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If I have too austerely punished you,

4.1.31653Your compensation makes amends, for I

4.1.41654Have given you here a third of mine own life,

4.1.51655Or that for which I live, who once again

4.1.61656I tender to thy hand. All thy vexations

4.1.71657Were but my trials of thy love, and thou

4.1.81658Hast strangely stood the test. Here, afore heaven,

4.1.91659I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand,

4.1.101660Do not smile at me that I boast of her,

4.1.111661For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise

4.1.121662And make it halt behind her.

And make it halt behind her. I do believe it

4.1.131664Against an oracle.

Then as my gift, and thine own acquisition

4.1.151666Worthily purchased, take my daughter. But

4.1.161667If thou dost break her virgin knot before

4.1.171668All sanctimonious ceremonies may

4.1.181669With full and holy rite be ministered,

4.1.191670No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall

4.1.201671To make this contract grow; but barren hate,

4.1.211672Sour-eyed disdain, and discord shall bestrew

4.1.221673The union of your bed with weeds so loathly

4.1.231674That you shall hate it both. Therefore take heed

4.1.241675As Hymen's lamp shall light you.

As Hymen's lamp shall light you. As I hope

4.1.251677For quiet days, fair issue, and long life

4.1.261678With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den,

4.1.271679The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion

4.1.281680Our worser genius can, shall never melt

4.1.291681Mine honor into lust to take away

4.1.301682The edge of that day's celebration

4.1.311683When I shall think or Phoebus' steeds are foundered,

4.1.321684Or night kept chained below.

Or night kept chained below. Fairly spoke.

4.1.331686Sit then and talk with her; she is thine own.

4.1.341687What, Ariel! My industrious servant Ariel!

What would my potent master? Here I am.

Thou and thy meaner fellows, your last service

4.1.381690Did worthily perform, and I must use you

4.1.391691In such another trick: go bring the rabble

4.1.401692(O'er whom I give thee power) here to this place.

4.1.411693Incite them to quick motion, for I must

4.1.421694Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple

4.1.431695Some vanity of mine art; it is my promise,

4.1.441696And they expect it from me.

And they expect it from me. Presently?

Ay, with a twink.

Before you can say "come" and "go",

4.1.471700And breathe twice and cry "so, so",

4.1.481701Each one, tripping on his toe,

4.1.491702Will be here with mop and mow.

4.1.501703Do you love me, master, no?

Dearly, my delicate Ariel. Do not approach

4.1.521705Till thou dost hear me call.

Till thou dost hear me call. Well I conceive.

[To Ferdinand] Look thou be true: do not give dalliance

4.1.551708Too much the rein. The strongest oaths are straw

4.1.561709To th'fire i'th'blood. Be more abstemious,

4.1.571710Or else good night your vow.

Or else good night your vow. I warrant you, sir,

4.1.581712The white-cold virgin snow upon my heart

4.1.591713Abates the ardor of my liver.

Abates the ardor of my liver. Well.

4.1.601715Now come, my Ariel. Bring a corollary

4.1.611716Rather than want a spirit: appear, and pertly!

4.1.621717No tongue -- all eyes -- be silent!

Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas

4.1.651719Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats, and peas;

4.1.661720Thy turfy mountains where live nibbling sheep,

4.1.671721And flat meads thatched with stover, them to keep;

4.1.681722Thy banks with pionèd and twillèd brims,

4.1.691723Which spongy April at thy hest betrims

4.1.701724To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broomgroves,

4.1.711725Whose shadow the dismissèd bachelor loves,

4.1.721726Being lass-lorn; thy pole-clipped vineyard

4.1.731727And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,

4.1.741728Where thou thyself dost air: the Queen o'th'sky,

4.1.751729Whose watry arch and messenger am I,

4.1.761730Bids thee leave these, and with her sovereign grace

4.1.771731Here on this grass-plot, in this very place,

4.1.781732To come and sport. Here peacocks fly amain.

4.1.791733Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.

Hail, many-colored messenger, that ne'er

4.1.821735Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter;

4.1.831736Who, with thy saffron wings, upon my flowers

4.1.841737Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers,

4.1.851738And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown

4.1.861739My bosky acres and my unshrubbed down,

4.1.871740Rich scarf to my proud earth: why hath thy queen

4.1.881741Summoned me hither to this short-grassed green?

