Year 7 English - Cycle 1 – 2021-22

Key Extracts:
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare

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Key characters
The settings
 ‘The Tempest’ by William Shakespeare

1 Act 1: The storm
2 Somewhere near Italy, a huge storm rages at sea. There is chaos on the
3 boat as everyone shouts and runs around. King Alonso of Naples is
4 travelling with his son, Prince Ferdinand. Also aboard are the King’s
5 brother, Sebastian, his adviser, Gonzalo, a duke called Antonio, a butler
6 named Stephano, and a jester named Trinculo. The royal party begin to
7 fear for their lives as lightning cracks and the mariners cry that the ship
8 has been hit. Everyone prepares to sink.
9 From a nearby island, a young woman, Miranda, watches the huge
10 tempest. She is fifteen and has never known anything other than this
11 isolated life. She lives with her father, Prospero, who has studied magic
12 and can conjure up natural forces. Distressed by the sight of the
13 shipwreck, Miranda begs her father to calm the storm and help the poor
14 souls at sea. He reassures her that it will calm down now; nobody will be
15 harmed.
16 Prospero tells Miranda it is time she learned more about herself and her
17 past, a story he has often started to tell her but never finished. He
18 reveals that he conjured the storm. Just twelve years ago, Prospero was
19 the Duke of Milan. But he became so involved with his books and secret
20 studies that he did not realise his brother, Antonio, was stealing power
21 from him. Alongside King Alonso, Antonio plotted against Prospero.
22 When Miranda was just three years old, hired soldiers dragged them
23 from their home and put them out to sea on a small rotten raft. The
24 kindly Gonzalo took pity on them and gave them food and water.
25 Prospero and Miranda survived and arrived at the lonely island. Since
26 then, it has been a place of contemplation and magic for Prospero, who
27 never tires of studying his magic books in his cell.
28 Using his magic to put Miranda to sleep, Prospero calls upon his spirit
29 servant, Ariel. Ariel has helped Prospero to make the storm and asks for
30 his freedom in return, but Prospero refuses, reminding Ariel how he
31 rescued the spirit from the trunk of a pine tree where the witch Sycorax
32 had left him encased. Prospero threatens Ariel but promises him his
33 freedom in two days if he is obedient.
34 At the end of the act, Ferdinand, who has been shipwrecked, is magically
35 led to Miranda. The pair fall in love at first sight, but Prospero decides to
36 test their love by making Ferdinand perform chores for him such as
37 chopping wood.
38 Act 2: The shipwrecked crew
39 Meanwhile, the shipwrecked crew roam around the island amazed,
40 searching for each other. Ariel uses magical music to lead them astray.
41 Mysteriously, their clothes are not wet – in fact, they are cleaner than
42 before the storm. King Alonso mourns for his son Ferdinand who he
43 fears is dead. Sebastian and Antonio plot to kill the King while he is 65 out for them. After they touch the clothing, sprites and spirit dogs chase
44 asleep, but they are foiled by Ariel. 66 the unlucky pair away.

45 In another part of the island, the timid court fool, Trinculo, has come
46 ashore and discovered Caliban, the misshapen, inhuman son of the old
47 witch Sycorax.
48 Prospero taught Caliban to speak when he first met him and was like a
49 father to him. In turn, Caliban showed Prospero every inch of the island
50 and shared all his secrets with him. But one day Prospero caught him
51 trying to attack Miranda. Enraged, Prospero turned Caliban into a slave;
52 he has made him chop wood ever since and uses magic to inflict pain
53 upon the creature. Caliban is deeply unhappy in his captive life.
67 Act 5: The end
68 Ariel brings all the shipwrecked courtiers to the cell where Prospero,
69 renouncing his magic, reveals himself. He explains that he needed to
70 punish his brother Antonio and talks about the dark events of the past.
71 He announces that Ferdinand and Miranda are betrothed. King Alonso
72 is repentant, and Prospero finally forgives him then accepts the return
73 of his dukedom. Fulfilling his promise, Prospero frees Ariel, who is
74 desperate for his freedom, and abandons his magic powers, throwing his
75 book into the water.

54 Acts 3 and 4: The plot 76 The play ends as all go to celebrate their reunions. Prospero prepares to
77 leave the island and travel to Milan.
55 Stephano – the ship’s butler – finds Caliban and Trinculo. Caliban
56 suggests that they kill Prospero and make Stephano the lord of the
57 island. They get very drunk and set off to kill Prospero in his cell. Little
58 do they know that Ariel saw the whole thing in his invisible state. He
59 immediately reports this wicked plot to his master.

