་ an ander, that has lately fuffer'd by a thunder- of his friend; his backward voice is to utter foul bet. Abe! the storm is come again: my best speeches, and to detract. If all the wine in my why is to creep under his gaberdine1; there is no bottle will recover him, I will help his ague: ther thelber hereabout: Mifery acquaints a man Come-5 Amen! I will pour fome in thy other with strange bedfellows: I will here throud, till mouth. the dregs of the storm be past. Enter Stephans finging, a bottle in bis band. Ste. Ibull no more to sea, to sea, To Here shall I dye afore, Trin. Stephano,— Ste. Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy! mercy! This is a devil, and no monfter: I will leave him; I have no long spoon. Trin. Stephano!--if thou beeft Stephano, touch me, and speak to me; for I am Trinculo;-be not afraid,-thy good friend Trinculo. Ste. If thou beeft Trinculo, come forth; I'll pull thee by the leffer legs: if any be Trinculo's legs, these are they. Thou art very Trinculo, indeed: How cam'it thou to be the fiege 7 of this moon-calf? can he vent Trinculos? This is a very fcurvy tune to fing at a man's funeral: Well, here's my comfort. [Drinks Timofer, the fwabber, the boatswain and I, and his mate, Loo'd Mall, Meg, and Marian, and Margery, But none of us car'd for Kate: For the bad a tongue with a tang, Would cry to a failer, Go, bang: Sie lai'd not the favour of tar nor of pitch, [itch: Yita taylor might feratch her where-e'er he did ftroke:-But art thou not drown'd, Stephano? I Then to fea, boys, and let her go hang. hope now, thou art not drown'd. Is the ftorm This is a fcurvy tune too: But here's my comfort. over-blown? I hid me under the dead moon-calf's [Drinks. gaberdine, for fear of the ftorm: And art thou |living, Stephano? O Stephano, two Neapolitans C. Do not torment me: Oh! Trin. I took him to be kill'd with a thunder Ste. Pr'ythee, do not turn me about; my stomach is not conftant. S%. What's the matter? have we devils here ?¦'scap'd! Do you put tricks upon us with favages, and men of Inde! Ha! I have not 'cap'd drowning to be aired now of your four legs; for it hath been faid, As proper a man as ever went upon four legs, cannot make him give ground: and it fhall be faid fo again, while Stephano breathes at noftrils. Cal. The fpirit torments me: Oh! Sr. This is fome monster of the ifle, with four len; who has got, as I take it, an ague: Where the devil thould he learn our language? I will give La fome relief, if it be but for that: If I can recover him, and keep him tame, and get to Naples with him, he's a prefent for any emperor that ever tud on neats-leather. Ca. Do not torment me, pr'ythee; I'll bring Er wood home fafter. Str. He's in his fit now; and does not talk after the vifeft: He shall taste of my bottle: if he never drank wine afore, it will go near to remove Loft: if I can recover him, and keep him tame, Cal. These be fine things, an if they he not sprights. Ste. How did't thou 'scape? How cam'st thou hither? fwear, by this bottle, how thou cam'st hither. I efcap'd upon a butt of fack, which the failors heav'd over-board, by this bottle! which I made of the bark of a tree, with mine own hands, fince I was caft a-shore. Cal. I'll fwear, upon that bottle, to be thy true fubject; for the liquor is not earthly. Ste. Here; fwear then, how efcap'dft thou? Trin. Swom a-fhore, man, like a duck; I can fwim like a duck, I'll be fworn. Ste. Here, kifs the book: Though thou can't fwim like a duck, thou art made like a goofe. Trin. O Stephano, haft any more of this? Ste. The whole butt, man; my cellar is in a rock by the fea-fide, where my wine is hid. How now, moon-calf? how does thine ague? Cal. Haft thou not dropp'd from heaven? Ste. Out o' the moon, I do aflure thee: I was the man in the moon, when time was. Cal. I have feen thee in her, and I do adore thee: my mistress fhew'd me thee, and thy dog and thy buth. Ste. Come, fwear to that; kifs the book: I will furnish it anon with new contents: fwear. Trin. By this good light, this is a very thallow Tris. I should know that voice: It should be,- fter:-The man i' the moon ?---a most poor creC. Four legs, and two voices; a moft delicate dulous moniter:-Well drawn, moniter, in good Docter! Hs forward voice now is to fpeak well footh. A gaberdine is properly the coarfe frock or outward garment of a peafant, and is fill by the peasants in Suffex. 2 i. e, any fum, or ever fo much, 3 Tremor is always xprefented as the effect of being poffefs'd by the devil. 4 Alluding to an old powerb, that good liquor will make a cat speak. 5 Means, top your draught. 6 Alluding to the perb, A long boon to eat with the devil, 7 Siege fignifies flool in every fenfe of the word, and is are fed in the dirtieft, Ca. Cal. I'll fhew thee every fertile inch o' the ifle; | Shew thee a jay's neft, and instruct thee how And I will kifs thy foot: I pr'ythee, be my god. To fnare the nimble marmozet; I'll bring theo Trin. By this light, a most perfidious and drunken To clust'ring filberds, and fometimes I'll get thee moniter; when his god's afleep, he'll rob his bottle. Young fcamels from the rock: Wilt thou g Cal. I'll kifs thy foot: I'll fwear myfelf thy fubwith me? Ste. Come on then; down, and swear. [ject. Ste. I pr'ythee now, lead the way, without any Trin. I fhall laugh myself to death at this puppy-more talking-Trinculo, the king and all our comheaded monster: A moft fcurvy monfter! Ipany being drown'd, we will inherit here.