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Let us not burthen our remembrance with

A heaviness that's gone.

Gonzalo.

I have inly wept,

Or should have spoke ere this. Look down, you gods,

And on this couple drop a blessed crown!

For it is you that have chalk'd forth the way
Which brought us hither.

Alonso. Amen. [To FERDINAND and MIRANDA] Give me

your hands:

Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart

That doth not wish you joy!

Gonzalo.

Be it so! Amen!

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Re-enter ARIEL, with the Master and Boatswain amazedly following.

O, look, sir, look, sir! here is more of us :

I prophesied, if a gallows were on land,

This fellow could not drown. Now, blasphemy, That swear'st grace o'erboard, not an oath on shore?

Hast thou no mouth by land? What is the news? 220 Boatswain. The best news is, that we have safely

found

Our king and company; the next, our ship-
Which, but three glasses since, we gave out split-
Is tight and yare and bravely rigg'd as when
We first put out to sea.

Ariel. [Aside to PROSPERO] Sir, all this service

Have I done since I went.

Prospero. [Aside to ARIEL] My tricksy spirit!

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Alonso. These are not natural events. How came

you hither?

Boatswain. If I did think, sir, I were well awake, I'ld strive to tell you. We were dead of sleep, And how we know not-all clapp'd under hatches;

Where but even now with strange and several noises

Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling chains,
And moe diversity of sounds, all horrible,
We were awaked; straightway, at liberty;
Where we, in all her trim, freshly beheld
Our royal, good and gallant ship, our master
Capering to eye her: on a trice, so please you,
Even in a dream, were we divided from them
And were brought moping hither.

Ariel. [Aside to PROSPERO] Was 't well done?
Prospero. [Aside to ARIEL] Bravely, my diligence.
Thou shalt be free.

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Alonso. This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod; Prospero. Do not infest your mind with beating on 246 The strangeness of this business; at pick'd leisure Which shall be shortly, single I'll resolve you

248 single . . . accidents I myself will explain these events.

These happen'd accidents; till when, be cheerful 250 And think of each thing well. [Aside to ARIEL] Come hither, spirit:

Set Caliban and his companions free;

Untie the spell. [Exit ARIEL.] How fares my gracious sir?

There are yet missing of your company

Some few odd lads that you remember not.

Re-enter ARIEL, driving in CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRIN-
CULO, in their stolen apparel.

Stephano. Every man shift for all the rest, and let no man take care for himself; for all is but fortune. Coragio, bully-monster, coragio! Trinculo. If these be true spies which I wear in my head, here's a goodly sight.

Caliban. O Setebos, these be brave spirits indeed!
How fine my master is! I am afraid

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What things are these, my lord Antonio?
Will money buy 'em?

Antonio.

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Very like; one of them 265

Is a plain fish, and, no doubt, marketable. Prospero. Mark but the badges of these men, my lords,

258 Coragio courage. 267 badges of these men badge was worn by his servant upon the sleeve.

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