The Tempest.
Adrian, Francisco, &c.
sible:) Enter seuerall strange shapes, bringing in a Banket;
and dance about it with gentle actions of salutations, and
inuiting the King, &c. to eate, they depart.
Drolerie: now I will beleeue
Arabia
Naples
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<head rend="italic center">Scena Tertia.</head>
<head type="suppied">[Act 3, Scene 3]</head>
<stage rend="italic center" type="entrance">Enter Alonso, Sebastian, Anthonio, Gonzallo,
<lb/>Adrian, Francisco, &c.</stage>
<sp who="#F-tem-gon">
<speaker rend="italic">Gon.</speaker>
<l n="1463">By'r lakin, I can goe no further, Sir,</l>
<l n="1464">My old bones akes: here's a maze trod indeed</l>
<l n="1465">Through fourth‑rights, & Meanders: by your patience,</l>
<l n="1466">I needes must rest me.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-tem-alo">
<speaker rend="italic">Al.</speaker>
<l n="1467">Old Lord, I cannot blame thee,</l>
<l n="1468">Who, am my selfe attach'd with wearinesse</l>
<l n="1469">To th'dulling of my spirits: Sit downe, and rest:</l>
<l n="1470">Euen here I will put off my hope, and keepe it</l>
<l n="1471">No longer for my Flatterer: he is droun'd</l>
<l n="1472">Whom thus we stray to finde, and the Sea mocks</l>
<l n="1473">Our frustrate search on land: well, let him goe.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-tem-ant">
<speaker rend="italic">Ant.</speaker>
<l n="1474">I am right glad, that he's so out of hope:</l>
<l n="1475">Doe not for one repulse forgoe the purpose</l>
<l n="1476">That you resolu'd t'effect.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-tem-seb">
<speaker rend="italic">Seb.</speaker>
<l n="1477">The next aduantage will we take thoroughly.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-tem-ant">
<speaker rend="italic">Ant.</speaker>
<l n="1478">Let it be to night,</l>
<l n="1479">For now they are oppress'd with trauaile, they</l>
<l n="1480">Will not, nor cannot vse such vigilance</l>
<l n="1481">As when they are fresh.</l>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic center" type="mixed">Solemne and strange Musicke: and Prosper on the top (inui
<lb/>sible:) Enter seuerall strange shapes, bringing in a Banket;
<lb/>and dance about it with gentle actions of salutations, and
<lb/>inuiting the King, &c. to eate, they depart.</stage>
<sp who="#F-tem-seb">
<speaker rend="italic">Seb.</speaker>
<l n="1482">I say to night: no more.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-tem-alo">
<speaker rend="italic">Al.</speaker>
<l n="1483">What harmony is this? my good friends, harke.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-tem-gon">
<speaker rend="italic">Gon.</speaker>
<l n="1484">Maruellous sweet Musicke.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-tem-alo">
<speaker rend="italic">Alo.</speaker>
<l n="1485">Giue vs kind keepers,<choice>
<abbr>heauēs</abbr>
<expan>heauens</expan>
</choice>: what were these?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-tem-seb">
<speaker rend="italic">Seb.</speaker>
<l n="1486">A liuing<hi rend="italic">Drolerie</hi>: now I will beleeue</l>
<l n="1487">That there are Vnicornes: that in<hi rend="italic">Arabia</hi>
</l>
<l n="1488">There is one Tree, the Phœnix throne, one Phœnix</l>
<l n="1489">At this houre reigning there.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-tem-ant">
<speaker rend="italic">Ant.</speaker>
<l n="1490">Ile beleeue both:</l>
<l n="1491">And what do's else want credit, come to me</l>
<l n="1492">And Ile besworne 'tis true: Trauellers nere did lye,</l>
<l n="1493">Though fooles at home condemne 'em.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-tem-gon">
<speaker rend="italic">Gon.</speaker>
<l n="1494">If in<hi rend="italic">Naples</hi>
</l>
<l n="1495">I should report this now, would they beleeue me?</l>
