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Act 1, Scene 1
A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard Loud noises of a storm with thunder and lightning.
Enter a MASTER and a BOATSWAIN A ship’s MASTER and BOATSWAIN enter.
MASTER MASTER
Boatswain! Boatswain!
BOATSWAIN BOATSWAIN
Here, master. What cheer? I’m here, sir. How can I help you?
MASTER MASTER
Good, speak to th' mariners. Fall to ’t yarely, or we run My good boy, give the other sailors a pep talk—and
ourselves aground. Bestir, bestir. do it fast, before we’re shipwrecked. Hurry, hurry!
Exit MASTER The MASTER exits.
Enter MARINERS SAILORS enter.
BOATSWAIN BOATSWAIN
Heigh, my hearts! Cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! Yare! Come on, men! That’s the way to do it! Quickly!
5 Yare! Quickly! Take in the upper sail. Listen to the
Take in the topsail.—Tend to th' master’s whistle.—Blow, master’s orders. —Blow your heart out, storm! So
till thou burst thy wind, if room enough! long as we have enough room to avoid running
aground!
Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO,FERDINAND, ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO,FERDINAND,
GONZALO, and others GONZALO, and others enter.
ALONSO ALONSO
Good Boatswain, have care. Where’s the Master? Be careful, good Boatswain! Where’s the Master?
Play the men. Make these men work.
BOATSWAIN BOATSWAIN
I pray now, keep below. Please stay below deck, sir.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
Where is the Master, Boatswain? Where’s the Master, Boatswain?
Act 1, Scene 1, Page 2

BOATSWAIN BOATSWAIN
10 Do you not hear him? You mar our labor. Keep your He’s busy, can’t you hear him giving orders?
cabins. You’re getting in the way of our work. Stay in your
You do assist the storm. cabins. You’re helping the storm, not us.
GONZALO GONZALO
Nay, good, be patient. Don’t get wound up, my good man.
BOATSWAIN BOATSWAIN
When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers I’m only wound up because the sea’s wound up.
for the name of king? To cabin, silence! Trouble Now get out of here! Do you think these waves
us not. care anything about kings and officials? Go to
your cabins and be quiet! Don’t bother us up
here.
GONZALO GONZALO
Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard. Just remember who you’ve got on board with you,
good man.
BOATSWAIN BOATSWAIN
15 None that I more love than myself. You are a Nobody I care about more than myself. You’re a
councilor. If you can command these elements to king’s advisor. If you can order the storm to calm
silence and work the peace of the present, we will not down, we can all put down our ropes and rest. Go
hand a rope more. Use your authority. If you cannot, ahead, use your authority. If you can’t do it, be
give thanks you have lived so long and make yourself grateful you’ve lived this long and go wait to die in
ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it
your cabin, if it comes to that.—Harder, men!—
so hap.—Cheerly, good hearts!—Out of our way, I
Now get out of our way, I’m telling you.
say.
Exit BOATSWAIN The BOATSWAIN exits.
GONZALO GONZALO
I have great comfort from this fellow. Methinks he I feel a lot better after talking to this guy. He
hath no drowning mark upon him. His complexion is doesn’t look like a person who would drown—he
perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, to his looks like he was born to be hanged. I hope he
hanging. Make the rope of his destiny our cable, for lives long enough to be hanged. The rope that
our own doth little advantage. If he be not born to be hangs him will do more good than all the ropes
hanged, our case is miserable. on this ship, since it’ll guarantee he stays alive
through this storm. But if he’s not destined to die
by hanging, then our chances don’t look too
good.
Exeunt GONZALO and courtiers GONZALO exits with the other men of court.

Enter BOATSWAIN The BOATSWAIN enters.
BOATSWAIN BOATSWAIN
Down with the topmast! Yare, lower, lower! Bring her Bring down that top sail! Fast! Lower, lower! Let
to try wi' th' main course. the ship sail close to the wind.
A cry within A shout offstage.
A plague upon this howling! They are louder than
Damn those men shouting down there! They’re
the weather or our office.
louder than the storm or us sailors.
Enter SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, and GONZALO SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, and GONZALO enter.
Yet again? What do you here? Shall we give o'er and
Oh, not you again. What do you want? Should we
20 drown?
all give up and drown? Do you want to sink?
Have you a mind to sink?
SEBASTIAN
SEBASTIAN
A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous,
Oh, go to hell, you loud-mouthed bastard!
incharitable dog!
BOATSWAIN
BOATSWAIN
Work you, then.
Well, get to work, then.
ANTONIO
ANTONIO
Hang, cur! Hang, you whoreson insolent noisemaker!
Just die, you lowlife! Go ahead and die, you
We are less afraid to be drowned than thou art.
nasty, rude bastard!You’re more scared of
drowning than we are.
GONZALO
GONZALO
I’ll warrant him for drowning though the ship were no
Yes, I guarantee he won’t drown—even if this
stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an
ship were as fragile as an eggshell and as leaky
unstanched wench.
as a menstruating woman.
BOATSWAIN
BOATSWAIN
25 Lay her a-hold, a-hold! Set her two courses off to sea
Turn the ship to the wind! Set the sails and let her
again.
go out to sea again!
Lay her off!
Enter MARINERS, wet More SAILORS enter, wet.
MARINERS SAILORS
All lost! To prayers, to prayers, all lost! It’s no use! Pray for your lives! We’re done for!

Exit MARINERS The SAILORS exit.
BOATSWAIN BOATSWAIN
What, must our mouths be cold? What, we’re going to die?
GONZALO GONZALO
The king and prince at prayers. Let’s assist them, for The king and the prince are praying. Let’s go join
our case is as theirs. them, since whatever happens to them happens
to us too.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
30 I’m out of patience. I’m out of patience.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards. Yes, we’ve been cheated out of our lives by a
This wide-chopped rascal—would thou mightst lie bunch of drunken, incompetent sailors. This
drowning the washing of ten tides! bigmouth jerk here—(to BOATSWAIN) I hope you
drown ten times over!
GONZALO GONZALO
He’ll be hanged yet, though every drop of water He’ll still die by hanging, not drowning, even if
swear against it and gape at widest to glut him. every drop of water in the sea tries to swallow
him.
A confused noise within A confused noise offstage.
VOICES VOICES
(within) Mercy on us!—We split, we split!—Farewell, God have mercy on us!—The ship’s breaking up!
my wife and children!—Farewell, brother!—We split, —Goodbye, wife and kids!—Goodbye, brother!—
we split, we split! We’re breaking up, we’re breaking up!
ANTONIO ANTONIO
Let’s all sink wi' th' king. Let’s all sink with the king.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
35 Let’s take leave of him. Let’s say goodbye to him.
Exeunt ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN exit.

GONZALO GONZALO
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an Right now I’d give a thousand furlongs of sea for
acre of barren ground: long heath, brown furze, one little acre of dry ground: barren weed patch,
anything. The wills above be done, but I would fain anything at all. What’s destined to happen will
die a dry death. happen, but I’d give anything to be dry when I die.
Exeunt They exit.
Act 1, Scene 2
Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA PROSPERO and MIRANDA enter.
MIRANDA MIRANDA
If by your art, my dearest father, you have Dear father, if you caused this terrible storm with
Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them. your magic powers, please put an end to it. The
The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, sky’s so dark it looks like it would rain down
But that the sea, mounting to th' welkin’s cheek, boiling hot tar if the sea weren’t swelling up to the
5 Dashes the fire out. Oh, I have suffered sky to put its fire out. Oh, I suffered along with all
With those that I saw suffer. A brave vessel the men I watched suffer! A fine ship, with some
Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her good people in it, I’m sure, smashed to pieces.
Dashed all to pieces. Oh, the cry did knock Their dying shouts broke my heart! The poor
Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished. people died. If I’d been a god I would’ve let the
10 Had I been any god of power, I would
sea sink inside the earth before it had a chance to
Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere
swallow up that ship and all the people it was
It should the good ship so have swallowed and
carrying.
The fraughting souls within her.
PROSPERO
PROSPERO
Be collected.
Calm down. There’s nothing to get upset about.
No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart
No harm was done.
15 There’s no harm done.
MIRANDA
MIRANDA
Oh, woe the day!
Oh, what a horrible day!
PROSPERO
PROSPERO
No harm.
There was no harm, I’m telling you. Everything
I have done nothing but in care of thee,
I’ve done has been for you, my dear daughter.
Of thee, my dear one—thee my daughter, who
You don’t know what you are, since you don’t
Art ignorant of what thou art, naught knowing
know who I am or where I come from, or that I’m
Of whence I am, nor that I am more better
better than merely Prospero, your humble father
20 Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell
who lives in a poor little shack.
And thy no greater father.
MIRANDA
MIRANDA
More to know
It never occurred to me to imagine there was
Did never meddle with my thoughts.
anything more to know.

PROSPERO PROSPERO
'Tis time It’s time for you to know the whole story. Give me
I should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand a hand and help me off with this magic cloak.
And pluck my magic garment from me.
MIRANDA helps PROSPERO remove his mantle MIRANDA helps PROSPERO remove his cloak.
So, (to the cloak) So, lie there, my
25 Lie there, my art.—Wipe thou thine eyes. Have
magic. (toMIRANDA) Wipe your eyes. Take
comfort.
comfort. I arranged the horrible sight of this
The direful spectacle of the wrack, which touched
shipwreck, which moved you to such pity, so
The very virtue of compassion in thee,
carefully that not a single person was hurt—no,
I have with such provision in mine art
not so much as a hair on anyone’s head was
30 So safely ordered that there is no soul—
destroyed in the ship that you saw sink. Sit down.
No, not so much perdition as an hair
It’s time for you to know more. (they sit)
Betid to any creature in the vessel—
Which thou heard’st cry, which thou sawst sink. Sit
down.
For thou must now know farther.
MIRANDA
MIRANDA
You have often
You’ve often started to tell me who I am, but then
Begun to tell me what I am, but stopped
suddenly stopped, leaving me asking questions
35 And left me to a bootless inquisition,
that never get answered, telling me, “Wait. Not
Concluding, “Stay. Not yet.”
yet.”
PROSPERO
PROSPERO
The hour’s now come.
Well, the time has come. This is the moment for
The very minute bids thee ope thine ear.
you to listen hard and pay close attention. Can
Obey and be attentive. Canst thou remember
you remember the time before you came to live in
A time before we came unto this cell?
this shack? I doubt it, since you weren’t even
40 I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not
three at the time.
Out three years old.
MIRANDA MIRANDA
Certainly, sir, I can. Sure I can, father.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
By what? By any other house or person? What do you remember? A house, a person? Tell
Of anything the image tell me that me anything you remember.
Hath kept with thy remembrance.

MIRANDA MIRANDA
'Tis far off, My memory is hazy, more like a dream than a
45 And rather like a dream than an assurance recollection. Didn’t I use to have four or five
That my remembrance warrants. Had I not women taking care of me?
Four or five women once that tended me?
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Thou hadst, and more, Miranda. But how is it Indeed you did, and more besides, Miranda. But
That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else how is it possible that you still remember this,
50 In the dark backward and abysm of time? through all the darkness of the past? If you
If thou rememberest aught ere thou camest here, remember your life before you came here, you
How thou camest here thou mayst. may also remember how you got here.
MIRANDA MIRANDA
But that I do not. No, that I don’t remember.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since, Twelve years ago, Miranda, twelve years ago
Thy father was the Duke of Milan and your father was the Duke of Milan, a powerful
55 A prince of power. prince.
MIRANDA MIRANDA
Sir, are not you my father? Aren’t you my father?
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Thy mother was a piece of virtue and Your mother was extremely virtuous, and she
She said thou wast my daughter. And thy father said you were my daughter. And your father was
Was Duke of Milan, and thou his only heir Duke of Milan, and you were his heir, a princess.
And princess no worse issued.
MIRANDA MIRANDA
Oh, the heavens! Good lord! What evil things were done to us that
60 What foul play had we that we came from thence? we were driven here? Or was it a blessing that we
Or blessè was ’t we did? came here?
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Both, both, my girl. Both, both, my girl. We were pushed out of power
By foul play, as thou sayst, were we heaved thence, by evil deeds, as you call them. But we were
But blessedly holp hither. blessed in being helped toward this island.

MIRANDA MIRANDA
Oh, my heart bleeds Oh, it breaks my heart to think how painful it must
To think o' th' teen that I have turned you to, be for you to recall all this, things that I can’t
65 Which is from my remembrance! Please you, farther. remember. But please tell me more.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
My brother and thy uncle, called Antonio— My brother, your uncle Antonio—just listen to this
I pray thee, mark me (that a brother should (I still can’t believe a brother could be so
Be so perfidious!)—he whom next thyself disloyal!)—My brother whom—aside from you—I
Of all the world I loved and to him put loved more than anyone else in the world, I
70 The manage of my state, as at that time trusted to run my state, which at that time was the
Through all the signories it was the first,
strongest in the land, and Prospero the number
And Prospero the prime duke, being so reputed
one duke, famous for my dignity and my
In dignity, and for the liberal arts
education. Since I was so drawn to studying
Without a parallel. Those being all my study,
things like logic, grammar, geometry, and
75 The government I cast upon my brother
astronomy, I let my control of the government
And to my state grew stranger, being transported
slide a bit, being too wrapped up in my occult
And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle—
books. Your disloyal uncle—are you paying
Dost thou attend me?
attention?
MIRANDA
MIRANDA
Sir, most heedfully.
I’m hanging on every word.
PROSPERO
PROSPERO
Being once perfected how to grant suits,
Once Antonio got the knack of granting certain
80 How to deny them, who t' advance and who
requests, denying others, promoting some
To trash for overtopping, new created
officials and keeping down those who were
The creatures that were mine, I say—or changed
getting too ambitious, he won over the people
'em,
who used to be mine, or changed them—remade
Or else new formed 'em—having both the key
them, you might say. Since he had control over
85 Of officer and office, set all hearts i' th' state
the whole government and everyone in it, he
To what tune pleased his ear, that now he was
soon made everyone sing his own song—
The ivy which had hid my princely trunk,
whichever song he happened to like. He became
And sucked my verdure out on ’t. Thou attend’st not.
like the ivy that sticks to the side of the tree, and
sucked my vitality out of me.—You’re not paying
attention.
MIRANDA
MIRANDA
O, good sir, I do.
Oh, yes I am, father.

PROSPERO PROSPERO
I pray thee, mark me. Please listen to me carefully. As I neglected
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated practical matters, being totally dedicated to
90 To closeness and the bettering of my mind solitude and to improving my mind with subjects
With that which, but by being so retired, more valuable than most people imagine, I was
O'erprized all popular rate, in my false brother so shut away from the world that I unwittingly
Awaked an evil nature. And my trust, stirred up evil wishes in my disloyal brother. My
Like a good parent, did beget of him deep trust in him made him deeply
95 A falsehood in its contrary as great untrustworthy, arousing in him a treachery as big
As my trust was, which had indeed no limit, as my trust was—my trust which had no limit, an
A confidence sans bound. He being thus lorded, infinite confidence. With Antonio possessing
Not only with what my revenue yielded such powers and wealth, coming not only from
But what my power might else exact, like one my income but also from his ability to take
100 Who having into truth, by telling of it, whatever my authority allowed him to take,
Made such a sinner of his memory Antonio started to believe that he was the duke,
To credit his own lie—he did believe like some liar who begins to believe in his own
He was indeed the duke, out o' th' substitution lie. He put on the face of royalty, with all the
And executing th' outward face of royalty, rights that go along with it. With his ambition
105 With all prerogative. Hence his ambition growing— growing like this—do you hear what I’m saying?
Dost thou hear?
MIRANDA MIRANDA
Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. What you’re saying could cure deafness, father.
Of course I hear it.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
To have no screen between this part he played To make his political performance absolutely
And him he played it for, he needs will be perfect, he simply had to become the Duke of
Absolute Milan. Me, poor man, my library
Milan himself. My library was a large enough
110 Was dukedom large enough. Of temporal royalties
dukedom for me. So, now Antonio judges me
He thinks me now incapable, confederates—
incapable of carrying out my duties. He’s so
So dry he was for sway—wi' th' King of Naples
power-hungry that he allies himself with the King
To give him annual tribute, do him homage,
of Naples, agreeing to pay him a regular annual
Subject his coronet to his crown and bend
sum, swear subservience to him, and put the
115 The dukedom yet unbowed—alas, poor Milan!—
dukedom of Milan—never subservient to anyone
To most ignoble stooping.
before!—under the humiliating control of Naples.
MIRANDA
MIRANDA
Oh, the heavens!
Good heavens!

PROSPERO PROSPERO
Mark his condition and the event. Then tell me Think about that, and about what followed
If this might be a brother. afterward. Then tell me if Antonio can be called a
brother.
MIRANDA MIRANDA
I should sin It would be wrong for me to think poorly of my
To think but nobly of my grandmother. grandmother. Good women sometimes give birth
120 Good wombs have borne bad sons. to bad sons.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Now the condition. Now listen to the agreement they made. The
The King of Naples, being an enemy king of Naples, my arch-enemy, listens to my
To me inveterate, hearkens my brother’s suit, brother’s request, which was that the king, in
Which was that he, in lieu o' th' premises exchange for the respect and money paid to him,
Of homage and I know not how much tribute, would get rid of me and make my brother Duke
125 Should presently extirpate me and mine of Milan instead. A treacherous army was
Out of the dukedom, and confer fair Milan gathered, and one fateful night at midnight,
With all the honors on my brother. Whereon, Antonio opened the gates of Milan, and in the
A treacherous army levied, one midnight pitch black had his officers rush out me and you,
Fated to th' purpose did Antonio open my dear daughter. You were crying.
130 The gates of Milan, and, i' th' dead of
darkness, The ministers for th' purpose hurried
thence Me and thy crying self.
MIRANDA MIRANDA
Alack, for pity! How awful! I can’t remember how I cried then,
I, not remembering how I cried out then, but I’ll cry all over again. This story breaks my
Will cry it o'er again. It is a hint heart.
135 That wrings mine eyes to ’t.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Hear a little further Just listen a little more, and I’ll bring you up to
And then I’ll bring thee to the present business date about the present situation, which is the
Which now ’s upon ’s, without the which this story whole reason I’m telling you this story in the first
Were most impertinent. place.
MIRANDA MIRANDA
Wherefore did they not Why didn’t they just kill us that night?
That hour destroy us?

PROSPERO PROSPERO
Well demanded, wench. Good question, my girl. My story does raise that
140 My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not, question. The answer, my dear, is that they didn’t
So dear the love my people bore me, nor set
dare, because the people of Milan loved me too
A mark so bloody on the business, but
much. The had to disguise their bloody
With colors fairer painted their foul ends.
intentions. So, to make a long story short, they
In few, they hurried us aboard a bark,
hurried us onto a ship and carried us a number
145 Bore us some leagues to sea, where they prepared
of miles out to sea, where they prepared a rotten
A rotten carcass of a butt, not rigged,
carcass of a boat, with no sails or masts or
Nor tackle, sail, nor mast. The very rats
ropes, which even the rats had abandoned.
Instinctively had quit it. There they hoist us
They tossed us in the water to cry to the sea that
To cry to th' sea that roared to us, to sigh
roared back at us, to sigh into the winds that
150 To th' winds whose 0pity, sighing back again,
sighed right back at us in pity.
Did us but loving wrong.
MIRANDA
MIRANDA
Alack, what trouble
God, what a burden on you I must have been!
Was I then to you!
PROSPERO
PROSPERO
Oh, a cherubim
No, my dear, you were a little angel who kept me
Thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile
going. You smiled with a strength you must have
Infusèd with a fortitude from heaven,
gotten from heaven, while I cried salty tears into
155 When I have decked the sea with drops full salt,
the salty sea, and groaned at our situation. Your
Under my burthen groaned; which raised in me
smile sustained my spirits against whatever
An undergoing stomach to bear up
would come our way.
Against what should ensue.
MIRANDA
MIRANDA
How came we ashore?
How did we manage to get ashore?

PROSPERO PROSPERO
By providence divine. With God’s help. We had a little food and fresh
160 Some food we had and some fresh water that water that a nobleman from Naples, Gonzalo,
A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo, had given us out of the kindness of his heart. He
Out of his charity, who being then appointed had been chosen to carry out the plan of putting
Master of this design, did give us, with us to sea. He also gave us clothes, linen, and
Rich garments, linens, stuffs, and necessaries, other necessities that have been of great help.
165 Which since have steaded much. So, of his Knowing how much I loved my books, he gave
gentleness, me some books from my library that I value more
Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me than my dukedom.
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.
MIRANDA MIRANDA
Would I might I wish I could see that man someday!
But ever see that man!
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Now I arise. Now I’ll stand up. (he stands and puts on his
170 (stands and puts on his mantle) magic cloak) Sit still and listen to the last of our
Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow. sad sea adventures. We arrived here on this
Here in this island we arrived, and here island, where I, acting as your teacher, have
Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit given you a better education than most
Than other princesses can that have more time princesses get, princesses who have less careful
175 For vainer hours and tutors not so careful. tutors, who spend their time instead on empty
fun.
MIRANDA MIRANDA
Heavens thank you for ’t! And now, I pray you, sir— May God thank you for it. But please, father—the
For still ’tis beating in my mind—your reason question is still nagging at me—why did you
For raising this sea storm? conjure up this storm?
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Know thus far forth: You should know this: much luck is on my side,
By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune and my enemies have happened to wreck their
180 (Now my dear lady) hath mine enemies ship on this island. As I see it, my fate hangs on
Brought to this shore. And by my prescience this lucky event, and if I handle it wrong, I’ll suffer
I find my zenith doth depend upon for the rest of my life. Now, no more questions.
A most auspicious star, whose influence
If now I court not but omit, my fortunes
185 Will ever after droop. Here cease more questions.

Thou art inclined to sleep. 'Tis a good dullness,
And give it way. I know thou canst not choose. You look sleepy. It’s a nice hazy feeling, so give
in to it. I know you have no choice.
MIRANDA sleeps MIRANDA falls asleep.

