The Tempest (10 page)

drowned, we will inherit here.— Here, bear my

To Caliban

bottle. Fellow Trinculo, we’ll fill him by and by again.

CALIBAN
    Farewell master: farewell, farewell!

TRINCULO
    A howling monster: a drunken monster!

CALIBAN
    No more dams I’ll make
for
¹⁷¹
fish,

               Nor fetch in
firing
¹⁷²
at requiring,

          Nor scrape
trencher
¹⁷³
, nor wash dish,

          ’Ban, ’Ban, Cacaliban

          Has a new master: get a new man.

Freedom,
high-day!
¹⁷⁶
High-day, freedom! Freedom, high-day,

freedom!

STEPHANO
    O brave monster, lead the way!

FERDINAND
    There be some
sports
are
painful
, and
their labour
¹

Sets down the log

Delight in them sets off
: some kinds of
baseness
²

Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters

Point to rich ends. This my
mean
⁴
task

Would be as heavy to me as odious, but

The mistress which I serve
quickens
⁶
what’s dead

And makes my labours pleasures: O, she is

Ten times more gentle than her father’s
crabbed
⁸
;

And he’s composed of harshness. I must remove

Some thousands of these logs and pile them up,

Upon a
sore injunction.
¹¹
My sweet mistress

Weeps when she sees me work and says such
baseness
¹²

Had never like executor. I
forget
¹³
:

But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours,

Picks up
the log

Most busy least
¹⁵
, when I do it.

MIRANDA
    Alas, now pray you,

Work not so hard. I would the lightning had

Burnt up those logs that you are
enjoined
¹⁸
to pile.

Pray, set it down and rest you: when this burns

’Twill
weep
²⁰
for having wearied you. My father

Is hard at study: pray now, rest yourself,

He’s safe for these three hours.

FERDINAND
    O most dear mistress,

The sun will set before I shall
discharge
²⁴

What I must strive to do.

MIRANDA
    If you’ll sit down,

I’ll bear your logs the while: pray give me that,

I’ll carry it to the pile.

FERDINAND
    No, precious creature,

I had rather crack my sinews, break my back,

Than you should such dishonour undergo,

While I sit lazy by.

MIRANDA
    It would
become
³³
me

As well as it does you; and I should do it

With much more ease, for my good will is to it,

And yours it is against.

PROSPERO
    Poor worm, thou art
infected.
³⁷

Aside

This
visitation
³⁸
shows it.

MIRANDA
    You look wearily.

FERDINAND
    No, noble mistress, ’tis fresh morning with me

When you are
by
⁴¹
at night. I do beseech you,

Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers,

What is your name?

MIRANDA
    Miranda.— O my father,

I have broke your
hest
⁴⁵
to say so.

FERDINAND
    Admired Miranda,

Indeed the
top
⁴⁷
of admiration, worth

What’s dearest to the world! Full many a lady

I have eyed with best regard, and many a time

Th’harmony of their tongues hath into
bondage
⁵⁰

Brought my too
diligent
⁵¹
ear. For several virtues

Have I liked several women, never any

With so full soul but some defect in her

Did quarrel with the noblest grace she
owed
⁵⁴
,

And
put it to the foil.
⁵⁵
But you, O you,

So perfect and so peerless, are created

Of every creature’s best.

MIRANDA
    I do not know

One of my sex; no woman’s face remember,

Save from my
glass
⁶⁰
, mine own: nor have I seen

More that I may call men than you, good
friend
⁶¹
,

And my dear father:
how features are abroad
⁶²
,

I am
skilless
of; but by my
modesty
⁶³
—

The jewel in my
dower
⁶⁴
— I would not wish

Any companion in the world but you:

Nor can imagination form a shape

Besides yourself to like of. But I prattle

Something too wildly, and my father’s
precepts
⁶⁸

I therein do forget.

FERDINAND
    I am in my
condition
⁷⁰

A prince, Miranda: I do think, a king —

I would not so — and would no more endure

This wooden slavery than to suffer

The
flesh-fly
blow
⁷⁴
my mouth. Hear my soul speak:

The very instant that I saw you, did

My heart fly to your service, there resides

To make me slave to it, and for your sake

Am I this patient log-man.

MIRANDA
    Do you love me?

FERDINAND
    O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound,

And crown what I profess with
kind event
⁸¹

If I speak true: if
hollowly
⁸²
, invert

What best is
boded
me to
mischief
⁸³
: I,

Beyond all limit of
what
⁸⁴
else i’th’world,

Do love, prize, honour you.