A contract of true love to celebrate,

4.1.901743And some donation freely to estate

4.1.911744On the blessed lovers.

On the blessed lovers. Tell me, heavenly bow,

4.1.921746If Venus or her son, as thou dost know,

4.1.931747Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot

4.1.941748The means that dusky Dis my daughter got,

4.1.951749Her and her blind boy's scandaled company

4.1.961750I have forsworn.

I have forsworn. Of her society

4.1.971752Be not afraid -- I met her deity

4.1.981753Cutting the clouds towards Paphos, and her son

4.1.991754Dove-drawn with her. Here thought they to have done

4.1.1001755Some wanton charm upon this man and maid,

4.1.1011756Whose vows are that no bed-right shall be paid

4.1.1021757Till Hymen's torch be lighted; but in vain,

4.1.1031758Mars's hot minion is returned again;

4.1.1041759Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows,

4.1.1051760Swears he will shoot no more but play with sparrows

4.1.1061761And be a boy right out.

And be a boy right out. Highest Queen of state,

4.1.1071763Great Juno comes; I know her by her gait.

How does my bounteous sister? Go with me

4.1.1091765To bless this twain, that they may prosperous be

4.1.1101766And honored in their issue.

This is a most majestic vision, and

4.1.1251780Harmonious charmingly -- may I be bold

4.1.1261781To think these spirits?

To think these spirits? Spirits, which by mine art

4.1.1271783I have from their confines called to enact

4.1.1281784My present fancies.

My present fancies. Let me live here ever --

4.1.1291786So rare a wondered father and a wise

4.1.1301787Makes this place paradise.

Makes this place paradise. Sweet, now silence;

4.1.1311789Juno and Ceres whisper seriously.

4.1.1321790There's something else to do: hush and be mute

4.1.1331791Or else our spell is marred.

You nymphs called naiads of the windering brooks,

4.1.1361794With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks:

4.1.1371795Leave your crisp channels, and on this green land

4.1.1381796Answer your summons, Juno does command.

4.1.1391797Come, temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate

4.1.1401798A contract of true love -- be not too late.

4.1.1411800You sunburned sicklemen, of August weary:

4.1.1421801Come hither from the furrow and be merry --

4.1.1431802Make holiday! Your rye-straw hats put on,

4.1.1441803And these fresh nymphs encounter every one

4.1.1451804In country footing.

[Aside] I had forgot that foul conspiracy

4.1.1481810Of the beast Caliban and his confederates

4.1.1491811Against my life; the minute of their plot

4.1.1501812Is almost come. [To the spirits] Well done: avoid. No more.

This is strange -- your father's in some passion

4.1.1521814That works him strongly.

That works him strongly. Never till this day

4.1.1531816Saw I him touched with anger so distempered.

You do look, my son, in a moved sort,

4.1.1551818As if you were dismayed. Be cheerful, sir.

4.1.1561819Our revels now are ended. These our actors,

4.1.1571820As I foretold you, were all spirits and

4.1.1581821Are melted into air -- into thin air --

4.1.1591822And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,

4.1.1601823The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,

4.1.1611824The solemn temples, the great globe itself,

4.1.1621825Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,

4.1.1631826And, like this insubstantial pageant faded

4.1.1641827Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff

4.1.1651828As dreams are made on, and our little life

4.1.1661829Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vexed,

4.1.1671830Bear with my weakness; my old brain is troubled.

4.1.1681831Be not disturbed with my infirmity.

4.1.1691832If you be pleased, retire into my cell

4.1.1701833And there repose. A turn or two I'll walk

4.1.1711834To still my beating mind.

To still my beating mind. We wish your peace.

[To Ariel] Come with a thought. [To Ferdinand and Miranda] I thank thee.

[To Ariel] Come with a thought. [To Ferdinand and Miranda] I thank thee. Ariel: come.

Thy thoughts I cleave to; what's thy pleasure?

Spirit, we must prepare to meet with Caliban.

Ay, my commander. When I presented Ceres

4.1.1771841I thought to have told thee of it, but I feared

4.1.1781842Lest I might anger thee.

Say again, where didst thou leave these varlets?