60 Meanwhile, Prospero has relented and allowed Ferdinand and Miranda

61 to marry. He entertains them with a masque of goddesses before he
62 remembers Caliban’s plot.

63 Prospero and Ariel set a trap for the three plotters. Stephano and
64 Trinculo fall for the plot and become distracted by gaudy clothes hung
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2 Context: ‘The Tempest’

3 ‘The Tempest’ was written by William Shakespeare, a playwright who
4 lived in the late 16th to early 17th century, writing from the 1580s until
5 1613. Shakespeare wrote 37 plays in total as well as many sonnets (love
6 poems).
7 Shakespeare’s plays were performed onstage during his lifetime and
8 were extremely popular. All sectors of society came to watch, from
9 peasants to the upper classes and nobility. King James even sponsored
10 Shakespeare’s theatre company.
11 Shakespeare’s plays can be divided into three genres: tragedy, history,
12 and comedy. Tragedies contain dramatic and unhappy events. Histories
13 dramatise the lives of famous figures from the past.
21 way, but they usually get their happy ending and are married at the end
22 of the play.
23 However, there are a lot of tricks, deception, and misunderstandings
24 before the happy ending! The second convention of this genre is
25 confusion. Characters may disguise themselves and pretend to be the
26 opposite gender, have a different job, or even turn into another creature
27 entirely!
28 Finally, Shakespearean comedy often involves magic merging with
29 reality. Spells and potions are used to control or trick other characters.

14 The conventions of Shakespearean comedy

15 Despite their name, Shakespeare’s comedies are not called that simply
16 because they are entertaining or funny. In fact, many comedies have
17 dramatic and distressing moments. However, they are usually more
18 light-hearted in tone than histories and tragedies.

19 The first convention of a Shakespearean comedy is that two characters

20 fall in love. These characters may encounter some difficulties along the
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Boatswain All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost!

