sigh'd for: pitty moue my father
¶To be enclin'd my way.
600Fer. O, if a Virgin,
¶And your affection not gone forth, Ile make you
¶The Queene of Naples.
¶Make the prize light. One word more: I charge thee
610From me, the Lord on't.
¶Fer. No, as I am a man.
¶Good things will striue to dwell with't.
615Pro. Follow me.
¶Pros. Speake not you for him: hee's a Traitor: come,
¶Ile manacle thy necke and feete toge ther:
620Wherein the Acorne cradled. Follow.
¶Fer. No,
¶Mine enemy ha's more pow'r.
¶
He drawes, and is charmed from mouing.
625Mira. O deere Father,
¶Make not too rash a triall of him, for
¶Hee's gentle, and not fearfull.
¶My foote my Tutor? Put thy sword vp Traitor,
¶And make thy weapon drop.
635Pros. Hence: hang not on my garments.
¶Mira. Sir haue pity,
¶Ile be his surety.
¶Pros. Silence: One word more
¶Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee: What,
¶To th'most of men, this is a Caliban,
¶And they to him are Angels.
645Mira. My affections
¶Are then most humble: I haue no ambition
¶To see a goodlier man.
¶Pros. Come on, obey:
¶Thy Nerues are in their infancy againe.
650And haue no vigour in them.
¶Fer. So they are:
¶My spirits, as in a dreame, are all bound vp:
¶The wracke of all my friends, nor this mans threats,
655To whom I am subdude, are but light to me,
¶Might I but through my prison once a day
¶Behold this Mayd: all corners else o'th' Earth
660Pros. It workes: Come on.
¶Thou hast done well, fine Ariell: follow me,
¶Mira. Be of comfort,
¶My Fathers of a better nature (Sir)
665Then he appeares by speech: this is vnwonted
¶Which now came from him.
¶As mountaine windes; but then exactly do
¶All points of my command.