Come away, servant, come. I am ready now.
Come on, servant, come. I’m ready now. Come
Approach, my Ariel, come.
here, Ariel.
Enter ARIEL ARIEL enters.
ARIEL ARIEL
190 All hail, great master! Grave sir, hail! I come Humble greetings, great master! Worthy sir,
To answer thy best pleasure, be ’t to fly, greetings! Your wish is my command, whatever
To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride you want. If you want me to fly, to swim, to jump
On the curled clouds. To thy strong bidding, task into fire, to ride the clouds in the sky, Ariel will
Ariel and all his quality. get right to the task.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Hast thou, spirit, Spirit, did you carry out the storm just as I
195 Performed to point the tempest that I bade thee? ordered?
ARIEL ARIEL
To every article. Down to the last detail. I boarded the king’s ship,
I boarded the king’s ship. Now on the beak, and in every corner of it, from the deck to the
Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin, cabins, I made everyone astonished and
I flamed amazement. Sometime I’d divide, terrified. Sometimes I appeared in many places
200 And burn in many places. On the topmast, at once. On the top sail and main mast I flamed
The yards, and bowsprit would I flame distinctly, in different spots, then I came together into a
Then meet and join. Jove’s lightning, the precursors single flame. I flashed about faster than
O' th' dreadful thunderclaps, more momentary lightning. The fire and deafening cracks seemed
And sight-outrunning were not. The fire and cracks to overwhelm even the god of the sea himself,
205 Of sulfurous roaring the most mighty Neptune making him tremble underwater.
Seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble,
Yea, his dread trident shake.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
My brave spirit! Good spirit! Who could ever be so steady and
Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil strong that a disturbance like that wouldn’t make
Would not infect his reason? him crazy?

ARIEL ARIEL
Not a soul Everyone there got a little crazy and pulled some
210 But felt a fever of the mad and played desperate stunts. Everyone except the sailors
Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners dove into the sea, leaving behind the ship that I
No Fear Shakespeare – Tempest (by -
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Plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel,
had set on fire. The king’s son, Ferdinand, with
Then all afire with me. The king’s son, Ferdinand,
his hair standing straight up—it looked like reeds,
With hair up-staring—then, like reeds, not hair—
not hair—was the first person to jump, shouting,
215 Was the first man that leaped, cried, “Hell is empty
“Hell is empty, and all the devils are here!”
And all the devils are here.”
PROSPERO
PROSPERO
Why, that’s my spirit!
Good job! But was this near the shore?
But was not this nigh shore?
ARIEL
ARIEL
Close by, my master.
Very near, my master.
PROSPERO
PROSPERO
But are they, Ariel, safe?
But are they all safe, Ariel?
ARIEL
ARIEL
Not a hair perished.
Nobody was hurt in the slightest. Even their
On their sustaining garments not a blemish,
clothes are unstained, and look fresher than
220 But fresher than before. And, as thou badest me,
before the storm. I’ve separated them into
In troops I have dispersed them 'bout the isle.
groups around the island, just as you ordered. I
The king’s son have I landed by himself,
sent the king’s son off by himself to a faraway
Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs
nook on the island, where he’s sitting now
In an odd angle of the isle, and sitting,
sighing, with his arms crossed like this. (he folds
225 His arms in this sad knot.
his arms.)
PROSPERO
PROSPERO
Of the king’s ship,
Tell me what you did with the king’s ship, the
The mariners, say how thou hast disposed,
sailors, and the other ships.
And all the rest o' th' fleet.
ARIEL
ARIEL
Safely in harbor
The king’s ship is safely in the harbor, hidden in
Is the king’s ship. In the deep nook where once
that deep cove where you once summoned me
Thou called’st me up at midnight to fetch dew
to bring back dew from the stormy Bermuda
230 From the still-vexed Bermoothes, there she’s hid.
islands.

The mariners all under hatches stowed,
Who, with a charm joined to their suffered labor, The sailors are all below deck, sleeping both
I have left asleep. And for the rest o' th' fleet, from their labor and from a magic spell I cast
Which I dispersed, they all have met again over them. As for the rest of the ships, I
235 And are upon the Mediterranean float, scattered them, and they’ve gathered again in
Bound sadly home for Naples, the Mediterranean, sailing sadly home to
Supposing that they saw the king’s ship wracked Naples, believing that they witnessed the
And his great person perish. shipwreck and death of their great king.
PROSPERO
Ariel, thy charge PROSPERO
Exactly is performed. But there’s more work. Ariel, you’ve done your work exactly as I
240 What is the time o' th' day? ordered. But there’s more work to be done.
What time is it?
ARIEL
Past the mid season. ARIEL
Past noon.
PROSPERO
At least two glasses. The time ’twixt six and now PROSPERO
Must by us both be spent most preciously. At least two hours past. We can’t waste time
between now and six o'clock.
ARIEL
Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains, ARIEL
Let me remember thee what thou hast promised, Is there more work to do? Since you’re giving me
new assignments, let me remind you what you
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245 Which is not yet performed me. promised me but haven’t come through with yet.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
How now? Moody? What? You’re in a bad mood? What could you
What is ’t thou canst demand? possibly ask for?
ARIEL ARIEL
My liberty. My freedom.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Before the time be out? No more! Before your sentence has been completed?
Don’t say anything else.
ARIEL ARIEL
I prithee, I beg you, remember the good work I’ve done for
Remember I have done thee worthy service, you, and how I’ve never lied to you, never made
Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served mistakes, and never grumbled in my work. You
250 Without or grudge or grumblings. Thou didst promise promised to take a full year off my sentence.
To bate me a full year.

PROSPERO PROSPERO
Dost thou forget Have you forgotten the torture I freed you from?
From what a torment I did free thee?
ARIEL ARIEL
No. No.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Thou dost, and think’st it much to tread the ooze You have forgotten, and you think it’s a burden
255 Of the salt deep, when I ask you to walk through the ocean, or run
To run upon the sharp wind of the north, on the north wind, or do business for me
To do me business in the veins o' th' earth underground when the earth’s frozen solid.
When it is baked with frost.
ARIEL ARIEL
I do not, sir. No, I don’t, sir.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot You lie, you nasty, ungrateful thing! Have you
260 The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy forgotten the horrid witch Sycorax, stooped over
Was grown into a hoop? Hast thou forgot her? with old age and ill will? Have you forgotten her?
ARIEL ARIEL
No, sir. No, sir.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Thou hast. Where was she born? Speak. Tell me. You have. Where was she born? Speak. Tell me.
ARIEL ARIEL
Sir, in Argier. In Algiers, sir.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Oh, was she so? I must Oh, was she now? I’ll have to tell the story again
265 Once in a month recount what thou hast been, every month, since you seem to forget it. This
Which thou forget’st. This damned witch Sycorax, damned witch Sycorax was kicked out of Algiers
For mischiefs manifold and sorceries terrible for various witching crimes too terrible for
To enter human hearing, from Argier, humans to hear about. But for one reason they
Thou know’st, was banished. For one thing she did refused to execute her. Isn’t that true?
270 They would not take her life. Is not this true?
ARIEL ARIEL
Ay, sir. Yes, sir.
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PROSPERO PROSPERO
This blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child This sunken-eyed hag was brought here
And here was left by th' sailors. Thou, my slave, pregnant and left by the sailors. You, my slave,
As thou report’st thyself, wast then her servant. were her servant at the time, as you admit
275 And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate yourself. You were too delicate to carry out her
To act her earthy and abhorred commands, horrible orders, and you refused. In a fit of rage
Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee, she locked you up in a hollow pine tree, with the
By help of her more potent ministers help of her powerful assistants, and left you there
And in her most unmitigable rage, for twelve years. During that time she died, and
280 Into a cloven pine, within which rift you were trapped, moaning and groaning as fast
Imprisoned thou didst painfully remain as the blades of a mill wheel strike the water. At
A dozen years; within which space she died that time there were no people here. This island
And left thee there, where thou didst vent thy groans was not honored with a human being—except for
As fast as mill wheels strike. Then was this island— the son that Sycorax gave birth to here, a
285 Save for the son that she did litter here, freckled baby born of an old hag.
A freckled whelp hag-born—not honored with
A human shape.
ARIEL ARIEL
Yes, Caliban, her son. Yes, Caliban, her son.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Dull thing, I say so. He, that Caliban That’s right, you stupid thing. Caliban, who now
Whom now I keep in service. Thou best know’st serves me. You know better than anyone how
290 What torment I did find thee in. Thy groans tortured you were when I found you. Your groans
Of ever angry bears. It was a torment made wolves howl, and even made bears feel
Did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts sorry for you. Nobody but the damned souls of
To lay upon the damned, which Sycorax hell deserves the spell that Sycorax put on you
Could not again undo. It was mine art, and couldn’t undo. It was my magic that saved
295 When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape you when I arrived on the island and heard you,
The pine and let thee out. making the pine tree open and let you out.
ARIEL ARIEL
I thank thee, master. Thank you, master.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
If thou more murmur’st, I will rend an oak If you complain any more, I’ll split an oak tree
And peg thee in his knotty entrails till and lock you up in it till you’ve howled for twelve
Thou hast howled away twelve winters. years.

ARIEL ARIEL
Pardon, master. Please forgive me, master. I’ll be obedient and
300 I will be correspondent to command do all my tasks without complaining.
And do my spiriting gently.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Do so, and after two days Do that, and I’ll set you free in two days.
I will discharge thee.
ARIEL ARIEL
That’s my noble master! That’s noble of you, master. What shall I do for
What shall I do? Say, what? What shall I do? you? Just tell me. What shall I do?
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Go make thyself like a nymph o' th' sea. Be subject Go disguise yourself as a sea nymph. Be
305 To no sight but thine and mine, invisible invisible to everyone except yourself and me.
To every eyeball else. Go take this shape Take this garment, put it on, and then come back
Original Modern
And hither come in ’t. Go hence with diligence. here. Hurry, go!
Exit ARIEL ARIEL exits.
(to MIRANDA)
(to MIRANDA) Wake up, my dear. Wake up.
Awake, dear heart, awake! Thou hast slept well.
You’ve slept well. Wake up.
310 Awake!
MIRANDA MIRANDA
(waking) The strangeness of your story put (waking up)Your strange story made me groggy.
Heaviness in me.
PROSPERO
PROSPERO
Shake it off. Come on.
Shake off your sleepiness. Come on. We’ll go
We’ll visit Caliban, my slave who never
visit Caliban, my slave who always talks to us so
Yields us kind answer.
nastily.
MIRANDA
MIRANDA
'Tis a villain, sir,
He’s an evil one, father. I don’t like him.
315 I do not love to look on.

PROSPERO PROSPERO
But as ’tis, But even so, we can’t do without him. He builds
We cannot miss him. He does make our fire, our fires, gets our firewood, and does all kinds of
Fetch in our wood, and serves in offices useful things for us.—Hey! Caliban! Pile of dirt!
That profit us.—What, ho! Slave! Caliban! Say something.
Thou earth, thou! Speak.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
(within) There’s wood enough within. (offstage) You’ve got enough firewood already.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
320 Come forth, I say! There’s other business for thee. Come out, I order you. There’s other work for
Come, thou tortoise! When? you to do. Come on, you turtle!
Enter ARIEL, like a water nymph ARIEL enters disguised as a water nymph.
Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel,
What a fine sight! My dear clever Ariel, listen
Hark in thine ear. (whispers to ARIEL)
carefully. (he whispers to ARIEL)
ARIEL ARIEL
My lord it shall be done. My lord, I’ll do it right away.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
(to CALIBAN) Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil (to CALIBAN) You horrible slave, with a wicked
325 himself hag for a mother and the devil himself for a
Upon thy wicked dam, come forth! father, come out!
Enter CALIBAN CALIBAN enters.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed I hope you both get drenched with a dew as evil
With raven’s feather from unwholesome fen as what my mother used to collect with a crow’s
Drop on you both! A southwest blow on ye feather from the poison swamps. May a hot
And blister you all o'er! southwest wind blow on you and cover you with
blisters all over.

PROSPERO PROSPERO
330 For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, I’ll give you cramps for saying that—horrible
Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins pains in your sides that will keep you from
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Shall, forth at vast of night that they may work,
breathing. I’ll send goblins out at night to work
All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched
their nasty deeds on you. You’ll be pricked all
As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging
over, and it’ll sting like bees.
335 Than bees that made 'em.
CALIBAN
CALIBAN
I must eat my dinner.
I have to eat my dinner now. This island belongs
This island’s mine, by Sycorax my mother,
to me because Sycorax, my mother, left it to me.
Which thou takest from me. When thou camest first,
But you’ve taken it from me. When you first got
Thou strok’st me and made much of me, wouldst
here, you petted me and took care of me, you
give me
would give me water with berries in it, and you
340 Water with berries in ’t, and teach me how
taught me the names for the sun and the moon,
To name the bigger light, and how the less,
the big light and the smaller light that burn in
That burn by day and night. And then I loved thee
daytime and nighttime. I loved you back then. I
And showed thee all the qualities o' th' isle,
showed you all the features of the island, the
The fresh springs, brine pits, barren place and fertile.
freshwater springs, the saltwater pits, the barren
345 Cursed be I that did so! All the charms
places and the fertile ones. I curse myself for
Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!
doing that! I wish I could use all the magic spells
For I am all the subjects that you have,
of Sycorax against you and plague you with
Which first was mine own king. And here you sty me
toads, beetles, and bats. I’m the only subject you
In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me
have in your kingdom, and you were my first
The rest o' th' island.
king, and you pen me up in this cave and don’t
let me go anywhere else on the island.
PROSPERO
PROSPERO
Thou most lying slave,
You liar, you respond better to the whip than to
350 Whom stripes may move, not kindness! I have used
kindness! I took good care of you—piece of filth
thee,
that you are—and let you stay in my own hut
Filth as thou art, with human care, and lodged thee
until you tried to rape my daughter.
In mine own cell till thou didst seek to violate
The honor of my child.
CALIBAN
CALIBAN
Oh ho, oh ho! Would ’t had been done!
Oh ho, oh ho! I wish I had! You stopped me. If
355 Thou didst prevent me. I had peopled else
you hadn’t, I would have filled this island with a
This isle with Calibans.
race of Calibans.

MIRANDA MIRANDA
Abhorrèd slave, You horrid slave, you can’t be trained to be good,
Which any print of goodness wilt not take, and you’re capable of anything evil! I pitied you,
Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee, worked hard to teach you to speak, and taught
Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each you some new thing practically every hour. When
360 hour you didn’t know what you were saying, and were
One thing or other. When thou didst not, savage, babbling like an animal, I helped you find words
Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like to make your point understandable. But you had
A thing most brutish, I endowed thy purposes bad blood in you, no matter how much you
With words that made them known. But thy vile race, learned, and good people couldn’t stand to be
365 Though thou didst learn, had that in ’t which good near you. So you got what you deserved, and
natures were locked up in this cave, which is more fitting
Could not abide to be with. Therefore wast thou for the likes of you than a prison would be.
Deservedly confined into this rock,
Who hadst deserved more than a prison.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
You taught me language, and my profit on ’t You taught me language, and all I can do with it
Is I know how to curse. The red plague rid you is curse. Damn you for teaching me your
370 For learning me your language! language!
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PROSPERO
PROSPERO
Hag-seed, hence!
Get out of here, you son of a bitch! Bring us
Fetch us in fuel. And be quick, thou 'rt best,
wood, and be quick about it. Are you shrugging
To answer other business. Shrug’st thou, malice?
and making faces, you evil thing? If you neglect
If thou neglect’st or dost unwillingly
my orders or do them grudgingly, I’ll double you
What I command, I’ll rack thee with old cramps,
up with pains and cramps, and make all your
375 Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar
bones ache, and make you scream so loud that
That beasts shall tremble at thy din. the wild animals will tremble when they hear you.
CALIBAN
CALIBAN
No, pray thee. No, please. (to himself) I have to obey. He’s got
(aside) I must obey. His art is of such
such strong magic powers that he could conquer
power, It would control my dam’s god,
and enslave the god, Setebos, that my mother
Setebos, And make a vassal of him.
used to worship.
PROSPERO
PROSPERO
So, slave, hence!
Go then, slave.
Exit CALIBAN CALIBAN exits.

Enter FERDINAND and ARIEL, invisible, playing FERDINAND enters with ARIEL, who is invisible
and singing and playing music and singing.
ARIEL ARIEL
380 (sings) (singing)
Come unto these yellow sands, Come onto these yellow sands,
And then take hands. And we’ll join hands,
Curtsied when you have, and kissed When you’ve curtsied and kissed
The wild waves whist. The waves into silence.
Foot it featly here and there, Prance lightly here and there,
And, sweet sprites, bear And the sweet spirits bear
The burden. Hark, hark! The burden. Listen, listen!
SPIRITS SPIRITS
(dispersedly, within) Bow-wow. (refrain of the song is heard offstage, from
different places, not in unison) Bow-wow.
ARIEL ARIEL
The watchdogs bark. The watchdogs bark.
(within) Bow-wow. SPIRITS
(offstage) Bow-wow.
ARIEL ARIEL
Hark, hark! I hear Listen, listen! I hear
385 The strain of strutting chanticleer The tune of the strutting rooster
Cry “Cock-a-diddle-dow.” Who cries cock-a-doodle-doo.
FERDINAND FERDINAND
Where should this music be? I' th' air or th' earth? Where’s that music coming from? From the
It sounds no more, and sure, it waits upon earth, or the air? It’s stopped now—it must be
Some god o' th' island. Sitting on a bank, played for some local god of the island. As I sat
390 Weeping again the king my father’s wrack, on the shore crying over my father’s shipwreck, I
This music crept by me upon the waters, heard the music creep over the wild waves,
Allaying both their fury and my passion calming their fury and soothing my own grief with
With its sweet air. Thence I have followed it, its sweet melodies. I followed it here, or I should
Or it hath drawn me rather. But ’tis gone. say it dragged me here. But now it’s stopped.
395 No, it begins again. No, there it is again.

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ARIEL ARIEL
(sings) (singing)
Full fathom five thy father lies. Your father lies five whole fathoms below,
Of his bones are coral made. His bones have turned to coral now.
Those are pearls that were his eyes. His eyes have turned to pearls.
Nothing of him that doth fade, There’s nothing left of him,
But doth suffer a sea-change He’s undergone a complete sea change
Into something rich and strange. And become something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell Sea nymphs ring his death bell every hour.
SPIRITS SPIRITS
(within) Ding-dong. (refrain, offstage)Ding-dong.
ARIEL ARIEL
Hark, now I hear them. Listen, I hear them.
SPIRITS SPIRITS
(within) Ding-dong, bell. Ding dong, bell.
FERDINAND FERDINAND
The ditty does remember my drowned father. This song’s about my dead father. It couldn’t be
400 This is no mortal business, nor no sound sung by mere mortals. I hear it now overhead.
That the earth owes. I hear it now above me.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
(to MIRANDA) The fringèd curtains of thine eye (to MIRANDA) Raise the curtains of your eyelids
advance and go take a peek at what you can see out
And say what thou seest yond. there.
MIRANDA MIRANDA
What is ’t? A spirit? What is it? A spirit? Lord, it’s glancing every
Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir, which way! How handsome it is. It must be a
405 It carries a brave form. But ’tis a spirit. spirit.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
No, wench! It eats and sleeps and hath such senses No, girl! It eats and sleeps and has the same five
As we have, such. This gallant which thou seest senses we do. The gentleman you see now was
Was in the wrack. And, but he’s something stained in the shipwreck, and if he weren’t a little spoiled
With grief that’s beauty’s canker, thou mightst call by grief, which always ruins good looks, you
410 him could call him handsome. He’s lost his comrades
A goodly person. He hath lost his fellows and is wandering around looking for them.
And strays about to find 'em.

MIRANDA MIRANDA
I might call him I could imagine he’s divine, since I never saw
A thing divine, for nothing natural anything so noble-looking on earth before.
I ever saw so noble.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
(aside) It goes on, I see, (to himself) It’s all happening according to plan,
As my soul prompts it.—Spirit, fine spirit! I’ll free thee just as my soul wanted it to
415 Within two days for this. happen. (to ARIEL)Spirit, you fine spirit, I’ll set
you free in two days for doing such a good job
here.
FERDINAND FERDINAND
(seeing MIRANDA) Most sure, the goddess (seeing MIRANDA) This must surely be the
On whom these airs attend!—Vouchsafe my prayer goddess that the music is being played for!—
May know if you remain upon this island, Please, I beg you to answer me, tell me if you
And that you will some good instruction give live on this island, and tell me how I should
Original Modern
420 How I may bear me here. My prime request,
behave here. My main question, which I save for
Which I do last pronounce, is—O you wonder!—
the last, is—Oh, you marvelous creature!—are
If you be maid or no.
you a maiden or a goddess?
MIRANDA
MIRANDA
No wonder, sir,
I’m not marvelous, sir, but I’m certainly a maiden.
But certainly a maid.
FERDINAND
FERDINAND
My language! Heavens,
She speaks my language! My God, I’m the
I am the best of them that speak this speech,
highest-ranking person who speaks this
425 Were I but where ’tis spoken.
language—if only we were back where it’s
spoken.
PROSPERO
PROSPERO
How? The best?
What’s that? The highest-ranking? What would
What wert thou if the King of Naples heard thee?
the King of Naples do if he heard you say that?
FERDINAND
FERDINAND
A single thing, as I am now, that wonders
He would just see me for what I am, a person
To hear thee speak of Naples. He does hear me,
amazed to hear you talking about Naples. He
And that he does I weep. Myself am Naples,
does hear me, and that makes me cry. I myself
430 Who with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld
am the King of Naples, since I saw with my own
The king my father wracked.
eyes—these eyes that haven’t been dry since—
my father killed in a shipwreck.
MIRANDA
MIRANDA
Alack, for mercy!
Ah, how pitiful!

FERDINAND FERDINAND
Yes, faith, and all his lords, the Duke of Milan Yes, indeed, and all the King’s men, the Duke of
And his brave son being twain. Milan and his fine son too.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
(aside) The Duke of Milan (to himself) The real Duke of Milan and his far
And his more braver daughter could control thee finer daughter could beat you in a heartbeat, if it
435 If now ’twere fit to do ’t! At the first sight were the right time. They’ve fallen in love at first
They have changed eyes.—Delicate Ariel, sight!—Wonderful Ariel, I’ll set you free for doing
I’ll set thee free for this. such good work here. (to FERDINAND) Could I
(to FERDINAND) have a word with you, sir? I’m afraid you’ve
A word, good sir. made a mistake. Just a word.
I fear you have done yourself some wrong. A word.
MIRANDA MIRANDA
440 (aside) Why speaks my father so ungently? This (to herself) Why is my father speaking to him so
Is the third man that e'er I saw, the first rudely? This is the third man I’ve ever seen in my
That e'er I sighed for. Pity move my father life, and the first one I’ve felt romantic feelings
To be inclined my way! for. I hope my father takes pity on me and treats
him well for my sake!
FERDINAND FERDINAND
(to MIRANDA) Oh, if you’re a virgin, and you haven’t given your
Oh, if a virgin, heart to another man, then I’ll make you the
445 And your affection not gone forth, I’ll make you queen of Naples.
The queen of Naples.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Soft, sir! One word more. Hang on, sir! Just a moment. (to himself)They’re
(aside) both in love. But I need to cause a little trouble
They are both in either’s powers, but this swift between them, or else they’ll never appreciate
Original Modern
business
the value of their love. (toFERDINAND) I need a
450 I must uneasy make lest too light winning
word with you, sir. I order you to listen to me.
Make the prize light.
You’re calling yourself by a name that doesn’t
(to FERDINAND)
belong to you. You’ve come onto this island as a
One word more. I charge thee
spy, to snatch it away from me—I’m the rightful
That thou attend me. Thou dost here usurp
lord of it.
The name thou owest not, and hast put thyself
455 Upon this island as a spy to win it
From me, the lord on ’t.
FERDINAND
FERDINAND
No, as I am a man!
No, I swear, that’s not true!

