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Another Part of the Island.
 Enter CALIBAN with a bottle, 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 monster
    indeed if they were set in his tail.

Stephano    My man-monster hath drowned 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.

Stephano    Mooncalf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a good
    mooncalf.

Caliban    How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe.
    I'll not serve him; he is 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 today? 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?

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.

                         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    [To TRINCULO.] 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.

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 dar'st,
    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 head.

Ariel    Thou liest, thou canst not.

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 stockfish of thee.

Trinculo    Why, what did I? I did nothing. I'll go farther off.

Stephano    Didst thou not say he lied?

Ariel    Thou liest.

Stephano    Do I so? Take thou that! [Beating TRINCULO.] As you like
    this, give me the lie another time.

Trinculo    I did not give the lie. Out o' your wits, and hearing 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!

Stephano    Now, forward with your tale. [To TRINCULO.] Prithee stand
    further 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 weasand with thy knife. Remember
    First to possess his books, for without them
    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
    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
    liv'st, keep a good tongue in thy head.

Caliban    Within this half hour will he be asleep.
    Wilt thou destroy him then?

Stephano                                        Ay, on mine honour.

Ariel    This will I tell my master.

Caliban    Thou mak'st 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:
                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!

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
    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    [To CALIBAN.] Wilt come? I'll follow Stephano.
                                                    [Exeunt.