The Tempest. ACT FIRST. Scene I. On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise of thunder and Enter a Ship-Master and a Boatswain. Mast. Boatswain! Boats. Here, master: what cheer? Mast. Good, speak to the mariners : fall to 't, yarely, or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir. [Exit. Enter Mariners. Boats. Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! Enter Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, Ferdinand, Gonzalo, Alon. Good boatswain, have care. Where's the Boats. I pray now, keep below. Ant. Where is the master, boatswain? Boats. Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: keep your cabins: you Gon. Nay, good, be patient. do assist the storm. Boats. When the sea is. Hence ! What cares these roarers for the name of king? To cabin: silence! Gon. Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard. 20 You are a counsellor; if you can command these elements to silence, and work the peace of the present, we will not hand a rope more; use your authority: if you cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so hap. Cheerly, good hearts! Out of our way, I say. [Exit. Gon. I have great comfort from this fellow : methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, 30 to his hanging: make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our own doth little advantage. If he be not born to be hanged, our case is miserable. Re-enter Boatswain. [Exeunt. [A cry Boats. Down with the topmast! yare! lower, lower! Re-enter Sebastian, Antonio, and Gonzalo. Yet again! what do you here? Shall we give Seb. A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, 40 incharitable dog! Boats. Work you, then. Ant. Hang, cur! hang, you whoreson, insolent noise maker. We are less afraid to be drowned than Gon. I'll warrant him for drowning; though the ship were no stronger than a nutshell, and as leaky Boats. Lay her a-hold, a-hold! set her two courses; Enter Mariners wet. Mariners. All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost! Gon. The king and prince at prayers! let's assist them, Seb. I'm out of patience. Ant. We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards: 50 He'll be hanged yet, 60 Though every drop of water swear against it, [A confused noise within: Mercy on us!'— 'Farewell, brother!'-'We split, we split, we split!'] Ant. Let's all sink with the king. Seb. Let's take leave of him. [Exeunt Ant. and Seb. Gon. Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground, long heath, brown Scene II. The island. Before Prospero's cell. Enter Prospero and Miranda. Mir. If by your art, my dearest father, you have Pros. Mir. Pros. Mir. With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel, Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her, It should the good ship so have swallow'd and Be collected: No more amazement: tell your piteous heart O, woe the day! No harm. I have done nothing but in care of thee, More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts. ΙΟ .20 Pros. Mir. Pros. Mir. 'Tis time I should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand, [Lays down his mantle. Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. Sit down; For thou must now know farther. You have often Begun to tell me what I am; but stopp'd, 30 The hour's now come; The very minute bids thee ope thine ear; Obey, and be attentive. Canst thou remember I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not 40 Certainly, sir, I can. Pros. By what? by any other house or person ? Mir. Of any thing the image tell me, that "Tis far off, |