While you here do snoring lie, His time doth take: If of life you keep a care, ANT. Then let us both be sudden. GON. Now, good angels, preserve the king! [They wake. ALON. Why, how now, ho! awake! Why are you drawn?1 Wherefore this ghastly looking? GON. What's the matter? SEB. Whiles we stood here securing your repose, Even now, we heard a hollow burst of bellowing Like bulls, or rather lions; did it not wake you? It struck mine ear most terribly. ALON. I heard nothing. ANT. O, 'twas a din to fright a monster's ear; To make an earthquake! sure it was the roar Of a whole herd of lions. ALON. Heard you this, Gonzalo? Mr. Henley says that "By them are meant Sebastian and Antonio. The project of Prospero, which depended upon Ariel's keeping them alive, may be seen, Act III." The song of Ariel, however, sufficiently points out which were the immediate objects of his protection. He cannot be supposed to have any reference to what happens in the last scene of the next Act. STEEVENS. 1 drawn?] Having your swords drawn. So, in Romeo and Juliet: 66 What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?" JOHNSON. GON. Upon mine honour, sir, I heard a humming, And that a strange one too, which did awake me: I shak'd you, sir, and cry'd; as mine eyes open'd, I saw their weapons drawn:-there was a noise, That's verity: 'Best stand upon our guard;" Or that we quit this place: let's draw our weapons. ALON. Lead off this ground; and let's make further search For my poor son. GON. Heavens keep him from these beasts! For he is, sure, i' the island. ALON. Lead away. ARI. Prospero my lord shall know what I have done: Aside. So, king, go safely on to seek thy son. [Exeunt. • That's verity: 'Best stand upon our guard;] The old copy reads "That's verily: 'Tis best we stand upon our guard." Mr. Pope very properly changed verily to verity: and as the verse would be too long by a foot, if the words 'tis and we were retained, I have discarded them in favour of an elliptical phrase which occurs in our ancient comedies, as well as in our author's Cymbeline, Act III. sc. iii: "'Best draw my sword;" i. e. it were best to draw it. STEEVENS. SCENE II. Another part of the Island. Enter CALIBAN, with a burden of wood. A noise of thunder heard. CAL. All the infections that the sun sucks up From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me, Sometime like apes, that moe3 and chatter at me, 3 that moe &c.] i. e. make mouths. So, in the old version of the Psalms: Again, in the Mystery of Candlemas-Day, 1512: "And make them to lye and mowe like an ape." Again, in Sidney's Arcadia, Book III: "Ape great thing gave, though he did mowing stand, "The instrument of instruments, the hand." STEEVENS. So, in Nashe's Apologie of Pierce Penniless, 1593: "—found nobody at home but an ape, that sate in the porch and made mops and mows at him." MALOne. 4 • Their pricks-] i. e. prickles. STEEVENS. ——wound with adders,] Enwrapped by adders wound or twisted about me. JOHNSON. VOL. IV. G Enter TRINCULO. Here comes a spirit of his; and to torment me, TRIN. Here's neither bush nor shrub, to bear off any weather at all, and another storm brewing; I hear it sing i' the wind: yond' same black cloud, yond' huge one, looks like a foul bumbard that would shed his liquor. If it should thunder, as it did before, I know not where to hide my head: yond' same cloud cannot choose but fall by pailfuls. What have we here? a man or a fish? Dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell; a kind of, not of the 6 looks like a foul bumbard-] This term again occurs in The First Part of Henry IV: "-that swoln parcel of dropsies, that huge bumbard of sack-" And again, in Henry VIII. "And here you lie baiting of bombards, when ye should do service." By these several passages, 'tis plain, the word meant a large vessel for holding drink, as well as the piece of ordnance so called. THEOBALD. Ben Jonson, in his Masque of Augurs, confirms the conjecture of Theobald: "The poor cattle yonder are passing away the time with a cheat loaf, and a bumbard of broken beer." So, again in The Martyr'd Soldier, by Shirley, 1638: "His boots as wide as the black-jacks, "Or bumbards, toss'd by the king's guards." And it appears from a passage in Ben Jonson's Masque of Love Restor'd, that a bombard-man was one who carried about provisions. "I am to deliver into the buttery so many firkins of aurum potabile, as it delivers out bombards of bouge," &c. Again, in Decker's Match me in London, 1631: "You are ascended up to what you are, from the black-jack to the bumbard distillation." STEEVENS. Mr. Upton would read-a full bumbard. See a note on"I thank the Gods, I am foul," As you like it, Act III. sc. iii. MALONE. newest, Poor-John. A strange fish! Were I in England now, (as once I was,) and had but this fish painted,' not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver: there would this monster make a man; any strange beast there makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian." Legg'd 7—this fish painted,] To exhibit fishes, either real or imaginary, was very common about the time of our author. So, in Jasper Maine's comedy of the City Match: "Enter Bright, &c. hanging out the picture of a strange fish." This is the fifth fish now 66 "That he hath shewn thus." It appears from the books at Stationers' Hall, that in 1604 was published, "A strange reporte of a monstrous fish, that appeared in the form of a woman from her waist upward, seene in the sea." So likewise, in Churchyard's Prayse and Reporte of Maister Martyne Forboisher's Voyage to Meta Incognita, &c. bl. l. 12mo. 1578: "And marchyng backe, they found a straunge Fish dead, that had been caste from the sea on the shore, who had a boane in his head like an Unicorne, which they brought awaye and presented to our Prince, when thei came home." STEEVENS. make a man;] That is, make a man's fortune. So, 66 -we are all made men.” in A Midsummer Night's Dream: 9 Again, in Ram-alley, or Merry Tricks, 1611: 66 She's a wench "Was born to make us all." STEEVens. JOHNSON. — a dead Indian.] In a subsequent speech of Stephano, we have: "-savages and men of Inde," in Love's Labour's Lost, -a rude and savage man of Inde;" and in K. Henry VIII. the porter asks the mob, if they think "some strange Indian, &c. is come to court." Perhaps all these passages allude to the Indians brought home by Sir Martin Frobisher. Queen Elizabeth's original instructions to him (MS. now before me)" concerning his voyage to Cathaia," &c. contain the following article: "You shall not bring aboue iii or iiii persons of that countrey, the which shall be of diuers ages, and shall be taken in such sort as you may best avoyde offence of that people." In the year 1577," A description of the portrayture and shape |