— could find in my heart to beat him, Ste. Come, kifs. Trin. But that the poor monster's in drink: An abominable monster ! Cal. I'll fhew thee the beft fprings; I'll pluck I'll fish for thec, and get thee wood enough. I'll bear him no more fticks, but follow thee, Trin. A most ridiculous monster; to make a wonder of a poor drunkard. [grow; Cal. I pr'ythee, let me bring thee where crabs And I with my long nails will dig thee pig-nuts; Here; bear my bottle! Fellow Trinculo, we'll fill him by and by again. Cal. [Sings drunkenly.] Farewell mafter; fare- Trin. A howling monfter; a drunken monster. At requiring, Nor fcrape trencher, nor wash dish; Has a new mafier-Get a new Man. Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! freedom, hey-day, freedom! Ste. O brave monster! lead the way. [Exeunt, Mira, It would become me As well as it does you: and I fhould do it Pro. Poor worm! thou art infected; Delight in them fets off: fome kinds of hafeness Enter Miranda, and Profpero at a difiance. Work not fo hard: I would, the lightning had For. O moft dear mistress, The fun will fet before 1 fhall discharge What I must strive to do. Mira. If you'll fit down, Mira. You look wearily. Fer. No, noble mistress; 'tis fresh morning with me, When you are by at night. I do befeech you, (Chiefly that I might fet it in my prayers) What is your name? Mira. Miranda :-- my father, have broke your hest 2 to say fo! Fer. Admir'd Miranda! Indeed, the top of admiration; worth What's dearest to the world! Full many a lady Mira. I do not know I'll bear your logs the while: Pray, give me that; One of my fex; no woman's face remember, Save, from my glafs, mine own; nor have I fee 1 Mr. Steevens fuppofes, that, by an error of the prefs, fiamel has been here substituted for framell, a fpecies of bird mestioned by Willoughby.. 2 For beheft, or command. More to me. Trin. Servant-monfter the folly of this island! They fay there's but five upon this ifle: we are three of them; if the other two be brain'd like us, the itate totters. More that I may call men, than you, good friend, bear up, and board 'em: Servant-monster, drink I therein do forget. Fer. I am, in my condition, A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king; Ste. Drink, fervant-monster, when I bid thee: thy eyes are almoft fet in thy head. Trin. Where should they be fet elfe? he were a brave monster indeed, if they were fet in his tail. Ste. My man-monster hath drown'd his tongue il wood, not fo!) and would no more endure in fack: for my part, the fea cannot drown me : The wooden slavery, than I would suffer [speak;—I fwam, ere I could recover the shore, five-andThe deh-dy blow my mouth:--Hear my foul thirty leagues, off and on, by this light.--Thou The very inftant that I faw you, did My heart fly to your fervice; there refides, Mira. Do you love me? Fr. Oheaven, o earth, bear witness to this found, What beft is boded me, to mischief! I, Mira. I am a fool, To weep at what I am glad of. Pr. Fair encounter thalt be my lieutenant, monfter, or my standard. Trin. Your lieutenant, if you lift; he's no ftandard 2. Ste. We'll not run, monfieur monster. Trin. Nor go neither: but you'll lie, like dogs; and yet say nothing neither. Ste. Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beeft a good moon-calf. Cal. How does thy honour? Let me lick thy fhoe: I'll not ferve him, he is not valiant. Trin. Thou lyft, most ignorant monster; I am in cafe to justle a conftable: Why, thou debosh'd3 fifh thou, was there ever a man a coward, that hath drunk fo much fack as 1 to-day? Wilt thou Of two moft rare affections! Heavens rain grace tell a monftrous lie, being but half a fifh, and half Other which breeds between them! For. Wherefore weep you? Mira. At mine unworthiness, that dare not offer Fr. My miftrefs, deareft, And I this humble ever. Fr. Ay, with a heart as willing As bondage e'er of freedom: here's my hand. Fr. A thousand, thousand! a monfter? Cal. Lo, how he mocks me; wilt thou let him, my lord? Trin. Lord, quoth he!--that a monster should be fuch a natural! Cal. Lo, lo, again: bite him to death, I pr'ythee. Ste. Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head; if you prove a mutineer, the next treeThe poor monfter's my fubject, and he shall not futter indignity. Cal. I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleas'd to hearken once again to the fuit I made to thee? Ste. Marry will I: kneel, and repeat it; I will ftand, and fo fhall Trinculo. Enter Ariel invisible. Cal. As I told thee before, I am fubject to a [farewell, tyrant; a forcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated [Excunt.me of the inland. Pro. So glad of this as they, I cannot be, Who are furpriz'd with all; but my rejoicing A: nothing can be more. I'll to my book; For yet, ere fupper-time, muft I perform Mach bufinefs appertaining. [Exit. Eu Callan, Stephano, and Trinculo, with a bottle. Ste. Tell not me ;-when the butt is out, we ★ drink water; not a drop before: therefore * Companion. Ari. Thou lyft. 2 Meaning he is fo much intoxicated, as not to be able to ftand. The ible between standard an ensign, and standard a fruit-tree, that grows without fupport, is evadent. 