Ste. Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and I will be King and Queen, fave our Graces: and Trinculo and thy felf fhall be Vice-Roys. Doft thou like the plot, Trinculo? Trin. Excellent. Ste. Give me thy hand; I am forry, I beat thee: but, while thou liv'ft, keep a good tongue in thy head. Cal. Within this half hour will he be asleep; Wilt thou destroy him then? Ste. Ay, on my honour. Ari. This will I tell my mafter. Cal. Thou mak'ft me merry; I am full of pleasure; Let us be jocund. Will you troul the catch, You taught me but while-ere? Ste. At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any reafon: come on, Trinculo, let us fing. [Sings. Flout 'em, and skout 'em; and skout 'em, and flout 'em; thought is free. Cal. That's not the tune. [Ariel plays the Tune on a Tabor and Pipe. Ste. What is this fame? Trin. This is the tune of our catch, plaid by the picture of no-body. Ste. If thou be'ft a man, fhew thy felf in the likenefs; if thou be'ft a devil, take't as thou lift. Trin. O, forgive me my fins! Ste. He that dies, pays all debts: I defie thee. Mer cy upon us! Cal. Art thou afraid? Ste. No, monfter, not I. Cal, Be not afraid; the ifle is full of noifes, [not. Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt Sometimes a thousand twanging inftruments Will hum about mine ears, and fometimes voices; That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me fleep again; and then in dreaming, The clouds, methought, would open, and fhew riches Ready Ready to drop upon me; that when I wak'd, Ste. This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I fhall have my mufick for nothing. Cal. When Profpero is destroy'd. Ste. That shall be by and by: I remember the story. Trin. The found is going away; let's follow it, and after do our work. Ste. Lead, monfter; we'll follow. I would I could fee this taborer. He lays it on. Trin. Wilt come? I'll follow Stephano. [Exeunt. Changes to another Part of the land. Enter Alonfo, Sebaftian, Anthonio, Gonzalo, Adrian, Francifco, &c. Gon. BY'R lakin, I can go no further, Sir, My old bones ake: here's a maze trod, indeed, Through forth-rights and meanders! by your patience, Alon. Old lord, I cannot blame thee, Seb. The next advantage Will we take throughly. Ant. Let it be to night; For, now they are opprefs'd with travel, they Will not, nor cannot, ufe fuch vigilance, Seb. I fay, to night: no more. Solemn and ftrange mufick; and Profpero on the top, invifible. Enter feveral strange shapes, bringing in a banquet; and dance about it with gentle actions of falutation; and, inviting the King, &c. to eat, they depart. Alon. What harmony is this? my good friends, hark! Gon. Marvellous fweet musick! Alon. Give us kind keepers, heaven! what were these? Seb. A living drollery. Now I will believe, That there are unicorns; that, in Arabia There is one tree, the phoenix' throne; one phoenix At this hour reigning there. Ant. I'll believe both: And what does elfe want credit, come to me, And I'll be fworn 'tis true. Travellers ne'er did lie, Though fools at home condemn 'em. Gon. If in Naples I should report this now, would they believe me? (For, certes, these are people of the island) Many; nay, almost any. Pro. Honeft lord, Thou haft faid well; for fome of you there prefent Are worse than devils. Alon. I cannot too much mufe, Such fhapes, fuch gefture, and fuch found, expreffing (Although they want the use of tongue) a kind Of excellent dumb difcourfe. Pro. They've left their viands behind; for we have ftomachs. Wilt please you taste of what is here? Alon. Not I. [boys, Gon. Faith, Sir, you need not fear. When we were Who would believe, that there were mountaineers, Dew-lapt like bulls, whofe throats had hanging at 'em Wallets of flesh, or that there were fuch men, Whofe heads ftood in their breafts? which now we find, Alon. I will ftand to, and feed, Thunder and lightning. Enter Ariel like a barpy, claps his wings upon the table, and with a queint device the banquet vanishes. Ari. You are three men of fin, whom deftiny (That hath to inftrument this lower world, 4 Pro. Praife in departing.] This is a farcafm. They were praifing the mufic and attendance of this vifionary Entertainment; but their commendations were too hafty, for the Banquet was prefently fnatched from them: fo that the mufic was only a prelude to a Mockery. Profpero therefore fays, Stay your praises till you have ended your entertainment. Praife in departing. The phrafe alludes to the custom of Guefts praifing their entertainment when they rife from the Banquet. 5 Each putter out on five for one-] A Satire on the Voyagers of that time, who had just discovered a new World; and, as was natural, gave very extravagant accounts of the wonders of it. Their Ventures in thefe expeditions are alluded to in the title, given them, of putters out on five for one. And And what is in't) the never-furfeited fea Of whom your fwords are temper'd, may as well you three One down that's in my plume: my fellow-minifters You and your ways; whofe wrath to guard you from, He vanishes in thunder: then, to foft mufick, Enter the fhapes again, and dance with mops and mowes, and carrying out the table. Pro. Bravely the figure of this harpy haft thou |