MIRANDA MIRANDA
There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. A man as handsome as that can’t have anything
If the ill spirit have so fair a house, evil in him. If the devil had such a beautiful house
Good things will strive to dwell with ’t. as his body, then good things would fight to live
in it.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
460 (to FERDINAND) Follow me. (to FERDINAND) Follow me. (to MIRANDA)Don’t
(to MIRANDA) Speak not you for him. He’s a traitor. defend him. He’s a
(to FERDINAND) Come, traitor. (toFERDINAND) Come on, I’ll chain your
I’ll manacle thy neck and feet together. neck and feet together, and I’ll give you sea
Seawater shalt thou drink. Thy food shall be water to drink. Your food will be slugs, dry roots,
465 The fresh-brook mussles, withered roots, and husks and acorn shells. Come on.
Wherein the acorn cradled. Follow.
FERDINAND FERDINAND
No. No, I’ll have to decline that offer—at least as long
I will resist such entertainment till as I’m stronger than you are.
Mine enemy has more power.
FERDINAND draws his sword, and is charmed from FERDINAND takes out his sword,
moving butPROSPERO casts a spell on him that freezes
him in place.
MIRANDA MIRANDA
O dear father, Oh, dear father, don’t judge him too quickly. He’s
Make not too rash a trial of him, for a good man, and brave too.
470 He’s gentle and not fearful.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
What, I say? What’s that? The daughter knows more than the
My foot my tutor?—Put thy sword up, traitor, father?—Put away your sword, traitor. You make
Who makest a show but darest not strike, thy quite a show there, but you’re too scared to
conscience strike at me, since you feel too guilty. Get out of
Is so possessed with guilt. Come from thy ward, that position, because I can disarm you with my
475 For I can here disarm thee with this stick magic wand and make your sword drop.
And make thy weapon drop.
MIRANDA MIRANDA
Beseech you, father. Please, father, I beg you.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Hence! Hang not on my garments. Let go of me! Don’t tug on my clothes.

Original Modern
MIRANDA
MIRANDA
Sir, have pity, Father, take pity on him. I’ll guarantee his
I’ll be his surety. goodness myself.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Silence! One word more Quiet! If you say one more word, I’ll punish you,
Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What, maybe even hate you. You’re defending an
An advocate for an imposter? Hush, impostor? Be quiet. You think he’s special, since
480 Thou think’st there is no more such shapes as he, you’ve only ever seen him and Caliban. Foolish
Having seen but him and Caliban. Foolish wench, girl, in the eyes of most people this man’s a
To th' most of men this is a Caliban Caliban, and compared to him, they’re angels.
And they to him are angels.
MIRANDA MIRANDA
My affections Then my love is humble. I don’t feel any urge to
Are then most humble. I have no ambition see a more handsome man than this one.
485 To see a goodlier man.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
(to FERDINAND) Come on. Obey. (to FERDINAND) Come on. Obey my orders.
Thy nerves are in their infancy again Your muscles are all limp and lifeless.
And have no vigor in them.
FERDINAND FERDINAND
So they are. That’s true, they are. My strength is all gone, as if
My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up. in a dream. The death of my father, my physical
490 My father’s loss, the weakness which I feel, weakness, the loss of all my friends, the threats
The wrack of all my friends, nor this man’s threats, of this man who’s taken me prisoner—all that
To whom I am subdued, are but light to me, would be easy for me to take, if only I could look
Might I but through my prison once a day through my prison windows once a day and see
Behold this maid. All corners else o' th' earth this girl. I don’t need any more freedom than that.
495 Let liberty make use of. Space enough A prison like that would give me enough liberty.
Have I in such a prison.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
(aside) It works! (to himself) It’s working! (to FERDINAND) Come
(to FERDINAND) Come on. on. (to himself) You’ve done well,
(aside) Thou hast done well, fine Ariel! Ariel. (toFERDINAND) Follow
(to FERDINAND) Follow me. me. (to ARIEL) Listen to what you’ll do for me
500 (to ARIEL) Hark what thou else shalt do me. next.

MIRANDA MIRANDA
(to FERDINAND) Be of comfort. (to FERDINAND) Don’t worry, my father’s kinder
My father’s of a better nature, sir, than his words just now make him sound. What
Than he appears by speech. This is unwonted he said didn’t sound like him at all.
Which now came from him.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
505 (to ARIEL) Thou shalt be free (to ARIEL) You’ll be free as a bird. But you have
As mountain winds. But then exactly do to do exactly what I order.
All points of my command.
ARIEL ARIEL
To th' syllable. Down to the last detail.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
(to FERDINAND) Come, follow. (to FERDINAND) Come, follow
510 (to MIRANDA)—Speak not for him. me. (toMIRANDA) Don’t defend him.
Exeunt They exit.
Original Modern
Act 2, Scene 1
Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO,GONZALO, ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO,A
ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others DRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others enter.
GONZALO GONZALO
(to ALONSO) (to ALONSO) Please cheer up, sir. Like all of us,
Beseech you, sir, be merry. You have cause, you have a good reason to be happy. The fact that
So have we all, of joy, for our escape we’re alive outweighs our losses. Many people
Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of woe every day feel the sadness we feel now. Every day
5 Is common. Every day some sailor’s wife, some sailor’s wife, a ship’s crew, the merchant who
The masters of some merchant, and the merchant hired the ship all experience the same loss we’ve
Have just our theme of woe. But for the miracle— undergone. But the miracle—the fact that we were
I mean our preservation—few in millions saved—only happens to a few people out of
Can speak like us. Then wisely, good sir, weigh millions. So remember that, and take comfort in it,
1 Our sorrow with our comfort. to counterbalance our sadness.
0
ALONSO ALONSO
Prithee, peace. Please say no more.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
(to ANTONIO) He receives comfort like cold porridge. (to ANTONIO) Alonso enjoys these comforting
words about as much as cold oatmeal.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
(to SEBASTIAN) The visitor will not give him o'er so. (to SEBASTIAN) But the goodwill ambassador
won’t give up that easily.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
Look he’s winding up the watch of his wit. By and by it (to ANTONIO) Look. He’s like a clock winding up to
will strike. strike the hour.
GONZALO GONZALO
(to ALONSO) Sir— (to ALONSO) Sir—
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
1 (to ANTONIO) One. Tell. (to ANTONIO) There he goes! Now we can tell
5 what time it is.
GONZALO GONZALO
When every grief is entertained that’s offered, If we let every sad thing that happens to us get us
Comes to th' entertainer— down, then we would find ourselves—

SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
A dollar. What a pain.
GONZALO GONZALO
Dolor comes to him, indeed. You have spoken truer Pain, yes indeed. We would find ourselves in
than you purposed. pain. You thought you were being funny, but you
said the truth.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
20 You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should. You’re taking it more seriously than I meant it.
GONZALO GONZALO
(to ALONSO) Therefore, my lord— (to ALONSO) Therefore, sir—
ANTONIO ANTONIO
(to SEBASTIAN) Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his (to SEBASTIAN) God, doesn’t he ever shut up?
tongue!
ALONSO ALONSO
Original Modern
(to GONZALO) I prithee, spare. (to GONZALO) Please, no more.
GONZALO GONZALO
Well, I have done. But yet— Well, I’m nearly finished. But just one last thing—
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
25 (to ANTONIO) He will be talking. (to ANTONIO) He insists on talking.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
Which, of he or Adrian, for a good wager, first begins Hey, let’s bet. Which one will start yammering
to crow? first, Gonzalo or Adrian?
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
The old cock. The old guy.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
The cockerel. I pick the younger one.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
Done. The wager? You’re on. What’s the prize?
ANTONIO ANTONIO
30 A laughter. A good laugh.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
A match! It’s a deal!
ADRIAN ADRIAN
Though this island seem to be desert— Though this island may appear desolate—
ANTONIO ANTONIO
(to SEBASTIAN) Ha, ha, ha! (to SEBASTIAN) Ha, ha, ha!

SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
So you’re paid. Fine, you win.
ADRIAN ADRIAN
35 Uninhabitable and almost inaccessible— Uninhabitable and almost inaccessible, as it
were—
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
Yet— Now he’s going to say “but”—
ADRIAN ADRIAN
Yet— But—
ANTONIO ANTONIO
He could not miss ’t. He had to say it, it was unavoidable.
ADRIAN ADRIAN
It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate The island must be mild, and have a temperate
temperance. climate.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
40 Temperance was a delicate wench. I knew Temperance—she was a fine girl.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
Ay, and a subtle, as he most learnedly delivered. Yes, and she was mild too.
ADRIAN ADRIAN
The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. There’s always a breath of fresh air here.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
As if it had lungs, and rotten ones. A breath from rotten lungs, maybe.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
Or as ’twere perfumed by a fen. Stinking like a swamp.
GONZALO GONZALO
Original Modern
45 Here is everything advantageous to life. This island contains everything beneficial to life.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
True. Save means to live. True. Everything except something to live on.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
Of that there’s none, or little. There’s little or nothing of that.
GONZALO GONZALO
How lush and lusty the grass looks! How green! Look how lush and healthy the grass is! How
green!
ANTONIO ANTONIO
The ground indeed is tawny. The ground is brown.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
50 With an eye of green in ’t. With a touch of green in it.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
He misses not much. He doesn’t miss a thing.

SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
No, he doth but mistake the truth totally. No, he just gets reality completely wrong.
GONZALO GONZALO
But the rarity of it is—which is indeed almost beyond But the really unbelievable thing is—and this is
credit— incredible—
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
55 As many vouched rarities are. As most unbelievable things are.
GONZALO GONZALO
That our garments, being, as they were, drenched in That our clothes were drenched with sea water,
the sea, hold notwithstanding their freshness and but they came out looking brand-new.
glosses, being rather new-dyed than stained with salt
water.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
If but one of his pockets could speak, would it not say Listen to him. If his clothes could talk, they’d call
he lies? him a liar.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
Ay, or very falsely pocket up his report. Or stuff what he says into their pockets.
GONZALO GONZALO
Methinks our garments are now as fresh as when we Seriously, I think our clothes are as fresh now as
put them on first in Afric, at the marriage of the king’s they were the day we put them on in Africa, when
fair daughter Claribel to the King of Tunis. we attended the marriage of the king’s daughter
Claribel to the King of Tunis.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
60 'Twas a sweet marriage, and we prosper well in our It was a lovely wedding, and we’re doing really
return. well on our trip home.
ADRIAN ADRIAN
Tunis was never graced before with such a paragon Tunis has never had such a beautiful queen.
to their queen.
GONZALO GONZALO
Not since widow Dido’s time. Not since the days of widow Dido.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
Widow! A pox o' that! How came that “widow” in? Widow? Why the hell is he calling her “widow
Widow Dido! Dido”?
Original Modern
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
What if he had said “widower Æneas” too? Good Next thing you know, he’ll be saying “widower
Lord, how you take it! Aeneas.”
ADRIAN ADRIAN
65 “Widow Dido” said you? You make me study of that. “Widow Dido,” did you say? I’m not sure about
She was of Carthage, not of Tunis. that. Dido was from Carthage, not Tunis.
GONZALO GONZALO
This Tunis, sir, was Carthage. Tunis was Carthage, sir.
ADRIAN ADRIAN
Carthage? Carthage?
GONZALO GONZALO
I assure you, Carthage. I’m telling you, it was Carthage.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
His word is more than the miraculous harp. He hath Gonzalo is a miracle-worker. If he says Carthage
raised the wall and houses too. was here, then Carthage must be here.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
70 What impossible matter will he make easy next? What miracle will he work next?
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
I think he will carry this island home in his pocket and I think he’ll carry this island home in his pocket
give it his son for an apple. and give it to his son like an apple.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
And sowing the kernels of it in the sea, bring forth And then throw the seeds in the sea, to make
more islands. more islands grow.
GONZALO GONZALO
Ay. Yes indeed.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
Why, in good time. Absolutely, yes indeed.
GONZALO GONZALO
75 (to ALONSO) Sir, we were talking that our garments (to ALONSO) Sir, we were saying that our clothes
seem now as fresh as when we were at Tunis at the seem just as fresh as they did when we attended
marriage of your daughter, who is now queen. the wedding of your daughter, who’s now queen
of Tunis.

ANTONIO ANTONIO
And the rarest that e'er came there. The most beautiful queen they ever had.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido. I beg your pardon, except for the widow Dido.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
Oh, widow Dido? Ay, widow Dido. Oh, except for the widow Dido? That’s right,
except for the widow Dido.
GONZALO GONZALO
Is not, sir, my doublet as fresh as the first day I wore Isn’t my vest just as clean and fresh as the day I
it? I mean, in a sort. put it on? In a way, I mean.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
80 That “sort” was well fished for. “In a way” is the right way to go.
GONZALO GONZALO
When I wore it at your daughter’s marriage? I mean when I wore it at your daughter’s wedding.
Original Modern
ALONSO
ALONSO
You cram these words into mine ears against
You keep cramming words into my ears that I
The stomach of my sense. Would I had never
don’t want to hear. I wish that wedding had never
Married my daughter there! For, coming thence,
happened, since I lost my son because of it, and I
85 My son is lost and, in my rate, she too,
lost my daughter too in a way, since she’s moved
Who is so far from Italy removed
so far from Milan that I’ll never see her again.—
I ne'er again shall see her.—O thou mine heir
Oh, dear son of mine and heir of Naples and
Of Naples and of Milan, what strange fish
Milan, what strange fish has made a meal of you?
Hath made his meal on thee?
FRANCISCO
FRANCISCO
Sir, he may live.
Sir, he may still be alive. I saw him swimming
90 I saw him beat the surges under him,
strongly, almost as if he was riding the waves. He
And ride upon their backs. He trod the water,
treaded water and kept his head well above the
Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted
wild waters coming at him, swimming with his
The surge most swoll'n that met him. His bold head
strong arms toward the shore, which almost
'Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oared
seemed eager to welcome him. I have no doubt
95 Himself with his good arms in lusty stroke
he got ashore alive.
To th' shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis bowed,
As stooping to relieve him. I not doubt
He came alive to land.

ALONSO ALONSO
No, no, he’s gone. No, no, he’s dead.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
Sir, you may thank yourself for this great loss, Sir, you can thank yourself for this great loss,
100 That would not bless our Europe with your daughter, because you wouldn’t bless Europe with your
But rather loose her to an African, daughter, but instead pimped her out to an
Where she at least is banished from your eye, African. At least you can be thankful that she
Who hath cause to wet the grief on ’t. won’t be around to remind you of your loss.
ALONSO ALONSO
Prithee, peace. Please be quiet.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
You were kneeled to and importuned otherwise We all begged you not to go ahead with those
105 By all of us, and the fair soul herself marriage plans, and your lovely daughter
Weighed between loathness and obedience, at struggled between disgust at marrying an African
Which end o' th' beam should bow. We have lost and the desire to obey you. Now I’m afraid we’ve
your son, lost your son forever. Our shipwreck has made
I fear, forever. Milan and Naples have more women widows in Milan and Naples than
110 More widows in them of this business' making there are survivors to comfort them. And it’s all
Than we bring men to comfort them. your fault.
The fault’s your own.
ALONSO ALONSO
So is the dearest o' th' loss. And the greatest sorrow is mine too.
GONZALO GONZALO
My lord Sebastian, My lord Sebastian, even though what you say is
The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness true, your way of saying it is tactless and comes
And time to speak it in. You rub the sore at the wrong time. You’re rubbing salt in his
115 When you should bring the plaster. wounds when you should be applying bandages.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
Very well. All right, I’ll stop.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
Original Modern
And most chirurgeonly. Like a good doctor.
GONZALO GONZALO
(to ALONSO) It is foul weather in us all, good sir, (to ALONSO) It’s bad times for all of us, sir, when
When you are cloudy. you’re feeling gloomy.

SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
Foul weather? Bad times?
ANTONIO ANTONIO
Very foul. Yes, very bad.
GONZALO GONZALO
Had I plantation of this isle, my lord— If I could colonize this island, my lord—
ANTONIO ANTONIO
120 He’d sow ’t with nettle seed. He’d cultivate weeds on it.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
Or docks, or mallows. Or thorn-bushes.
GONZALO GONZALO
And were the king on ’t, what would I do? And if I were king of it, you know what I’d do?
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
'Scape being drunk for want of wine. He wouldn’t get drunk much, since there’s no
wine here.
GONZALO GONZALO
I' th' commonwealth I would by contraries In my kingdom I’d do everything differently from
Execute all things. For no kind of traffic the way it’s usually done. I wouldn’t allow any
125 Would I admit. No name of magistrate. commerce. There’d be no officials or
Letters should not be known. Riches, poverty, administrators. There’d be no schooling or
And use of service—none. Contract, succession, literature. There’d be no riches, no poverty, and
Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard—none. no servants—none. No contracts or inheritance
No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil. laws; no division of the land into private farms,
130 No occupation. All men idle, all. no metal-working, agriculture, or vineyards.
And women too, but innocent and pure. There’d be no work. Men would have nothing to
No sovereignty— do, and women also—but they’d be innocent and
pure. There’d be no kingship—
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
Yet he would be king on ’t. He wants to be king in a place with no kingship.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the Yes, he’s getting a bit confused.
beginning.
GONZALO GONZALO
All things in common nature should produce Everything would be produced without labor, and
135 Without sweat or endeavor. Treason, felony, would be shared by all. There’d be no treason,
Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, crimes, or weapons. Nature would produce its
Would I not have. But nature should bring forth harvests in abundance, to feed my innocent
Of its own kind all foison, all abundance, people.
To feed my innocent people.

SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
140 No marrying ’mong his subjects? There’d be no marriage?
ANTONIO ANTONIO
Original Modern
None, man. All idle. Whores and knaves. No. Everyone would have nothing to do. They’d
all be whores and slackers.
GONZALO GONZALO
I would with such perfection govern, sir, I would rule so perfectly that my country would
T' excel the Golden Age. outshine the Golden Age they had in ancient
times.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
'Save his majesty! Long live his Majesty!
ANTONIO ANTONIO
Long live Gonzalo! All hail Gonzalo!
GONZALO GONZALO
145 (to ALONSO) And—do you mark me, sir? (to ALONSO) Are you listening to me, sir?
ALONSO ALONSO
Prithee, no more. Thou dost talk nothing to me. Oh, please be quiet. You’re spouting empty
words.
GONZALO GONZALO
I do well believe your highness, and did it to minister You’re absolutely right, your highness. I talked
occasion to these gentlemen, who are of such like that to give these gentlemen here a chance
sensible and nimble lungs that they always use to to have a good laugh. They love to laugh at
laugh at nothing. empty words.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
'Twas you we laughed at. It’s you we were laughing at.
GONZALO GONZALO
Who in this kind of merry fooling am nothing to you. But from your perspective I don’t matter, so I’m
So you may continue and laugh at nothing still. just an empty nobody for you. Go ahead and
laugh at my empty words some more.
ANTONIO
ANTONIO
150 What a blow was there given!
Ouch, what a comeback!
SEBASTIAN
SEBASTIAN
An it had not fallen flat-long.
He sure did. Too bad it fell flat.
GONZALO
GONZALO
You are gentlemen of brave mettle. You would lift
You’re brave gentlemen. You’d give the moon a
the moon out of her sphere if she would continue in
shove if it got stuck five weeks in its orbit.
it five weeks without changing.

Enter ARIEL invisible, playing solemn music ARIEL enters, invisible, playing solemn music.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
We would so, and then go a-batfowling. That’s right, and then after we fixed the moon,
we’d go bird-hunting.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
(to GONZALO) Nay, good my lord, be not angry. (to GONZALO) Don’t be angry with us, my lord.
GONZALO GONZALO
155 No, I warrant you. I will not adventure my discretion I’m not. I’ve got good judgment, and I know
so weakly. Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very you’ve got nothing against me. Will you laugh me
heavy? to sleep? I’m feeling very sleepy.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
Go sleep, and hear us. Go to sleep, and listen to us laughing.
All sleep except ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, Everyone sleeps except ALONSO, SEBASTIAN,
andANTONIO and ANTONIO.
Original Modern
ALONSO
ALONSO
What, all so soon asleep? I wish mine eyes
What, everybody falls asleep so fast? I wish I
Would with themselves shut up my thoughts. I find
could sleep too—it would stop me from thinking.
They are inclined to do so.
Come to think of it, I am feeling sleepy.
SEBASTIAN
SEBASTIAN
Please you, sir,
In that case you should sleep. People in grief
160 Do not omit the heavy offer of it.
need a good sleep. It doesn’t come to them
It seldom visits sorrow. When it doth, often, but when it does come they should enjoy
It is a comforter. it.
ANTONIO
ANTONIO
We two, my lord,
The two of us will guard you while you sleep, my
Will guard your person while you take your rest
lord, and keep you safe.
And watch your safety.
ALONSO
ALONSO
Thank you. Wondrous heavy.
Thank you. I’m terribly sleepy.
(falls asleep) He falls asleep.

SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
165 What a strange drowsiness possesses How strange that they all got so sleepy!
them!
ANTONIO
ANTONIO There must be something in the air here.
It is the quality o' th' climate.
SEBASTIAN
SEBASTIAN
So why aren’t our eyelids heavy? I’m not sleepy
Why at all.
Doth it not then our eyelids sink? I find not
Myself disposed to sleep.
ANTONIO
ANTONIO Me neither. I’m wide awake. They all fell asleep
Nor I. My spirits are nimble. together, as if they’d planned it. Like they’d all
They fell together all, as by consent. been struck by lightning. What might happen,
170 They dropped, as by a thunderstroke. What might, Sebastian, what might happen if—No, it’s time
Worthy Sebastian, O, what might—? No more.— for me to shut up.— But still, I think I can see in
And yet methinks I see it in thy face, your face what you ought to be. Opportunity’s
What thou shouldst be. Th' occasion speaks thee, knocking for you, and in my imagination I see a
and crown dropping onto your head.
175 My strong imagination sees a crown
Dropping upon thy head.
SEBASTIAN
SEBASTIAN
Are you dreaming or awake?
What, art thou waking?
ANTONIO
ANTONIO
Don’t you hear me speaking?
Do you not hear me speak?
SEBASTIAN
SEBASTIAN
I do, and it sounds like you’re talking in your
I do, and surely sleep. What did you say? It’s weird for you to be
It is a sleepy language, and thou speak’st dreaming with your eyes wide open—standing,
Out of thy sleep. What is it thou didst say? talking, moving, but sound asleep.
This is a strange repose, to be asleep
180 With eyes wide open, standing, speaking, moving,
And yet so fast asleep.
ANTONIO
ANTONIO
Good Sebastian, you’re the one who’s sleeping if
Noble Sebastian, you let this opportunity pass you by without
Thou let’st thy fortune sleep—die, rather—wink’st
Original Modern
Whiles thou art waking. acting on it.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
Thou dost snore distinctly. You’re snoring, but it sounds like you’re talking.
There’s meaning in thy snores. There’s meaning in your snoring.

ANTONIO ANTONIO
185 I am more serious than my custom. You I’m not kidding when I say this, I’m not joking
Must be so too if heed me, which to do around like usual. You should be serious too
Trebles thee o'er. when you listen to what I’m saying. You can
become a great man if you listen to me.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
Well, I am standing water. I’m hanging on every word you say.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
I’ll teach you how to flow. You need to do more than hang around—you
have to act. I’ll show you how.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
Do so. To ebb You need to. I’m lazy by nature.
Hereditary sloth instructs me.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
Oh, Oh, if you only knew how close to success you
190 If you but knew how you the purpose cherish are, even while you make fun of what I’m telling
Whiles thus you mock it! How, in stripping it, you! The more you joke about it, the more clearly
You more invest it! Ebbing men indeed I feel how serious it is! Lazy people end up at the
Most often do so near the bottom run bottom, and you deserve to be at the top.
By their own fear or sloth.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
Prithee, say on. Please, tell me more. There’s something in your
195 The setting of thine eye and cheek proclaim expression that tells me you have something
A matter from thee, and a birth indeed serious to say, and you’re having a lot of difficulty
Which throes thee much to yield. saying it.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
Thus, sir: This is what I’m saying. (points
Although this lord of weak remembrance—this, at GONZALO)Although this lord who has such a
Who shall be of as little memory bad memory—and who will be forgotten by the
200 When he is earthed—hath here almost persuade world when he’s dead and buried—almost
(For he’s a spirit of persuasion only, succeeded in convincing the king that his son’s
Professes to persuade) the king his son’s alive, alive, it’s impossible that he survived. It’s as far
'Tis as impossible that he’s undrowned from the truth as saying this sleeping man is
And he that sleeps here swims. swimming.

SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
I have no hope Yes, I’m sure he’s dead. I’ve got no hope that he
205 That he’s undrowned. survived.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
Oh, out of that “no hope” But in that “no hope” there are great hopes for
What great hope have you! No hope that way is you! That “no hope” means you’re on the way to
Another way so high a hope that even glory so brilliant you couldn’t even imagine it, no
Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond, matter how ambitious you were. Do you agree
But doubt discovery there. Will you grant with me that Ferdinand must have drowned?
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210 That Ferdinand is drowned?
SEBASTIAN
SEBASTIAN
He’s gone.
He’s dead.
ANTONIO
ANTONIO
Then, tell me,
So, in that case, tell me who’s next in line to
Who’s the next heir of Naples?
inherit the kingdom of Naples?
SEBASTIAN
SEBASTIAN
Claribel.
Claribel, his daughter.
ANTONIO
ANTONIO
She that is Queen of Tunis; she that dwells
The one who’s now Queen of Tunis, living at the
Ten leagues beyond man’s life; she that from Naples
edge of the world, out of reach of mail service. It
Can have no note, unless the sun were post—
takes a letter longer to reach her than it takes a
215 The man i' th' moon’s too slow—till newborn chins
baby boy to grow old enough to shave. Claribel
Be rough and razorable; she that from whom
who was the cause of our shipwreck, which a
We all were sea-swallowed, though some cast
few of us survived—she was destined to give us
again,
an opportunity that we are destined to act on.
And by that destiny to perform an act
220 Whereof what’s past is prologue, what to come
In yours and my discharge.
SEBASTIAN
SEBASTIAN
What stuff is this? How say you?
What in the world are you talking about? It’s true
'Tis true, my brother’s daughter’s Queen of Tunis,
that my brother’s daughter is Queen of Tunis,
So is she heir of Naples, ’twixt which regions
and heir of Naples. And it’s true those two places
There is some space.
are far apart.
ANTONIO
ANTONIO
A space whose every cubit
So far that every foot of distance between them
Seems to cry out, “How shall that Claribel
seems to shout, “It’s too far for Claribel to come
225 Measure us back to Naples? Keep in Tunis,
back to Naples. Let her stay in Tunis and give
Sebastian a

And let Sebastian wake.” Say this were death
That now hath seized them. Why, they were no chance to start living.” If these sleeping men
worse were dead instead of sleeping, they’d be no
Than now they are. There be that can rule Naples worse off than they are now. There are a lot of
230 As well as he that sleeps, lords that can prate men who can rule Naples just as well as this
As amply and unnecessarily sleeping guy here can. There are a lot of men
As this Gonzalo. I myself could make who babble nonsense as well as Gonzalo. I
A chough of as deep chat. Oh, that you bore could do it myself. Oh, I wish you understood
The mind that I do, what a sleep were this what I’m saying—you’d see how you’re missing
For your advancement! Do you understand me? out on a great opportunity for yourself! Do you
even get what I’m saying?
SEBASTIAN
235 Methinks I do. SEBASTIAN
I think I do.
ANTONIO
And how does your content ANTONIO
Tender your own good fortune? And does this prospect of good fortune make you
happy?
SEBASTIAN
I remember SEBASTIAN
You did supplant your brother Prospero. I remember you took the throne from your
brother Prospero.
ANTONIO
True. ANTONIO
And look how well my garments sit upon me, Yes I did, and look how good I look in my new
role—much better than before. My brother’s
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Much feater than before. My brother’s servants
servants used to be my equals. Now they work
240 Were then my fellows. Now they are my men.
for me.
SEBASTIAN
SEBASTIAN
But, for your conscience?
But what about your guilty conscience?
ANTONIO
ANTONIO
Ay, sir. Where lies that? If ’twere a kibe,
Yes. What guilty conscience? I don’t feel
'Twould put me to my slipper. But I feel not
anything. If my feet were cold, I’d put my slippers
This deity in my bosom. Twenty consciences,
on, but I don’t feel any pangs of guilt. If there
245 That stand ’twixt me and Milan, candied be they
were twenty guilty consciences between me and
And melt ere they molest! Here lies your brother,
the dukedom, they’d melt away to nothing before
No better than the earth he lies upon,
they caused me any trouble. Here’s your brother
If he were that which now he’s like—that’s dead—
sleeping, worth no more than the dirt he’s lying
Whom I, with this obedient steel, three inches of it,
on. If he were as dead as he appears to be now
250 Can lay to bed for ever; whiles you, doing thus,
—and I could quickly make him dead with this
To the perpetual wink for aye might put
sword of mine—he wouldn’t stand in our way. As
This ancient morsel, this Sir Prudence, who

Should not upbraid our course. For all the rest,
They’ll take suggestion as a cat laps milk. for the other men, we can make them believe
255 They’ll tell the clock to any business that anything we choose. They’ll set their watches to
We say befits the hour. whatever time we say.
SEBASTIAN
Thy case, dear friend, SEBASTIAN
Shall be my precedent. As thou got’st Milan, You’ll be my role model. Just as you got Milan, I’ll
I’ll come by Naples. Draw thy sword. One stroke get Naples. Take out your sword. With one cut
Shall free thee from the tribute which thou payest. you can be through paying money to Naples.
260 And I the king shall love thee. And as king I’ll love you forever.
ANTONIO
Draw together. ANTONIO
And when I rear my hand, do you the like, You take out your sword too. When I raise my
To fall it on Gonzalo. hand, you do the same, and bring it down on
Gonzalo’s head.
ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN draw their swords ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN take out their
swords.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
O, but one word. Oh, but there’s one more thing to tell you. (he
(speaks quietly to ANTONIO) speaks quietly to ANTONIO)
Enter ARIEL invisible, with music and song ARIEL enters, invisible, singing and playing
music.
ARIEL ARIEL
(to GONZALO) My master through his art foresees (to GONZALO) With his magic powers my
265 the danger master can see the dangers that you are in, my
That you, his friend, are, and sends me forth— friend. So he sent me to make sure these men
For else his project dies—to keep them living.
survive—and to guarantee his plans succeed.
(sings in GONZALO ’s ear)
(sings in GONZALO ’s ear)
While you here do snoring lie,
While you lie here snoring,
Open-eyed conspiracy
Men are plotting against you.
His time doth take.
If you want to stay alive,
If of life you keep a care,
Wake up and beware.
Shake off slumber and
Wake up, wake up!
beware. Awake, awake!
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ANTONIO ANTONIO
Then let us both be sudden. Let’s act quickly.
GONZALO GONZALO
(waking and seeing them) (waking and seeing them) God help the king!
270 Now, good angels preserve the king! Save him!
ALONSO ALONSO
(waking) Why, how now? Ho, awake! (waking up) Hey, what’s this, what’s going on?
Wake up!
All wake Everyone wakes up.
Why are you drawn? Why are your swords out? Why do you look like
Wherefore this ghastly looking? that?
GONZALO GONZALO
What’s the matter? What’s this all about?
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
Whiles we stood here securing your repose, While we were here guarding you as you slept,
275 Even now, we heard a hollow burst of bellowing we heard a loud roar that sounded like bulls, or
Like bulls, or rather lions. Did ’t not wake you? lions. Didn’t you hear it? We heard it very clearly.
It struck mine ear most terribly.
ALONSO ALONSO
I heard nothing. I didn’t hear anything.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
Oh, ’twas a din to fright a monster’s ear, Oh, it was a monstrous roar, to make the earth
To make an earthquake! Sure, it was the roar tremble! I’m sure there was a herd of lions
280 Of a whole herd of lions. nearby.
ALONSO ALONSO
Heard you this, Gonzalo? Did you hear this, Gonzalo?
GONZALO GONZALO
Upon mine honor, sir, I heard a humming, It’s true I heard a humming sound, a strange
And that a strange one too, which did awake me. one, which woke me up. I shook you and
I shaked you, sir, and cried. As mine eyes opened, shouted at you, sir. When I opened my eyes, I
I saw their weapons drawn. There was a noise, saw their swords out. There was a noise, that’s
285 That’s verily. 'Tis best we stand upon our guard, certainly true. We should either be on guard
Or that we quit this place. Let’s draw our here constantly or move to a different camp.
weapons. Let’s draw our own swords too.

ALONSO ALONSO
Lead off this ground, and let’s make further search Lead us away from this area. We can search for
For my poor son. my poor son while we’re at it.
GONZALO GONZALO
Heavens keep him from these beasts! I hope those lions stay far away from him. I’m
For he is, sure, i' th' island. sure he’s somewhere on the island.
ALONSO ALONSO
Lead away. Get us out of here.
ARIEL ARIEL
290 (aside) Prospero my lord shall know what I have (to himself) My lord Prospero will know what I’ve
done. done. So go ahead, King, and look for your son.
So, King, go safely on to seek thy son.
Exeunt They exit.
Original Modern
Act 2, Scene 2
Enter CALIBAN with a burden of wood A noise of CALIBAN enters with a load of wood. A noise of
thunder heard thunder is heard.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
All the infections that the sun sucks up I hope all the diseases that breed in swamps and
From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall and make him marshes infect Prospero, inch by inch, until he’s
By inchmeal a disease! His spirits hear me nothing but a walking disease! His spirits are
And yet I needs must curse. But they’ll nor pinch, listening to me, but I can’t help cursing him
5 Fright me with urchin-shows, pitch me i' th' mire, anyway. They won’t pinch me, frighten me, push
Nor lead me like a firebrand in the dark me in the mud, or mislead me unless he tells
Out of my way, unless he bid 'em. But them to. But he sends them to punish me for
For every trifle are they set upon me, every little thing. Sometimes his spirits take the
Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me, form of apes, grimacing and chattering at me and
10 And after bite me, then like hedgehogs which then biting me; sometimes they come like
Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount porcupines, my feet as I walk. Sometimes snakes
Their pricks at my footfall. Sometime am I wrap around me, hissing at me with their forked
All wound with adders who with cloven tongues tongues till I go crazy.
Do hiss me into madness.
Enter TRINCULO TRINCULO enters.
Lo, now, lo! Hey, look over there! Here comes one of his
15 Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me spirits to torture me for taking so long to bring the
For bringing wood in slowly. I’ll fall flat. wood back. I’ll lie down and hide. Maybe he won’t
Perchance he will not mind me. see me. (he lies down and covers himself with his
(lies down, covered by his gaberdine) cloak)
TRINCULO TRINCULO
Here’s neither bush nor shrub to bear off any weather There are no bushes or shrubs to protect me from
20 at all. the weather here. And there’s another storm
And another storm brewing, I hear it sing i' th' wind. brewing—I can hear it in the way the wind
Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a whistles. That huge black cloud over there looks
foul bombard that would shed his liquor. If it should like a filthy liquor jug that’s about to pour out its
thunder as it did before, I know not where to hide my contents. It won’t be able to help pouring rain
head. Yond same cloud cannot choose but fall by down by the bucket-full. (he sees CALIBAN)
pailfuls. (sees CALIBAN)

What have we here? A man or a fish? Dead or
alive? A fish. He smells like a fish, a very ancient What do we have here, a man or a fish? Whew,
and fish- like smell, a kind of not-of-the-newest poor- he stinks like a fish—an old salted fish, not a
john. A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once fresh-caught one. A strange fish. If I were in
I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday England now, like I was once, and I had even a
fool there but would give a piece of silver. There painted picture of this fish, every fool there would
would this monster make a man. Any strange beast give me a piece of silver to look at it. In England
there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to this strange monster would be just like a man.
relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a Any strange beast there can be considered a
dead Indian. Legged like a man and his fins like man. The men there won’t give a penny to a
arms! Warm, o' my troth. I do now let loose my lame beggar, but they’ll pay ten cents to look at a
opinion, hold it no longer: this is no fish, but an freak show exhibit. This guy has legs like a man
islander that hath lately suffered by a thunderbolt. but fins for arms! And he’s still warm, by God. I
guess this is not a fish, but a native who got
struck by lightning just now.
Thunder Thunder.
Alas, the storm is come again! My best way is to
Oh, here comes the storm again. The best thing
creep under his gaberdine. There is no other
to do is crawl under his cloak. There’s no other
shelter
Original Modern
hereabouts. Misery acquaints a man with strange
shelter around here. In emergencies you meet
bedfellows. I will here shroud till the dregs of the
the strangest folks. I’ll just stay here till the storm
storm be past.
passes. (he crawls under CALIBAN ’s cloak)
(crawls under gaberdine)
Enter STEPHANO, singing STEPHANO enters, singing.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
(sings) (sings)
I shall no more to sea, to sea, I’ll never go to sea again,
Here shall I die ashore— I’ll die here on shore—
25 This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man’s funeral. This is a rotten song to sing at a man’s funeral. At
Well, here’s my comfort. (drinks, sings) least I’ve got some booze to comfort me. (he
The master, the swabber, the boatswain, and I, drinks and sings)
The gunner and his mate The master, the deck-washer, the boatswain,
Loved Mall, Meg, and Marian, and Margery, and I,
But none of us cared for Kate. The gunman and his friend,
For she had a tongue with a tang, We loved Moll, Meg, Marian, and Margery
But none of us cared for Kate.
Kate had a gutter mouth,

Would cry to a sailor, “Go hang!”
She loved not the savor of tar nor of pitch, And would shout to sailors, “Go to hell!”
Yet a tailor might scratch her where'er she did itch. She didn’t like ship smells like tar,
Then to sea, boys, and let her go hang! But liked it okay when a tailor took her to bed.
This is a scurvy tune too. But here’s my comfort. So go to sea, boys, and let her go to hell!
That’s a rotten song too. But here’s something
to comfort me.
(drinks) (he drinks)
CALIBAN CALIBAN
Do not torment me. Oh! Don’t hurt me. Oh!
STEPHANO STEPHANO
What’s the matter? Have we devils here? Do you put What’s going on? Do we have devils on the
tricks upon ’s with savages and men of Ind, ha? I island? Are you playing tricks on me by showing
have not ’scaped drowning to be afeard now of your me savages and uncivilized men from the Indies,
four legs. Or it hath been said, “As proper a man as ha? I didn’t survive a shipwreck so I could be
ever went on four legs cannot make him give scared of your four legs now. I’ll never run away
ground,” and it shall be said so again while Stephano from any ordinary man who walks on four legs
breathes at' nostrils. like the rest of us.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
The spirit torments me. Oh! The spirit is torturing me. Oh!
STEPHANO STEPHANO
30 This is some monster of the isle with four legs who This is some monster of the island, with four legs,
hath got, as I take it, an ague. Where the devil should who seems to me to have some kind of ache.
he learn our language? I will give him some relief if it How the hell does he know our language? I’ll help
be but for that. If I can recover him and keep him out, if only because he speaks the same
tame and get to Naples with him, he’s a present for language as me. If I can cure him from his fever
any emperor that ever trod on neat’s leather. and tame him, and get him back to Naples, he’d
make a great present for any emperor.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
Do not torment me, prithee. I’ll bring my wood home Don’t hurt me, please. I promise I’ll carry the
faster. wood faster.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
He’s in his fit now and does not talk after the wisest. He’s having a fit and talking nonsense. I’ll give
Original Modern
He shall taste of my bottle. If he have never drunk
him some liquor. If he’s never drunk it before, it’ll
wine afore, it will go near to remove his fit. If I can
help soothe his fever. If I can tame him, I’ll charge
recover him and keep him tame, I will not take too
as much as I can get for him. He’ll bring a lot of
much for him. He shall pay for him that hath him, and
money to the person who owns him, that’s for
that soundly.
sure.

CALIBAN CALIBAN
Thou dost me yet but little hurt. Thou wilt anon, I You haven’t hurt me much yet, but you will soon,
know it by thy trembling. Now Prosper works upon I can tell by your trembling. Prospero sent you
thee. here.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
35 (trying to give CALIBAN drink) (trying to make CALIBAN drink) Come on, open
Come on your ways. Open your mouth. Here is that your mouth. This’ll help you talk. Open up. This’ll
which will give language to you, cat. Open your stop you from trembling—I can tell you that for
mouth. This will shake your shaking, I can tell you, sure. (CALIBAN drinks) You don’t even know who
and that soundly. You cannot tell who’s your friend. your friends are. Open up that mouth again.
Open your chaps again.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
I should know that voice. It should be—But he is I almost recognize that voice. It’s—But he’s
drowned, and these are devils. Oh, defend me! drowned, and these guys are devils. Oh, God
help me!
STEPHANO STEPHANO
Four legs and two voices—a most delicate monster. Four legs and two voices—a very special
His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. monster. One voice speaks well and talks about
40 His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to his friend. The other voice is harsh and abusive. I
detract. If all the wine in my bottle will recover him, I can charge even more for this. If it takes all the
will help his ague. Come. wine in my bottle, I’ll cure him. Come on.
CALIBAN drinks CALIBAN drinks That’s good! Now I’ll pour some
Amen! I will pour some in thy other mouth. in your other mouth.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
Stephano! Stephano!
STEPHANO STEPHANO
Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy, mercy! This is Is your other mouth calling my name? Mercy,
a devil, and no monster. I will leave him. I have no mercy! This isn’t a monster, it’s a devil. I’ll leave
long spoon. him alone. I have no interest in getting mixed up
with the devil.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
Stephano! If thou beest Stephano, touch me and Stephano! If you’re Stephano, touch me and
speak to me. For I am Trinculo—be not afeard—thy speak to me. I’m Trinculo—don’t be scared—your
good friend Trinculo. good friend Trinculo.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
If thou beest Trinculo, come forth. I’ll pull thee by the If you’re Trinculo, then come out. I’ll pull on these
lesser legs. If any be Trinculo’s legs, these are they. smaller legs. If any legs here are Trinculo’s, these
(pulls TRINCULO out from under the gaberdine) are. (he pulls TRINCULO out from under the
cloak) Well,

45 Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How camest thou to what do you know, you are Trinculo! How did you
be the siege of this mooncalf? Can he vent end up as this monster’s dung? Does he crap
Trinculos? Trinculos?
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TRINCULO
TRINCULO
I took him to be killed with a thunderstroke. But art
I thought he was dead, struck by lightning. But
thou not drowned, Stephano? I hope now thou art
aren’t you drowned, Stephano? I hope you’re not
not drowned. Is the storm overblown? I hid me
drowned. Has the storm passed? I hid under this
under the dead mooncalf’s gaberdine for fear of the
monster’s cloak to get out of the storm. Are you
storm. And art thou living, Stephano? O Stephano,
really alive, Stephano? Oh, Stephano, two men
two
from Naples
Neapolitans ’scaped! (dances STEPHANOabout)
survived! (TRINCULO dancesSTEPHANO around.)
STEPHANO
STEPHANO
Prithee, do not turn me about. My stomach is not
Please stop turning me around. My stomach’s a
constant.
little upset.
CALIBAN
CALIBAN
(aside) These be fine things, an if they be not
(to himself) These are beautiful creatures, if they’re
sprites. That’s a brave god and bears celestial
not spirits. He’s a good god, who brings liquor from
liquor. I will kneel to him.
the heavens. I will worship him.
STEPHANO
STEPHANO
(to TRINCULO) How didst thou ’scape? How
(to TRINCULO) How did you survive? How did you
camest thou hither? Swear by this bottle how thou
get here? Tell me the truth, swear on this bottle of
camest hither. I escaped upon a butt of sack which
wine. I made it out of tree bark after I washed
the sailors heaved o'erboard, by this bottle, which I
ashore. I myself floated here on a barrel of wine
made of the bark of a tree with mine own hands
that the sailors tossed overboard.
since I was cast ashore.
CALIBAN
CALIBAN
50 (to STEPHANO) I’ll swear upon that bottle to be thy (to STEPHANO) I’ll swear by that wine bottle to be
true subject, for the liquor is not earthly. your true subject. You must be a god, since your
liquor is out of this world.
STEPHANO
STEPHANO
(to TRINCULO) Here. Swear then how thou
(to TRINCULO) Here. Swear, and tell me how you
escapedst.
survived.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
Swum ashore, man, like a duck. I can swim like a
I swam ashore like a duck. I can swim like a duck, I
duck, I’ll be sworn.
swear.
STEPHANO
STEPHANO
Here, kiss the book. Though thou canst swim like a Here, kiss the Bible and swear. You may swim like
duck, thou art made like a goose. a duck, but you look more like a goose.

