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- THE TEMPEST
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- Act 3 Scene 3
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- (Enter Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, Gonzalo, Adrian, and Francisco)
- l1l Gonzalo (to Alonso) By Ær laÆkin, I can go no further, sir.
- l2l My old bones ache. HereÆs a maze trod indeed
- l3l Through forthrights and meanders. By your patience,
- l4l I needs must rest me.
- Alonso Old lord, I cannot blame thee,
- l5l Who am myself attached with weariness
- l6l To thÆ dulling of my spirits. Sit down and rest.
- l7l Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it
- l8l No longer for my flatterer. He is drowned
- l9l Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks
- l10l Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go.
- (They sit)
- Antonio (aside to Sebastian)
- l11l I am right glad that heÆs so out of hope.
- l12l Do not for one repulse forgo the purpose
- l13l That you resolved tÆ effect.
- Sebastian (aside to Antonio) The next advantage
- l14l Will we take throughly.
- Antonio (aside to Sebastian) Let it be tonight,
- l15l For now they are oppressed with travel. They
- l16l Will not nor cannot use such vigilance
- l17l As when they are fresh.
- Sebastian (aside to Antonio) I say tonight. No more.
- (Solemn and strange music. Enter Prospero on the top,
- invisible)
- l18l Alonso What harmony is this? My good friends, hark.
- l19l Gonzalo Marvellous sweet music.
- (Enter spirits, in several strange shapes, bringing in a
- table and a banquet, and dance about it with gentle
- actions of salutations, and, inviting the King and his
- companions to eat, they depart)
- l20l Alonso Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these?
- l21l Sebastian A living drollery. Now I will believe
- l22l That there are unicorns; that in Arabia
- l23l There is one tree, the phoenixÆ throne, one phoenix
- l24l At this hour reigning there.
- Antonio IÆll believe both;
- l25l And what does else want credit come to me,
- l26l And IÆll be sworn Ætis true. Travellers neÆer did lie,
- l27l Though fools at home condemn Æem.
- Gonzalo If in Naples
- l28l I should report this now, would they believe meù
- l29l If I should say I saw such islanders?
- l30l For certes these are people of the island,
- l31l Who though they are of monstrous shape, yet note
- l32l Their manners are more gentle-kind than of
- l33l Our human generation you shall find
- l34l Many, nay, almost any.
- Prospero (aside) Honest lord,
- l35l Thou hast said well, for some of you there present
- l36l Are worse than devils.
- Alonso I cannot too much muse.
- l37l Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, expressingù
- l38l Although they want the use of tongueùa kind
- l39l Of excellent dumb discourse.
- Prospero (aside) Praise in departing.
- l40l Francisco They vanished strangely.
- Sebastian No matter, since
- l41l They have left their viands behind, for we have stomachs.
- l42l Will Æt please you taste of what is here?
- Alonso Not I.
- l43l Gonzalo Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys,
- l44l Who would believe that there were mountaineers
- l45l Dewlapped like bulls, whose throats had hanging at Æem
- l46l Wallets of flesh? Or that there were such men
- l47l Whose heads stood in their breasts? Which now we find
- l48l Each putter-out of five for one will bring us
- l49l Good warrant of.
- Alonso (rising) I will stand to and feed,
- l50l Although my lastùno matter, since I feel
- l51l The best is past. Brother, my lord the Duke,
- l52l Stand to, and do as we.
- (Alonso, Sebastian, and Antonio approach the table.
- Thunder and lightning. Ariel descends like a harpy, claps
- his wings upon the table, and, with a quaint device, the
- banquet vanishes)
- l53l Ariel You are three men of sin, whom destinyù
- l54l That hath to instrument this lower world
- l55l And what is in Ætùthe never-surfeited sea
- l56l Hath caused to belch up you, and on this island
- l57l Where man doth not inhabit, you Æmongst men
- l58l Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad,
- l59l And even with suchlike valour men hang and drown
- l60l Their proper selves.
- (Alonso, Sebastian, and Antonio draw)
- You fools! I and my fellows
- l61l Are ministers of fate. The elements
- l62l Of whom your swords are tempered may as well
- l63l Wound the loud winds, or with bemocked-at stabs
- l64l Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish
- l65l One dowl thatÆs in my plume. My fellow ministers
- l66l Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,
- l67l Your swords are now too massy for your strengths
- l68l And will not be uplifted.
- (Alonso, Sebastian, and Antonio stand amazed)
- But remember,
- l69l For thatÆs my business to you, that you three
- l70l From Milan did supplant good Prospero;
- l71l Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it,
- l72l Him and his innocent child; for which foul deed,
- l73l The powers, delaying not forgetting, have
- l74l Incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
- l75l Against your peace. Thee of thy son, Alonso,
- l76l They have bereft, and do pronounce by me
- l77l LingÆring perditionùworse than any death
- l78l Can be at onceùshall step by step attend
- l79l You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you fromù
- l80l Which here in this most desolate isle else falls
- l81l Upon your headsùis nothing but heartÆs sorrow
- l82l And a clear life ensuing.
- (He ascends and vanishes in thunder. Then, to soft music,
- enter the spirits again, and dance with mocks and mows,
- and they depart, carrying out the table)
- l83l Prospero Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou
- l84l Performed, my Ariel; a grace it had devouring.
- l85l Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated
- l86l In what thou hadst to say. So with good life
- l87l And observation strange my meaner ministers
- l88l Their several kinds have done. My high charms work,
- l89l And these mine enemies are all knit up
- l90l In their distractions. They now are in my power;
- l91l And in these fits I leave them, while I visit
- l92l Young Ferdinand, whom they suppose is drowned,
- l93l And his and mine loved darling.
- (Exit)
- (Gonzalo, Adrian, and Francisco go towards the others)
- l94l Gonzalo IÆ thÆ name of something holy, sir, why stand you
- l95l In this strange stare?
- Alonso O, it is monstrous, monstrous!
- l96l Methought the billows spoke and told me of it,
- l97l The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder,
- l98l That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced
- l99l The name of Prosper. It did bass my trespass.
- l100l Therefor my son iÆ thÆ ooze is bedded, and
- l101l IÆll seek him deeper than eÆer plummet sounded,
- l102l And with him there lie mudded.
- (Exit)
- Sebastian But one fiend at a time,
- l103l IÆll fight their legions oÆer.
- Antonio IÆll be thy second.
- (Exeunt Sebastian and Antonio)
- l104l Gonzalo All three of them are desperate. Their great guilt,
- l105l Like poison given to work a great time after,
- l106l Now Ægins to bite the spirits. I do beseech you
- l107l That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly,
- l108l And hinder them from what this ecstasy
- l109l May now provoke them to.
- Adrian Follow, I pray you.
- (Exeunt)
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