None that I more love than myself. You are a
Extract One: ACT I, Scene 1 Boatswain
counsellor; if you can command these elements to
What, must our mouths be cold?
25 silence, and work the peace of the present, we will
On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise of thunder and not hand a rope more; use your authority: if you GONZALO
lightning heard. cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make The king and prince at prayers! let's assist them,
yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of 55 For our case is as theirs.
Enter a Master and a Boatswain the hour, if it so hap. Cheerly, good hearts! Out
SEBASTIAN
30 of our way, I say.
I'm out of patience.
Down with the topmast! yare! lower, lower! Bring
BOATSWAIN ANTONIO
her to try with main-course.
5 Here, master: what cheer? We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards:
A cry within This wide-chapp'd rascal--would thou mightst lie
MASTER drowning
Good, speak to the mariners: fall to't, yarely, 60 The washing of ten tides!
or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir. A plague upon this howling! they are louder than
35 the weather or our office. GONZALO
He'll be hang'd yet,
10 Exit
Though every drop of water swear against it
Re-enter SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, and GONZALO And gape at widest to glut him.
Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO,
FERDINAND, GONZALO, and others Yet again! what do you here? Shall we give o'er A confused noise within: 'Mercy on us!'-- 'We split, we
and drown? Have you a mind to sink? 65 split!'--'Farewell, my wife and children!'-- 'Farewell,
ALONSO SEBASTIAN brother!'--'We split, we split, we split!'
Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master? A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous,
Play the men. 40 incharitable dog! ANTONIO
Boatswain Boatswain Let's all sink with the king.
15 I pray now, keep below. Work you then. SEBASTIAN
ANTONIO ANTONIO Let's take leave of him.
Where is the master, boatswain? Hang, cur! hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker!
Boatswain We are less afraid to be drowned than thou art. Exeunt ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN
Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: keep your GONZALO
cabins: you do assist the storm. 45 I'll warrant him for drowning; though the ship were GONZALO
GONZALO no stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an 70 Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an
Nay, good, be patient. unstanched wench. acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, any
thing. The wills above be done! but I would fain
Boatswain Boatswain
die a dry death.
20 When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers Lay her a-hold, a-hold! set her two courses off to
for the name of king? To cabin: silence! trouble us not. sea again; lay her off.
50 Exeunt
GONZALO Enter Mariners wet
Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard. Mariners 75
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Extract Two: ACT I, Scene 2
SCENE II. The island. Before PROSPERO'S cell.
Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA
MIRANDA
If by your art, my dearest father, you have
Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.
The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,
5 But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek,
Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer: a brave vessel,
Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her,
Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock
10 Against my very heart. Poor souls, they perish'd.
Had I been any god of power, I would
Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere
It should the good ship so have swallow'd and
The fraughting souls within her.
15
PROSPERO
Be collected:
No more amazement: tell your piteous heart
There's no harm done.
MIRANDA
20 O, woe the day!
PROSPERO
No harm.
I have done nothing but in care of thee,
Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who
Art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing
25 Of whence I am, nor that I am more better
Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,
And thy no greater father.
MIRANDA
More to know
Did never meddle with my thoughts.
PROSPERO MIRANDA
30 'Tis time O, good sir, I do.
I should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand,
And pluck my magic garment from me. So: ….
MIRANDA
Lays down his mantle
Wherefore did they not
That hour destroy us?
Lie there, my art. Wipe thou thine eyes; have comfort.
35 The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd PROSPERO
The very virtue of compassion in thee, Well demanded, wench:
I have with such provision in mine art 65 My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not,
So safely ordered that there is no soul-- So dear the love my people bore me, nor set
No, not so much perdition as an hair A mark so bloody on the business, but
40 Betid to any creature in the vessel With colours fairer painted their foul ends.
Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. Sit In few, they hurried us aboard a bark,
down; 70 Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared
For thou must now know farther. A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigg'd,
Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats
…. Instinctively had quit it: there they hoist us,
To cry to the sea that roar'd to us, to sigh
PROSPERO 75 To the winds whose pity, sighing back again,
