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Boats. I pray now, keep below. Ant. Where is the master, Boatswain? Boats. Do you not hear him? You mar our labor; keep your cabins: you do assist the storm. Gon. Nay, good, be patient.

Boats. When the sea is. Hence! What care these roarers for the name of king? To cabin silence trouble us not.

Gon. Good; yet remember whom thou hast aboard.

Boats. None that I more love than myself. You are a counselor; if you can command these

elements to silence, and work the peace of the present, we will not hand a rope more; use your authority. If you cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so hap. Cheerly, good hearts. Out of our way, I say.

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[Exit. Gon. I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows. Stand fast, good fate, to his hanging! make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our own doth little advantage! If he be not born to be hanged, our case is miserable. [Exeunt.

Re-enter Boatswain.

Boats. Down with the topmast; yare; lower, lower; bring her to try with main-course. [A cry within.] A plague upon this howling! They are louder than the weather, or our office.

Re-enter SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, and GONZALO.

Yet again? what do you here? Shall we give o'er, and drown? Have you a mind to sink?

Seb. A pox o' your throat! you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!

Boats. Work you, then.

Ant. Hang, cur, hang! you whoreson, insolent noise-maker, we are less afraid to be drowned than thou art.

Gon. I'll warrant him from drowning; though

the ship were no stronger than a nut-shell, and as Against my very heart! Poor souls! they perleaky as an unstanched wench.

ished,

Boats. Lay her a-hold, a-hold: set her two Had I been any god of power, I would courses; off to sea again, lay her off.

Enter Mariners, wet.

Mar. All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost!

[Exeunt.

Boats. What, must our mouths be cold?
Gon. The king and prince at prayers! let us

assist them,

For our case is as theirs.

Seb. I am out of patience.

Have sunk the sea within the earth, or ere

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I have done nothing but in care of thee,

(Of thee, my dear one! thee, my daughter!) who

Ant. We are merely cheated of our lives by Art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing

drunkards.

Of whence I am; nor that I am more better

This wide-chapped rascal; —'Would, thou mightst Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,

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Farewell, brother! We split, we split, we Lie there, my art,- Wipe thou thine eyes; have

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Pro.
The hour 's now come;
The very minute bids thee ope thine ear;
Obey, and be attentive. Canst thou remember
A time before we came unto this cell?

I do not think thou canst; for then thou wast not

Mira.

Certainly, sir, I can.

But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's check, Out three years old.
Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel,
Who had no doubt some noble creatures in her,
Dashed all to pieces. O, the ery did knock

Pro. By what? by any other house, or person? Or any thing the image tell me, that

Hath kept with thy remembrance.

Mira.

"T is far off;

And rather like a dream than an assurance
That my remembrance warrants: Had I not
Four or five women once, that tended me?
Pro. Thou hadst, and more, Miranda:

how is it,

But

Pro. Being once perfected how to grant suits, How to deny them; whom to advance, and whom To trash for over-topping; new created

The creatures that were mine; I say, or changed them,

Or else new formed them: having both the key

That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou Of officer and office, set all hearts i' th' state

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Was Duke of Milan; and his only heir

A princess; no worse issued.

To-what tune pleased his ear; and now he was
The ivy which had hid my princely trunk,

And sucked my verdure out on 't.-Thou attend'st

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As my trust was; which had, indeed, no limit, A confidence sans bound. He being thus lorded, Not only with what my revenue yielded, What foul play had we, that we came from thence? But what my power might else exact. Or blesséd was 't we did?

Mira.

Pro.

O, the heavens!

Both, both, my girl;

- like one, Who, having, unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory,

By foul play, as thou say'st, were we heaved To credit his own lie, - he did believe

thence;

But blessedly holp hither.

Mira. O, my heart bleeds

To think o' the teen that I have turned you to, Which is from my remembrance! Please you, further.

Pro. My brother, and thy uncle, called Anto

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I pray thee, mark me,

- that a brother should
Be so perfidious!-he whom, next thyself,
Of all the world I loved, and to him put
The manage of my state; as, at that time,
Through all the signiories it was the first,
And Prospero the prime duke; being so reputed
In dignity, and, for the liberal arts,
Without a parallel: those being all my study,
The government I cast upon my brother,
And to my state grew stranger, being transported,
And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle-
Dost thou attend me?

Mira. Sir, most heedfully.

He was indeed the duke; out of the substitution,
And executing the outward face of royalty.
With all prerogative: Hence his ambition
growing,-
Dost thou hear?

Mira. Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
Pro. To have no screen between this part he
played,

And him he played it for, he needs will be
Absolute Milan: Me, poor man! —my library
Was dukedom large enough: of temporal royalties
He thinks me now incapable: confederates
(So dry he was for sway) with the King of Naples,
To give him annual tribute, do him homage;
Subject his coronet to the crown, and bend
The dukedom, yet unbowed, (alas, poor Milan!)
To most ignoble stooping.

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Pro. Mark his condition, and the event; then tell me,

If this might be a brother.

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This King of Naples, being an enemy

To me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit;
Which was, that he in lieu o' the premises,
Of homage, and I know not how much tribute,
Should presently extirpate me and mine
Out of the dukedom; and confer fair Milan,
With all the honors, on my brother: Whereon
A treacherous army levied, one midnight
Fated to the purpose, did Antonio open

The gates of Milan; and, i' the dead of darkness,
The ministers for the purpose hurried thence
Me, and thy crying self.

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My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune,

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Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies
Brought to this shore: and by my prescience

I find my zenith doth depend upon

A most auspicious star; whose influence
If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes
Will ever after droop.
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Thou art inclined to sleep; 't is a good dullness, And give it way; I know thou canst not choose. [MIRANDA sleeps. Come away, servant, come: I am ready now; Approach, my Ariel; come.

Enter ARIEL.

Ari. All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come

To answer thy best pleasure; be 't to fly,

When I have decked the sea with drops full salt; To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride

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