PERSONS REPRESENTED ALONSO: KING OF NAPLES. SEBASTIAN: HIS BROTHER. PROSPERO: THE RIGHT DUKE OF MILAN. ANTONIO: HIS BROTHER, THE USURPING DUKE OF MILAN. FERDINAND: SON TO THE KING OF NAPLES. GONZALO: AN HONEST OLD COUNSELLOR OF NAPLES. CALIBAN: A SAVAGE AND DEFORMED SLAVE. TRINCULO: A JESTER. STEPHANO: A DRUNKEN BUTLER. MASTER OF A SHIP, BOATSWAIN, AND MARINERS. THE TEMPEST ACT I SCENE I. 4 Ship at Sea. A Storm, with Thunder and Lightning. Enter Master and Boatswain severally. MAST. Boatswain ! BOATS. Here, Master; what cheer? MAST. Good, speak to th' mariners: fall to't yarely,1 or we run ourselves a-ground; bestir, bestir. Enter Mariners. [exit. BOATS. Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to th' Master's whistle. [Exeunt Mariners.]-Blow till thou burst thy wind, if room enough! BOATS. I pray now, keep below. ANT. Where is the Master, boson? BOATS. Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: keep your cabins; you do assist the storm. GON. Nay, good, be patient. BOATS. When the sea is. Hence! What care these roarers2 for the name of King? To cabin: silence! trouble us not. 19 GON. Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard. BOATS. None that I more love than myself. You are a counsellor: if you can command these elements to silence, and work the peace of the present, we will not |