Faculty of English

Enter MIRANDA and PROSPERO  [at a distance, unseen]. MIRANDA                              Alas now, pray you Work not so hard. I would the lightning had Burnt up those logs that you are enjoined to pile! Pray set it down and rest you. When this burns, ’Twill weep for having wearied you. My father Is hard at study; pray now, […]

Enter FERDINAND, bearing a log.   FERDINAND   There be some sports are painful and their labour Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness Are nobly undergone; and most poor matters Point to rich ends. This my mean task Would be as heavy to me as odious, but The mistress which I serve quickens what’s […]

STEPHANO    I prithee, now, lead the way without any more talking. Trinculo, the King and all our company else being drowned, we will inherit here. Here, bear my bottle. Fellow Trinculo, we’ll fill him by and by. CALIBAN        (Sings drunkenly.) Farewell master; farewell, farewell! TRINCULO      A howling monster, a drunken monster! CALIBAN                    No more dams […]

CALIBAN        I’ll show thee the best springs; I’ll pluck thee berries; I’ll fish for thee, and get thee wood enough. A plague upon the tyrant that I serve! I’ll bear him no more sticks but follow thee, Thou wondrous man. TRINCULO      A most ridiculous monster—to make a wonder of a poor drunkard! CALIBAN        I prithee, […]

CALIBAN        I’ll show thee every fertile inch o’th’ island, And I will kiss thy foot. I prithee, be my god. TRINCULO      By this light, a most perfidious and drunken monster; when’s god’s asleep, he’ll rob his bottle. CALIBAN        I’ll kiss thy foot. I’ll swear myself thy subject. STEPHANO    Come on, then, down and swear. TRINCULO      […]

STEPHANO    Though thou canst swim like a duck, thou art made like a goose. TRINCULO      O Stephano, hast any more of this? STEPHANO    The whole butt, man. My cellar is in a rock by th’ seaside, where my wine is hid. How now, mooncalf, how does thine ague? CALIBAN        Hast thou not dropped from heaven? […]

CALIBAN        These be fine things, an if they be not sprites; That’s a brave god and bears celestial liquor. I will kneel to him. STEPHANO    How didst thou scape? How cam’st thou hither? Swear by this bottle how thou cam’st hither. I escaped upon a butt of sack, which the sailors heaved o’erboard—by this bottle, […]

TRINCULO      Stephano? If thou be’st Stephano, touch me and speak to me, for I am Trinculo! Be not afeard – thy good friend Trinculo. STEPHANO    If thou be’st Trinculo, come forth. I’ll pull thee by the lesser legs. If any be Trinculo’s legs, these are they. [Pulls him from under the cloak.] Thou art very […]

TRINCULO      I should know that voice. It should be – but he is drowned, and these are devils. O, defend me! STEPHANO    Four legs and two voices – a most delicate monster! His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend; his backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract. If […]

CALIBAN        Do not torment me, prithee. I’ll bring my wood home faster. STEPHANO    He’s in his fit now and does not talk after the wisest. He shall taste of my bottle; if he have never drunk wine afore, it will go near to remove his fit. If I can recover him and keep him tame, […]