TRINCULO drinks TRINCULO drinks.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
O Stephano, hast any more of this? Oh Stephano, do you have any more of that
wine?
STEPHANO STEPHANO
55 The whole butt, man. My cellar is in a rock by th' I’ve got the whole barrel, man. I live in a cave by
seaside where my wine is hid.—How now, mooncalf? the seaside, where I keep the barrel hidden.—
How does thine ague? Hey, monster, how’s your fever?
CALIBAN CALIBAN
Hast thou not dropped from heaven? You come from heaven, don’t you?
STEPHANO STEPHANO
Out o' th' moon, I do assure thee. I was the man i' the No, from the moon, I’m telling you. I used to be
moon when time was. the man in the moon a long time ago.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
Original Modern
I have seen thee in her and I do adore thee. My
Oh, I’ve seen you in the moon, and I worship you.
mistress showed me thee and thy dog and thy
My mistress showed me you in the moon and
bush.
your dog and your bush.
STEPHANO
STEPHANO
Come on, swear to it. Kiss the Bible and swear it.
Come, swear to that, kiss the book. I will furnish it
I’m going to fill the bottle up again soon.
anon with new contents, swear.
CALIBAN drinks CALIBAN drinks.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
60 By this good light, this is a very shallow monster. I When you get a good look at him, you see he’s
afeard of him! A very weak monster. The man i' th' not much of a monster. I can’t believe I was
moon! A most poor credulous monster.—Well drawn, scared of him! A pretty pathetic monster. The
monster, in good sooth! man in the moon! What a poor, gullible monster.
—That was a nice big gulp, monster!
CALIBAN CALIBAN
(to STEPHANO) I’ll show thee every fertile inch o' th' (to STEPHANO) I’ll show you every inch of the
island. island, and I’ll kiss your feet. I beg you, please be
And I will kiss thy foot. I prithee, be my god. my god.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
By this light, a most perfidious and drunken monster. What a lying, drunken monster. When his god
When ’s god’s asleep, he’ll rob his bottle. falls asleep, the monster will snatch his wine
bottle.

CALIBAN CALIBAN
65 (to STEPHANO) I’ll kiss thy foot. I’ll swear myself thy (to STEPHANO) I’ll kiss your feet. I’ll vow to be
subject. your faithful subject.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
Come on then. Down, and swear. Come on, then. Get down and swear it.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed I’m going to laugh myself to death over this silly
monster. monster. A rotten, foolish monster. I could find it
A most scurvy monster. I could find in my heart to in my heart to beat him—
beat him—
STEPHANO STEPHANO
(to CALIBAN) Come, kiss. Come on, kiss my feet.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
70 But that the poor monster’s in drink. An abominable Except the poor monster’s drunk. An awful
monster! monster!
CALIBAN CALIBAN
I’ll show thee the best springs. I’ll pluck thee berries. I’ll show you where to get fresh water. I’ll pick
I’ll fish for thee and get thee wood enough. berries for you. I’ll fish for you and get you plenty
A plague upon the tyrant that I serve! of firewood. The tyrant I’m serving now can go to
I’ll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee, hell! I won’t get any more wood for him. I’m
75 Thou wondrous man. serving you now, you wonderful man.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
A most ridiculous monster, to make a wonder of a What a silly monster, to think a poor drunk is
poor drunkard. wonderful.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
(to STEPHANO) I prithee, let me bring thee where (to STEPHANO) I beg you, let me show where
crabs grow. you can find crabs to eat. I’ll use my long
And I with my long nails will dig thee pignuts, fingernails to dig edible roots for you, find you a
Original Modern
80 Show thee a jay’s nest, and instruct thee how
bird’s nest, and teach you how to catch a nimble
To snare the nimble marmoset. I’ll bring thee
monkey. I’ll take you to clusters of hazelnuts, and
To clustering filberts, and sometimes I’ll get thee
sometimes I’ll catch birds for you on the rocks.
Young scamels from the rock. Wilt thou go with me?
Will you come with me?
STEPHANO
STEPHANO
I prithee now, lead the way without any more talking.
Show us the way without further delay.—Trinculo,
— Trinculo, the king and all our company else being
since the king and all our comrades are drowned,
drowned, we will inherit here.—Here, bear my bottle.
we’re the heirs of this place.—Here, carry my
—Fellow Trinculo, we’ll fill him by and by again.
wine bottle.—Trinculo, my buddy, we’ll get that
bottle refilled soon enough.

CALIBAN CALIBAN
(sings drunkenly) (sings drunkenly)
Farewell, master! Farewell, farewell. Goodbye, master! Goodbye, goodbye.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
A howling monster, a drunken monster. A loud-mouthed, drunken monster.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
(sings) (sings)
90 No more dams I’ll make for fish, I won’t build you any more dams to catch fish,
Nor fetch in firing Or fetch you firewood when you order me to,
At requiring, Or clean the plates, or wash dishes.
Nor scrape trencher, nor wash dish. 'Ban, 'ban, Ca-caliban
'Ban, 'Ban, Ca-caliban Has a new master. So get a new servant.
Has a new master. Get a new man. Freedom, what a wonderful day, wonderful day,
Freedom, high-day, high-day, freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom, wonderful day, freedom!
high-day, freedom!
STEPHANO STEPHANO
O brave monster! Lead the way. Good monster! Show us the way.
Exeunt They exit.
Act 3, Scene 1
Enter FERDINAND bearing a log FERDINAND enters, carrying a log.
FERDINAND FERDINAND
There be some sports are painful, and their labor Some games are painful, but their discomfort
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness makes them more fun. Some kinds of lowly
Are nobly undergone. And most poor matters activities are done for noble reasons. And you
Point to rich ends. This my mean task can do poor things that lead to rich results. This
5 Would be as heavy to me as odious, but hard work would be boring and nasty to me, but
The mistress which I serve quickens what’s dead I’m working for a mistress who makes me enjoy
And makes my labors pleasures. Oh, she is my labor. Oh, she’s ten times nicer than her
Ten times more gentle than her father’s crabbed, father is mean, and he’s the height of crabbiness.
And he’s composed of harshness. I must remove I have thousands of logs to take away and pile
10 Some thousands of these logs and pile them up, up, on strict orders from him. My sweet darling
Upon a sore injunction. My sweet mistress cries when she sees me work and tells me that
Weeps when she sees me work, and says such such a wonderful man never performed such
baseness lowly tasks before. These sweet thoughts relieve
Had never like executor. I forget, me and refresh me, especially when I’m slaving
15 But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labors, away busily.
Most busiest when I do it.
Enter MIRANDA, and PROSPERO unseen MIRANDA enters, followed by PROSPERO at a
Original Modern
distance, unobserved.
MIRANDA MIRANDA
Alas now, pray you, Now, please, I beg you, don’t work so hard. I wish
Work not so hard. I would the lightning had the lightning had burned up all those logs that
Burnt up those logs that you are enjoined to pile! you’ve been ordered to stack! Please put that log
Pray, set it down and rest you. When this burns, down and rest a while. When this wood burns, it’ll
'Twill weep for having wearied you. My father weep for making you tired. My father’s studying
20 Is hard at study. Pray now, rest yourself. hard, so he won’t see you. So please rest. We’re
He’s safe for these three hours. safe from my father for at least three hours.

FERDINAND FERDINAND
O most dear mistress, Oh, my dear mistress, I won’t be able to finish this
The sun will set before I shall work until sunset at the earliest.
discharge What I must strive to do.
MIRANDA MIRANDA
If you’ll sit down, If you sit down, I’ll carry your logs a while. Please
I’ll bear your logs the while. Pray, give me that. give me that. I’ll take it over to the pile.
25 I’ll carry it to the pile.
FERDINAND FERDINAND
No, precious creature. No, my darling, I’d rather strain all my muscles
I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, and break my back than let you do work like this
Than you should such dishonor undergo while I lounge around nearby.
While I sit lazy by.
MIRANDA MIRANDA
It would become me I’d be as right for the job as you are, and I’d do it
As well as it does you, and I should do it more easily, since I’d have good will on my side.
30 With much more ease, for my good will is to it
And yours it is against.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
(aside) Poor worm, thou art (to himself) You poor weak thing, you’re in love! I
infected! This visitation shows it. can see it clearly now.
MIRANDA MIRANDA
You look wearily. You look tired.
FERDINAND FERDINAND
No, noble mistress. 'Tis fresh morning with me No, noble mistress, I’m as fresh as morning when
When you are by at night. I do beseech you— you’re near me, even at night. I beg you to tell me
35 Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers— your name so I can use it in my prayers.
What is your name?
MIRANDA MIRANDA
Miranda.—O my father, Miranda.—Oh father, I’ve disobeyed you by
I have broke your hest to say so! telling him that!
FERDINAND FERDINAND
Admired Miranda! Miranda—the very name means “admired!” You
Indeed the top of admiration, worth are indeed admired, more than anything else in
What’s dearest to th' world! Full many a lady the world! I’ve looked at many ladies with
40 I have eyed with best regard and many a time pleasure, and been

Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage
Brought my too diligent ear. For several virtues seduced by the sweet nothings they said to me.
I’ve liked several women for their good qualities,
Original Modern
Have I liked several women. Never any
but there was something wrong with each one
With so full soul but some defect in her
that blotted her excellent qualities and cancelled
45 Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed
them out. But with you it’s different. You’re
And put it to the foil. But you, O you,
perfect, without a rival in the world, made up of
So perfect and so peerless, are created
the best qualities of every creature.
Of every creature’s best.
MIRANDA
MIRANDA
I do not know
I’ve never known any woman or seen a woman’s
One of my sex, no woman’s face remember—
face—except my own in the mirror. And I’ve
50 Save, from my glass, mine own. Nor have I seen
never met any men besides you and my father. I
More that I may call men than you, good friend,
have no idea what people look like in other
And my dear father. How features are abroad
places, but I swear by my modesty, which I value
I am skill-less of, but, by my modesty,
above everything else, that I’d never want any
The jewel in my dower, I would not wish
companion in the world but you. I can’t even
55 Any companion in the world but you,
imagine one. But listen to me chattering like
Nor can imagination form a shape
crazy, and father always told me not to.
Besides yourself to like of. But I prattle
Something too wildly, and my father’s precepts
I therein do forget.
FERDINAND
FERDINAND
I am in my condition
I’m a prince by birth, Miranda—maybe even a
60 A prince, Miranda—I do think, a king;
king now; though I wish I weren’t—and normally I
I would, not so!—and would no more endure
wouldn’t put up with carrying these logs any more
This wooden slavery than to suffer
than I’d let flies breed in my mouth. But I’ll tell you
The flesh-fly blow my mouth. Hear my soul speak.
something from my soul. The second I saw you,
The very instant that I saw you did
my heart rushed to serve you and be your slave,
65 My heart fly to your service, there resides
so here I am now, a patient log-man.
To make me slave to it, and for your sake
Am I this patient log-man.
MIRANDA
MIRANDA
Do you love me?
Do you love me?
FERDINAND
FERDINAND
O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound
Oh heaven, oh earth, witness what I’m about to
And crown what I profess with kind event
say, and reward me if I tell the truth! If I’m lying,
then

70 If I speak true! If hollowly, invert
What best is boded me to mischief! I destroy all my prospects in life! More than
Beyond all limit of what else i' th' world anything else in the world, I love you, value you,
Do love, prize, honor you. and honor you.
MIRANDA
I am a fool MIRANDA
To weep at what I am glad of. Look at me crying—what a fool I am to cry at
what makes me happy.
PROSPERO
(aside) Fair encounter PROSPERO
75 Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace (to himself) What a pleasant meeting between
On that which breeds between 'em! two people truly in love! May heaven bless the
feelings growing between them!
FERDINAND
Wherefore weep you? FERDINAND
Why are you crying?
MIRANDA
MIRANDA
At mine unworthiness, that dare not offer
I’m crying at how unworthy I am to give you what
Original Modern
What I desire to give, and much less take
I want to give you and to take what I’m dying to
80 What I shall die to want. But this is trifling,
have. But it’s a waste of time to say so. The more
And all the more it seeks to hide itself
I try to hide what I’m feeling, the bigger it gets.
The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning,
Oh, stop being so bashful and tricky, Miranda,
And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!
just be straightforward and innocent! I’ll be your
I am your wife if you will marry me.
wife if you’ll have me. Otherwise, I’ll die a virgin,
85 If not, I’ll die your maid. To be your fellow
devoted to you. You can refuse to make me your
You may deny me, but I’ll be your servant
spouse, but I’ll be your servant whether you want
Whether you will or no.
me to or not.
FERDINAND
FERDINAND
My mistress, dearest, and I thus humble ever.
You’ll be my wife, dearest, and I’ll serve you
forever.
MIRANDA
MIRANDA
My husband, then?
Will you be my husband, then?
FERDINAND
FERDINAND
90 Ay, with a heart as willing
Yes, with a heart more eager to bear a
As bondage e'er of freedom. Here’s my hand.
husband’s responsibilities than a slave ever
wanted freedom. Take my hand, darling.
MIRANDA
MIRANDA
And mine, with my heart in ’t. And now farewell
Here’s my hand, and my heart. And now
Till half an hour hence.
goodbye. I’ll see you again in half an hour.

FERDINAND FERDINAND
A thousand thousand! A million goodbyes to you.
Exeunt FERDINAND and MIRANDA severally MIRANDA and FERDINAND exit in opposite
directions.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
95 So glad of this as they I cannot be, I can’t be as happy as they are at this moment,
Who are surprised withal. But my rejoicing but nothing could make me any happier. Now it’s
At nothing can be more. I’ll to my book, time to get back to my studying, since I have a lot
For yet ere supper-time must I perform of serious business to take care of before dinner.
Much business appertaining.
Exit He exits.
Act 3, Scene 2
Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO enter.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
Tell not me. When the butt is out, we will drink water. Don’t tell me that. When the barrel’s empty, we’ll
Not a drop before. Therefore bear up and board 'em. drink water. Not one drop sooner. Therefore,
—Servant- monster, drink to me. drink up.—Servant-monster, drink a toast to me.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
“Servant-monster”? The folly of this island. They say “Servant monster”? What a crazy island this is.
there’s but five upon this isle. We are three of them. If They say there are only five people on it. We’re
th' other two be brained like us, the state totters. three of them. If the other two are as loopy as we
are, our country’s in bad shape.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee. Thy eyes Drink when I order you, servant-monster. Your
are almost set in thy head. eyes look like they’ve sunk into your head.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
Original Modern
Where should they be set else? He were a brave
Where else should his eyes be, if not in his
monster indeed, if they were set in his tail.
head? He’d be quite a monster if his eyes were in
his tail.
STEPHANO
STEPHANO
My man-monster hath drowned his tongue in sack.
My man—monster is so drunk he can’t talk. As for
For my part, the sea cannot drown me. I swam, ere I
me, no liquid can harm me, neither booze nor the
could recover the shore, five and thirty leagues off
whole sea itself. Before I could get to shore, I
and on. By this light, thou shalt be my lieutenant,
swam thirty-five leagues in it and still survived.—
monster, or my standard.
Monster, you’ll be my lieutenant, or my flag-
bearer.
TRINCULO
TRINCULO
15 Your lieutenant, if you list. He’s no standard.
Lieutenant is better. He’s not standing straight
enough to hold a flag.
STEPHANO
STEPHANO
We’ll not run, Monsieur Monster.
We’re not going to run in our army, Monsieur
Monster.
TRINCULO
TRINCULO
Nor go neither. But you’ll lie like dogs, and yet say
Or walk either. You’ll just lie there like sleeping
nothing neither.
dogs and say nothing.

STEPHANO STEPHANO
Mooncalf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a good Monster sweetie, be a good monster and just
mooncalf. speak once.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
How does thy honor? Let me lick thy shoe. How is your Highness? Let me lick your shoe.(he
(indicates TRINCULO) I’ll not serve him. He’s not points to TRINCULO) I’ll never serve that guy
valiant. there. He’s not courageous like you.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
(to CALIBAN) Thou liest, most ignorant monster. I am (to CALIBAN) You’re a liar, you ignorant monster.
in case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed I’m courageous. I could shake up a police officer
fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath right now. You drunken fish, you, how could you
drunk so much sack as I today? Wilt thou tell a call me a coward after all the booze I’ve drunk
monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a today? Do you tell such monstrous lies because
monster? you’re half fish and half monster?
CALIBAN CALIBAN
(to STEPHANO) (to STEPHANO) Look how he’s making fun of
30 Lo, how he mocks me! Wilt thou let him, mylord? me! Will you let him talk to me like, my lord?
TRINCULO TRINCULO
“Lord,” quoth he? That a monster should be such a “Lord,” he calls you? What an idiot that monster
natural! is!
CALIBAN CALIBAN
(to STEPHANO) (to STEPHANO) There he goes again! Please,
Lo, lo, again! Bite him to death, I prithee. bite him to death, I’m begging you.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head. If you Trinculo, speak politely. If you mutiny against me,
prove a mutineer, the next tree. The poor monster’s I’ll hang you from the next tree. This poor monster
my subject and he shall not suffer indignity. is my subject, and I will not allow him to be
insulted.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleased to Thank you, my noble lord. Now would you please
hearken once again to the suit I made to thee? listen once again to the request I made to you
Original Modern
earlier?
STEPHANO STEPHANO
Marry, will I. Kneel and repeat it. I will stand, and so Indeed, I will. Kneel and tell me again. I’ll stand,
40 shall and so will Trinculo.
Trinculo.
Enter ARIEL, invisible ARIEL enters, invisible.

CALIBAN CALIBAN
(kneeling) As I told thee before, I am subject to a (kneeling) As I told you before, I’m enslaved to a
tyrant, a sorcerer that by his cunning hath cheated tyrant, a magician who tricked me with magic
me of the island. spells and took my island from me.
ARIEL ARIEL
Thou liest. You lie.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
(to TRINCULO) Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, (to TRINCULO) You’re the liar, you big fat
thou! I would my valiant master would destroy thee. I monkey. I wish my courageous master would kill
do not lie. you. I’m not lying.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in ’s tale, by this Trinculo, if you interrupt him any more, I swear I’ll
hand, I will supplant some of your teeth. knock some teeth out of your head.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
Why, I said nothing. I didn’t say anything.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
50 Mum, then, and no more. Proceed. Okay, just stay quiet. Go on.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
I say, by sorcery he got this isle. I was telling you he used witchcraft to take this
From me he got it. If thy greatness will island. He stole it from me. If your highness is
Revenge it on him—for I know thou darest, willing, take revenge on him for that—because I
But this thing dare not— know you’re brave enough, I don’t dare to—
STEPHANO STEPHANO
55 That’s most certain. That’s for sure.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
Thou shalt be lord of it and I’ll serve thee. You’ll be lord of the island then, and I’ll be your
servant.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
How now shall this be compassed? And how would we go about doing that? Can you
Canst thou bring me to th' party? bring me to him?
CALIBAN CALIBAN
Yea, yea, my lord. I’ll yield him thee asleep, Yes, yes, my lord. I’ll take you to where he
60 Where thou mayst knock a nail into his head. sleeps, and you can pound a nail into his head.
ARIEL ARIEL
Thou liest. Thou canst not. You lie. You can’t do that.

CALIBAN CALIBAN
What a pied ninny’s this!—Thou scurvy patch!— What an idiot this guy is!—You’re a rotten piece
I do beseech thy greatness, give him blows of work!—I beg your highness, beat him up and
And take his bottle from him. When that’s gone, take his wine bottle from him. When he loses
65 He shall drink naught but brine, for I’ll not show that, he’ll be drinking salt water, since I’ll never
him tell him
Original Modern
Where the quick freshes are. where the freshwater springs are.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
Trinculo, run into no further danger. Interrupt the Trinculo, watch out. If you interrupt this monster
monster one word further, and, by this hand, I’ll turn with one more word, I’ll beat you like a piece of
my mercy out o' doors and make a stockfish of thee. salted fish.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
70 Why, what did I? I did nothing. I’ll go farther off. What did I do? I didn’t do anything. I need to get
away from you.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
Didst thou not say he lied? Didn’t you call him a liar?
ARIEL ARIEL
Thou liest. You lie.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
(to TRINCULO) Do I so? Take thou that. (to TRINCULO) Oh, I did? Take that, then. (he
(beats TRINCULO) beats TRINCULO) If you want more beatings like
75 As you like this, give me the lie another time. that, just accuse me of lying again.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
I did not give the lie. Out o' your wits and hearing I didn’t accuse you of lying. Are you out of your
too? A pox o' your bottle! This can sack and drinking mind and deaf too? Damn your wine! This is what
do. A murrain on your monster, and the devil take happens when you drink too much. Your monster
your fingers! can go to hell, and you can too!
CALIBAN CALIBAN
Ha, ha, ha! Ha, ha, ha!
STEPHANO STEPHANO
80 Now, forward with your tale.—Prithee, stand farther Now go ahead and tell me the rest of your story.
off. —Please go stand farther away.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
Beat him enough. After a little time, Beat him up. After a little while, I’ll beat him too.
I’ll beat him too.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
Stand farther.—Come, proceed. Stand farther away.— Come on, continue your
story.

