With aged cramps; and more pinch-spotted make them, Than pard, or cat o' mountain. Ariel. Hark, they roar. Prospero. Let them be hunted soundly: At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies : Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou ACT V. [Exeunt. SCENE I.-Before the Cell of PROSPERO. Prospero. How fares the king and his? I did say so. Say, my spirit, Confin'd together Ariel. In the lime-grove which weather-fends your cell; Would become tender. Prospero. Dost thou think so, spirit? 8 Defends from bad weather Ariel. Mine would, sir, were I human. 7 Leopard. Prospero. And mine shall. Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling One of their kind, that relish all as sharply Do I take part: the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent, Ariel. I'll fetch them, sir, [Exit. Prospero. Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves; And And deeper than did ever plummet sound, [Solemn Musick. Re-enter ARIEL: after him ALONSO, with a frantic gesture, attended by GONZALO; SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO in like manner attended by ADRIAN and FRANCISCO: They all enter the circle which PROSPERO had made, and there stand charmed; which PROSPERO observing, speaks. A solemn air, and the best comforter To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains, Now useless, boil'd within thy skull! There stand, Holy Gonzalo, honourable man, Mine eyes, even sociable to the shew of thine, To him thou follow'st; I will pay thy graces Expell'd remorse1 and nature; who, with Sebastian, That now lie foul and muddy. Not one of them, [Exit ARIEL. I will dis-case me, and my self present, 1 Pity or tenderness of heart. As I was sometime Milan :-quickly, spirit: ARIEL re-enters, singing, and helps to attire PROSPERO. Ariel. Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell Í lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer merrily: Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. Prospero. Why that's my dainty Ariel; I shall miss thee; But yet thou shalt have freedom: so, so, so. To the king's ship, invisible as thou art: There shalt thou find the mariners asleep Under the hatches; the master and the boatswain, And presently, I pr'ythee. Ariel. I drink the air before me, and return Or e'er your pulse twice beat. [Exit ARIEL. Gonzalo. All torment, trouble, wonder, and amaze ment Inhabits here: Some heavenly power guide us Out of this fearful country! Prospero. Behold, sir king, The wronged Duke of Milan, Prospero: For more assurance that a living prince A hearty welcome. Alonso. Whe'r2 thou beest he, or no, Or some enchanted trifle to abuse me, As late I have been, I not know: thy pulse Beats, as of flesh and blood; and since I saw thee, I fear, a madness held me: this must crave 2 Whether. (An if this be at all) a most strange story. Thy dukedom I resign; and do entreat Thou pardon me my wrongs:-But how should Pros Prospero. Whether this be, You do yet taste Some subtilties o' the isle, that will not let you Believe things certain :-Welcome, my friends all :---But you, my brace of lords, were I so minded, [Aside to SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO. I here could pluck his highness' frown upon you, And justify you traitors: at this time I'll tell no tales. Sebastian. The devil speaks in him. [Aside. For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother Thou must restore. Alonso. If thou beest Prospero, Give us particulars of thy preservation: How thou hast met us here, who three hours since Prospero. I am woes for❜t, sir. Alonso. Irreparable is the loss; and Patience Says, it is past her cure. Prospero. I rather think, You have not sought her help; of whose soft grace, And rest myself content. 3 Sorry. |