<l n="1496">If I should say I saw such Islands;</l>
<l n="1497">(For certes, these are people of the Island)</l>
<l n="1498">Who though they are of monstrous shape, yet note</l>
<l n="1499">Their manners are more gentle, kinde, then of</l>
<l n="1500">Our humaine generation you shall finde</l>
<l n="1501">Many, nay almost any.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-tem-pro">
<speaker rend="italic">Pro.</speaker>
<l n="1502">Honest Lord,</l>
<l n="1503">Thou hast said well: for some of you there present;</l>
<l n="1504">Are worse then diuels.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-tem-alo">
<speaker rend="italic">Al.</speaker>
<l n="1505">I cannot too much muse</l>
<l n="1506">Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound expressing</l>
<l n="1507">(Although they want the vse of tongue) a kinde</l>
<l n="1508">Of excellent dumbe discourse.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-tem-pro">
<speaker rend="italic">Pro.</speaker>
<l n="1509">Praise in departing.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-tem-fra">
<speaker rend="italic">Fr.</speaker>
<l n="1510">They vanish'd strangely.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-tem-seb">
<speaker rend="italic">Seb.</speaker>
<l n="1511">No matter, since</l>
<l n="1512">They haue left their Viands behinde; for wee haue sto
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<pc rend="turnover">(</pc>macks.</l>
<l n="1513">Wilt please you taste of what is here?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-tem-alo">
<speaker rend="italic">Alo.</speaker>
<l n="1514">Not I.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-tem-gon">
<speaker rend="italic">Gon.</speaker>
<l n="1515">Faith Sir, you neede not feare: when wee were
<lb rend="turnover"/>
<pc rend="turnover">(</pc>Boyes</l>
<l n="1516">Who would beleeue that there were Mountayneeres,</l>
<l n="1517">Dew‑lapt, like Buls, whose throats had hanging at'em</l>
<l n="1518">Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men</l>
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<l n="1519">Whose heads stood in their brests? which now we finde</l>
<l n="1520">Each putter out of fiue for one, will bring vs</l>
<l n="1521">Good warrant of.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-tem-alo">
<speaker rend="italic">Al.</speaker>
<l n="1522">I will stand to, and feede,</l>
<l n="1523">Although my last, no matter, since I feele</l>
<l n="1524">The best is past: brother: my Lord, the Duke,</l>
<l n="1525">Stand too, and doe as we.</l>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic center" type="mixed">Thunder and Lightning. Enter Ariell (like a Harpey) claps
<lb/>his wings vpon the Table, and with a quient deuice the
<lb/>Banquet vanishes.</stage>
<sp who="#F-tem-ari">
<speaker rend="italic">Ar.</speaker>
<l n="1526">You are three men of sinne, whom destiny</l>
<l n="1527">That hath to instrument this lower world,</l>
<l n="1528">And what is in't: the neuer surfeited Sea,</l>
<l n="1529">Hath caus'd to belch vp you: and on this Island,</l>
<l n="1530">Where man doth not inhabit, you 'mongst men,</l>
<l n="1531">Being most vnfit to liue: I haue made you mad;</l>
<l n="1532">And euen with such like valour, men hang, and drowne</l>
<l n="1533">Their proper selues: you fooles, I and my fellowes</l>
<l n="1534">Are ministers of Fate, the Elements</l>
<l n="1535">Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well</l>
<l n="1536">Wound the loud windes, or with bemockt‑at‑Stabs</l>
<l n="1537">Kill the still closing waters, as diminish</l>
<l n="1538">One dowle that's in my plumbe: My fellow ministers</l>
<l n="1539">Are like‑invulnerable: if you could hurt,</l>
<l n="1540">Your swords are now too massie for your strengths,</l>
<l n="1541">And will not be vplifted: But remember</l>
