GON. He 'll be hang'd yet; Though every drop of water swear against it, [A confused noise within.]-Mercy on us! We split, we split!-Farewell, my wife and children! SEB. Let's take leave of him. [Exit. [Exit. GON. Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground; long heath, brown furze, anything: The wills above be done! but I would fain die a dry death. [Exit. SCENE II.-The Island: before the Cell of Prospero. MIRA. If by your art, my dearest father, you have With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel, Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er It should the good ship so have swallow'd, and PRO. Be collected; No more amazement: tell your piteous heart, MIRA. O, woe the day! No harm. I have done nothing but in care of thee, (Of thee, my dear one! thee, my daughter!) who MIRA. More to know "T is time Did never meddle with my thoughts. PRO. I should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand, [Lays down his mantle. I have with such provision in mine art Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. Sit down; You have often MIRA. PRO. The hour 's now come; The very minute bids thee ope thine ear; Obey, and be attentive. Canst thou remember I do not think thou canst; for then thou wast not MIRA. Certainly, sir, I can. PRO. By what? by any other house, or person? Hath kept with thy remembrance. "T is far off'; MIRA. Four or five women once that tended me? PRO. Thou hadst, and more, Miranda: But how is it If thou remember'st aught ere thou cam'st here, is use of the ur, ady: without in corresponding Pur, noun is quite akespearean, & is Wow allowable. MIRA. But that I do not. PRO. Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since, Thy father was the duke of Milan, and A prince of power. MIRA. Sir, are not you my father? She said thou wast my daughter; and thy father And princess no worse issued. MIRA. O, the heavens! What foul play had we, that we came from thence? PRO. Both, both, my girl; By foul play, as thou say'st, were we heav'd thence; MIRA. O, my heart bleeds To think o' the teen that I have turn'd you to, Which is from my remembrance! Please you, farther. I PRO. My brother, and thy uncle, call'd Antonio,— pray thee mark me that a brother should Be so perfidious;-he whom, next thyself, Without a parallel: those being all my study, And to my state grew stranger, being transported, And rapt in secret studies. Dost thou attend me? PRO. Being once perfected how to grant suits, To trash for overtopping; new created The creatures that were mine, I say, or chang'd them, Of officer and office, set all hearts i' th' state And suck'd my verdure out on 't.-Thou attend'st not. PRO. I pray thee, mark me. As my trust was; which had, indeed, no limit, But what my power might else exact,—like one To credit his own lie,―he did believe He was indeed the duke; out of the substitution, With all prerogative:-Hence his ambition growing,— MIRA. Your tale, sir, would curc deafness. PRO. To have no screen between this part he play'd, And him he play'd it for, he needs will be Absolute Milan: Me, poor man! my library Was dukedom large enough; of temporal royalties He thinks me now incapable: confederates (So dry he was for sway) with the king of Naples, To give him annual tribute, do him homage; Subject his coronet to his crown, and bend The dukedom, yet unbow'd, (alas, poor Milan!) To most ignoble stooping. PRO. Mark his condition, and the event; then tell me If this might be a brother. To think but nobly of my grandmother. (Good wombs have borne bad sons. PRO. Now the condition. This king of Naples, being an enemy To me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit; Of homage, and I know not how much tribute, The gates of Milan; and, i̇' the dead of darkness, I, not rememb'ring how I cried out then, That wrings mine eyes to 't. PRO. Hear a little further, And then I 'll bring thee to the present business Which now 's upon us; without the which, this story My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not (So dear the love my people bore me); nor set A mark so bloody on the business; but With colours fairer painted their foul ends. In few, they hurried us aboard a bark; Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepar'd Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats MIRA. Was I then to you! PRO. Alack! what trouble O! a cherubim Thou wast that did preserve me! Thou didst smile, Infused with a fortitude from heaven, When I have deck'd the sea with drops full salt; Under my burthen groan'd; which rais'd in me An undergoing stomach, to bear up |