MIRANDA
    I am a fool

To weep at what I am glad of.

PROSPERO
    
Fair
⁸⁸
encounter

Aside

Of two most
rare
⁸⁹
affections! Heavens rain grace

On
that which breeds
⁹⁰
between ’em.

FERDINAND
    Wherefore weep you?

MIRANDA
    At mine unworthiness, that dare not offer

What I desire to give; and much less take

What I shall die
to want.
⁹⁴
But this is trifling,

And all the more it seeks to hide itself

The bigger bulk it shows.
Hence, bashful cunning
⁹⁶
,

And prompt me, plain and holy innocence.

I am your wife, if you will marry me:

If not, I’ll die your
maid
: to be your
fellow
⁹⁹

You may deny me, but I’ll be your servant

Whether you will or no.

FERDINAND
    My
mistress
¹⁰²
, dearest,

Kneels

And I thus humble ever.

MIRANDA
    My husband, then?

FERDINAND
    Ay, with a heart as willing

As bondage e’er of freedom
¹⁰⁶
: here’s my hand.

MIRANDA
    And mine, with my heart in’t: and now farewell

Till half an hour hence.

FERDINAND
    A
thousand
¹⁰⁹
thousand!

PROSPERO
    So glad of this as they I cannot be,

Who are
surprised
withal
: but
my rejoicing
¹¹¹

At nothing can be more. I’ll to my book,

For yet ere supper-time must I perform

Much business
appertaining.
¹¹⁴

STEPHANO
    
Tell not me
: when the butt is
out
¹
we will drink

water: not a drop before; therefore
bear up
, and
board ’em.
²

Servant-monster, drink to me.

TRINCULO
    Servant-monster? The folly of this island!—

Aside

They say there’s but five upon this isle: we are three of them:

if th’other two be
brained
⁶
like us, the state totters.

STEPHANO
    Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee: thy eyes

are almost
set
⁸
in thy head.

Caliban drinks

TRINCULO
    Where should they be set else? He were a brave

monster indeed, if they were set in his
tail.
¹⁰

STEPHANO
    My man-monster hath drowned his tongue in sack:

for my part, the sea cannot drown me: I swam, ere I could

recover
the shore,
five and thirty leagues
off and on.
¹³
By this

light, thou shalt be my lieutenant, monster, or my
standard.
¹⁴

TRINCULO
    Your lieutenant, if you
list
¹⁵
: he’s no standard.

STEPHANO
    We’ll not
run
¹⁶
, Monsieur Monster.

TRINCULO
    Nor
go
neither: but you’ll
lie
¹⁷
like dogs and yet say

nothing neither.

STEPHANO
    Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou be’st a good

moon-calf.

CALIBAN
    How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe. I’ll not

serve him: he is not
valiant.
²²

TRINCULO
    Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in
case
²³
to

justle
a constable. Why, thou
deboshed
²⁴
fish thou, was there

ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today?

Wilt thou tell a
monstrous
²⁶
lie, being but half a fish and half

a monster?

CALIBAN
    Lo, how he mocks me! Wilt thou let him, my lord?

TRINCULO
    ‘Lord’, quoth he! That a monster should be such a

natural!
³⁰

CALIBAN
    Lo, lo, again! Bite him to death, I prithee.

STEPHANO
    Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head:
if you
³²

prove a mutineer, the next tree. The poor monster’s my

subject and he shall not suffer indignity.

CALIBAN
    I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleased to

hearken once again to the suit I made to thee?

STEPHANO
    
Marry
, will I: kneel and repeat it: I will
stand
³⁷
, and so

shall Trinculo.

CALIBAN
    As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a

sorcerer, that by his
cunning
⁴⁰
hath cheated me of the island.

ARIEL
    Thou liest.

CALIBAN
    Thou liest, thou

To Trinculo

jesting monkey, thou: I would my valiant master would

destroy thee. I do not lie.

STEPHANO
    Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in’s
tale
⁴⁵
, by

this hand, I will
supplant
⁴⁶
some of your teeth.

TRINCULO
    Why, I said nothing.

STEPHANO
    
Mum
⁴⁸
then, and no more.— Proceed.

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
⁵²
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?
⁵⁵

Canst thou bring me to the
party?
⁵⁶

CALIBAN
    Yea, yea, my lord: I’ll
yield him thee
⁵⁷
asleep,

Where thou mayst knock a nail into his head.

ARIEL
    Thou liest, thou canst not.