CALIBAN CALIBAN
Why, as I told thee, ’tis a custom with him, Just as I told you, he usually sleeps in the
85 I' th' afternoon to sleep. There thou mayst brain him, afternoon. At that time you can smash in his skull
Having first seized his books; or with a log after seizing his books; or you can bash his skull
Batter his skull; or paunch him with a stake; with a log; or you can stab him in the belly; or cut
Or cut his weasand with thy knife. Remember his windpipe. Just remember to grab his books
First to possess his books, for without them first, since without them he’s just a poor fool like
90 He’s but a sot, as I am, nor hath not me, and can’t command a single spirit. All the
One spirit to command. They all do hate him spirits hate him as much as I do. Be sure to burn
As rootedly as I. Burn but his books. his magic books. He has some wonderful home
He has brave utensils—for so he calls them— furnishings—that’s what he calls them—that he’ll
Which when he has a house, he’ll deck withal. use to decorate his house when he gets one.
95 And that most deeply to consider is The most important thing for you to think about is
The beauty of his daughter. He himself how beautiful his daughter is. He says she has
Calls her a nonpareil. I never saw a woman, no equal. I never saw a woman except her and
But only Sycorax my dam and she. Sycorax, my mother. But Miranda is so much
But she as far surpasseth Sycorax more beautiful, you can’t even compare the two.
100 As great’st does least.
Original Modern
STEPHANO
STEPHANO
Is it so brave a lass?
Is she really that wonderful?
CALIBAN
CALIBAN
Ay, lord. She will become thy bed, I warrant.
Yes, my lord. She’ll look good in your bed, and
And bring thee forth brave brood.
she’ll produce some fine children too.
STEPHANO
STEPHANO
Monster, I will kill this man. His daughter and I will be
Monster, I’ll kill this man. His daughter and I will
king and queen—save our graces!—and Trinculo
be king and queen—God protect us!—and you
and thyself shall be viceroys.—Dost thou like the
and Trinculo will be our governors.—Do you like
plot, Trinculo?
that idea, Trinculo?
TRINCULO
TRINCULO
Excellent.
Excellent.
STEPHANO
STEPHANO
Give me thy hand. I am sorry I beat thee. But while
Give me your hand. I’m sorry I hit you. But try to
thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head.
control your speech.
CALIBAN
CALIBAN
110 Within this half hour will he be asleep. Wilt thou
In a half an hour he’ll be asleep. Will you kill him
destroy him then?
then?

STEPHANO STEPHANO
Ay, on mine honor. Yes, I swear.
ARIEL ARIEL
(aside) This will I tell my master. (to himself) I’ll tell my master this.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
Thou makest me merry. I am full of pleasure. You make me so happy. I’m full of joy. Let’s be
115 Let us be jocund. Will you troll the catch light-hearted. Will you sing the tune you taught
You taught me but whilere? me just a little while ago?
STEPHANO STEPHANO
At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any I’ll do anything you ask, monster, anything
reason.— reasonable.—Come on, Trinculo, let’s sing. (he
Come on, Trinculo, let us sing. sings)
(sings) Dismiss 'em and ziss 'em
Flout 'em and scout 'em, And diss 'em and dismiss 'em.
And scout 'em and flout 'em. Thought is free.
Thought is free.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
120 That’s not the tune. That’s not the tune I had in mind.
ARIEL plays the tune on a tabor and pipe ARIEL plays the tune on a drum and a pipe.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
What is this same? What’s this song?
TRINCULO TRINCULO
This is the tune of our catch, played by the picture of That’s the melody, played by Nobody.
Nobody.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
If thou beest a man, show thyself in thy likeness. If (to the invisible musician) If you’re a man, then
thou beest a devil, take ’t as thou list. let us see what you look like. If you’re a devil,
then go to hell.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
125 O, forgive me my sins! Oh, forgive all my sins!
STEPHANO STEPHANO
Original Modern
He that dies pays all debts.—I defy thee!—Mercy
Dead men have to pay their debts.—I challenge you!
upon us!
—God help us.
CALIBAN
CALIBAN
Art thou afeard?
Are you scared?

STEPHANO STEPHANO
No, monster, not I. No, monster, not me.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises, Don’t be scared. This island is full of noises,
130 Sounds, and sweet airs that give delight and hurt strange sounds and sweet melodies that make
not. you feel good and don’t hurt anyone. Sometimes
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments I hear a thousand twanging instruments hum at
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices my ears, and sometimes voices that send me
That, if I then had waked after long sleep, back to sleep even if I had just woken up—and
135 Will make me sleep again. And then, in dreaming, then I dreamed of clouds opening up and
The clouds methought would open and show riches dropping such riches on me that when I woke up,
Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried because I wanted to dream again.
I cried to dream again.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall This’ll be a wonderful kingdom to live in, where
have my music for nothing. they play music for free.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
140 When Prospero is destroyed. As soon as you kill Prospero.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
That shall be by and by. I remember the story. That’ll happen soon enough. I remember the
plan.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
The sound is going away. Let’s follow it, and after do The sound is going away. But let’s follow it, and
our work. then do our dirty work afterward.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
Lead, monster; we’ll follow. I would I could see this Lead us, monster; we’ll follow. I wish I could see
taborer. He lays it on. this invisible drummer. He really plays well.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
Wilt come? I’ll follow, Stephano. I’m right behind you, Stephano. Are you coming
monster?
Exeunt They all exit.
Act 3, Scene 3
Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO,GONZALO, ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO,A
ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others DRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others enter.
GONZALO GONZALO
(to ALONSO) By 'r lakin, I can go no further, sir. I swear, I can’t go any further, sir. My old bones are
My old bones ache. Here’s a maze trod indeed tired. We’re wandering in a maze. If you don’t mind,
Through forthrights and meanders. By your patience, I need to rest a bit.
I needs must rest me.
ALONSO ALONSO
Old lord, I cannot blame thee, I can’t blame you, old lord. I’m so tired myself that
5 Who am myself attached with weariness it’s bringing me down. Sit down and rest. I’m losing
To th' dulling of my spirits. Sit down and rest. hope. The one we’re looking for is dead. We’re
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Even here I will put off my hope and keep it
searching on land, but he’s lost in the sea. We have
No longer for my flatterer. He is drowned
to give up and let him go.
Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks
1 Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go.
0
ANTONIO
ANTONIO
(aside to SEBASTIAN) I am right glad that he’s so out of
(speaking so that only SEBASTIAN can hear) I’m
hope.
glad he’s so depressed. Don’t back out of our plan
Do not for one repulse forego the purpose
just because it didn’t work the first time.
That you resolved t' effect.
SEBASTIAN
SEBASTIAN
(aside to ANTONIO) The next advantage
(speaking so that only ANTONIO can hear) The
1 Will we take throughly.
next chance we get, we’ll do the deed.
5
ANTONIO
ANTONIO
(aside to SEBASTIAN) Let it be tonight,
(speaking so that only SEBASTIAN can hear)Let’s
For now they are oppressed with travel. They
do it tonight. The men are so tired from traveling
Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance
that they can’t be as careful as they are when
As when they are fresh.
they’re fresh.
Solemn and strange music Solemn and strange music is heard.
Enter PROSPERO on the top, invisible PROSPERO enters above, invisible.

SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
20 (aside to ANTONIO) I say, tonight. No more. (speaking so that only ANTONIO can hear) Yes,
tonight. No more talking about this now.
ALONSO ALONSO
What harmony is this? My good friends, hark! What’s that music? My friends, listen.
GONZALO GONZALO
Marvelous sweet music! What marvelous music!
Enter several strange shapes, bringing in a banquet Several strange shapes enter, bringing in a
They dance about it with gentle actions of salutations, banquet table and dancing around it with
and, inviting the king and the others to eat, they graceful, welcoming movements. After inviting the
depart king and the others to eat, they leave.
ALONSO ALONSO
Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these? Heaven help us! What were those things?
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
A living drollery. Now I will believe A puppet show in real life. Now I’ll believe that
25 That there are unicorns, that in Arabia unicorns exist, and that there’s a tree in Arabia
There is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one phoenix where the phoenix lives.
At this hour reigning there.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
I’ll believe both Me too. And anything else that’s hard to believe,
And what does else want credit, come to me, just ask me and I’ll swear it’s true. Travelers have
And I’ll be sworn ’tis true. Travelers ne'er did lie, never told lies, no matter what the fools at home
30 Though fools at home condemn 'em. accuse them of.
GONZALO GONZALO
If in Naples If I told them about this back in Naples, would
I should report this now, would they believe me? they believe me? I’d tell them that I saw natives
If I should say, I saw such islanders— like these—since they must be natives—who are
For, certes, these are people of the island— graceful and well-mannered even if they’re
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Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet note,
monstrous to look at, kinder than most human
35 Their manners are more gentle-kind than of
beings you might find— kinder than almost any
Our human generation you shall find Many—
human.
nay, almost any.
PROSPERO
PROSPERO
(aside) Honest lord,
(to himself) My good lord, you’re absolutely right,
Thou hast said well, for some of you there present
since some of you are worse than devils.
Are worse than devils.

ALONSO ALONSO
I cannot too much muse I can’t stop being amazed by these shapes,
40 Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, sounds, and gestures, which express, even
expressing, without saying anything, a wonderful kind of silent
Although they want the use of tongue, a kind language.
Of excellent dumb discourse.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
(aside) Praise in departing. (to himself) Time to go.
FRANCISCO FRANCISCO
They vanished strangely. They vanished strangely.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
No matter, since It’s all right, since they left their food behind, and
They have left their viands behind, for we have we’re hungry. Would you like to taste the
45 stomachs. banquet?
Will ’t please you taste of what is here?
ALONSO ALONSO
Not I. Not me.
GONZALO GONZALO
Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys, I assure you, sir, there’s nothing to be afraid of.
Who would believe that there were mountaineers When we were boys, who’d believe that there
Dewlapped like bulls, whose throats had hanging at were mountain people with rolls of skin around
50 'em their necks, with their throats hanging down? Or
Wallets of flesh, or that there were such men that there were men with heads in their chests?—
Whose heads stood in their breasts?—which now we Nowadays travelers commonly report that these
find things exist.
Each putter-out of five for one will bring us
Good warrant of.
ALONSO ALONSO
I will stand to and feed, I’ll start eating, even if this is my last supper. It’s
Although my last. No matter, since I feel all right, since the best part of my life was over
55 The best is past. Brother, my lord the duke, anyway. Brother, Duke, please have some food.
Stand to and do as we.
Thunder and lightning Thunder and lightning.
Enter ARIEL, like a harpy, claps his wings upon the
ARIEL enters in the form of a harpy ARIEL flaps
table, and, with a quaint device, the banquet
his wings on the table, and the banquet vanishes
vanishes from the table

ARIEL ARIEL
(to ALONSO, ANTONIO, and SEBASTIAN ) (to ALONSO, ANTONIO, and SEBASTIAN) The
You are three men of sin, whom Destiny, three of you are sinners, and Destiny made the
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That hath to instrument this lower world
sea belch you up onto this island—where no men
60 And what is in ’t, the never-surfeited sea
live, since none of you deserve to live. I’ve driven
Hath caused to belch up you—and on this island
you crazy, and many mad people are driven to kill
Where man doth not inhabit, you ’mongst men
themselves in desperation. (some of the courtiers
Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad,
draw their swords) Listen, you fools, my
And even with suchlike valor men hang and
fellow harpies and I carry out Fate’s orders. Your
drown
swords are useless against us—you’d be more
65 Their proper selves. (some of the courtiers draw their
successful swinging them at the empty air, or
swords)
stabbing at water, than trying to cut off even one
You fools, I and my fellows
of my feathers. My two companions are just as
Are ministers of fate. The elements
invulnerable as I am. Even if you had the power
Of whom your swords are tempered may as well
to hurt us, you’d find your swords far too heavy to
Wound the loud winds or with bemocked-at stabs
lift. But remember—and it’s my job to remind you
70 Kill the still-closing waters as diminish
of this—that in Milan the three of you stole
One dowl that’s in my plume. My fellow ministers
Prospero’s throne and threw him and his
Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,
innocent child into the sea, which has now taken
Your swords are now too massy for your strengths
revenge on you. To punish you for this horrible
And will not be uplifted. But remember—
crime, the higher powers—delaying their
75 For that’s my business to you—that you three
punishment, not forgetting about it—have stirred
From Milan did supplant good Prospero,
up the seas and all the creatures of earth against
Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it,
you.—They’ve taken your only son from you,
Him and his innocent child. For which foul deed
Alonso, and they’ve ordered me to destroy you
The powers—delaying, not forgetting—have
slowly, in a way worse than sudden death could
80 Incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
ever be. I’ll stay with you every step of your way.
Against your peace.—Thee of thy son, Alonso,
The only way to protect yourselves from the
They have bereft, and do pronounce by me
angry higher powers—which are ready to fall
Lingering perdition, worse than any death
upon your head on this empty island—is for you
Can be at once, shall step by step attend
to be sincerely sorry in your hearts for what
85 You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from
you’ve done, and to live innocent lives from this
—
time forward.
Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls
Upon your heads—is nothing but hearts' sorrow
And a clear life ensuing.
ARIEL vanishes in thunder ARIEL vanishes in thunder.

Then, to soft music enter the shapes again and
dance, with mocks and mows, and carrying out the The shapes enter again, accompanied by soft
table music. Dancing with mocking gestures and
grimaces, they carry out the banquet table.
PROSPERO
(aside) Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou PROSPERO
Performed, my Ariel. A grace it had, devouring. (to himself) You’ve played the role of harpy very
90 Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated well, my Ariel. You were fierce but graceful. You
In what thou hadst to say.—So with good life said everything I told you to say.—In the same
And observation strange, my meaner ministers lifelike way, and with the same attention to detail,
Their several kinds have done. My high charms work my lower-ranking servants have done what they
And these mine enemies are all knit up were supposed to do. My magic powers are all in
95 In their distractions. They now are in my power, full swing, and my enemies are confused and
And in these fits I leave them while I visit running around in circles. They’re under my
Young Ferdinand, whom they suppose is drowned, control, and I’m keeping them in their crazy fits
And his and mine loved darling. while I go visit Ferdinand, whom they think has
drowned, and the young woman he and I both
love.
Exit PROSPERO above PROSPERO exits on a platform overhead.
GONZALO GONZALO
(to ALONSO) I' th' name of something holy, sir, why (to ALONSO) For the love of God, sir, why are
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100 stand you
you standing here staring into space like this?
In this strange stare?
ALONSO
ALONSO
Oh, it is monstrous, monstrous.
Oh, it’s horrible, horrible. I thought the clouds
Methought the billows spoke and told me of it,
were talking to me, the winds were singing to
The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder,
me, and the thunder, like an awful organ pipe,
That deep and dreadful organ pipe, pronounced
roared Prospero’s name. It sang about my
The name of Prosper. It did bass my trespass.
crimes. Because of my crimes my son is dead
105 Therefore my son i' th' ooze is bedded, and
on the ocean floor. I’ll go join him there, going
I’ll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded
down deeper than any anchor ever sank, and lie
And with him there lie mudded.
with him dead in the mud.
Exit ALONSO ALONSO exits.

SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
But one fiend at a time, I’ll fight every one of these devils if I have to, one
I’ll fight their legions o'er. at a time.
ANTONIO ANTONIO
I’ll be thy second. I’ll back you up.
Exeunt SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO exit.
GONZALO GONZALO
All three of them are desperate. Their great guilt, All three of them are crazy with despair. Their
110 Like poison given to work a great time after, guilt is finally starting to gnaw at them, like a
Now 'gins to bite the spirits. I do beseech you slow-acting poison. Those of you who are young
That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly and active, I beg you to follow them and keep
And hinder them from what this ecstasy them from doing the crazy things their guilt might
May now provoke them to. push them to do.
ADRIAN ADRIAN
Follow, I pray you. Follow them, please.
Exeunt omnes They all exit.
Act 4, Scene 1
Enter PROSPERO, FERDINAND, and MIRANDA PROSPERO, FERDINAND, and MIRANDAenter.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
(to FERDINAND) If I have too austerely punished (to FERDINAND) If I’ve punished you too harshly,
you, I’m ready to make it up to you now, since I’ve
Your compensation makes amends, for I given you a third of my life—everything I live for—
Have given you here a third of mine own life my daughter Miranda. I put her in your hands. All
— the trouble I put you through was to test your love
5 Or that for which I live—who once again for her, and you’ve passed the test remarkably
I tender to thy hand. All thy vexations well. As heaven is my witness, I give you this
Were but my trials of thy love and thou valuable gift. Oh Ferdinand, don’t smile at me for
Hast strangely stood the test. Here, afore heaven, bragging about Miranda, for you’ll see soon
I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand, enough that she outshines any praise of her.
10 Do not smile at me that I boast of her,
For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise
And make it halt behind her.
FERDINAND
FERDINAND
I’d believe it even if oracles told me differently.
I do believe it
Against an oracle.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
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Then as my gift and thine own acquisition
Then take my daughter, both as my gift to you
Worthily purchased, take my daughter. But
and as something you have earned. But if you
15 If thou dost break her virgin knot before
have sex with her before the marriage ceremony
All sanctimonious ceremonies may
takes place, the heavens will not bless your
With full and holy rite be ministered,
relationship, but will overwhelm you with hate,
No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall
contempt, and discord, and will poison your
To make this contract grow, but barren hate,
marriage bed so that you both grow to loathe it.
20 Sour-eyed disdain, and discord shall bestrew
So be careful, and make sure you respect the
The union of your bed with weeds so loathly
holy institution of marriage.
That you shall hate it both. Therefore take heed,
As Hymen’s lamps shall light you.

FERDINAND FERDINAND
As I hope I want peace, good kids, and a long life. To
For quiet days, fair issue, and long life, protect the love I cherish, I won’t be tempted by
25 With such love as ’tis now, the murkiest den, any opportunity to forget my honor and give in to
The most opportune place, the strong’st suggestion, lust. I refuse to give up the joys of my wedding
Our worser genius can shall never melt day, when I’ll be so eager for my first night of love
Mine honor into lust to take away that I’ll wonder whether evening will ever come.
The edge of that day’s celebration
30 When I shall think, or Phoebus' steeds are foundered,
Or night kept chained below.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Fairly spoke. You’ve said it well. So have a seat and talk to her.
Sit then and talk with her. She is thine own.— She’s yours.—Come, Ariel! My trusty servant,
What, Ariel! My industrious servant, Ariel! Ariel!
ARIEL ARIEL
What would my potent master? Here I am. What does my powerful master wish for? I’m
here.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
35 Thou and thy meaner fellows your last service You and your fellow spirits did your last
Did worthily perform, and I must use you assignment well, and now I need your help again.
In such another trick. Go bring the rabble, Go bring them all here; I give you power over
O'er whom I give thee power, here to this place. them. Make them act quickly. I have to give this
Incite them to quick motion, for I must young couple here a small display of my magic
40 Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple powers. I’ve promised them I would, and they’re
Some vanity of mine art. It is my promise, expecting it.
And they expect it from me.
ARIEL ARIEL
Presently? Right now?
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Ay, with a twink. Yes, right away.
ARIEL ARIEL
Before you can say “Come” and “Go,” Before you can say “Come” and “Go,”
45 And breathe twice and cry “So, so!” And breathe twice, and shout “So, so!”
Each one, tripping on his toe, Each one of your servants will rush here,

Will be here with mop and mow. Tripping over his own toes, making funny faces.
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Do you love me, master, no? Do you love me, master? No?
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Dearly my delicate Ariel. Do not approach I love you dearly, Ariel. Don’t come near till you
50 Till thou dost hear me call. hear me call you.
ARIEL ARIEL
Well, I conceive. All right, I understand.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
(to FERDINAND) Look thou be true. Do not give (to FERDINAND) Make sure you behave
dalliance honorably. Don’t go too far with her. If you let
Too much the rein. The strongest oaths are straw yourself get stirred up, you’ll forget your promise
To th' fire i' th' blood. Be more abstemious, of good behavior. Calm yourself down or you’ll
Or else, goodnight your vow. forget your vow.
FERDINAND FERDINAND
I warrant you, sir, I assure you, sir, the tender love I feel in my heart
55 The white cold virgin snow upon my heart is stronger than the sexual passions stirring down
Abates the ardor of my liver. below.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Well.— Good.—Now come, Ariel! Better to have an extra
Now come, my Ariel! Bring a corollary, servant on hand than be understaffed. Appear
Rather than want a spirit. Appear and pertly!— before me now quickly—
Soft music Soft music plays.
No tongue. All eyes! Be silent. No talking. Just watch! Be quiet.
Enter IRIS IRIS enters.
IRIS IRIS
60 Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas I am the rainbow-bearing messenger sent by my
Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats, and peas; mistress Juno—the Queen of the Sky. I have
Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep, come to announce that Juno has asked you,
And flat meads thatched with stover, them to Ceres, goddess of the fields and the earth, to
keep; Thy banks with pionèd and twillèd brims, leave your rich farms of wheat, rye, barley, oats,
and peas, the hills where the

65 Which spongy April at thy hest betrims
To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broom sheep nibble, the furrows that April covers with
groves, flowers for nymphs to make crowns with. You
Whose shadow the dismissèd bachelor loves, must leave the groves where the disappointed
Being lass-lorn; thy pole-clipped vineyard; bachelor lurks, rejected by his love, and the well-
70 And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky hard, pruned vineyards, and the rocky seashore.
Where thou thyself dost air—the Queen o' th' Sky,
Whose watery arch and messenger am I,
Bids thee leave these, and with her sovereign grace,
JUNO descends above JUNO enters above the stage and slowly begins
to descend.
Here on this grass plot, in this very place,
You must leave these places and hurry here to
To come and sport. Her peacocks fly
this grassy spot, to entertain Juno.
amain.
75 Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.
Enter CERES CERES enters.
CERES CERES
Hail, many-colored messenger, that ne'er Greetings to you, rainbow messenger, who never
Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter; disobeys Juno, wife of Jupiter; with your golden
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Who with thy saffron wings upon my flowers
wings you sprinkle dewdrops and refreshing
Diffusest honey drops, refreshing showers;
showers on my flowers, and arch your colored
80 And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown
bow over my wooded fields and grassy meadows,
My bosky acres and my unshrubbed down,
like a beautiful scarf to decorate my earth. Why
Rich scarf to my proud earth. Why hath thy queen
has your queen, Juno, called me here to this
Summoned me hither to this short-grassed green?
grassy spot?
IRIS
IRIS
A contract of true love to celebrate,
To celebrate a marriage of true love, and give a
85 And some donation freely to estate
gift to the lovers.
On the blessed lovers.
CERES
CERES
Tell me, heavenly bow,
Tell me, rainbow, do you know if either Venus,
If Venus or her son, as thou dost know,
the goddess of love, or her son, Cupid, is
Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot
accompanying Queen Juno? Ever since Venus
The means that dusky Dis my daughter got,
and her blind son plotted a way for the god of the
90 Her and her blind boy’s scandaled company
underworld to steal my daughter away for half the
I have forsworn.
year, I swore I’d never speak to them again.

