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- $Unique_ID{SSP01706}
- $Title{The Tempest: Act III, Scene II}
- $Author{Shakespeare, William}
- $Subject{}
- $Log{Dramatis Personae*01700.txt}
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- Portions copyright (c) CMC ReSearch, Inc., 1989
-
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
-
- THE TEMPEST
-
-
- ACT III
- ................................................................................
-
-
- SCENE II: Another part of the island.
- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
-
- {Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO.}
-
- STEPHANO: Tell not me; when the butt is out, we will drink
- water; not a drop before: therefore bear up, and
- board 'em. Servant-monster, drink to me.
-
- TRINCULO: Servant-monster! the folly of this island! They
- say there's but five upon this isle: we are three
- of them; if th' other two be brained like us, the
- state totters.
-
- STEPHANO: Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee: thy eyes
- are almost set in thy head.
-
- TRINCULO: Where should they be set else? he were a brave 10
- monster indeed, if they were set in his tail.
-
- STEPHANO: My man-monster hath drown'd his tongue in sack:
- for my part, the sea cannot drown me; I swam, ere I
- could recover the shore, five and thirty leagues off
- and on. By this light, thou shalt be my lieutenant,
- monster, or my standard.
-
- TRINCULO: Your lieutenant, if you list; he's no standard.
-
- STEPHANO: We'll not run, Monsieur Monster.
-
- TRINCULO: Nor go neither; but you'll lie like dogs and yet say
- nothing neither. 20
-
- STEPHANO: Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a
- good moon-calf.
-
- CALIBAN: How does thy honor? Let me lick thy shoe.
- I'll not serve him; he's not valiant.
-
- TRINCULO: Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in case to
- justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish thou,
- was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much
- sack as I to-day? Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie,
- being but half a fish and half a monster?
-
- CALIBAN: Lo, how he mocks me! wilt thou let him, my lord? 30
-
- TRINCULO: 'Lord' quoth he! That a monster should be such a
- natural!
-
- CALIBAN: Lo, lo, again! bite him to death, I prithee.
-
- STEPHANO: Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head: if you
- prove a mutineer,--the next tree! The poor monster's
- my subject and he shall not suffer indignity.
-
- CALIBAN: I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleased to
- hearken once again to the suit I made to thee?
-
- STEPHANO: Marry, will I: kneel and repeat it; I will stand,
- and so shall Trinculo. 40
-
- {Enter ARIEL, invisible.}
-
- CALIBAN: As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a
- sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the
- island.
-
- ARIEL: Thou liest.
-
- CALIBAN: Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou: I would my
- valiant master would destroy thee! I do not lie.
-
- STEPHANO: Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in's tale, by
- this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.
-
- TRINCULO: Why, I said nothing.
-
- STEPHANO: Mum, then, and no more. Proceed. 50
-
- CALIBAN: I say, by sorcery he got this isle;
- From me he got it. if thy greatness will
- Revenge it on him,--for I know thou darest,
- But this thing dare not,--
-
- STEPHANO: That's most certain.
-
- CALIBAN: Thou shalt be lord of it and I'll serve thee.
-
- STEPHANO: How now shall this be compassed?
- Canst thou bring me to the party?
-
- CALIBAN: Yea, yea, my lord: I'll yield him thee asleep,
- Where thou mayst knock a nail into his bead.
-
- ARIEL: Thou liest; thou canst not. 60
-
- CALIBAN: What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch!
- I do beseech thy greatness, give him blows
- And take his bottle from him: when that's gone
- He shall drink nought but brine; for I'll not show him
- Where the quick freshes are.
-
- STEPHANO: Trinculo, run into no further danger:
- interrupt the monster one word further, and,
- by this hand, I'll turn my mercy out o' doors
- and make a stock-fish of thee.
-
- TRINCULO: Why, what did I? I did nothing. I'll go farther 70
- off.
-
- STEPHANO: Didst thou not say he lied?
-
- ARIEL: Thou liest.
-
- STEPHANO: Do I so? take thou that.
-
- [Beats TRINCULO]
-
- As you like this, give me the lie another time.
-
- TRINCULO: I did not give the lie. Out o' your
- wits and bearing too? A pox o' your bottle!
- this can sack and drinking do. A murrain on
- your monster, and the devil take your fingers!
-
- CALIBAN: Ha, ha, ha! 80
-
- STEPHANO: Now, forward with your tale. Prithee, stand farther
- off.
-
- CALIBAN: Beat him enough: after a little time
- I'll beat him too.
-
- STEPHANO: Stand farther. Come, proceed.
-
- CALIBAN: Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him,
- I' th' afternoon to sleep: there thou mayst brain him,
- Having first seized his books, or with a log
- Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,
- Or cut his wezand with thy knife. Remember
- First to possess his books; for without them 90
- He's but a sot, as I am, nor hath not
- One spirit to command: they all do hate him
- As rootedly as I. Burn but his books.
- He has brave utensils,--for so he calls them--
- Which when he has a house, he'll deck withal
- And that most deeply to consider is
- The beauty of his daughter; he himself
- Calls her a nonpareil: I never saw a woman,
- But only Sycorax my dam and she;
- But she as far surpasseth Sycorax 100
- As great'st does least.
-
- STEPHANO: Is it so brave a lass?
-
- CALIBAN: Ay, lord; she will become thy bed, I warrant.
- And bring thee forth brave brood.
-
- STEPHANO: Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and I
- will be king and queen--save our graces!--and
- Trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys. Dost thou
- like the plot, Trinculo?
-
- TRINCULO: Excellent.
-
- STEPHANO: Give me thy hand: I am sorry I beat thee; but,
- while thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head. 110
-
- CALIBAN: Within this half hour will he be asleep:
- Wilt thou destroy him then?
-
- STEPHANO: Ay, on mine honor.
-
- ARIEL: This will I tell my master.
-
- CALIBAN: Thou makest me merry; I am full of pleasure:
- Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch
- You taught me but while-ere?
-
- STEPHANO: At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any
- reason. Come on, Trinculo, let us sing.
-
- [Sings.]
-
- Flout 'em and scout 'em
- And scout 'em and flout 'em 120
- Thought is free.
-
- CALIBAN: That's not the tune.
-
- [Ariel plays the tune on a tabor and pipe.]
-
- STEPHANO: What is this same?
-
- TRINCULO: This is the tune of our catch, played by the picture
- of Nobody.
-
- STEPHANO: If thou beest a man, show thyself in thy likeness:
- if thou beest a devil, take't as thou list.
-
- TRINCULO: O, forgive me my sins!
-
- STEPHANO: He that dies pays all debts: I defy thee. Mercy
- upon us! 130
-
- CALIBAN: Art thou afeard?
-
- STEPHANO: No, monster, not I.
-
- CALIBAN: Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
- Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
- Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
- Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
- That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
- Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
- The clouds methought would open and show riches
- Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked, 140
- I cried to dream again.
-
- STEPHANO: This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall
- have my music for nothing.
-
- CALIBAN: When Prospero is destroyed.
-
- STEPHANO: That shall be by and by: I remember the story.
-
- TRINCULO: The sound is going away; let's follow it, and
- after do our work.
-
- STEPHANO: Lead, monster; we'll follow. I would I could see
- this taborer; he lays it on.
-
- TRINCULO: Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano.
-
- [Exeunt.]
-