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The Tempest (Folio 1, 1623)
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The Tempest.
485Whom stripes may moue, not kindnes: I haue vs'd thee
486(Filth as thou art) with humane care, and lodg'd thee
488The honor of my childe.
489Cal. Oh ho, oh ho, would't had bene done:
491This Isle with Calibans.
492Mira. Abhorred Slaue,
493Which any print of goodnesse wilt not take,
494Being capable of all ill: I pittied thee,
495Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each houre
496One thing or other: when thou didst not (Sauage)
497Know thine owne meaning; but wouldst gabble, like
499With words that made them knowne: But thy vild race
500(Tho thou didst learn) had that in't, which good natures
501Could not ab ide to be with; therefore wast thou
505Is, I know how to curse: the red-plague rid you
506For learning me your language.
508Fetch vs in Fewell, and be quicke thou'rt best
511What I command, Ile racke thee with old Crampes,
512Fill all thy bones with Aches, make thee rore,
514Cal. No, 'pray thee.
516It would controll my Dams god Setebos,
517And make a vassaile of him.
519Enter Ferdinand & Ariel, inuisible playing & singing.
Come vnto these yellow sands,
521 and then take hands:
524Foote it featly heere, and there, and sweete Sprights beare
525 the burthen.
Burthen dispersedly.
Harke, harke, bowgh wawgh: the watch-Dogges barke,
527bowgh-wawgh.
528Ar.
Hark, hark, I heare, the straine of strutting Chanticlere
529cry cockadidle-dowe.
532Some God 'oth' Iland, sitting on a banke,
533Weeping againe the King my Fathers wracke.
534This Musicke crept by me vpon the waters,
535Allaying both their fury, and my passion
536With it's sweet ayre: thence I haue follow'd it
537(Or it hath drawne me rather) but 'tis gone.
538No, it begins againe.
Full fadom fiue thy Father lies,
542Nothing of him that doth fade,
546Burthen: ding dong.
Harke now I heare them, ding-dong bell.
548Fer. The Ditty do's remember my drown'd father,
550That the earth owes: I heare it now aboue me.
551Pro. The fringed Curtaines of thine eye aduance,
553Mira. What is't a Spirit?
554Lord, how it lookes about: Beleeue me sir,
555It carries a braue forme. But 'tis a spirit.
559With greefe (that's beauties canker) yu might'st call him
562Mir. I might call him
563A thing diuine, for nothing naturall
567Within two dayes for this.
570May know if you remaine vpon this Island,
572How I may beare me heere: my prime request
573(Which I do last pronounce) is (O you wonder)
574If you be Mayd, or no?
575Mir. No wonder Sir,
576But certainly a Mayd.
577Fer. My Language? Heauens:
579Were I but where 'tis spoken.
581What wer't thou if the King of Naples heard thee?
583To heare thee speake of Naples: he do's heare me,
584And that he do's, I weepe: my selfe am Naples,
585Who, with mine eyes (neuer since at ebbe) beheld
586The King my Father wrack't.
587Mir. Alacke, for mercy.
588Fer. Yes faith, & all his Lords, the Duke of Millaine
589And his braue sonne, being twaine.
590Pro. The Duke of Millaine
591And his more brauer daughter, could controll thee
593They haue chang'd eyes: Delicate Ariel,
594Ile set thee free for this. A word good Sir,
598That ere I sigh'd for: pitty moue my father
599To be enclin'd my way.
600Fer. O, if a Virgin,
602The Queene of Naples.
606Make the prize light. One word more: I charge thee
610From me, the Lord on't.
611Fer. No, as I am a man.
614Good things will striue to dwell with't.
615Pro. Follow me.
Pro.
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