I told you, sir; they were red-hot with drinking,

4.1.1811845So full of valor that they smote the air

4.1.1821846For breathing in their faces, beat the ground

4.1.1831847For kissing of their feet, yet always bending

4.1.1841848Towards their project. Then I beat my tabor,

4.1.1851849At which like unbacked colts they pricked their ears,

4.1.1861850Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses

4.1.1871851As they smelt music -- so I charmed their ears

4.1.1881852That calf-like they my lowing followed through

4.1.1891853Toothèd briars, sharp furze, pricking gorse and thorns,

4.1.1901854Which entered their frail shins. At last I left them

4.1.1911855I'th'filthy-mantled pool beyond your cell,

4.1.1921856There dancing up to th'chins that the foul lake

4.1.1931857O'erstunk their feet.

O'erstunk their feet. This was well done, my bird.

4.1.1941859Thy shape invisible retain thou still.

4.1.1951860The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither

4.1.1961861For stale to catch these thieves.

For stale to catch these thieves. I go, I go.

A devil -- a born devil, on whose nature

4.1.1991863Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains

4.1.2001864Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost!

4.1.2011865And as with age his body uglier grows,

4.1.2021866So his mind cankers. I will plague them all

4.1.2031867Even to roaring. Come: hang them on this line.

Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may 1871not hear a footfall; we now are near his cell.

Monster, your fairy, which you say is a harmless fairy, 1873has done little better than played the jack with us.

Monster, I do smell all horse-piss, at which 1875my nose is in great indignation.

So is mine. Do you hear, monster? If I should 1877take a displeasure against you, look you --

Thou wert but a lost monster.

Good my Lord, give me thy favor still.

4.1.2111880Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to

4.1.2121881Shall hoodwink this mischance; therefore speak softly --

4.1.2131882All's hushed as midnight yet.

Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool!

There is not only disgrace and dishonor in that, 1885monster, but an infinite loss.

That's more to me than my wetting, 1887yet this is your harmless fairy, monster.

I will fetch off my bottle, 1889though I be o'er ears for my labor.

Prithee, my King, be quiet. Seest thou here;

4.1.2191891This is the mouth o'th'cell -- no noise, and enter.

4.1.2201892Do that good mischief which may make this island

4.1.2211893Thine own for ever and I, thy Caliban,

4.1.2221894For aye thy foot-licker.

For aye thy foot-licker. Give me thy hand --

4.1.2231896I do begin to have bloody thoughts.

O King Stephano! O peer! O worthy Stephano, 1898look what a wardrobe here is for thee!

Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash.

Oh ho, monster! We know what belongs to a 1901frippery. O King Stephano!

Put off that gown, Trinculo! By this hand, I'll 1903have that gown.

Thy grace shall have it.

The dropsy drown this fool. What do you mean

4.1.2301906To dote thus on such luggage? Let's alone

4.1.2311907And do the murder first -- if he awake,

4.1.2321908From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches,

4.1.2331909Make us strange stuff.

Be you quiet, monster. Mistress Line, is not this 1911my jerkin? Now is the jerkin under the line. Now, 1912jerkin, you are like to lose your hair and prove a bald jerkin.

Do, do! We steal by line and level, an't 1914like your grace.

I thank thee for that jest; here's a garment for't. 1916Wit shall not go unrewarded while I am king of this 1917country. "Steal by line and level" is an excellent pass 1918of pate -- there's another garment for't.

Monster, come put some lime upon your 1920fingers, and away with the rest.

I will have none on't -- we shall lose our time

4.1.2391922And all be turned to barnacles or to apes

4.1.2401923With foreheads villainous low.

Monster, lay to your fingers: help to bear this 1925away where my hogshead of wine is, or I'll turn you 1926out of my kingdom. Go to; carry this.

And this.

Ay, and this.

Hey, Mountain, hey!

Hey, Mountain, hey! Silver -- there it goes -- Silver!

Fury, Fury! There, Tyrant, there! Hark, hark!

4.1.2471935Go charge my goblins that they grind their joints

4.1.2481936With dry convulsions, shorten up their sinews

4.1.2491937With aged cramps, and more pinch-spotted make them

4.1.2501938Than pard or cat o'mountain.

Than pard or cat o'mountain. Hark, they roar!

Let them be hunted soundly. At this hour

4.1.2521941Lies at my mercy all mine enemies.

4.1.2531942Shortly shall all my labors end, and thou

4.1.2541943Shalt have the air at freedom: for a little,

4.1.2551944Follow, and do me service.