f

Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at ftabs
Kill the ftill-clofing waters, as diminish

One dowle that's in my plume; my fellow-minifters
Are like invulnerable: if you could hurt,
Your fwords are now too maffy for your ftrengths,
And will not be uplifted: But, remember,
(For that's my bufinefs to you,) that you three
From Milan did fupplant good Profpero;
Expos'd unto the fea, which hath requit it,
Him, and his innocent child: for which foul deed
The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have
Incens'd the feas and fhores, yea, all the creatures,
Against your peace: Thee, of thy fon, Alonfo,
They have beseft; and do pronounce by me,
Ling ring perdition (worfe than any death
Can be at once,) shall step by step attend

You, and your ways; whofe wraths to guard you from
(Which here, in this moft defolate ifle, effe falls

Upon your heads,) is nothing, but heart's forrow,
And a clear life 3 enfuing.

He vanishes in thunder: then, to foft musick, enter the Shapes
again, and dance with maps and mowest and carry out the
table.

Pro. [Afide.] Bravely the figure of this harpy haft thou Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring:

Of

my inftruction haft thou nothing 'bated,

In what thou hadft to fay: fo, with good life,"

3 Pure, blameless, innocent. JoHNSON.

And

• To mock and to mowe, feem to have had a meaning fomewhat fimilar; i. e. to infult, by making mouths, or wry faces. STEEVENS.

5 With good life may mean, with exact prefentation of their feveral cha. racters, with obfervation frange of their particular and distinct parts. So we fay, he acted to the life. JOHNSON.

Good life, however, in Twelfth Night, feems to be used for innocent jollity, as we now fay a bon vivant: "Would you (fays the Clown) have a love fong, or a fong of good life? Sir Toby aufwers, A love fong, a love fong"-" Ay, ay, (replies Sr Andrew) I care not for good life." It is plain, from the character of the laft fpeaker, that he was meant to mistake the fenfe in which good life is ufed by the Clown. It may therefore, in the prefent ipftance, mean, honest alacrity or cheerfulness. STEVENS.

And obfervation ftrange, my meaner ministers

Their feveral kinds have done : " my high charms work,
And thefe, mine enemies, are all knit up

In their distractions: they now are in my power;

And in these fits I leave them, whilst I visit

Young Ferdinand (whom they fuppofe is drown'd,)
And his and my lov'd darling.

Exit PROSPERO from above.

Gon. I' the name of fomething holy, fir, why ftand you, In this ftrange ftare?

Alon.

O, it is monftrous! monftrous!
Methought, the billows fpoke, and told me of it;
The winds did fing it to me; and the thunder,
That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd
The name of Profper; it did bafs my trefpafs.7
Therefore my fon i'the ooze is bedded; and
I'll feek him deeper than e'er plummet founded.
And with him there lie mudded.

Seb.

I'll fight their legions o'er.

Ant.

[Exit.

But one fiend at a time,

I'll be thy fecond.

Exeunt SEB. and ANT.

Gon. All three of them are defperate; their great guilt, Like poifon given to work a great time after, Now 'gins to bite the fpirits:-I do beseech you That are of fuppler joints, follow them swiftly, And hinder them from what this ecstacy 9

May

To do any thing with good life, is still a provincial expreffion in the Weft of England, and fignifies, to do it with the full bent and energy of mind:—" And obfervation strange," is with such minute attention to the orders given, as to excite admiration. HENLEY.

6 Have discharged the feveral functions allotted to their different

natures.

7 The deep pipe told it me in a rough bass found. JOHNSON.

8 The natives of Africa have been fuppofed to be poffeffed of the fecret how to temper poisons with fuch art as not to operate till several years after they were adminiftered. Their drugs were then as certain in their effect, as fubtle in their preparation. STEEVENS.

9 Ecftacy meant not anciently, as at prefent, rapturous pleasure, but alienation of mind. Mr. Locke has not inelegantly ftyled it dreaming with our eyes open.

3

Follow, I pray you.

[Exeunt.

May now provoke them to.
Adri.

ACT IV. SCENE I.

Before Profpero's cell.

Enter PROSPERO, FERDINAND, and MIRANDA.
Pro. If I have too aufterely punish'd you,
Your compenfation makes amends; for I
Have given you here a thread of mine own life,2
Or that for which I live; whom once again
I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations
Were but my trials of thy love, and thou
Haft ftrangely stood the teft: 3 here, afore Heaven,
I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand,
Do not fmile at me, that I boast her off,

For thou shalt find the will outftrip all praise,
And make it halt behind her.

Fer.

Against an oracle.

