1    By'r lakin, I can go no further, sir;
2    My old bones ache: here's a maze trod indeed
3    Through forth-rights and meanders! By your patience,
4    I needs must rest me.

5    Old lord, I cannot blame thee,
6    Who am myself attach'd with weariness,
7    To the dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
8    Even here I will put off my hope and keep it
9    No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd
10   Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks
11   Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go.

Aside to SEBASTIAN
12    I am right glad that he's so
13   out of hope.
14   Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose
15   That you resolved to effect.

Aside to ANTONIO
16    The next advantage
17   Will we take throughly.

Aside to SEBASTIAN
18    Let it be to-night;
19   For, now they are oppress'd with travel, they
20   Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance
21   As when they are fresh.

Aside to ANTONIO
22    I say, to-night: no more.

23   What harmony is this? My good friends, hark!

24   Marvellous sweet music!

25   Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these?

26   A living drollery. Now I will believe
27   That there are unicorns, that in Arabia
28   There is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one phoenix
29   At this hour reigning there.

30   I'll believe both;
31   And what does else want credit, come to me,
32   And I'll be sworn 'tis true: travellers ne'er did
33   lie,
34   Though fools at home condemn 'em.

35   If in Naples
36   I should report this now, would they believe me?
37   If I should say, I saw such islanders--
38   For, certes, these are people of the island--
39   Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet, note,
40   Their manners are more gentle-kind than of
41   Our human generation you shall find
42   Many, nay, almost any.

Aside
43    Honest lord,
44   Thou hast said well; for some of you there present
45   Are worse than devils.

46   I cannot too much muse
47   Such shapes, such gesture and such sound, expressing,
48   Although they want the use of tongue, a kind
49   Of excellent dumb discourse.

Aside
50    Praise in departing.

51   They vanish'd strangely.

52   No matter, since
53   They have left their viands behind; for we have stomachs.
54   Will't please you taste of what is here?

55   Not I.

56   Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys,
57   Who would believe that there were mountaineers
58   Dew-lapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at 'em
59   Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men
60   Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find
61   Each putter-out of five for one will bring us
62   Good warrant of.

63   I will stand to and feed,
64   Although my last: no matter, since I feel
65   The best is past. Brother, my lord the duke,
66   Stand to and do as we.

67   You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,
68   That hath to instrument this lower world
69   And what is in't, the never-surfeited sea
70   Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island
71   Where man doth not inhabit; you 'mongst men
72   Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad;
73   And even with such-like valour men hang and drown
74   Their proper selves.
ALONSO, SEBASTIAN &c. draw their swords
75   You fools! I and my fellows
76   Are ministers of Fate: the elements,
77   Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well
78   Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs
79   Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish
80   One dowle that's in my plume: my fellow-ministers
81   Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,
82   Your swords are now too massy for your strengths
83   And will not be uplifted. But remember--
84   For that's my business to you--that you three
85   From Milan did supplant good Prospero;
86   Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it,
87   Him and his innocent child: for which foul deed
88   The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have
89   Incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
90   Against your peace. Thee of thy son, Alonso,
91   They have bereft; and do pronounce by me:
92   Lingering perdition, worse than any death
93   Can be at once, shall step by step attend
94   You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from--
95   Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls
96   Upon your heads--is nothing but heart-sorrow
97   And a clear life ensuing.

98   Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou
99   Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring:
100  Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated
101  In what thou hadst to say: so, with good life
102  And observation strange, my meaner ministers
103  Their several kinds have done. My high charms work
104  And these mine enemies are all knit up
105  In their distractions; they now are in my power;
106  And in these fits I leave them, while I visit
107  Young Ferdinand, whom they suppose is drown'd,
108  And his and mine loved darling.

109  I' the name of something holy, sir, why stand you
110  In this strange stare?

111  O, it is monstrous, monstrous:
112  Methought the billows spoke and told me of it;
113  The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder,
114  That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced
115  The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass.
116  Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded, and
117  I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded
118  And with him there lie mudded.

119  But one fiend at a time,
120  I'll fight their legions o'er.

121  I'll be thy second.

122  All three of them are desperate: their great guilt,
123  Like poison given to work a great time after,
124  Now 'gins to bite the spirits. I do beseech you
125  That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly
126  And hinder them from what this ecstasy
127  May now provoke them to.

128  Follow, I pray you.