And Prospero the prime duke, being so reputed Did us but loving wrong.
45 In dignity, and for the liberal arts
Without a parallel; those being all my study, MIRANDA
The government I cast upon my brother Alack, what trouble
And to my state grew stranger, being transported Was I then to you!
And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle--
50 Dost thou attend me? PROSPERO
80 O, a cherubim
MIRANDA Thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile.
Sir, most heedfully. Infused with a fortitude from heaven,
When I have deck'd the sea with drops full salt,
PROSPERO Under my burthen groan'd; which raised in me
Being once perfected how to grant suits, 85 An undergoing stomach, to bear up
How to deny them, who to advance and who Against what should ensue.
To trash for over-topping, new created
55 The creatures that were mine, I say, or changed 'em, MIRANDA
Or else new form'd 'em; having both the key How came we ashore?
Of officer and office, set all hearts i' the state
To what tune pleased his ear; that now he was PROSPERO
The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, By Providence divine.
60 And suck'd my verdure out on't. Thou attend'st not.
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PROSPERO ARIEL
Extract Three: ACT I, Scene 2 Why that's my spirit! Past the mid season.
But was not this nigh shore?
PROSPERO
ARIEL ARIEL At least two glasses. The time 'twixt six and now
All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come Close by, my master. Must by us both be spent most preciously.
To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly,
To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride PROSPERO ARIEL
On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task But are they, Ariel, safe? Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains,
5 Ariel and all his quality. 65 Let me remember thee what thou hast promised,
ARIEL Which is not yet perform'd me.
PROSPERO 35 Not a hair perish'd;
Hast thou, spirit, On their sustaining garments not a blemish, PROSPERO
Perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee? But fresher than before: and, as thou badest me, How now? moody?
In troops I have dispersed them 'bout the isle. What is't thou canst demand?
ARIEL The king's son have I landed by himself;
To every article. 40 Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs ARIEL
I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak, In an odd angle of the isle and sitting, My liberty.
10 Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin, His arms in this sad knot.
I flamed amazement: sometime I'ld divide, PROSPERO
And burn in many places; on the topmast, PROSPERO 70 Before the time be out? no more!
The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, Of the king's ship
Then meet and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors The mariners say how thou hast disposed ARIEL
15 O' the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary 45 And all the rest o' the fleet. I prithee,
And sight-outrunning were not; the fire and cracks Remember I have done thee worthy service;
Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune ARIEL Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served
Seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble, Safely in harbour Without or grudge or grumblings: thou didst promise
Yea, his dread trident shake. Is the king's ship; in the deep nook, where once 75 To bate me a full year.
Thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew
PROSPERO From the still-vex'd Bermoothes, there she's hid: PROSPERO
20 My brave spirit! 50 The mariners all under hatches stow'd; Dost thou forget
Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil Who, with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour, From what a torment I did free thee?
Would not infect his reason? I have left asleep; and for the rest o' the fleet
Which I dispersed, they all have met again ARIEL
ARIEL And are upon the Mediterranean flote, No.
Not a soul 55 Bound sadly home for Naples,
But felt a fever of the mad and play'd Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd …
25 Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners And his great person perish.
Plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel, PROSPERO
Then all afire with me: the king's son, Ferdinand, PROSPERO Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot
With hair up-staring,--then like reeds, not hair,-- Ariel, thy charge 80 The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy
Was the first man that leap'd; cried, 'Hell is empty Exactly is perform'd: but there's more work. Was grown into a hoop? hast thou forgot her?
30 And all the devils are here.' 60 What is the time o' the day?
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Extract Four: Act 1 Scene 2 Water with berries in't, and teach me how 80
To name the bigger light, and how the less, PROSPERO
PROSPERO That burn by day and night: and then I loved thee Hag-seed, hence!
Come forth, I say! there's other business for thee: And show'd thee all the qualities o' the isle, Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou'rt best,
5 Come, thou tortoise! when? 40 The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile: To answer other business. Shrug'st thou, malice?
Cursed be I that did so! All the charms 85 If thou neglect'st or dost unwillingly
Re-enter ARIEL like a water-nymph Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you! What I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps,