I do believe it,

Pro. Then, as my gift, and thine own acquifition Worthily purchas'd, take my daughter: But

If thou doft break her virgin knot + before

All fanctimonious ceremonies may

With full and holy right be minifter'd,
No fweet afperfion 5 fhall the heavens let fall
To make this contract grow; but barren hate,
Sour ey'd difdain, and difcord, shall bestrew

The

2" A thrid of mine own life" is a fibre or a part of my own life, Prof. pero confiders himself as the flock or parent-tree, and his daughter as a fibre or portion of himself, and for whose benefit he himself lives. STEEVENS.

3 Strangely is used by way of commendation, merveilleusement, to a wonder; the fame is the fenfe in the foregoing fcenes. JOHNSON.

4 This, and the paffage in Pericles Prince of Tyre, are manifeft allufions to the zones of the ancients, which were worn as guardians of chastity by marriageable young women. HENLEY.

5 Afperfion is here ufed in its primitive fenfe of Sprinkling. At prefent it is expreffive only of calumny and detraction. STEEVENS.

The union of your bed with weeds fo loathly,
That you shall hate it both therefore take heed,
As Hymen's lamps shall light you.

Fer.

For quiet days, fair iffue, and long life,

As I hope

With fuch love as 'tis now; the murkieft den,
'The most opportune place, the ftrong'ft fuggeftion
Our worfer Genius can, fhall never melt

Mine honour into luft; to take away

The edge of that day's celebration,

When I fhall think, or Phoebus' fteeds are founder'd,
Or night kept chain'd below.

Pro.

Fairly spoke:
Sit then, and talk with her, fhe is thine own.-
What, Ariel; my industrious servant Ariel!

Enter ARIEL.

Ari. What would my potent mafter? here I am.
Pro. Thou and thy meaner fellows your last service
Did worthily perform; and I must ufe you
In fuch another trick: go, bring the rabble,"
O'er whom I give thee power, here, to this place:
Incite them to quick motion; for I must
Beftow upon the eyes of this young couple
Some vanity of mine art; it is my promise,
And they expect it from me.

Ari.

Pro. Ay, with a twink.

Presently?

Ari. Before you can fay, Come, and go,

And breathe twice; and cry, fe, feż

Each one tripping on his toe,

Will be here with mop and mowe:

Do you love me, mafter? no.

Pro. Dearly, my delicate Ariel: Do not approach,

Till thou doft hear me call.

Well I conceive. Exit.

Ari.
Pro. Look, thou be true; do not give dalliance
Too much the reign; the ftrongest oaths are straw
To the fire i'the blood: be more abftemious,

6 The crew of meaner fpirits. JOHNSON.

Of

Or elfe, good night, your vow!

Fer.

I warrant you, fir;

The white-cold virgin fnow upon my heart
Abates the ardour of my liver.

Pro.

Well.

Now come, my Ariel; bring a corollary,"
Rather than want a fpirit; appear, and pertly,-
No tongue; all eyes; be filent.

A Mafque. Enter IRIS.

Soft mufick.

Iris. Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas
Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats, and peafe;
Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,
And flat meads thatch'd with ftover," them to keep;
Thy banks with peonied and lilied brims,
Which fpungy April at thy heft betrims,

To make cold nymphs chafte crowns; and thy broom groves,
Whofe fhadow the difmiffed bachelor loves,

Being lafs-lorn; thy pole-clipt vineyard ;3
And thy fea-marge, fteril, and rocky hard,
Where thou thyfelf doft air: The queen o' the sky,
Whofe watery arch, and meffenger, am I,
Bids thee leave thefe; and with her fovereign grace,
Here on this grafs-plot, in this very place,
To come and fport: her peacocks fly amain,
Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.

Enter CERES.

Cer. Hail, many-colour'd meffenger, that ne'er Doft difobey the wife of Jupiter;

Who, with thy faffron wings, upon my flowers

Diffufeft

? That is, bring more than are fufficient, rather than fail for want of numbers. Corollary means furplus. STEEVENS.

8 Thofe who are prefent at incantations are obliged to be strictly filent, "elfe" as we are afterwards told, "the spell is marred."

JOHNSON.

9 Stover (in Cambridgeshire and other counties) fignifies hay made of coarfe, rank grafs, fuch as even cows will not eat while it is green. Stover is likewife ufed as thatch for cart-lodges, and other buildings that deferve but rude and cheap coverings. STEEVENS

2 Lafs-lors is forfaken of his miftrefs. STEEVENS.

3 To clip is to twine around or embrace. The oles are clip'd or em braced by the vines. STEEVENS,