IRIS IRIS
Of her society Don’t be afraid of her company. I met Venus as
Be not afraid. I met her deity she was with her son on her way to her home on
Cutting the clouds towards Paphos, and her Paphos, in a carriage pulled by doves. They
son Dove-drawn with her. Here thought they to were planning to pull a mischievous trick on
have Ferdinand and Miranda, who have sworn not to
95 done sleep together till their wedding day. But their
Some wanton charm upon this man and maid, trick failed. Venus went home again, and her
Whose vows are that no bed-right shall be paid little son broke all his arrows, swearing he’ll
Till Hymen’s torch be lighted—but in vain. never shoot them again, but play with birds like
Mars’s hot minion is returned again. other little boys.
100 Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows,
Swears he will shoot no more, but play with
sparrows
And be a boy right out.
CERES
CERES Great Queen Juno is coming. I know her by her
Highest queen of state, walk.
Great Juno, comes. I know her by her gait.
JUNO descends to the stage JUNO comes down to the stage.
JUNO JUNO
How does my bounteous sister? Go with me How is my generous sister? Come help me bless
To bless this twain that they may prosperous be, this couple, so they will be prosperous and have
105 And honored in their issue. many children.
They sing They sing.
JUNO JUNO
(sings) (singing)
Honor, riches, marriage, blessing, May honor, riches, marriage blessings,
Long continuance, and Long life, and unending joys come to you.
increasing, Hourly joys be still Juno sings her blessings onto you.
upon you.
Juno sings her blessings on you.

CERES CERES
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(sings)
(singing)
Earth’s increase, foison plenty,
Growing crops and large harvests,
Barns and garners never empty,
Barns and silos full of grain,
Vines and clustering bunches growing,
Vines heavy with clustered grapes,
Plants with goodly burden bowing—
Plants straining under their fruit—
Spring come to you at the farthest
May spring follow directly autumn’s harvest,
In the very end of harvest.
With none of winter’s hardships to endure,
Scarcity and want shall shun you.
You will have plenty and want nothing,
Ceres' blessing so is on you.
Ceres’s blessings on you.
FERDINAND
FERDINAND
This is a most majestic vision, and
This is a majestic and harmonious vision. Are
Harmonious charmingly. May I be bold
these spirits we see before us?
110 To think these spirits?
PROSPERO
PROSPERO
Spirits, which by mine art
Yes, they’re spirits that I’ve called out of their
I have from their confines called to enact
prisons to perform my whims.
My present fancies.
FERDINAND
FERDINAND
Let me live here ever.
Let me live here forever. Such a wonderful
So rare a wondered father and a wife
father-in-law and wife make this place a
Makes this place paradise.
paradise.
JUNO and CERES whisper, and send IRIS on
JUNO and CERES whisper, then send IRIS on a
employment
mission.
PROSPERO
PROSPERO
Sweet now, silence.
Now be quiet. Juno and Ceres are whispering
115 Juno and Ceres whisper seriously.
about something serious. There’s something else
There’s something else to do. Hush and be mute,
to be done. Be silent, or else my magic spell will
Or else our spell is marred.
be broken.
IRIS
IRIS
You nymphs, called naiads of the windring brooks,
You nymphs who live in the wandering brooks,
With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks,
with seaweed crowns and innocent looks, step
120 Leave your crisp channels and on this green land
out of the water and come join us here on this
Answer your summons, Juno does command.
grassy field. Juno

Come, temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate
A contract of true love. Be not too late. orders you. Come, sweet nymphs, and help us
celebrate the wedding of two true lovers. Don’t
be late.
Enter certain nymphs Several NYMPHS enter.
You sunburnt sicklemen of August weary,
Now, you tanned fieldworkers who are so tired of
125 Come hither from the furrow and be merry.
August’s labors, get out of the dirt and come
Make holiday. Your rye-straw hats put on,
rejoice with us here. Put your straw hats on,
And these fresh nymphs encounter every one
have some fun, and dance with these young
In country footing.
nymphs.
Enter certain reapers, properly habited They join with
Several fieldworkers enter, dressed
the nymphs in a graceful dance towards the end
appropriately. They join the nymphs in a graceful
whereof PROSPERO starts suddenly and speaks.
dance. At the end PROSPEROsuddenly acts
startled and speaks.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
I had forgot that foul conspiracy I almost forgot about Caliban’s horrible
130 Of the beast Caliban and his confederates conspiracy to kill me. The moment they planned
Against my life. The minute of their plot to act is almost here. (to the spirits)—Good job.
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Is almost come.—Well done. Avoid, no more! Leave now, no more!
To a strange, hollow, and confused noise, the spirits The dancers vanish sadly to a strange, hollow,
heavily vanish and confused noise.
FERDINAND FERDINAND
(to MIRANDA) This is strange. Your father’s in some (to MIRANDA) This is strange. Something has
passion really upset your father.
That works him strongly.
MIRANDA MIRANDA
Never till this day I’ve never seen him like this. He’s never been as
135 Saw I him touched with anger so distempered. angry and upset as he is now.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
(to FERDINAND) You do look, my son, in a moved (to FERDINAND) You look like something’s
sort, bothering you. Cheer up. Our music-and-dance
As if you were dismayed. Be cheerful, sir. spectacle is over. These actors were all spirits,
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, as I told you, and they’ve all melted into thin air.
140 As I foretold you, were all spirits and And just like the whole empty
Are melted into air, into thin air.

And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, and ungrounded vision you’ve seen, with its
The solemn temples, the great globe itself— towers topped with clouds, its gorgeous palaces,
Yea, all which it inherit—shall dissolve, solemn temples, the world itself—and everyone
145 And like this insubstantial pageant faded, living in it—which will dissolve just as this illusory
Leave not a rack behind. We are such pageant has dissolved, leaving not even a wisp
stuff As dreams are made on, and our little of cloud behind. We are all made of dreams, and
life Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am our life stretches from sleep before birth to sleep
vexed. after death. Sir, I’m upset. Please put up with my
Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled. weakness. My old brain is troubled. Don’t be
150 Be not disturbed with my infirmity. disturbed by my illness. If you like, you can rest a
If you be pleased, retire into my while in my room. I’ll go for a short walk to calm
cell down my feverish mind.
And there repose. A turn or two I’ll walk
To still my beating mind. FERDINAND, MIRANDA
FERDINAND, MIRANDA We hope you feel better and find some peace.
We wish your peace.
Exeunt FERDINAND and MIRANDA They exit.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
155 Come with a thought. I thank thee, Ariel. Come. Come, Ariel—I summon you with a thought.
Thank you, Ariel. Come.
ARIEL ARIEL
Thy thoughts I cleave to. What’s thy pleasure? I obey all your thoughts. What do you wish?
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Spirit, Spirit, we have to get ready to meet with Caliban.
We must prepare to meet with Caliban.
ARIEL ARIEL
Ay, my commander. When I presented Ceres, Yes, my master. When I was putting on the
I thought to have told thee of it, but I feared Ceres show, I thought of reminding you about
160 Lest I might anger thee. Caliban, but I was afraid of upsetting you.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Say again, where didst thou leave these varlets? Tell me again, where did you leave those
lowlifes?
Original Modern
ARIEL ARIEL
I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking, I told you, sir, they were totally drunk, so puffed
So full of valor that they smote the air up with courage that they were getting angry at
For breathing in their faces, beat the ground the air for blowing in their faces, and beating the
165 For kissing of their feet—yet always bending ground for touching their feet—yet even when
Towards their project. Then I beat my tabor, drunk, they kept their plan firmly in mind. Then I
At which, like unbacked colts, they pricked their ears, beat my drum, at which point they pricked up
Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses their ears and opened their eyes, looking around
As they smelt music. So I charmed their ears for the source of my music. I enchanted them so
170 That, calflike, they my lowing followed through thoroughly that they followed me through thorn
Toothed briers, sharp furzes, pricking gorse, and bushes and prickly shrubs that tore up their
thorns, shins. In the end I left them standing in the
Which entered their frail shins. At last I left them smelly pond behind your room, with the stinking
I' th' filthy-mantled pool beyond your cell, water covering them up to their chins.
175 There dancing up to th' chins, that the foul lake
O'erstunk their feet.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
This was well done, my bird. Good job, my little one. Stay invisible. Bring the
Thy shape invisible retain thou still. fancy clothes out of my house, to use as bait to
The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither catch these thieves.
For stale to catch these thieves.
ARIEL ARIEL
I go, I go. I’m going, I’m going.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
A devil, a born devil on whose nature He’s a devil, a born devil, who can never be
180 Nurture can never stick, on whom my pains, trained. All my attempts to help him, undertaken
Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost. with the best intentions, have been wasted. As
And as with age his body uglier grows, his body grows uglier with age, his mind rots
So his mind cankers. I will plague them all, away as well. I’ll torment them all till they roar
Even to roaring. with pain.
Enter ARIEL, loaden with glistering apparel, etc. ARIEL enters, loaded with sparkling clothes.
185 Come, hang them on this line. Here, hang them on this clothesline.

Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO, all CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO enter
wet all wet.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not Please walk softly, so not even a mole hears us
hear a foot fall. We now are near his cell. approach. We’re near his room now.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
Monster, your fairy, which you say is a harmless Hey monster, the spirit you’ve been talking
fairy, has done little better than played the jack with about, the one you call harmless, has been
us. playing tricks on us.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
190 Monster, I do smell all horse piss, at which my nose Monster, I smell like horse piss, which is making
is in great indignation. my nose pretty upset.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
So is mine.—Do you hear, monster? If I should take Mine too.—Are you listening, monster? If I
a displeasure against you, look you— decide to get angry at you, just watch out—
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TRINCULO
TRINCULO
Thou wert but a lost monster.
You’d be done for then, monster.
CALIBAN
CALIBAN
195 Good my lord, give me thy favor still.
My good lord, I still need you to like me. Be
Be patient, for the prize I’ll bring thee to
patient, because the prize I’m leading you to will
Shall hoodwink this mischance. Therefore speak
make you forget how smelly you are now. So be
softly.
quiet. It’s as silent as a graveyard here.
All’s hushed as midnight yet.
TRINCULO
TRINCULO
Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool—
All right, but I can’t get over how we lost our wine
bottles in the pond—
STEPHANO
STEPHANO
200 There is not only disgrace and dishonor in that,
Yes, monster, it’s worse than the disgrace of
monster, but an infinite loss.
getting drenched and smelly. We lost more than
our honor when we lost our wine.
TRINCULO
TRINCULO
That’s more to me than my wetting. Yet this is your
That upsets me much more than getting wet.
harmless fairy, monster.
And you called the fairy creature harmless,
monster.
STEPHANO
STEPHANO
I will fetch off my bottle, though I be o'er ears for my
I’ll get my bottle back if it’s the last thing I do.
labor.

CALIBAN CALIBAN
205 Prithee, my king, be quiet. Seest thou here, Please, my king, be quiet. Look here, this is the
This is the mouth o' th' cell. No noise, and entrance to his room. Be silent and go in. Do the
enter. deed that will make this island yours forever, and
Do that good mischief which may make this island will make me, Caliban, your worshipful foot-
Thine own for ever, and I, thy Caliban, licker.
For aye thy foot-licker.
STEPHANO
STEPHANO Give me your hand. I’m starting to feel
210 Give me thy hand. I do begin to have bloody murderous urges.
thoughts.
TRINCULO
TRINCULO (seeing the clothes) Oh, King Stephano! Worthy
(seeing the apparel) Stephano, look at the fabulous wardrobe waiting
O King Stephano! O peer, O worthy Stephano, look for you here!
what a wardrobe here is for thee!
CALIBAN
CALIBAN Leave it alone, you fool. It’s worthless.
Let it alone, thou fool. It is but trash.
TRINCULO
TRINCULO Oh, monster, we know secondhand clothes when
215 Oh, ho, monster, we know what belongs to a we see them.—(he puts on one of the
frippery.— gowns) Oh, King Stephano!
(puts on a gown) O King Stephano!
STEPHANO
STEPHANO Take off that gown, Trinculo. I swear that gown’s
Put off that gown, Trinculo. By this hand, I’ll have for me.
that gown.
TRINCULO
TRINCULO You can have it then, your highness.
Thy grace shall have it.
CALIBAN
CALIBAN To hell with this idiot! Why are you going crazy
220 The dropsy drown this fool! What do you mean over these trashy clothes? Leave them alone,
To dote thus on such luggage? Let’s alone,
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And do the murder first. If he awake,
and do the murder first. If he wakes up before we
From toe to crown he’ll fill our skins with pinches,
kill him, he’ll never stop punishing us.
Make us strange stuff.
STEPHANO
STEPHANO
225 Be you quiet, monster.—Mistress line, is not this my
Shut up, monster.—Madame tree, is this jacket
jerkin? Now is the jerkin under the line.—Now, jerkin,
for me? Thank you kindly. The tree’s lost its
you are like to lose your hair and prove a bald jerkin.
jacket. (he takes a jacket hanging on the tree)—
Now the jacket might lose its fur trim and
become a bald jacket.

TRINCULO TRINCULO
Do, do. We steal by line and level, an ’t like your Go ahead, take it. We’re stealing things the right way
grace. here.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
I thank thee for that jest. Here’s a garment for ’t. Thank you for that joke. Here, I’ll give you some
Wit shall not go unrewarded while I am king of clothes to show my gratitude. As king of this country I
this country. “Steal by line and level” is an like to reward wit when I hear it. “Stealing things the
excellent pass of pate. There’s another garment right way” is a great line. Here’s another jacket to say
for ’t. thanks.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
Monster, come, put some lime upon your Come here, monster, put some glue on your fingers,
fingers, and away with the rest. and carry away the rest of these clothes for us.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
235 I will have none on ’t. We shall lose our time, I won’t have any of this. We’re wasting our time. We’ll
And all be turned to barnacles or to apes miss our chance and be turned into geese or apes
With foreheads villainous low. with low foreheads.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
Monster, lay to your fingers. Help to bear this Monster, use your fingers. Help us carry these
away where my hogshead of wine is, or I’ll turn clothes to where my barrel of wine is hidden, or I’ll
you out of my kingdom. Go to, carry this. kick you out of my kingdom. Go on, take them.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
And this. Take these too.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
Ay, and this. Yes, and these.
A noise of hunters heard Enter divers spirits, in A noise of hunters is heard. Various spirits enter
shape of dogs and hounds, hunting them disguised as dogs and hounds,
about,PROSPERO and ARIEL setting them on chasingSTEPHANO, TRINCULO,
and CALIBANaround. PROSPERO and ARIEL follow
them, urging the dogs on.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Hey, Mountain, hey! Hey, Mountain, hey!
ARIEL
ARIEL
Silver. There it goes, Silver!
Silver. There they go, Silver!

PROSPERO PROSPERO
Fury, Fury!—There, Tyrant, there. Hark, hark! Fury, Fury!—Get over there, Tyrant, there.
Listen, listen!
Spirits drive out CALIBAN, STEPHANO, CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO are
Original Modern
andTRINCULO chased away.
245 Go charge my goblins that they grind their joints
Ariel, go order my goblin servants to make these
With dry convulsions, shorten up their sinews
fellows' bones ache, give them muscle cramps
With agèd cramps, and more pinch-spotted make
all over, and give them more bruises than
them
leopards have spots.
Than pard or cat o' mountain.
ARIEL
ARIEL
Hark, they roar.
Listen they’re howling.
PROSPERO
PROSPERO
Let them be hunted soundly. At this hour
Hunt them down. Now all my enemies are at my
250 Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.
mercy. Soon all my work will be done, and you’ll
Shortly shall all my labors end, and thou
be free. Just obey me a little bit longer.
Shalt have the air at freedom. For a little
Follow, and do me service.
Exeunt They exit.
Act 5, Scene 1
Enter PROSPERO in his magic robes and ARIEL PROSPERO enters in his magic robes,
withARIEL.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Now does my project gather to a head. My plans are almost at their climax. My spells are
My charms crack not, my spirits obey, and time working well, my spirits are obeying me, and
Goes upright with his carriage. How’s the day? everything is right on schedule. What time is it?
ARIEL ARIEL
On the sixth hour, at which time, my lord, It’s after six o'clock, my lord, when you said our
5 You said our work should cease. work would be finished.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
I did say so That’s what I said when I first conjured the
When first I raised the tempest. Say, my spirit, tempest. Tell me, spirit, how’s the king and his
How fares the king and ’s followers? entourage?
ARIEL
ARIEL
Confined together
All cooped up together, just as you ordered, all
In the same fashion as you gave in charge,
imprisoned in the grove of linden trees that
Just as you left them, all prisoners, sir,
protects your room from bad weather. They can’t
10 In the line grove which weather-fends your cell.
move till you release them. The king, his brother,
They cannot budge till your release. The king,
and your brother are all waiting there in a crazed
His brother, and yours, abide all three distracted,
state of mind, and the rest are grieving over them,
And the remainder mourning over them,
sad and astonished. “Good old lord Gonzalo,” as
Brimful of sorrow and dismay. But chiefly
you call him, is saddest of all, with tears running
15 Him that you termed, sir, “the good old Lord
down his beard. Your magic spell has such an
Gonzalo,”
effect on them that if you saw them now, you’d
His tears run down his beard like winter’s drops
feel sorry for them.
From eaves of reeds. Your charm so strongly works
'em
That if you now beheld them, your affections
Would become tender.
PROSPERO
PROSPERO
Dost thou think so, spirit?
Do you think so, spirit?
ARIEL
ARIEL
20 Mine would, sir, were I human.
I’d feel sorry for them, if I were human.
Original Modern
PROSPERO PROSPERO
And mine shall. I will too. You’re made of air, so if even you feel
Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling sorry for them, imagine the pity that I’ll feel, being
Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, one of their own human race. I suffer pain just as
One of their kind, that relish all as sharply much as they do, so I’ll sympathize far more than
Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou you. Though I’m indignant about their evil deeds,
art? I’ll go with my nobler instincts, which tell me to
25 Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' feel some compassion for them. It’s better to act
quick, virtuously rather than vengefully. Now that they’re
Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury sorry, I don’t want anything more. Go release
Do I take part. The rarer action is them, Ariel. I’ll break my spells and bring them
In virtue than in vengeance. They being penitent, back to their senses, and they’ll feel like
30 The sole drift of my purpose doth extend themselves again.
Not a frown further. Go release them, Ariel.
My charms I’ll break, their senses I’ll restore,
And they shall be themselves.
ARIEL
ARIEL I’ll go get them, sir.
I’ll fetch them, sir.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
(tracing a circle on the ground) (drawing a large circle on the stage with his
Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves, staff)I’ve darkened the noontime sun with the aid
35 And ye that on the sands with printless foot of you elves who live in the hills and brooks and
Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him groves, and you who chase the sea on the beach
When he comes back; you demi-puppets that without leaving footprints in the sand, and run
By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, away when the waves come back; and you who
Whereof the ewe not bites; and you whose pastime make toadstools while the moon shines; who
40 Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice make mushrooms as a hobby after the evening
To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid, bell has rung. With your help I’ve called up the
Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimmed angry winds, and set the green sea and blue sky
The noontide sun, called forth the mutinous winds, at war with each other. I’ve given lightning to the
And ’twixt the green sea and the azured vault thunderclouds, and burned up Jupiter’s beloved
45 Set roaring war—to th' dread rattling thunder oak.
Have I given fire, and rifted Jove’s stout oak

With his own bolt;
the strong-based promontory With his own lightning bolts; I’ve shaken up the
Have I made shake, and by the spurs plucked up sturdy cliffs and uprooted pines and cedars; I’ve
The pine and cedar; graves at my command opened up graves and awakened the corpses
50 Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth sleeping in them, letting them out with my
By my so potent art. But this rough magic powerful magic. But I surrender all this magic
I here abjure, and when I have required now, when I’ve summoned some heavenly music
Some heavenly music, which even now I do, to cast a spell, as I’m doing now, I’ll break my
To work mine end upon their senses that staff and bury it far underground, and throw my
55 This airy charm is for, I’ll break my staff, book of magic spells deeper into the sea than any
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, anchor ever sank.
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I’ll drown my book.
Solemn music Solemn music plays.
Enter ARIEL before, Then ALONSO, with a frantic
ARIEL enters, followed by ALONSO gesturing
gesture, attended
frantically, accompanied
Original Modern
by GONZALO; SEBASTIAN andANTONIO in like
by GONZALO.SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO enter
manner, attended by ADRIAN andFRANCISCO—
in the same way, accompanied
they all enter the circle whichPROSPERO had made,
by ADRIAN andFRANCISCO. They all enter the
and there stand charmed;
circle thatPROSPERO has drawn and stand there
which PROSPERO observing, speaks:
under a spell. PROSPERO, watching all of this,
speaks, though the others do not hear him.
A solemn air and the best comforter
Let this solemn melody comfort your fevered
60 To an unsettled fancy cure thy brains,
minds, which are now useless, seething inside
Now useless, boiled within thy skull.—There stand,
your skulls.—All of you stand there in my spell.—
For you are spell-stopped.—
(to GONZALO) Good Gonzalo, you honorable
(to GONZALO) Holy Gonzalo, honorable man,
man, my eyes weep for you, since I feel what you
Mine eyes, ev'n sociable to the show of thine,
must feel now. (to himself) The spell is breaking
65 Fall fellowly drops.
gradually, and just as dawn creeps in and melts
(aside) The charm dissolves apace,
away the darkness, they will slowly return to their
And as the morning steals upon the night,
senses.—(to GONZALO) Oh, my dear Gonzalo,
Melting the darkness, so their rising senses
you’re my savior and loyal to your lord, I’ll reward
Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
you fully, not just with praise but with actions too.
Their clearer reason.—
—
70 (to GONZALO) O good Gonzalo,
My true preserver and a loyal sir

To him you follow’st, I will pay thy graces (to ALONSO) You, Alonso, manipulated me and
Home both in word and deed.— my daughter cruelly, and your brother helped
(to ALONSO) Most cruelly you.—(to SEBASTIAN) You’re paying the price
75 Didst thou, Alonso, use me and my daughter. for it now, Sebastian.—(to ANTONIO) My brother,
Thy brother was a furtherer in the act.— you were so greedy for power that you forgot
(to SEBASTIAN) Thou art pinched for ’t now, natural compassion and our bond as brothers,
Sebastian.— and were ready to kill your king—I forgive you,
(to ANTONIO)Flesh and blood, though you’re a monster.—(to himself) Look at
80 You brother mine, that entertained ambition, them, they’re starting to understand. Soon their
Expelled remorse and nature, whom, with confused minds will clear up. But at this point not
Sebastian, Whose inward pinches therefore are a single one of them recognizes me.—
most strong, Would here have killed your king—I do (toARIEL) Ariel, get me my hat and sword from
forgive thee, Unnatural though thou art. my room. I’ll take off the clothes I’m wearing now,
(aside) Their understanding and put on the ones I used to wear in Milan.—
85 Begins to swell, and the approaching tide Soon, spirit, you’ll be free.
Will shortly fill the reasonable shore
That now lies foul and muddy. Not one of them
That yet looks on me, or would know me.—
(to ARIEL) Ariel,
90 Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell.
I will discase me, and myself present
As I was sometime Milan. Quickly, spirit.
Thou shalt ere long be free.
ARIEL ARIEL
(sings and helps to attire PROSPERO) (he sings and helps PROSPERO dress)
Where the bee sucks, there suck I. Where the bee drinks, I drink dew.
In a cowslip’s bell I lie. I lie in the cup of a cowslip flower.
There I couch when owls do cry. I sleep there when the owls hoot.
On the bat’s back I do fly I fly on a bat’s back,
After summer merrily. following the summer around the globe.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now Happily, happily I will live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Original Modern
PROSPERO
PROSPERO
Why, that’s my dainty Ariel. I shall miss thee,
Why, that’s my dainty Ariel singing now. I’ll miss
95 But yet thou shalt have freedom.—So, so, so.
you, Ariel, but you’ll be free.—Yes, you will, yes.
—
—Go to the king’s ship in your invisible state.
To the king’s ship, invisible as thou art.
There you’ll find the sailors asleep below deck.
There shalt thou find the mariners asleep
Find the Master and

Under the hatches. The Master and the Boatswain
Being awake, enforce them to this place, Boatswain, who will be awake, and bring them
100 And presently, I prithee. here right away, please.
ARIEL
I drink the air before me, and return ARIEL
Or ere your pulse twice beat. I’ll go so fast I’ll burn up the air, and come back
in two heartbeats.
GONZALO GONZALO
All torment, trouble, wonder, and amazement This place is full of trouble, torments, and
Inhabits here. Some heavenly power guide us amazements. Please come, heavenly powers,
105 Out of this fearful country! and guide us out of this godforsaken country!
PROSPERO PROSPERO
(to ALONSO) Behold, sir King, (to ALONSO) Your Highness, you see before
The wrongèd Duke of Milan, Prospero. you the Duke of Milan, Prospero, who’s been
For more assurance that a living prince wronged. I’ll embrace you now so you will know
Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body. it’s really me, a living prince, talking to you. I
110 And to thee and thy company I bid heartily welcome you and your entourage here.
A hearty welcome. (embraces ALONSO) (he embraces ALONSO)
ALONSO ALONSO
Whe'er thou beest he or no, Whether you’re really him or whether this is
Or some enchanted trifle to abuse me, some magic trick like I was recently subjected to,
As late I have been, I not know. Thy pulse I don’t know. Your heart beats like you were real,
Beats as of flesh and blood. And since I saw thee, and ever since I saw you, I feel my mind
115 Th' affliction of my mind amends, with which becoming sane again, released from its earlier
I fear a madness held me. This must crave— insanity. There must be a strange explanation for
An if this be at all—a most strange story. this—if it’s true. I surrender your dukedom and
Thy dukedom I resign and do entreat beg you to forgive me all my crimes. But how is it
Thou pardon me my wrongs. But how should possible that Prospero’s alive and well and living
120 Prospero on this island?
Be living and be here?
PROSPERO PROSPERO
(to GONZALO) First, noble friend, (to GONZALO) First, my noble old friend, let me
Let me embrace thine age, whose honor cannot embrace you, who are more honorable than I
Be measured or confined. can say.

