ALONSO         What harmony is this? My good friends, hark! GONZALO       Marvellous sweet music! ALONSO         Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these? SEBASTIAN    A living drollery! Now I will believe That there are unicorns; that in Arabia There is one tree, the phoenix’ throne, one phoenix At this hour reigning there. ANTONIO                                           I’ll believe both; […]

ANTONIO       [aside to Sebastian] I am right glad that he’s so out of hope. Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose That you resolved t’effect. SEBASTIAN    [aside to Antonio]                   The next advantage Will we take throughly. ANTONIO                                           Let it be tonight, For now they are oppressed with travail; they Will not, nor cannot, […]

Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO and others. GONZALO       By’r lakin, I can go no further, sir; My old bones aches. Here’s a maze trod, indeed, Through forthrights and meanders! By your patience, I needs must rest me. ALONSO                                             Old lord, I cannot blame thee, Who am myself attached with weariness To th’ dulling of […]

STEPHANO    This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing. CALIBAN        When Prospero is destroyed. STEPHANO    That shall be by and by. I remember the story. TRINCULO      The sound is going away. Let’s follow it, and after do our work. STEPHANO    Lead, monster, we’ll follow. I would I […]

CALIBAN        Art thou afeard? STEPHANO    No, monster, not I. CALIBAN        Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices, That if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep […]

CALIBAN        Within this half hour will he be asleep. Wilt thou destroy him then? STEPHANO                                                    Ay, on my honour. ARIEL             [aside] This will I tell my master. CALIBAN        Thou mak’st me merry; I am full of pleasure. Let us be jocund. Will you troll the catch You taught me but whilere? STEPHANO    At thy request, […]

CALIBAN        And that most deeply to consider is The beauty of his daughter; he himself Calls her a nonpareil. I never saw a woman But only Sycorax my dam, and she; But she as far surpasseth Sycorax As great’st does least. STEPHANO                                        Is it so brave a lass? CALIBAN        Ay, lord, she will become thy […]

CALIBAN        Why, as I told thee, ’tis a custom with him I’th’afternoon to sleep. There thou mayst brain him, Having first seized his books, or with a log Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, Or cut his wezand with thy knife. Remember First to possess his books, for without them He’s but […]

STEPHANO    Trinculo, run into no further danger. Interrupt the monster one word further, and by this hand I’ll turn my mercy out o’doors and make a stockfish of thee. TRINCULO      Why, what did I? I did nothing. I’ll go farther off. STEPHANO    Didst thou not say he lied? ARIEL             [in Trinculo’s voice] Thou liest. STEPHANO    […]

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 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? Canst thou […]