CALIBAN        Do not torment me! O! STEPHANO    What’s the matter? Have we devils here? Do you put tricks upon’s with savages and men of Ind? Ha! I have not ’scaped drowning to be afeard now of your four legs; for it hath been said, ‘As proper a man as ever went on four legs cannot […]

Enter STEPHANO singing. STEPHANO                            I shall no more to sea, to sea, Here shall I die ashore. This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man’s funeral. Well, here’s my comfort.                   Drinks [and then] sings. The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I; The gunner and his mate, Loved Mall, Meg, and Marian, and […]

TRINCULO      Legged like a man and his fins like arms! Warm, o’my troth! I do now let loose my opinion, hold it no longer: this is no fish, but an islander that hath lately suffered by a thunderbolt. Alas, the storm is come again. My best way is to creep under his gaberdine; there is […]

TRINCULO      Here’s neither bush nor shrub to bear off any weather at all, and another storm brewing; I hear it sing i’th’ wind. Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. If it should thunder as it did before, I know not where to hide my […]

CALIBAN        All the infections that the sun sucks up From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him By inchmeal a disease! His spirits hear me, And yet I needs must curse. But they’ll nor pinch, Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i’th’ mire, Nor lead me, like a firebrand in the dark, Out […]

SEBASTIAN    Whiles we stood here securing your repose, Even now we heard a hollow burst of bellowing, Like bulls, or rather lions. Did’t not wake you? It struck mine ear most terribly. ALONSO                                                         I heard nothing. ANTONIO       O, ’twas a din to fright a monster’s ear— To make an earthquake! Sure it was the roar […]

Enter ARIEL with music and song. ARIEL             My master through his art foresees the danger That you, his friend, are in, and sends me forth (For else his project dies) to keep them living. Sings in Gonzalo’s ear. While you here do snoring lie, Open-eyed conspiracy His time doth take. If of life you keep a […]

ANTONIO                               Here lies your brother, No better than the earth he lies upon. If he were that which now he’s like (that’s dead) Whom I with this obedient steel—three inches of it— Can lay to bed forever (whiles you, doing thus, To the perpetual wink for aye might put This ancient morsel, this Sir Prudence, […]

ANTONIO                   And how does your content Tender your own good fortune? SEBASTIAN                                        I remember You did supplant your brother Prospero. ANTONIO                                                                   True: And look how well my garments sit upon me Much feater than before. My brother’s servants Were then my fellows; now they are my men. SEBASTIAN    But for your conscience? ANTONIO       Ay, sir, […]

SEBASTIAN    What stuff is this? How say you? ’Tis true my brother’s daughter’s Queen of Tunis, So is she heir of Naples, ’twixt which regions There is some space. ANTONIO                               A space whose every cubit Seems to cry out, ‘How shall that Claribel Measure us back to Naples? Keep in Tunis, And let Sebastian wake’. […]