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That, if I then had waked after long sleep,

Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds, methought, would open, and show riches
Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.

Ste. This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing.

Cal. When Prospero is destroyed.

Ste. That shall be by and by: I remember the

story.

Trin. The sound is going away: let's follow it, and, after, do our work.

Ste. Lead, monster; we'll follow.-I would, I could see this taborer: he lays it on.

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Trin. Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano. [Exeunt.

SCENE III.—Another Part of the Island.

Enter ALONZO, SEBASTIAN, ANTOnio, Gonzalo, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others.

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Gon. By'r lakin, I can go no further, sir; My old bones ache; here's a maze trod, indeed, Through forth-rights, and meanders! by your patience, I needs must rest me.

Alon. Old lord, I cannot blame thee, Who am myself attached with weariness, To the dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest. Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it No longer for my flatterer: he is drowned,

1 "You shall heare in the ayre the sound of tabors and other instruments, to put the trauellers in feare, &c. by evill spirites that make these soundes, and also do call diuerse of the trauellers by their names, &c."-Trauels of Marcus Paulus, by John Frampton, 4to. 1579. To some of these circumstances Milton also alludes:

"————calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire;
And aery tongues that syllable men's names
On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses."

5 By'r lakin is a contraction of By our ladykin, the diminutive of our lady.

Whom thus we stray to find; and the sea mocks
Our frustrate search on land: Well, let him go.
Ant. I am right glad that he's so out of hope.

Aside to SEBASTIAN.

Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose
That you resolved to effect.

Seb.

Will we take thoroughly.

Ant.

The next advantage

Let it be to-night:

For, now they are oppressed with travel, they
Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance,

As when they are fresh.

Seb.

I say, to-night: no more.

Solemn and strange music; and PROSPERO above, invisible. Enter several strange Shapes, bringing in a banquet; they dance about it with gentle actions of salutation; and inviting the king, &c. to eat, they depart.

Alon. What harmony is this? my good friends,

hark!

Gon. Marvellous sweet music!

Alon. Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were

these?

Seb. A living drollery:1 Now I will believe

That there are unicorns; that, in Arabia

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There is one tree, the phoenix' throne; one phoenix At this hour reigning there.

Ant. I'll believe both; And what does else want credit, come to me, And I'll be sworn 'tis true: Travellers ne'er did lie, Though fools at home condemn them.

1 Shows, called Drolleries, were in Shakspeare's time performed by puppets only. From these our modern drolls, exhibited at fairs, &c., took their name. "A living drollery " is therefore a drollery not by wooden but by living personages.

2 "I myself have heard straunge things of this kind of tree; namely in regard of the bird Phoenix, which is supposed to have taken that name of this date-tree (called in Greek govi); for it was assured unto me, that the said bird died with that tree, and revived of itselfe as the tree sprung againe." ----Holland's Translation of Pliny, B. xiii. C. 4.

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