PERSONS REPRESENTED, ALONSO, King of Naples. Master of a Ship, Boatswain, and Mariners. MIRANDA, Daughter to Prospero. ARIEL, an airy Spirit. Other Spirits attending on Prospero. SCENE—The Sea, with a Ship; afterwards, an uninhabited Island. TEMPEST. ACT I. Enter a Ship-master and a Boatswain. Master. Good : Speak to the mariners: fall to't yarely, 1 or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir. [Exit. Enter Mariners. Boatswain. Heigh, my hearts; cheerly, cheerly, my hearts; yare, yare: Take in the top-sail; Tend to the master's whistle.—Blow till thou burst thy wind, if room enough! Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND, GONZALO, and others. Alonso. Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master? Play the men. Boatswain. I pray now, keep below. Boatswain. Do you not hear him? You mar our labour ! keep your cabins : you do assist the storm. Gonzalo. Nay, good, be patient. Boatswain. When the sea is. Hence! What care these roarers for the name of king? To cabins: silence: trouble us not. 1 Readily. |