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What I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps,
Fill all thy bones with achès; make thee roar,
That beasts shall tremble at thy din.

Cali.

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No, 'pray thee!

I must obey his art is of such power, (Aside.)
It would control my dam's god, Setebos,

And make a vassal of him.

Pro.

So, slave; hence!

[Exit Caliban.

Re-enter ARIEL, invisible, playing and singing; FERDINAND

following him.

ARIEL'S SONG.

Come unto these yellow sands,

And then take hands;

Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd

(The wild waves whist)

Foot it featly here and there;

And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.
Hark, hark!

Burthen. Bowgh, wowgh. (dispersedly)

The watch-dogs bark:

Bur. Bowgh, wowgh.

Hark, hark! I hear

The strain of strutting chanticlere

Cry, Cock-a-doodle-doo.

Fer. Where should this music be? i' the air, or the earth?

It sounds no more;-and sure it waits upon

Some god of the island. Sitting on a bank,
Weeping again the king my father's wreck,
This music crept by me upon the waters;
Allaying both their fury, and my passion,
With its sweet air; thence I have follow'd it,
Or it hath drawn me rather.-But 'tis gone :-
No, it begins again.

ARIEL sings.

Full fathom five thy father lies ;

Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;

Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into some rich thing and strange.

Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell ;

Hark! now I hear them,-ding, dong, bell.

(Burthen, Ding-dong.)

Fer. The ditty does remember my drowned father,
This is no mortal business, nor no sound
That the earth owes ;-I hear it now above me.
Pro. The fringed curtains of thine eye advance,1
And say, what thou seest yond!

Mira.

What is 't? a spirit? Lord, how it looks about! Believe, me, sir,

It carries a brave form :—but 'tis a spirit.

Pro. No, wench; it eats and sleeps, and hath such senses As we have,-such. This gallant which thou seest,

Was in the wreck; and but he's something stain'd

With grief, that's beauty's canker, thou might'st call him A goodly person: he hath lost his fellows,

And strays about to find them.

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As my soul prompts it :-Spirit, fine spirit! I'll free thee Within two days for this.

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On whom these airs attend !-Vouchsafe, my prayer
May know if you remain upon this island;
And that you will some good instructions give,
How I may bear me here. My prime request,

Which I do last pronounce, is, O you wonder!
If you be maid or no?

Mira.

But, certainly a maid.

Fer

No wonder, sir;

My language! heavens!

I am the best of them that speak this speech,
Were I but where 'tis spoken.

Pro.
How! the best?
What wert thou, if the King of Naples heard thee?
Fer. A simple thing, as I am now, that wonders
To hear thee speak of Naples; he does hear me;
And, that he does, I weep; myself am Naples ;2
Who with mine eyes, ne'er since at ebb, beheld
The king my father wreck'd.

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Fer. Yes, faith, and all his lords; the Duke of Milan, And his brave son, being twain.

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And his more braver daughter, could control thee,
If now 'twere fit to do 't.-At the first sight
They have chang'd eyes!-Delicate Ariel (aside),
I'll set thee free for this!

1 The fringed curtains of thine eye advance.

Why Shakspeare should have condescended to the elaborate nothingness, not to say nonsense of this metaphor (for what is meant by advancing "curtains?") I cannot conceive; that is to say, if he did condescend; for it looks very like the interpolation of some pompous, declamatory player. Pope has put it into his treatise on the Bathos.

2" Myself am Naples."-This is a very summary and kingly style. Shakspeare is fond of it. "How, now, France?" says King John to King Philip, "I'm dying, Egypt!" says Antony to Cleopatra.

MACBETH AND THE WITCHES.

This scene fortunately comprises a summary of the whole subsequent history of Macbeth.

A dark Cave. In the middle, a Caldron boiling. Thunder.
Enter three Witches.

1st Wi. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd,

1st Wi.

2nd Wi. Thrice and once the hedge-pig whin'd,
3rd Wi. Harper cries :-'Tis time, 'tis time.
Round about the caldron go;
In the poison'd entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has, thirty-one,
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmèd pot!
Double, double, toil and trouble ;
Fire, burn; and, caldron, bubble.
2nd Wi. Fillet of a fenny snake,

All

In the caldron boil and bake :

Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble;
Like a hell-broth, boil and bubble.

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All.

Witches' mummy; maw, and gulf,
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark;
Root of hemlock, digg'd i' the dark :
Liver of blaspheming Jew;
Gall of goat, and slips of yew,
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse;
Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips;
Finger of birth-strangled babe,
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab;

Make the gruel thick and slab;
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingredients of our caldron.
Double, double, toil and trouble,
Fire, burn; and, caldron, bubble.

2nd Wi. Cool it with a baboon's blood.

Enter HECATE and the three other WITCHES
Hec. O, well done! I commend your pains;

And every one shall share i' the gains,

And now about the caldron sing,
Like elves and fairies in a ring,
Enchanting all that you put in.

(Music and a Song, Black Spirits, &c.)

2nd Wi. By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes :— Open, locks, whoever knocks.

Enter MACBETH.

Mac. How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags, What is 't you do?

All.

A deed without a name.

Mac. I conjure you, by that which you profess

(Howe'er you come to know it), answer me:

Though you untie the winds, and let them fight

Against the churches: though the yesty waves

Confound and swallow navigation up;

Though bladed corn be lodg'd, and trees blown down;
Though castles topple on their warders' heads;

Though palaces and pyramids do slope

Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure
Of nature's germins tumble all together,
Even till destruction sicken, answer me

To what I ask you.

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1st Wi. Say, if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths,

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Thunder. An Apparition of an armed Head rises.
Mac. Tell me, thou unknown power,-
1st Wi.

He knows thy thought;

Hear his speech, but say thou naught.
App. Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff;
Beware the Thane of Fife.-Dismiss me ;-Enough.

(Descends.)

Mac. Whate'er thou art, for thy good caution thanks;
Thou hast harp'd my fear aright:-But one word more ;—
1st Wi. He will not be commanded. Here's another,
More potent than the first.

Thunder. An Apparition of a bloody Child rises.3
App. Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!-
Mac.

Had I three ears, I'd hear thee

App. Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born

Shall harm Macbeth.

Mac. Then live, Macduff: what need I fear of thee?

But yet I'll make assurance doubly sure,

And take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live;

That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies,

And sleep in spite of thunder.—What is this?

Thunder. An Apparition of a Child crowned, with a tree in his hand,

rises.

That rises like the issue of a king;

And wears upon his baby-brow the round

And top of sovereignty!

All.

Listen, but speak not to 't.

App. Be lion-mettled, proud; and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are; Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be, until

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