From eaves of reeds: your charm so strongly works 'em, That if you now beheld them, your affections Would become tender. Pro. Do'st thou think so, spirit? Ari. Mine would, sir, were I human. Pro. And mine shall. Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, 20 Passion as they, be kindlier mov'd than thou art ? Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, Yet, with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury 30 In virtue than in vengeance; they being penitent, Not a frown further: Go, release them, Ariel; Ari. I'll fetch them, sir. [Exit. Pro. Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves; 40 And ye, that on the sands with printless foot (Weak 50 (Weak masters though ye be) I have be-dimm'd 60 [Solemn musick.] Re-enter ARIEL: after him ALONSO with a frantick gesture, attended by GONZALO. SEBASTIAN and ANTHONIO in like manner, attended by ADRIAN and FRANCISCO. They all enter the Circle which PROSPERO had made, and there stand charm'd; which PROSPERO observing, speaks. "A solemn air, and the best comforter "To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains, "Now useless, boil'd within thy skull!" there stand, For you are spell-stopp'd. Holy Gonzalo, honourable man, Mine eyes, even sociable to the shew of thine, Fall Fall fellowly drops.-The charm dissolves apace; 70 "To him thou follow'st; I will pay thy graces "Home, both in word and deed.”—Most cruelly Didst thou, Alonso, use me and my daughter: Thy brother was a furtherer in the act ;Thou'rt pinch'd for't now, Sebastian.———Flesh and blood, 89 You brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, Expel'd remorse, and nature; "who, with Sebastian, "(Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong) "Would here have kill'd your king;" I do forgive thee, Unnatural though thou art!—Their understanding Will shortly fill the reasonable shore, That now lies foul and muddy. Not one of them, -Ariel, That yet looks on me, or would know me : Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell;- Thou shalt e'er long be free. [Exit ARIEL, quickly, spirit; ARIEL enters singing, and helps to attire him. Where the bee sucks, there suck 1; In a cowslip's bell I lie z There There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily: Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. Pro. Why, that's my dainty Ariel: I shall miss thee; But yet thou shalt have freedom: “So, so, so.' 100 Under the hatches; the master, and the boatswain, Being awake, enforce them to this place; And presently, I pr'ythee. Ari. I drink the air before me, and return Or e'er your pulse twice beat. [Exit. Gon. All torment, trouble, wonder, and amaze ment Inhabits here; Some heavenly power guide us 110 Out of this fearful country! Pro. Behold, sir King, The wronged duke of Milan, Prospero : For more assurance that a living prince Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body; "And to thee, and thy company, I bid "A hearty welcome." Alon. Whe'r thou be'st he, or no, Or some inchanted trifle to abuse me, As late I have been, I not know thy pulse 120 Beats, as of flesh and blood; and, since I saw thee, The The affliction of my mind amends, with which, Thou pardon me my wrongs :-But how should Pro spero Be living, and be here ? Pro. First, noble friend, Let me embrace thine age; whose honour cannot Be measur'd, or confin'd. Gon. Whether this be, Or be not, I'll not swear. Pro. You do yet taste 130 Some subtilties o' the isle, that will not let you Believe things certain :-Welcome, my friends all :"But you, my brace of lords, were I so minded, "[Aside to SEB. and ANT. "i here could pluck his highness' frown upon you, "And justify you traitors; at this time "I'll tell no tales. "Seb. The devil speaks in him. "Pro. No:-" [Aside. For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother Thy rankest fault; all of them; and require Alon. If thou be'st Prospero, Give us particulars of thy preservation : How thou hast met us here, who three hours since Were wreck'd upon this shore; where I have lost, How |