GONZALO GONZALO
Whether this be I won’t bet on whether or not any of this is real.
Or be not, I’ll not swear.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
You do yet taste You’re still experiencing some of the little quirks
125 Some subtleties o' th' isle, that will not let you of this island, which makes so many things seem
Believe things certain. Welcome, my friends all. uncertain. Welcome, my friends.(speaking so
Original Modern
(aside to SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO)
that only SEBASTIAN andANTONIO can
But you, my brace of lords, were I so minded,
hear) But you two lords, if I felt like it, I could turn
I here could pluck his highness' frown upon you
you in as the traitors you are. But as for now, I
130 And justify you traitors. At this time
won’t say a word.
I will tell no tales.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
The devil speaks in him. It’s the devil speaking through him.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
No.—(to ANTONIO) No.—(to ANTONIO) As for you, you evil man that
For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother I can’t even call brother, I forgive you for even
Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive your worst sin, all your sins. I demand my
Thy rankest fault, all of them, and require dukedom back from you, which I know you have
135 My dukedom of thee, which perforce, I know, to give me.
Thou must restore.
ALONSO ALONSO
If thou beest Prospero, If you’re Prospero, give us the details of how
Give us particulars of thy preservation, you were saved, how you met us here, when we
How thou hast met us here, whom three hours since were just shipwrecked here three hours ago,
Were wracked upon this shore, where I have lost— when I lost—How painful the memory is!—my
140 How sharp the point of this remembrance is! dear son Ferdinand
My dear son Ferdinand.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
I am woe for ’t, sir. I’m sorry about that, sir.
ALONSO ALONSO
Irreparable is the loss, and patience No one can undo this loss of mine, and trying to
Says it is past her cure. endure it patiently doesn’t help.

PROSPERO PROSPERO
I rather think I don’t think you’ve tried to endure it. Being
You have not sought her help, of whose soft grace patient has helped me a lot, for I have suffered a
145 For the like loss I have her sovereign aid, loss similar to yours.
And rest myself content.
ALONSO ALONSO
You the like loss? You suffered a loss like mine?
PROSPERO PROSPERO
As great to me as late. And supportable Yes, just as great and just as recent. And I have
To make the dear loss have I means much weaker much less to comfort me than you do, since I’ve
Than you may call to comfort you, for I lost my daughter.
150 Have lost my daughter.
ALONSO ALONSO
A daughter? A daughter? Oh God, I wish the two of them
O heavens, that they were living both in Naples, were alive and living in Naples, as king and
The king and queen there! That they were, I wish queen! I’d give up my life and take my son’s
Myself were mudded in that oozy bed place in the mud on the ocean floor if I could see
Where my son lies.—When did you lose your them alive in Naples.—When did you lose your
daughter? daughter?
PROSPERO PROSPERO
155 In this last tempest. I perceive these lords In this recent storm. These lords seem so
At this encounter do so much admire astonished that they’ve lost their use of reason
That they devour their reason and scarce think and can hardly believe what they see with their
Their eyes do offices of truth, their words own eyes.—But whatever the reason for your
Original Modern
Are natural breath.—But howsoev'r you have
losing your senses, you can know for sure that
160 Been justled from your senses, know for certain
I’m Prospero, that same duke who was kicked
That I am Prospero and that very duke
out of Milan and landed on this same island
Which was thrust forth of Milan, who most strangely
where you landed, and became the lord of it. No
Upon this shore where you were wracked, was
more of this story now, for it takes days to tell,
landed,
not just a chat over breakfast or during this first
To be the lord on ’t.
meeting of ours.

No more yet of this, (to ALONSO) Welcome, sir. This room’s
16 For ’tis a chronicle of day by day, my royal court. I have hardly any servants
5 Not a relation for a breakfast, nor and no subjects outside this room.
Befitting this first meeting. Please, have a look. Since you’ve given
(to ALONSO) Welcome, sir. my dukedom back to me, I’ll give you
This cell’s my court. Here have I few attendants something equally nice, or at least I’ll give
And subjects none abroad. Pray you, look in. you an amazement to satisfy you as much
17 My dukedom since you have given me again, as my dukedom satisfies me.
0 I will requite you with as good a thing,
At least bring forth a wonder to content ye
As much as me my dukedom.
Here PROSPERO uncovers FERDINAND andMIRANDA playin PROSPERO draws a curtain to
g at chess revealFERDINAND and MIRANDA playin
g chess.
MIRANDA MIRANDA
17 (to FERDINAND) Sweet lord, you play me false. (to FERDINAND) My sweet lord, you’re
5 cheating.
FERDINAND FERDINAND
No, my dearest love, No, my dearest love, I wouldn’t cheat you
I would not for the world. for the whole world.
MIRANDA MIRANDA
Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle, Maybe not the whole world, but you’d
And I would call it fair play. cheat for twenty kingdoms. But even then
I’d still lie and say you were playing by the
rules.
ALONSO ALONSO
If this prove If this dream vision is typical of what this
18 A vision of the Island, one dear son island conjures up, then I’ll lose my son
0 Shall I twice lose. twice.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
A most high miracle! A wonderful miracle!
FERDINAND FERDINAND
(seeing ALONSO and kneeling) (seeing ALONSO and kneeling) The seas
Though the seas threaten, they are merciful. may threaten us, but they show mercy
I have cursed them without cause. sometimes too. I cursed them for no
reason.

ALONSO ALONSO
Now all the blessings Receive all the blessings of a happy father. Get
185 Of a glad father, compass thee about. up and tell me how you came here.
Arise, and say how thou camest here.
Original Modern
MIRANDA
MIRANDA
Oh, wonder! How amazing! How many wonderful creatures
How many goodly creatures are there here! there are here! Mankind is so beautiful! Oh, what
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, a wonderful new world, that has such people in it!
That has such people in ’t!
PROSPERO PROSPERO
'Tis new to thee. It’s new to you.
ALONSO ALONSO
190 (to FERDINAND ) (to FERDINAND) Who is this girl you were
What is this maid with whom thou wast at play? playing chess with? You can’t have known her
Your eld’st acquaintance cannot be three hours. for more than three hours. Is she the goddess
Is she the goddess that hath severed us that separated us and then brought us back
And brought us thus together? together?
FERDINAND FERDINAND
Sir, she is mortal. No, sir, she’s human. But by the grace of God,
195 But by immortal providence, she’s mine. she’s mine. I chose her for my wife when I
I chose her when I could not ask my father thought I had no father to ask advice of. She’s
For his advice, nor thought I had one. She the daughter of this famous Duke of Milan I
Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan, heard so much about but never saw before. He’s
Of whom so often I have heard renown given me a second life, and marrying her makes
200 But never saw before, of whom I have him a second father to me.
Received a second life. And second father
This lady makes him to me.
ALONSO ALONSO
I am hers. And I’m her father as well. But oh, how odd it is
But oh, how oddly will it sound that I to have to ask for my child’s forgiveness!
Must ask my child forgiveness!
PROSPERO PROSPERO
There, sir, stop. Stop right there, sir. Let’s not get gloomy in our
205 Let us not burden our remembrances with reminiscing, since there’s no reason for sadness
A heaviness that’s gone. anymore.

GONZALO GONZALO
I have inly wept, I’ve been crying to myself just now, or I would’ve
Or should have spoke ere this. Look down, you said the same thing. Dear gods, bless this
gods, couple, since you’re the ones who have shown
And on this couple drop a blessèd crown, us the path that led us here.
210 For it is you that have chalked forth the way
Which brought us hither.
ALONSO ALONSO
I say amen, Gonzalo. Amen to that, Gonzalo.
GONZALO GONZALO
Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue Was the Duke of Milan kicked out of Milan so his
Should become kings of Naples? O, rejoice children could become kings of Naples? Oh, this
Beyond a common joy, and set it down is cause for an extraordinary joy that should be
With gold on lasting pillars. In one voyage engraved in gold on pillars to last forever. On one
215 Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis; and the same trip Claribel found a husband in
And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife Tunis, and Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife
Where he himself was lost; Prospero, his dukedom where he was shipwrecked; Prospero found his
In a poor isle; and all of us, ourselves dukedom on a poor island; and all of us found
When no man was his own. ourselves when we lost control of ourselves.
Original Modern
ALONSO
ALONSO
220 (to FERDINAND and MIRANDA) Give me your
(to FERDINAND and MIRANDA) Give me your
hands.
hands. May anyone who doesn’t wish you joy
Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart
feel grief and sorrow.
That doth not wish you joy.
GONZALO
GONZALO
Be it so. Amen. So be it. Amen.
Enter ARIEL, with
ARIEL enters with
the MASTER and BOATSWAINamazedly following
the MASTER andBOATSWAIN following in
amazement.
Oh, look, sir, look, sir! Here is more of us. Oh, look, sir, look, sir! More of us are here. I
I prophesied if a gallows were on land, remember I predicted that this guy could never
225 This fellow could not drown.
drown, as long as there are gallows around on
(to BOATSWAIN) Now, blasphemy, the land. (to BOATSWAIN) Hey, you curser, who
That swear’st grace o'erboard, not an oath on defiled our ship with your foul language, don’t
shore? you have any gutter talk for us on shore? What’s
Hast thou no mouth by land? What is the news?
going on?

BOATSWAIN BOATSWAIN
The best news is that we have safely found The best news of all is that we’ve located our
230 Our king and company. The next, our ship— king and our men. The next bit of good news is
Which, but three glasses since, we gave out split— that our ship—which we gave up for ruined only
Is tight and yare and bravely rigged as when three hours ago—is as well-outfitted and
We first put out to sea. seaworthy as it was when we first set sail.
ARIEL ARIEL
(aside to PROSPERO) Sir, all this service (speaking so that only PROSPERO can hear)Sir,
235 Have I done since I went. I’ve done all this work for you since I left you last.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
(aside to ARIEL) My tricksy spirit! (speaking so that only ARIEL can hear) My
clever spirit!
ALONSO ALONSO
These are not natural events. They strengthen These are unnatural events. They get stranger all
From strange to stranger.— the time.—(to BOATSWAIN) Tell me, how did
(to BOATSWAIN) Say, how came you hither? you get here?
BOATSWAIN BOATSWAIN
240 If I did think, sir, I were well awake, If I were sure I was wide awake, I’d try to tell you.
I’d strive to tell you. We were dead of sleep And— We were fast asleep and somehow—we don’t
how, we know not—all clapped under hatches, know how—we were stowed below deck, where
Where but even now with strange and several noises we heard lots of roaring, shrieking, howling, and
Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling chains, jingling chains. The sounds were so horrible that
245 And more diversity of sounds, all horrible, we woke up liberated, and saw our wonderful
We were awaked, straightway at liberty, ship safe and sound. The master was dancing
Where we, in all her trim, freshly beheld with joy to see it. In an instant we were
Our royal, good, and gallant ship, our Master separated from them, as if in a dream, and
Capering to eye her. On a trice, so please you, brought here in a daze.
250 Even in a dream were we divided from them
And were brought moping hither.
ARIEL ARIEL
(aside to PROSPERO) Was ’t well done? (speaking so that only PROSPERO can hear)Did
I do it right?
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Original Modern
(aside to ARIEL) Bravely, my diligence. Thou shalt
(speaking so that only ARIEL can hear) You did it
be free.
perfectly, my little worker. You’ll get your
freedom.

ALONSO ALONSO
This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod, This is a stranger business than men have ever
255 And there is in this business more than nature set foot in before, and it’s not natural either. We
Was ever conduct of. Some oracle need some oracle to tell us what’s going on.
Must rectify our knowledge.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Sir, my liege, Sir, my king, don’t waste your time mulling over
Do not infest your mind with beating on how strange this business is. When the time is
The strangeness of this business. At picked leisure right, and it’ll be soon, I promise I alone will
260 Which shall be shortly, single I’ll resolve you— explain everything that’s happened. Until then,
Which to you shall seem probable—of every be cheerful and keep an open mind. (speaking
These happened accidents. Till when, be cheerful so that only ARIEL can hear) Come here, spirit;
And think of each thing well. set Caliban and his fellow slaves free. Break the
(aside to ARIEL) Come hither, spirit. spell that enslaves them to me.
265 Set Caliban and his companions free.
Untie the spell.
How fares my gracious sir? How is my lord? There are a few men still
There are yet missing of your company missing from the ship, a few odd guys you’ve
Some few odd lads that you remember not. forgotten about.
Enter ARIEL, driving in CALIBAN, STEPHANO, ARIEL enters, driving in CALIBAN, STEPHANO,
and TRINCULO in their stolen apparel and TRINCULO in their stolen clothes.
STEPHANO STEPHANO
Every man shift for all the rest and let no man take Look out for the other guy, and don’t put yourself
care for himself, for all is but fortune. Coraggio, bully- first, since everything happens randomly.
monster, coraggio! Courage! Courage, you fine old monster.
TRINCULO TRINCULO
If these be true spies which I wear in my head, If I can believe my eyes, this is a fine sight to
here’s a goodly sight. see.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
O Setebos, these be brave spirits indeed! Oh Setebos, these are handsome spirits! How
275 How fine my master is! I am afraid wonderful my master is! I’m afraid he’ll punish
He will chastise me. me.

SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
Ha, ha! Ha, ha! What are these things we’re looking at,
What things are these, my lord Antonio? my lord Antonio? Can you buy them with money?
Will money buy 'em?
ANTONIO ANTONIO
Very like. One of them Definitely. The one that looks like a fish is very
Is a plain fish, and no doubt marketable. marketable.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
280 Mark but the badges of these men, my lords, Take a look at their servants' name tags, my
Then say if they be true. lords, then tell me what they are. (he points
(indicates CALIBAN) This misshapen knave, atCALIBAN) This misshapen monster, his
Original Modern
His mother was a witch, and one so strong
mother was a witch so powerful she could
That could control the moon, make flows and ebbs,
control the moon and the tides. These three
285 And deal in her command without her power.
have robbed me, and this bastard half-devil
These three have robbed me, and this demi-devil—
plotted with them to kill me. Two of these men
For he’s a bastard one—had plotted with them
you must recognize and claim as your own. This
To take my life. Two of these fellows you
evil monster I acknowledge is mine.
Must know and own. This thing of darkness I
290 Acknowledge mine.
CALIBAN
CALIBAN
I shall be pinched to death.
He’ll kill me with tortures.
ALONSO
ALONSO
Is not this Stephano, my drunken butler?
Isn’t this Stephano, my drunken butler?
SEBASTIAN
SEBASTIAN
He is drunk now. Where had he wine?
He’s definitely drunk now. Where did he get
wine?
ALONSO
ALONSO
And Trinculo is reeling ripe. Where should they
And Trinculo’s drunk. Where did they find the
295 Find this grand liquor that hath gilded 'em?—
liquor to get drunk on?—(to TRINCULO) How did
How camest thou in this pickle?
you get this way?
TRINCULO
TRINCULO
I have been in such a pickle since I saw you last
I’ve been so wasted since I saw you last that I’m
that, I fear me, will never out of my bones. I shall not
worried I’ll never be sober again. But at least I
fear flyblowing.
won’t rot, being so full of alcohol.
SEBASTIAN
SEBASTIAN
Why, how now, Stephano?
How are you doing, Stephano?

STEPHANO STEPHANO
300 O, touch me not. I am not Stephano, but a cramp. Oh, don’t touch me. I’m not Stephano, I’m a
walking cramp.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
You’d be king o' th' isle, sirrah? You wanted to be king of the island, sir?
STEPHANO STEPHANO
I should have been a sore one then. I would’ve been a sore king then.
ALONSO ALONSO
(indicating CALIBAN) (pointing at CALIBAN) This is the strangest
This is a strange thing as e'er I looked on. thing I ever saw in my life.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
305 He is as disproportioned in his manners He’s as ugly in his manners as he is in
As in his shape.—(to CALIBAN) Go, sirrah, to my appearance.—(to CALIBAN) Go, sir, to my room,
cell. and take your companions with you. If you want
Take with you your companions. As you look me to forgive you, make it neat and tidy.
To have my pardon, trim it handsomely.
CALIBAN CALIBAN
Ay, that I will. And I’ll be wise hereafter I will indeed. And after this I’ll be good and hope
310 And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass you forgive me. What an idiot I was to think this
Was I, to take this drunkard for a god drunkard was a god and to worship such a
And worship this dull fool! stupid fool!
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Go to, away. Go away, now.
ALONSO ALONSO
Original Modern
(to STEPHANO and TRINCULO)
(to STEPHANO and TRINCULO) Go, and put
Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it.
your garbage back where you found it.
SEBASTIAN SEBASTIAN
315 Or stole it, rather.
Or stole it, rather.
Exeunt CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO exit.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Sir, I invite your highness and your train Sir, I invite your highness and your entourage to
To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest my little room, where you can sleep tonight. But
For this one night, which—part of it—I’ll waste for this evening—part of it, at least—I’ll tell you
With such discourse as, I not doubt, shall make it tales to make the time pass quickly. I’ll narrate
320 Go quick away: the story of my life the story of my life, and give you all the details of
And the particular accidents gone by what happened to me since I first came to this
Since I came to this isle. And in the morn island. And in the morning I’ll take you to your
I’ll bring you to your ship and so to Naples, ship and we’ll sail to Naples, where I hope to see
Where I have hope to see the nuptial this loving couple married. After that I’ll retire to
325 Of these our dear-belovèd solemnized, Milan, where I’ll contemplate my death, which is
And thence retire me to my Milan, where soon to come.
Every third thought shall be my grave.

ALONSO ALONSO
I long I’m dying to hear your life story, which must be a
To hear the story of your life, which must strange tale.
Take the ear strangely.
PROSPERO PROSPERO
I’ll deliver all, I’ll tell you everything, and I promise to give you
330 And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales, calm seas and favorable winds for your trip.
And sail so expeditious that shall catch You’ll sail so fast that you’ll catch up with the
Your royal fleet far off.—(aside to ARIEL) My Ariel, royal navy.—(speaking so that only ARIEL can
chick, hear) My Ariel, baby, that job’s for you. After that
That is thy charge. Then to the elements you’ll be free as the air. Farewell!—Please, all
Be free, and fare thou well!—Please you, draw near. the rest of you, come closer.
Exeunt omnes They all exit.
Act 5, Epilogue
Spoken by PROSPERO
PROSPERO PROSPERO
Now my charms are all o'erthrown, Now my spells are all broken,
And what strength I have’s mine own, And the only power I have is my own,
Which is most faint. Now, ’tis true, Which is very weak. Now you all
I must be here confined by you, Have got the power to keep me prisoner here,
5 Or sent to Naples. Let me not, Or send me off to Naples. Please don’t
Since I have my dukedom got Keep me here on this desert island
And pardoned the deceiver, dwell With your magic spells. Release
In this bare island by your spell, me So I can return to my dukedom
But release me from my bands With your help. The gentle wind
10 With the help of your good hands. You blow with your applause
Gentle breath of yours my sails Will fill my ship’s sails. Without applause,
Must fill, or else my project fails, My plan to please you has failed.
Which was to please. Now I want Now I have no spirits to enslave,
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant, No magic to cast spells,
15 And my ending is despair, And I’ll end up in despair
Original Modern
Unless I be relieved by prayer,
Unless I’m relieved by prayer,
Which pierces so that it assaults
Which wins over God himself
Mercy itself and frees all faults.
And absolves all sins.
As you from crimes would pardoned be,
Just as you’d like to have your sins forgiven,
20 Let your indulgence set me free.
Indulge me, forgive me, and set me free.
Exit He exits.

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