For I am all the subjects that you have, Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar
Which first was mine own king: and here you sty me That beasts shall tremble at thy din.
Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel, 45 In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me
Hark in thine ear. The rest o' the island. 90 CALIBAN
ARIEL No, pray thee.
10 My lord it shall be done. PROSPERO
Thou most lying slave, Aside
Exit 50 Whom stripes may move, not kindness! I have used
thee,
Filth as thou art, with human care, and lodged thee I must obey: his art is of such power,
PROSPERO It would control my dam's god, Setebos,
Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate
The honour of my child. 95 and make a vassal of him.
Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!
55
CALIBAN PROSPERO
15 Enter CALIBAN O ho, O ho! would't had been done! So, slave; hence!
Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else
CALIBAN This isle with Calibans.
As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd 60
With raven's feather from unwholesome fen PROSPERO
Drop on you both! a south-west blow on ye Abhorred slave,
20 And blister you all o'er! Which any print of goodness wilt not take,
Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,
PROSPERO 65 Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour
For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps, One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage,
Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like
25 Shall, for that vast of night that they may work, A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes
All exercise on thee; thou shalt be pinch'd With words that made them known. But thy vile race,
As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging 70 Though thou didst learn, had that in't which
Than bees that made 'em. good natures
Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou
30 CALIBAN Deservedly confined into this rock,
I must eat my dinner. Who hadst deserved more than a prison.
This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, 75
Which thou takest from me. When thou camest first, CALIBAN
Thou strokedst me and madest much of me, wouldst You taught me language; and my profit on't
35 give me Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you
For learning me your language!
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Extract Five: Act 1, Scene 2 PROSPERO They are both in either's powers; but this swift
How? the best? 55 business
Scene context: Ariel is onstage, invisible, playing and 30 What wert thou, if the King of Naples heard thee? I must uneasy make, lest too light winning
singing, leading Ferdinand towards it. (Love is Make the prize light.
FERDINAND
associated with magic) A single thing, as I am now, that wonders
To hear thee speak of Naples. He does hear me; To FERDINAND
MIRANDA And that he does I weep: myself am Naples,
What is't? a spirit? Who with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld One word more; I charge thee
Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir, 35 The king my father wreck'd. That thou attend me: thou dost here usurp
It carries a brave form. But 'tis a spirit. MIRANDA 60 The name thou owest not; and hast put thyself
Alack, for mercy! Upon this island as a spy, to win it
PROSPERO
From me, the lord on't.
5 No, wench; it eats and sleeps and hath such senses FERDINAND
As we have, such. This gallant which thou seest Yes, faith, and all his lords; the Duke of Milan FERDINAND
Was in the wreck; and, but he's something stain'd And his brave son being twain. No, as I am a man.
With grief that's beauty's canker, thou mightst call him
PROSPERO MIRANDA
A goodly person: he hath lost his fellows
[Aside] The Duke of Milan There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
10 And strays about to find 'em.
65 If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
40 And his more braver daughter could control thee,
MIRANDA If now 'twere fit to do't. At the first sight Good things will strive to dwell with't.
I might call him They have changed eyes. Delicate Ariel, PROSPERO
A thing divine, for nothing natural I'll set thee free for this. Follow me.
I ever saw so noble.
Speak not you for him; he's a traitor. Come;
PROSPERO To FERDINAND I'll manacle thy neck and feet together:
[Aside] It goes on, I see, 70 Sea-water shalt thou drink; thy food shall be
15 As my soul prompts it. Spirit, fine spirit! I'll free thee
A word, good sir;
The fresh-brook muscles, wither'd roots and husks
Within two days for this. Wherein the acorn cradled. Follow.
45 I fear you have done yourself some wrong: a word.
FERDINAND
MIRANDA
Most sure, the goddess
Why speaks my father so ungently? This
On whom these airs attend! Vouchsafe my prayer
Is the third man that e'er I saw, the first
May know if you remain upon this island;
That e'er I sigh'd for: pity move my father
20 And that you will some good instruction give
To be inclined my way!
How I may bear me here: my prime request,
Which I do last pronounce, is, O you wonder! FERDINAND
If you be maid or no? 50 O, if a virgin,
And your affection not gone forth, I'll make you
MIRANDA
The queen of Naples.
No wonder, sir;
25 But certainly a maid. PROSPERO
Soft, sir! one word more.
FERDINAND
My language! heavens!
I am the best of them that speak this speech, Aside
Were I but where 'tis spoken.
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Extract Six: Act 2, Scene 1 salt water.

