A noise of hunters heard. Enter diverse Spirits in shape of dogs and hounds, hunting them about, Prospero and Ariel setting them on. PROSPERO     Hey, Mountain, hey! ARIEL             Silver! There it goes, Silver! PROSPERO     Fury, Fury! There, Tyrant, there! Hark, hark! [The Spirits chase Caliban, Stephano and Trinculo off stage.] Go, charge my goblins that […]

STEPHANO    Be you quiet, monster. Mistress Line, is not this my jerkin? Now is the jerkin under the line! Now jerkin you are like to lose your hair and prove a bald jerkin. TRINCULO      Do, do. We steal by line and level, an’t like your grace. STEPHANO    I thank thee for that jest; here’s a […]

TRINCULO      [Sees the clothes.] O King Stephano! O peer! O worthy Stephano! Look what a wardrobe here is for thee! CALIBAN        Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash. TRINCULO      O ho, monster; we know what belongs to a frippery! O King Stephano! [Puts on a garment.] STEPHANO    Put off that gown, Trinculo. By […]

TRINCULO      Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool. STEPHANO    There is not only disgrace and dishonour in that, monster, but an infinite loss. TRINCULO      That’s more to me than my wetting, yet this is your harmless fairy, monster. STEPHANO    I will fetch off my bottle, though I be o’er ears for my labour. […]

Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO and TRINCULO, all wet. CALIBAN        Pray you tread softly, that the blind mole may Not hear a footfall. We are now near his cell. STEPHANO    Monster, your fairy, which you say is a harmless fairy, has done little better than played the jack with us. TRINCULO      Monster, I do smell all horse piss, […]

PROSPERO     Thy shape invisible retain thou still. The trumpery in my house: go bring it hither, For stale to catch these thieves. ARIEL                                                             I go, I go.                     Exit. PROSPERO     A devil, a born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains Humanely taken—all, all lost, quite lost! And, as with […]

ARIEL                                     Then I beat my tabor, At which like unbacked colts they pricked their ears, Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses As they smelt music; so I charmed their ears That calf-like they my lowing followed, through Toothed briars, sharp furzes, pricking gorse and thorns, Which entered their frail shins. At last I […]

Enter ARIEL. ARIEL             Thy thoughts I cleave to. What’s thy pleasure? PROSPERO     Spirit, we must prepare to meet with Caliban. ARIEL             Ay, my commander. When I presented Ceres, I thought to have told thee of it, but I feared Lest I might anger thee. PROSPERO     Say again, where didst thou leave these varlets? ARIEL             I […]

PROSPERO                             Sir, I am vexed; Bear with my weakness; my old brain is troubled. Be not disturbed with my infirmity. If you be pleased, retired into my cell And there repose. A turn or two I’ll walk To still my beating mind. FERDINAND, MIRANDA                   We wish your peace.            Exeunt. PROSPERO     Come with a thought, I […]

PROSPERO     You do look, my son, in a moved sort, As if you were dismayed. Be cheerful, sir. Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air; And – like the baseless fabric of this vision – The cloud-capped towers, the […]