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Authors: William Shakespeare

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drowned, we will inherit here.— Here, bear my

To Caliban

bottle. Fellow Trinculo, we’ll fill him by and by again.

Sings drunkenly

CALIBAN
    Farewell master: farewell, farewell!

TRINCULO
    A howling monster: a drunken monster!

Sings

CALIBAN
    No more dams I’ll make
for
171
fish,

               Nor fetch in
firing
172
at requiring,

          Nor scrape
trencher
173
, nor wash dish,

          ’Ban, ’Ban, Cacaliban

          Has a new master: get a new man.

Freedom,
high-day!
176
High-day, freedom! Freedom, high-day,

freedom!

STEPHANO
    O brave monster, lead the way!

Exeunt

Act 3 Scene 1

running scene 5

Enter Ferdinand, bearing a log

FERDINAND
    There be some
sports
are
painful
, and
their labour
1

Sets down the log

Delight in them sets off
: some kinds of
baseness
2

Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters

Point to rich ends. This my
mean
4
task

Would be as heavy to me as odious, but

The mistress which I serve
quickens
6
what’s dead

And makes my labours pleasures: O, she is

Ten times more gentle than her father’s
crabbed
8
;

And he’s composed of harshness. I must remove

Some thousands of these logs and pile them up,

Upon a
sore injunction.
11
My sweet mistress

Weeps when she sees me work and says such
baseness
12

Had never like executor. I
forget
13
:

But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours,

Picks up
the log

Most busy least
15
, when I do it.

Prospero at a distance, unseen

Enter Miranda and Prospero

To Ferdinand

MIRANDA
    Alas, now pray you,

Work not so hard. I would the lightning had

Burnt up those logs that you are
enjoined
18
to pile.

Pray, set it down and rest you: when this burns

’Twill
weep
20
for having wearied you. My father

Is hard at study: pray now, rest yourself,

He’s safe for these three hours.

FERDINAND
    O most dear mistress,

The sun will set before I shall
discharge
24

What I must strive to do.

MIRANDA
    If you’ll sit down,

I’ll bear your logs the while: pray give me that,

I’ll carry it to the pile.

FERDINAND
    No, precious creature,

I had rather crack my sinews, break my back,

Than you should such dishonour undergo,

While I sit lazy by.

MIRANDA
    It would
become
33
me

As well as it does you; and I should do it

With much more ease, for my good will is to it,

And yours it is against.

PROSPERO
    Poor worm, thou art
infected.
37

Aside

This
visitation
38
shows it.

MIRANDA
    You look wearily.

FERDINAND
    No, noble mistress, ’tis fresh morning with me

When you are
by
41
at night. I do beseech you,

Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers,

What is your name?

MIRANDA
    Miranda.— O my father,

I have broke your
hest
45
to say so.

FERDINAND
    Admired Miranda,

Indeed the
top
47
of admiration, worth

What’s dearest to the world! Full many a lady

I have eyed with best regard, and many a time

Th’harmony of their tongues hath into
bondage
50

Brought my too
diligent
51
ear. For several virtues

Have I liked several women, never any

With so full soul but some defect in her

Did quarrel with the noblest grace she
owed
54
,

And
put it to the foil.
55
But you, O you,

So perfect and so peerless, are created

Of every creature’s best.

MIRANDA
    I do not know

One of my sex; no woman’s face remember,

Save from my
glass
60
, mine own: nor have I seen

More that I may call men than you, good
friend
61
,

And my dear father:
how features are abroad
62
,

I am
skilless
of; but by my
modesty
63

The jewel in my
dower
64
— I would not wish

Any companion in the world but you:

Nor can imagination form a shape

Besides yourself to like of. But I prattle

Something too wildly, and my father’s
precepts
68

I therein do forget.

FERDINAND
    I am in my
condition
70

A prince, Miranda: I do think, a king —

I would not so — and would no more endure

This wooden slavery than to suffer

The
flesh-fly
blow
74
my mouth. Hear my soul speak:

The very instant that I saw you, did

My heart fly to your service, there resides

To make me slave to it, and for your sake

Am I this patient log-man.

MIRANDA
    Do you love me?

FERDINAND
    O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound,

And crown what I profess with
kind event
81

If I speak true: if
hollowly
82
, invert

What best is
boded
me to
mischief
83
: I,

Beyond all limit of
what
84
else i’th’world,

Do love, prize, honour you.

MIRANDA
    I am a fool

To weep at what I am glad of.