SEBASTIAN […]
Another part of the island. Of that there's none, or little.
ALONSO
5 Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, 35 GONZALO 65 You cram these words into mine ears against
GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others
How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green! The stomach of my sense. Would I had never
Married my daughter there! for, coming thence,
GONZALO
ANTONIO My son is lost and, in my rate, she too,
Beseech you, sir, be merry; you have cause,
The ground indeed is tawny. Who is so far from Italy removed
10 So have we all, of joy; for our escape
40 70 I ne'er again shall see her. O thou mine heir
Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of woe
SEBASTIAN Of Naples and of Milan, what strange fish
Is common; every day some sailor's wife,
With an eye of green in't. Hath made his meal on thee?
The masters of some merchant and the merchant
Have just our theme of woe; but for the miracle,
ANTONIO FRANCISCO
15 I mean our preservation, few in millions
45 He misses not much. 75 Sir, he may live:
Can speak like us: then wisely, good sir, weigh
I saw him beat the surges under him,
Our sorrow with our comfort.
SEBASTIAN And ride upon their backs; he trod the water,
No; he doth but mistake the truth totally. Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted
ALONSO
The surge most swoln that met him; his bold head
20 Prithee, peace.
50 GONZALO 80 'Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oar'd
But the rarity of it is,--which is indeed almost Himself with his good arms in lusty stroke
SEBASTIAN
beyond credit,-- To the shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd,
He receives comfort like cold porridge.
As stooping to relieve him: I not doubt
[…]
SEBASTIAN He came alive to land.
25 55 As many vouched rarities are. 85
GONZALO
Here is everything advantageous to life.
GONZALO
That our garments, being, as they were, drenched in
ANTONIO
the sea, hold notwithstanding their freshness and
30 True; save means to live.
60 glosses, being rather new-dyed than stained with
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Extract Seven: Act 2, Scene 2
Another part of the island.
Enter CALIBAN with a burden of wood. A noise of
thunder heard
CALIBAN
All the infections that the sun sucks up
From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall and make him
By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me
And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch,
5 Fright me with urchin--shows, pitch me i' the mire,
Nor lead me, like a firebrand, in the dark
Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but
For every trifle are they set upon me;
Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me
10 And after bite me, then like hedgehogs which
Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount
Their pricks at my footfall; sometime am I
All wound with adders who with cloven tongues
Do hiss me into madness.
Enter TRINCULO
15 Lo, now, lo!
Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me
For bringing wood in slowly. I'll fall flat;
Perchance he will not mind me.
TRINCULO
Here's neither bush nor shrub, to bear off
20 any weather at all, and another storm brewing;
I hear it sing i' the wind: yond same black
cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul
bombard that would shed his liquor. If it
should thunder as it did before, I know not
25 where to hide my head: yond same cloud cannot
choose but fall by pailfuls. What have we
here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish:
he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-
like smell; a kind of not of the newest Poor-
30 John. A strange fish! Were I in England now,
as once I was, and had but this fish painted,
not a holiday fool there but would give a piece
of silver: there would this monster make a
man; any strange beast there makes a man:
35 when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame
beggar, they will lazy out ten to see a dead
Indian. Legged like a man and his fins like
arms! Warm o' my troth! I do now let loose
my opinion; hold it no longer: this is no fish,
40 but an islander, that hath lately suffered by a
thunderbolt.
Thunder
Alas, the storm is come again! my best way is to
creep under his gaberdine; there is no other
shelter hereabouts: misery acquaints a man with
45 strange bed-fellows. I will here shroud till the
dregs of the storm be past.
Enter STEPHANO, singing: a bottle in his hand
STEPHANO
I shall no more to sea, to sea,
Here shall I die ashore--
This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's
50 funeral: well, here's my comfort.
Drinks
Sings
The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I,
The gunner and his mate
Loved Mall, Meg and Marian and Margery,
But none of us cared for Kate;
55 For she had a tongue with a tang,
Would cry to a sailor, Go hang!
She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch,
Yet a tailor might scratch her where'er she did itch:
Then to sea, boys, and let her go hang!
60 This is a scurvy tune too: but here's my comfort.
Drinks
CALIBAN
Do not torment me: Oh!
STEPHANO
What's the matter? Have we devils here? Do you put
tricks upon's with savages and men of Ind, ha? I
have not scaped drowning to be afeard now of your
65 four legs; for it hath been said, As proper a man as
ever went on four legs cannot make him give ground;
and it shall be said so again while Stephano
breathes at's nostrils.
CALIBAN
The spirit torments me; Oh!
STEPHANO
70 This is some monster of the isle with four legs, who
hath got, as I take it, an ague. Where the devil
should he learn our language? I will give him some
relief, if it be but for that. if I can recover him
and keep him tame and get to Naples with him, he's a
75 present for any emperor that ever trod on neat's
leather.
CALIBAN
Do not torment me, prithee; I'll bring my wood home
faster.
STEPHANO
He's in his fit now and does not talk after the
80 wisest. He shall taste of my bottle: if he have
never drunk wine afore will go near to remove his
fit. If I can recover him and keep him tame, I will
not take too much for him; he shall pay for him that
hath him, and that soundly.
85
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Extract Eight: Act 2, Scene 2 CALIBAN TRINCULO

