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The Tempest (Folio 1, 1623)
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The Tempest.
1262Ile beare your Logges the while: pray giue me that,
1263Ile carry it to the pile.
1264Fer. No precious Creature,
1265I had rather cracke my sinewes, breake my backe,
1267While I sit lazy by.
1268Mir. It would become me
1269As well as it do's you; and I should do it
1270With much more ease: for my good will is to it,
1271And yours it is against.
1274Mir. You looke wearily.
1276When y ou are by at night: I do beseech you
1277Cheefely, that I might set it in my prayers,
1278What is your name?
1279Mir. Miranda, O my Father,
1281Fer. Admir'd Miranda,
1282Indeede the top of Admiration, worth
1283What's deerest to the world: full many a Lady
1284I haue ey'd with best regard, and many a time
1285Th'harmony of their tongues, hath into bondage
1286Brought my too diligent eare: for seuerall vertues
1287Haue I lik'd seuerall women, neuer any
1290And put it to the foile. But you, O you,
1292Of euerie Creatures best.
1293Mir. I do not know
1294One of my sexe; no womans face remember,
1296More that I may call men, then you good friend,
1297And my deere Father: how features are abroad
1299(The iewell in my dower) I would not wish
1300Any Companion in the world but you:
1301Nor can imagination forme a shape
1303Something too wildely, and my Fathers precepts
1304I therein do forget.
1305Fer. I am, in my condition
1306A Prince ( Miranda) I do thinke a King
1307(I would not so) and would no more endure
1313Am I this patient Logge-man.
1314Mir. Do you loue me?
1316And crowne what I professe with kinde euent
1317If I speake true: if hollowly, inuert
1319Beyond all limit of what else i'th world
1320Do loue, prize, honor you.
1321Mir. I am a foole
1322To weepe at what I am glad of.
1323Pro. Faire encounter
1325On that which breeds betweene 'em.
1332And prompt me plaine and holy innocence.
1333I am your wife, if you will marrie me;
1334If not, Ile die your maid: to be your fellow
1335You may denie me, but Ile be your seruant
1336Whether you will or no.
1338And I thus humble euer.
1339Mir. My husband then?
1340Fer. I, with a heart as willing
1341As bondage ere of freedome: heere's my hand.
1342Mir. And mine, with my heart in't; and now farewel
1343Till halfe an houre hence.
1345Pro. So glad of this as they I cannot be,
1347At nothing can be more: Ile to my booke,
1350 Scoena Secunda.
1351Enter Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo.
1352Ste. Tell not me, when the But is out we will drinke
1353water, not a drop before; therefore beare vp, & boord
1354em' Seruant Monster, drinke to me.
1357if th'other two be brain'd like vs, the State totters.
1366Monster, or my Standard.
1369Trin. Nor go neither: but you'l lie like dogs, and yet
1370say nothing neither.
1372a good Moone-calfe.
1374Ile not serue him, he is not valiant.
1377was there euer man a Coward, that hath drunk so much
1378Sacke as I to day? wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being
1380Cal. Loe, how he mockes me, wilt thou let him my
1381Lord?
Cal.