PROSPERO
    
Fair
88
encounter

Aside

Of two most
rare
89
affections! Heavens rain grace

On
that which breeds
90
between ’em.

FERDINAND
    Wherefore weep you?

MIRANDA
    At mine unworthiness, that dare not offer

What I desire to give; and much less take

What I shall die
to want.
94
But this is trifling,

And all the more it seeks to hide itself

The bigger bulk it shows.
Hence, bashful cunning
96
,

And prompt me, plain and holy innocence.

I am your wife, if you will marry me:

If not, I’ll die your
maid
: to be your
fellow
99

You may deny me, but I’ll be your servant

Whether you will or no.

FERDINAND
    My
mistress
102
, dearest,

Kneels

And I thus humble ever.

MIRANDA
    My husband, then?

FERDINAND
    Ay, with a heart as willing

As bondage e’er of freedom
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: here’s my hand.

MIRANDA
    And mine, with my heart in’t: and now farewell

Till half an hour hence.

FERDINAND
    A
thousand
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thousand!

Exeunt [Ferdinand and Miranda, separately]

PROSPERO
    So glad of this as they I cannot be,

Who are
surprised
withal
: but
my rejoicing
111

At nothing can be more. I’ll to my book,

For yet ere supper-time must I perform

Much business
appertaining.
114

Exit

Act 3 Scene 2

running scene 6

Enter Caliban, Stephano and Trinculo

STEPHANO
    
Tell not me
: when the butt is
out
1
we will drink

water: not a drop before; therefore
bear up
, and
board ’em.
2

Servant-monster, drink to me.

TRINCULO
    Servant-monster? The folly of this island!—

Aside

They say there’s but five upon this isle: we are three of them:

if th’other two be
brained
6
like us, the state totters.

STEPHANO
    Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee: thy eyes

are almost
set
8
in thy head.

Caliban drinks

TRINCULO
    Where should they be set else? He were a brave

monster indeed, if they were set in his
tail.
10

STEPHANO
    My man-monster hath drowned his tongue in sack:

for my part, the sea cannot drown me: I swam, ere I could

recover
the shore,
five and thirty leagues
off and on.
13
By this

light, thou shalt be my lieutenant, monster, or my
standard.
14

TRINCULO
    Your lieutenant, if you
list
15
: he’s no standard.

STEPHANO
    We’ll not
run
16
, Monsieur Monster.

TRINCULO
    Nor
go
neither: but you’ll
lie
17
like dogs and yet say

nothing neither.

STEPHANO
    Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou be’st a good

moon-calf.

CALIBAN
    How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe. I’ll not

serve him: he is not
valiant.
22

TRINCULO
    Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in
case
23
to

justle
a constable. Why, thou
deboshed
24
fish thou, was there

ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today?

Wilt thou tell a
monstrous
26
lie, being but half a fish and half

a monster?

CALIBAN
    Lo, how he mocks me! Wilt thou let him, my lord?

TRINCULO
    ‘Lord’, quoth he! That a monster should be such a

natural!
30

CALIBAN
    Lo, lo, again! Bite him to death, I prithee.

STEPHANO
    Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head:
if you
32

prove a mutineer, the next tree. The poor monster’s my

subject and he shall not suffer indignity.

CALIBAN
    I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleased to

hearken once again to the suit I made to thee?

STEPHANO
    
Marry
, will I: kneel and repeat it: I will
stand
37
, and so

shall Trinculo.

Enter Ariel, invisible

CALIBAN
    As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a

sorcerer, that by his
cunning
40
hath cheated me of the island.

ARIEL
    Thou liest.

CALIBAN
    Thou liest, thou

To Trinculo

jesting monkey, thou: I would my valiant master would

destroy thee. I do not lie.

STEPHANO
    Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in’s
tale
45
, by

this hand, I will
supplant
46
some of your teeth.

TRINCULO
    Why, I said nothing.

STEPHANO
    
Mum
48
then, and no more.— Proceed.

To Trinculo/To Caliban

CALIBAN
    I say by sorcery he got this isle:

From me he got it. If thy greatness will

Revenge it on him — for I know thou dar’st,

But
this thing
52
dare not —

STEPHANO
    That’s most certain.

CALIBAN
    Thou shalt be lord of it, and I’ll serve thee.

STEPHANO
    How now shall this be
compassed?
55

Canst thou bring me to the
party?
56

CALIBAN
    Yea, yea, my lord: I’ll
yield him thee
57
asleep,

Where thou mayst knock a nail into his head.

ARIEL
    Thou liest, thou canst not.

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