<l n="1542">(For that's my businesse to you) that you three</l>
<l n="1543">From<hi rend="italic">Millaine</hi>did supplant good<hi rend="italic">Prospero</hi>,</l>
<l n="1544">Expos'd vnto the Sea (which hath requit it)</l>
<l n="1545">Him, and his innocent childe: for which foule deed,</l>
<l n="1546">The Powres, delaying (not forgetting) haue</l>
<l n="1547">Incens'd the Seas, and Shores; yea, all the Creatures</l>
<l n="1548">Against your peace: Thee of thy Sonne,<hi rend="italic">Alonso</hi>
</l>
<l n="1549">They haue bereft; and doe pronounce by me</l>
<l n="1550">Lingring perdition (worse then any death</l>
<l n="1551">Can be at once) shall step, by step attend</l>
<l n="1552">You, and your wayes, whose wraths to guard you from,</l>
<l n="1553">Which here, in this most desolate Isle, else fals</l>
<l n="1554">Vpon your heads, is nothing but hearts‑sorrow,</l>
<l n="1555">And a cleere life ensuing.</l>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic center" type="mixed">He vanishes in Thunder: then (to soft Musicke.) Enter the
<lb/>shapes againe, and daunce (with mockes and mowes) and
<lb/>carrying out the Table.</stage>
<sp who="#F-tem-pro">
<speaker rend="italic">Pro.</speaker>
<l n="1556">Brauely the figure of this<hi rend="italic">Harpie</hi>, hast thou</l>
<l n="1557">Perform'd (my<hi rend="italic">Ariell</hi>) a grace it had deuouring:</l>
<l n="1558">Of my Instruction, hast thou nothing bated</l>
<l n="1559">In what thou had'st to say: so with good life,</l>
<l n="1560">And obseruation strange, my meaner ministers</l>
<l n="1561">Their seuerall kindes haue done: my high charmes work,</l>
<l n="1562">And these (mine enemies) are all knit vp</l>
<l n="1563">In their distractions: they now are in my powre;</l>
<l n="1564">And in these fits, I leaue them, while I visit</l>
<l n="1565">Yong<hi rend="italic">Ferdinand</hi>(whom they suppose is droun'd)</l>
<l n="1566">And his, and mine lou'd darling.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-tem-gon">
<speaker rend="italic">Gon.</speaker>
<l n="1567">I'th name of something holy, Sir, why stand you</l>
<l n="1568">In this strange stare?</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-tem-alo">
<speaker rend="italic">Al.</speaker>
<l n="1569">O, it is monstrous: monstrous:</l>
<l n="1570">Me thought the billowes spoke, and told me of it,</l>
<l n="1571">The windes did sing it to me: and the Thunder</l>
<l n="1572">(That deepe and dreadfull Organ‑Pipe) pronounc'd</l>
<l n="1573">The name of<hi rend="italic">Prosper</hi>: it did base my Trespasse,</l>
<l n="1574">Therefore my Sonne i'th Ooze is bedded; and</l>
<l n="1575">I'le seeke him deeper then ere plummet sounded,</l>
<l n="1576">And with him there lye mudded.</l>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic inline" type="exit">Exit.</stage>
<sp who="#F-tem-seb">
<speaker rend="italic">Seb.</speaker>
<l n="1577">But one feend at a time,</l>
<l n="1578">Ile fight their Legions ore.</l>
</sp>
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<sp who="#F-tem-ant">
<speaker rend="italic">Ant.</speaker>
<l n="1579">Ile be thy Second.</l>
</sp>
<stage type="exit" rend="inline">Exeunt.</stage>
<sp who="#F-tem-gon">
<speaker rend="italic">Gon.</speaker>
<l n="1580">All three of them are desperate: their great guilt</l>
<l n="1581">(Like poyson giuen to worke a great time after)</l>
<l n="1582">Now gins to bite the spirits: I doe beseech you</l>
<l n="1583">(That are of suppler ioynts) follow them swiftly,</l>
<l n="1584">And hinder them from what this extasie</l>
<l n="1585">May now prouoke them to.</l>
</sp>
<sp who="#F-tem-adi">
<speaker rend="italic">Ad.</speaker>
<l n="1586">Follow, I pray you.</l>
</sp>
<stage rend="italic inline" type="exit">Exeunt. omnes.</stage>
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