3 Debauched. From From me he got it. If thy greatness will Revenge it on him (for, I know, thou dar'st, But this thing dare not―) Ste. That's most certain. Cal. Thou shalt be lord of it, and I'll ferve thee. Ste. How now fhall this be compafs'd? Canft thou bring me to the party? Cal. Yea, yea, my lord; I'll yield him thee afleep, Where thou may'st knock a nail into his head. Ari. Thou lyft, thou canst not. patch!Cal. What a py'd ninny's this? Thou fcurvy I do befeech thy greatnefs, give him blows, And take his bottle from him: when that's gone, He fhall drink nought but brine; for I'll not fhew Where the quick freshes are. [him Ste. Trinculo, run into no further danger: interrupt the monster one word further, and by this hand, I'll turn my mercy out of doors, and make a ftock-fifh of thee. Trin. Why, what did I? I did nothing; I'll go Cal. Beat him enough: after a little time, I'll beat him too. Ste. Stand further.-Come, proceed. Cal. Why, as I told thee, 'tis a cultom with him Calls her, a non-pareil: I never faw a woman, As greatest does leaft. Ste. Is it fo brave a lafs? Cal. Ay, lord, the will become thy bed, I warAnd bring thee forth brave brood. Ste. Give me thy hand; I am forry I beat thee s but while thou liv'ft, keep a good tongue in thy head. Cal. Within this half hour will he be asleep; Wilt thou deftroy him then? [fure; Ste. Ay, on mine honour. Ari. This will I tell my mafter. Cal. Thou mak'ft me merry: I am full of pleaLet us be jocund: Will you troul * the catch, You taught me but while-cre? Ste. At thy request, monster, I will do reafon, any reafon : Come on, Trinculo, let us fing. [Sings. Flout 'em, and fkout'em; and shout'em and flout'em ; Thought is free. Cal. That's not the tune. [4icplays the tune on Ste. What is this fame? [a tabor and pipe. Trin. This is the tune of our catch, play'd by the picture of no-body. Ste. If thou bee'ft a man, fhew thy felf in thy likenefs: if thou bee'ft a devil, take 't as thou lift. Trin. O, forgive me my fins! Ste. He that dies, pays all debts: I defy thee :Mercy upon us! Cal. Art thou affeard 3? Ste. No, moniter, not I. Cal. Be not affeard; the ifle is full of noifes, Sounds, and fweet airs, that give delight, and hurt Sometimes a thousand twangling inftruments [nct. Will hum about mine ears; and fometimes voices, That, if I then had wak'd after long fleep, Will make me fleep again: and then, in dreaming, [where [story. Aion. Old lord, I cannot blame thee, Who am myself attach'd with wearinefs, To the dulling of my fpirits: fit down and reft. [rant, Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it Ste. Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd, and I will be king and queen; (fave our graces!), Whom thus we ftray to find; and the fea mocks and Trinculo and thyfelf fhall be vice-roys :-Dost | Our frustrate search on land: Well, let him go. thou like the plot, Trinculo? Ant. [Afide to Sebaftian.] I am right glad that he's fo out of hope. Trin. Excellent. Alluding to the ftriped, or fool's coat worn by Trinculo, who in the ancient dramatis perfonc is called after, and not a fullor. 2 Means probably to difmifs it trippingly from the tongue. 3 The provincial mode in Staffordshire and the adjoining counties of pronouncing the word afraid. 4 i. c. The diminutive only of our lady, i. e. ladykin. Alon. I will ftand to, and feed, Thunder and lightning. Enter Ariel like a harpy; Ari. You are three men of fin, whom destiny, There is one tree, the phanix' throne; one phoenixOne dow le that's in my plume; my fellow-minifters They have left their viands behind; for we have fto- 4. Not L Euch patter out on five for one 5, will bring us Are like invulnerable: if you could hurt, You, and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from He vanishes in thunder: then to foft music, enter the Pro.[Afide] Bravely the figure of this harpy haft thou [Exit Profpero from above. 1 Shows, called drolleries, were in Shakspeare's time performed by puppets only. 1 Certain.lv. 3 Admire. 4 Our author might have had this intelligence from the tranflation of P. b. V. ch. 8. "The Blemmyi, by report, have no heads, but mouth and eics both in their bres 5 This paffage alludes to an ancient forgotten cuftom, now very obfcure, when it was camary for those who engaged in long expeditions, to piace out a fum of money on condition of eving great intereft for it at their return home. Bailey, in his Dictionary, fays, that doule is atrader, or rather the fingle particles of the down. 7 Blameless, innocent. 8 To map and to mr feem to have the fame meaning, i. c. to make mouths or wry faces. 9 With honeft alacrity, or Alon. |