40 I have seen thee in her and I do adore thee: A most ridiculous monster, to make a wonder of a
My mistress show'd me thee and thy dog and thy Poor drunkard!
CALIBAN
bush.
[Aside] These be fine things, and if they be 80 CALIBAN
5 not sprites. STEPHANO I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow;
That's a brave god and bears celestial liquor. Come, swear to that; kiss the book: I will furnish And I with my long nails will dig thee pignuts;
I will kneel to him. 45 it anon with new contents swear. Show thee a jay's nest and instruct thee how
To snare the nimble marmoset; I'll bring thee
STEPHANO TRINCULO
How didst thou 'scape? How camest thou hither? By this good light, this is a very shallow monster!
85 To clustering filberts and sometimes I'll get thee
Young scamels from the rock. Wilt thou go with me?
10 swear by this bottle how thou camest hither. I I afeard of him! A very weak monster! The man i'
escaped upon a butt of sack which the sailors the moon! A most poor credulous monster! Well STEPHANO
heaved o'erboard, by this bottle; which I made of 50 drawn, monster, in good sooth! I prithee now, lead the way without any more
the bark of a tree with mine own hands since I was talking. Trinculo, the king and all our company
CALIBAN
cast ashore.
I'll show thee every fertile inch o' th' island;
90 else being drowned, we will inherit here: here;
bear my bottle: fellow Trinculo, we'll fill him by
15 CALIBAN And I will kiss thy foot: I prithee, be my god.
and by again.
I'll swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject;
TRINCULO
for the liquor is not earthly. CALIBAN
55 By this light, a most perfidious and drunken
[Sings drunkenly]
STEPHANO monster! when 's god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle.
Here; swear then how thou escapedst.
95 Farewell master; farewell, farewell!
CALIBAN
TRINCULO
20 TRINCULO I'll kiss thy foot; I'll swear myself thy subject.
A howling monster: a drunken monster!
Swum ashore. man, like a duck: I can swim like a
STEPHANO
duck, I'll be sworn. CALIBAN
60 Come on then; down, and swear.
No more dams I'll make for fish
STEPHANO
Here, kiss the book. Though thou canst swim like a
TRINCULO 100 Nor fetch in firing
I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed At requiring;
25 duck, thou art made like a goose.
monster. A most scurvy monster! I could find in my Nor scrape trencher, nor wash dish
TRINCULO heart to beat him,-- 'Ban, 'Ban, Cacaliban
O Stephano. hast any more of this? Has a new master: get a new man.
65 STEPHANO
105 Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! freedom,
STEPHANO Come, kiss.
hey-day, freedom!
The whole butt, man: my cellar is in a rock by the
TRINCULO
30 sea-side where my wine is hid. How now, moon-calf!
But that the poor monster's in drink: an abominable
STEPHANO
how does thine ague? O brave monster! Lead the way.
monster!
CALIBAN
Hast thou not dropp'd from heaven?
70 CALIBAN Exeunt
I'll show thee the best springs; I'll pluck thee berries;
STEPHANO I'll fish for thee and get thee wood enough.
35 Out o' the moon, I do assure thee: I was the man i' A plague upon the tyrant that I serve! 110
the moon when time was. I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee,
75 Thou wondrous man.
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Extract Nine: Act 3, Scene 1 So perfect and so peerless, are created FERDINAND
Of every creature's best! Wherefore weep you?
MIRANDA
If you'll sit down, MIRANDA MIRANDA
I'll bear your logs the while: pray, give me that; I do not know At mine unworthiness that dare not offer
I'll carry it to the pile. One of my sex; no woman's face remember, What I desire to give, and much less take
FERDINAND
35 Save, from my glass, mine own; nor have I seen What I shall die to want. But this is trifling;
No, precious creature;
More that I may call men than you, good friend, 70 And all the more it seeks to hide itself,
And my dear father: how features are abroad, The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning!
5 I had rather crack my sinews, break my back,
I am skilless of; but, by my modesty, And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!
Than you should such dishonour undergo,
The jewel in my dower, I would not wish I am your wife, if you will marry me;
While I sit lazy by.
40 Any companion in the world but you, If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow
MIRANDA Nor can imagination form a shape, 75 You may deny me; but I'll be your servant,
It would become me Besides yourself, to like of. But I prattle Whether you will or no.
As well as it does you: and I should do it Something too wildly and my father's precepts
FERDINAND
10 With much more ease; for my good will is to it, I therein do forget.
My mistress, dearest;
And yours it is against.
FERDINAND And I thus humble ever.
PROSPERO 45 I am in my condition
MIRANDA
Poor worm, thou art infected! A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king;
My husband, then?
This visitation shows it. I would, not so!--and would no more endure
This wooden slavery than to suffer FERDINAND
MIRANDA
You look wearily.
The flesh-fly blow my mouth. Hear my soul speak: 80 Ay, with a heart as willing
50 The very instant that I saw you, did As bondage e'er of freedom: here's my hand.
My heart fly to your service; there resides,
MIRANDA
FERDINAND To make me slave to it; and for your sake
And mine, with my heart in't; and now farewell
15 No, noble mistress;'tis fresh morning with me Am I this patient log--man.
Till half an hour hence.
When you are by at night. I do beseech you--
MIRANDA
Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers-- FERDINAND
Do you love me?
What is your name? A thousand thousand!
FERDINAND
MIRANDA
Miranda.--O my father,
55 O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound Exeunt FERDINAND and MIRANDA severally
And crown what I profess with kind event
20 I have broke your hest to say so!
If I speak true! if hollowly, invert
FERDINAND What best is boded me to mischief! I PROSPERO
Admired Miranda! Beyond all limit of what else i' the world 85 So glad of this as they I cannot be,
Indeed the top of admiration! worth 60 Do love, prize, honour you. Who are surprised withal; but my rejoicing
What's dearest to the world! Full many a lady At nothing can be more. I'll to my book,
MIRANDA For yet ere supper-time must I perform
I have eyed with best regard and many a time
I am a fool Much business appertaining.
25 The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage
To weep at what I am glad of.
Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues
Have I liked several women; never any PROSPERO 90 Exit
With so fun soul, but some defect in her Fair encounter
Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace
30 And put it to the foil: but you, O you, 65 On that which breeds between 'em!
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Extract Ten: Act 4, Scene 1
Enter certain Reapers, properly habited: they join with
the Nymphs in a graceful dance; towards the end
whereof PROSPERO starts suddenly, and speaks;
after which, to a strange, hollow, and confused noise,
they heavily vanish
30
PROSPERO
[Aside] I had forgot that foul conspiracy
Of the beast Caliban and his confederates
Against my life: the minute of their plot
5 Is almost come.
To the Spirits
Well done! avoid; no more!
FERDINAND
This is strange: your father's in some passion 35
That works him strongly.
MIRANDA
Never till this day
10 Saw I him touch'd with anger so distemper'd.
PROSPERO
You do look, my son, in a moved sort,
As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, sir. 40
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
15 Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, 45
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve
20 And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life 50
Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vex'd;
Bear with my weakness; my, brain is troubled:
25 Be not disturb'd with my infirmity:
If you be pleased, retire into my cell
And there repose: a turn or two I'll walk, PROSPERO
To still my beating mind. This was well done, my bird.
FERDINAND, MIRANDA
55 Thy shape invisible retain thou still:
The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither,
We wish your peace.
For stale to catch these thieves.
Exeunt ARIEL
I go, I go.
PROSPERO
Come with a thought I thank thee, Ariel: come. Exit
Enter ARIEL PROSPERO
A devil, a born devil, on whose nature
60 Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains,
ARIEL Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost;
Thy thoughts I cleave to. What's thy pleasure? And as with age his body uglier grows,
PROSPERO So his mind cankers. I will plague them all,
Spirit, Even to roaring.
We must prepare to meet with Caliban.
ARIEL 65 Re-enter ARIEL, loaden with glistering apparel, etc
Ay, my commander: when I presented Ceres,
I thought to have told thee of it, but I fear'd Come, hang them on this line.
Lest I might anger thee.
PROSPERO
Say again, where didst thou leave these varlets?
ARIEL
I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking;
So fun of valour that they smote the air
For breathing in their faces; beat the ground
For kissing of their feet; yet always bending
Towards their project. Then I beat my tabour;
At which, like unback'd colts, they prick'd
their ears,
Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses
As they smelt music: so I charm'd their ears
That calf-like they my lowing follow'd through
Tooth'd briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss and thorns,
Which entered their frail shins: at last I left them
I' the filthy-mantled pool beyond your cell,
There dancing up to the chins, that the foul lake
O'erstunk their feet.
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Extract Eleven: Act 5, Scene 1
CALIBAN
O Setebos, these be brave spirits indeed!
How fine my master is! I am afraid
He will chastise me.
SEBASTIAN
5 Ha, ha!
What things are these, my lord Antonio?
Will money buy 'em?
ANTONIO
Very like; one of them
10 Is a plain fish, and, no doubt, marketable.
PROSPERO
Mark but the badges of these men, my lords,
Then say if they be true. This mis-shapen knave,
His mother was a witch, and one so strong
15 That could control the moon, make flows and ebbs,
And deal in her command without her power.
These three have robb'd me; and this demi-devil--
For he's a bastard one--had plotted with them
To take my life. Two of these fellows you
20 Must know and own; this thing of darkness!
Acknowledge mine.
CALIBAN
I shall be pinch'd to death.
ALONSO
25 Is not this Stephano, my drunken butler?
SEBASTIAN
He is drunk now: where had he wine?
ALONSO
And Trinculo is reeling ripe: where should they
30 Find this grand liquor that hath gilded 'em?
How camest thou in this pickle?
TRINCULO
I have been in such a pickle since I
saw you last that, I fear me, will never out of
35 my bones: I shall not fear fly-blowing.
SEBASTIAN
Why, how now, Stephano!
STEPHANO
O, touch me not; I am not Stephano, but a cramp.
40 PROSPERO
You'ld be king o' the isle, sirrah?
STEPHANO
I should have been a sore one then.
ALONSO
45 This is a strange thing as e'er I look'd on.
Pointing to Caliban
PROSPERO
He is as disproportion'd in his manners
As in his shape. Go, sirrah, to my cell;
50 Take with you your companions; as you look
To have my pardon, trim it handsomely.
CALIBAN
Ay, that I will; and I'll be wise hereafter
And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass
55 Was I, to take this drunkard for a god
And worship this dull fool!
PROSPERO
Go to; away!
ALONSO
60 Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it.
SEBASTIAN
Or stole it, rather.
Exeunt CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO
PROSPERO
65 Sir, I invite your highness and your train
To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest
For this one night; which, part of it, I'll waste
With such discourse as, I not doubt, shall make it
Go quick away; the story of my life
70 And the particular accidents gone by
Since I came to this isle: and in the morn
I'll bring you to your ship and so to Naples,
Where I have hope to see the nuptial
Of these our dear-beloved solemnized;
75 And thence retire me to my Milan, where
Every third thought shall be my grave.
ALONSO
I long to hear the story of your life, which must
Take the ear strangely.
80 PROSPERO
I'll deliver all;
And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales
And sail so expeditious that shall catch
Your royal fleet far off.
85 Aside to ARIEL
My Ariel, chick,
That is thy charge: then to the elements
Be free, and fare thou well! Please you, draw near.
Exeunt
90 EPILOGUE, SPOKEN BY PROSPERO
Now my charms are all o'erthrown,
And what strength I have's mine own,
Which is most faint: now, 'tis true,
I must be here confined by you,
95 Or sent to Naples. Let me not,
Since I have my dukedom got
And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell
In this bare island by your spell;
But release me from my bands
100 With the help of your good hands:
Gentle breath of yours my sails
Must fill, or else my project fails,
Which was to please. Now I want
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant,
105 And my ending is despair,
Unless I be relieved by prayer,
Which pierces so that it assaults
Mercy itself and frees all faults.
As you from crimes would pardon'd be,
110 Let your indulgence set me free.