1516Gon. By'r lakin, I can goe no further, Sir,

1517My old bones akes: here's a maze trod indeede

1518Through fourth-rights, & Meanders: by your patience,

1519I needes must rest me.

1520Al. Old Lord, I cannot blame thee,

1521Who, am my selfe attach'd with wearinesse

1522To th'dulling of my spirits: Sit downe, and rest:

1523Euen here I will put off my hope, and keepe it

1524No longer for my Flatterer: he is droun'd

1525Whom thus we stray to finde, and the Sea mocks

1526Our frustrate search on land: well, let him goe.

1527Ant. I am right glad, that he's so out of hope:

1528Doe not for one repulse forgoe the purpose

1529That you resolu'd t'effect.

1530Seb. The next aduantage will we take throughly.

1531Ant. Let it be to night,

1532For now they are oppress'd with trauaile, they

1533Will not, nor cannot vse such vigilance

1534As when they are fresh.

1539Seb. I say to night: no more.

1540Al. What harmony is this? my good friends, harke.

1541Gon. Maruellous sweet Musicke.

1542Alo. Giue vs kind keepers, heauẽs: what were these?

1543Seb. A liuing Drolerie: now I will beleeue

1544That there are Vnicornes: that in Arabia

1545There is one Tree, the Phoenix throne, one Phoenix

1546At this houre reigning there.

1547Ant. Ile beleeue both:

1548And what do's else want credit, come to me

1549And Ile besworne 'tis true: Trauellers nere did lye,

1550Though fooles at home condemne 'em.

1551Gon. If in Naples

1552I should report this now, would they beleeue me?

1553If I should say I saw such Islands;

1554(For certes, these are people of the Island)

1555Who though they are of monstrous shape, yet note

1556Their manners are more gentle, kinde, then of

1557Our humaine generation you shall finde

1558Many, nay almost any.

1559Pro. Honest Lord,

1560Thou hast said well: for some of you there present;

1561Are worse then diuels.

1562Al. I cannot too much muse

1563Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound expressing

1564(Although they want the vse of tongue) a kinde

1565Of excellent dumbe discourse.

1566Pro. Praise in departing.

1567Fr. They vanish'd strangely.

1568Seb. No matter, since

1569They haue left their Viands behinde; for wee haue sto- (macks.

1570Wilt please you taste of what is here?

1571Alo. Not I.

1572Gon. Faith Sir, you neede not feare: when wee were (Boyes

1573Who would beleeue that there were Mountayneeres,

1574Dew-lapt, like Buls, whose throats had hanging at 'em

1575Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men

1576Whose heads stood in their brests? which now we finde

1577Each putter out of fiue for one, will bring vs

1578Good warrant of.

1579Al. I will stand to, and feede,

1580Although my last, no matter, since I feele

1581The best is past: brother: my Lord, the Duke,

1582Stand too, and doe as we.

1586Ar. You are three men of sinne, whom destiny

1587That hath to instrument this lower world,

1588And what is in't: the neuer surfeited Sea,

1589Hath caus'd to belch vp you; and on this Island,

1590Where man doth not inhabit, you 'mongst men,

1591Being most vnfit to liue: I haue made you mad;

1592And euen with such like valour, men hang, and drowne

1593Their proper selues: you fooles, I and my fellowes

1594Are ministers of Fate, the Elements

1595Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well

1596Wound the loud windes, or with bemockt-at-Stabs

1597Kill the still closing waters, as diminish

1598One dowle that's in my plumbe: My fellow ministers

1599Are like-invulnerable: if you could hurt,

1600Your swords are now too massie for your strengths,

1601And will not be vplifted: But remember

1602(For that's my businesse to you) that you three

1603From Millaine did supplant good Prospero,

1604Expos'd vnto the Sea (which hath requit it)

1605Him, and his innocent childe: for which foule deed,

1606The Powres, delaying (not forgetting) haue

1607Incens'd the Seas, and Shores; yea, all the Creatures

1608Against your peace: Thee of thy Sonne, Alonso

1609They haue bereft; and doe pronounce by me

1610Lingring perdition (worse then any death

1611Can be at once) shall step, by step attend

1612You, and your wayes, whose wraths to guard you from,

1613Which here, in this most desolate Isle, else fals

1614Vpon your heads, is nothing but hearts-sorrow,

1615And a cleere life ensuing.

1619Pro. Brauely the figure of this Harpie, hast thou

1620Perform'd (my Ariell) a grace it had deuouring:

1621Of my Instruction, hast thou nothing bated

1622In what thou had'st to say: so with good life,

1623And obseruation strange, my meaner ministers

1624Their seuerall kindes haue done: my high charmes work,

1625And these (mine enemies) are all knit vp

1626In their distractions: they now are in my powre;

1627And in these fits, I leaue them, while I visit

1628Yong Ferdinand (whom they suppose is droun'd)

1629And his, and mine lou'd darling.

1630Gon. I'th name of something holy, Sir, why stand you

1631In this strange stare?

1632Al. O, it is monstrous: monstrous:

1633Me thought the billowes spoke, and told me of it,

1634The windes did sing it to me: and the Thunder

1635(That deepe and dreadfull Organ-Pipe) pronounc'd

1636The name of Prosper: it did base my Trespasse,

1637Therefore my Sonne i'th Ooze is bedded; and

1638I'le seeke him deeper then ere plummet sounded,

1639And with him there lye mudded. Exit.

1640Seb. But one feend at a time,

1641Ile fight their Legions ore.