that you are enjoined to pile !

THE TEMPEST Act III

Scene 1

Mir.

To make me slave to it; and for your sake
Am I this patient log-man.

Do you love me?

Fer. O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound,
And crown what I profess with kind event,

Mir.

Pros.

If I speak true! if hollowly, invert

What best is boded me to mischief! I,
Beyond all limit of what else i' the world,
Do love, prize, honour you.

I am a fool

Fair encounter

To weep at what I am glad of.

Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace
On that which breeds between 'em!

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Wherefore weep you?

Fer.
Mir. At mine unworthiness, that dare not offer
What I desire to give; and much less take
What I shall die to want. But this is trifling;
And all the more it seeks to hide itself,
The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cun-
ning!

Fer.

Mir.

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
You may deny me; but I'll be your servant,
Whether you will or no.

And I thus humble ever.

My mistress, dearest;

My husband, then?

Fer. Ay, with a heart as willing

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

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Mir. And mine, with my heart in 't: and now farewell Till half an hour hence.

Fer.

A thousand thousand! 91 [Exeunt Fer. and Mir. severally.

Pros. So glad of this as they I cannot be,

Who are surprised withal; but my rejoicing
At nothing can be more. I'll to my book;
For yet, ere supper-time, must I perform
Much business appertaining.

Scene II.

Another part of the island.

Enter Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo.

[Exit.

Ste. Tell not me;-when the butt is out, we will drink water; not a drop before: therefore bear up, and board 'em. Servant-monster, drink to

me.

Trin. Servant-monster! the folly of this island! They say there's but five upon this isle: we are three of them; if th' other two be brained like us, the state totters.

Ste. Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee: thy eyes are almost set in thy head.

Trin. Where should they be set else? he were a brave monster indeed, if they were set in his tail.

Ste. 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-andthirty leagues off and on. By this light, thou

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shalt be my lieutenant, monster, or my stan-
dard.

Trin. Your lieutenant, if you list; he's no standard. 20
Ste. We'll not run, Monsieur Monster.

Trin. Nor go neither; but you'll lie, like dogs, and

yet say nothing neither.

Ste. Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a
good moon-calf.

Cal. How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe.
I'll not serve him, he is not valiant.

Trin. Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in
case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed
fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that 30
hath drunk so much sack as I to-day? Wilt
thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish
and half a monster?

Cal. Lo, how he mocks me! wilt thou let him, my lord?

Trin. 'Lord,' quoth he! That a monster should be
such a natural!

Cal. Lo, lo, again! bite him to death, I prithee.
Ste. Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head: if

you prove a mutineer, the next tree! The 40
poor monster 's my subject, and he shall not suf-
fer indignity.

Cal. I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleased
to hearken once again to the suit I made to
thee?

Ste. Marry, will I: kneel and repeat it; I will stand, and so shall Trinculo.

Enter Ariel, invisible.

Cal. As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant,