Original subtitles

act 1

What cheer?

Good, speak to the mariners ...

Floundering off the coast of a mysterious and uninhabited island,

a ship, as if by magic,

was suddenly buffeted by cyclone winds and crashing waves.

Aboard the ship was the king of Naples, Alonso,

and his son Ferdinand

and two simple minded servants, Trinculo and Stephano.

Antonio, a villainous nobleman, demands the captain steer them to safety,

as does Sebastian, the king's brother.

Gonzalo, the trusted minister of state,

pleads with fate to save them from a watery grave.

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground,

The wills above be done! but I would fain die a dry death.

Come away, servant,

come. I am ready now.

Approach, my Ariel,

come.

All hail, great master! grave sir, hail!

I come to answer thy best pleasure;

be it to fly, to swim, to dive into the fire, to ride on the curl'd clouds,

to thy strong bidding

task Ariel and all his quality.

Hast thou, spirit, perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee?

To every article.

I boarded the king's ship;

now on the beak, now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin, I flamed amazement:

sometime I'ld divide, and burn in many places;

on the topmast, the yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly,

Then meet and join.

My brave spirit!

Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil would not infect his reason?

Not a soul but felt a fever of the mad and play'd some tricks of desperation.

All but mariners plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel,

Then all afire with me:

the king's son Ferdinand

with hair up-staring,

then like reeds, not hair, was the first man that leap'd, cried:

'Hell is empty and all the devils are here.'

Why that's my spirit!

But was not this nigh shore?

Close by, my master.

But are they, Ariel, safe?

Not a hair perished;

on their sustaining garments not a blemish, but fresher than before:

and as thou badest me, I have in troops dispersed them 'bout this isle.

The king's son have I landed by himself;

whom I left cooling of the air with sighs in an odd angle of the isle,

sitting, his arms in this sad knot.

Of the king's ship,

the mariners, say how thou hast disposed, and all the rest of the fleet?

Safely in harbour is the king's ship;

in the deep nook, where once thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew from the still-vex'd Bermoothes,

there she's hid:

the mariners all under hatches stowed

who, with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labours, I have left asleep;

and for the rest of the fleet which I dispersed, they all have met again

and are upon the Mediterranean flote, bound sadly home for Naples,

supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd and his great person perish.

Ariel, thy charge exactly is perform'd:

but there's more work.

The time 'twixt six and now must by us both be spent most preciously.

Is there more toil?

Since thou dost give me pains, let me remember thee what thou hast promised, which is not yet perform'd me.

How now? moody? What is't thou canst demand?

My Liberty.

Before the time be out? no more!

I prithee, remember I have done thee worthy service;

told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served without or grudge or grumblings:

thou didst promise to bate me a full year.

Dost thou forget from what a torment I did free thee?

No. - Thou dost,

and think'st it much to tread the ooze of the salt deep,

to ride upon the sharp wind of the north,

to do me business in the veins of the earth when it is baked with frost.

I do not, sir.

Thou liest, malignant thing!

Hast thou forgot the foul witch Sycorax?

No, sir. - Thou hast.

This bleared-eyed hag was hither brought with child and here was left by the sailors.

Thou, my slave, as thou report'st thyself, wast then her servant;

And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate to act her earthy and abhorr'd commands,

she did confine thee, in her most unmitigable rage, into a cloven pine;

within which rift imprison'd thou didst painfully remain a dozen years;

within which space she died and left thee there;

then was this island - save for the son that she did litter here,

a freckled whelp hag-born - not honour'd with a human shape.

Yes, Caliban her son. - Dull thing, I say so;

he, that Caliban whom now I keep in service.

Thou best know'st from what a torment I did free thee;

thy groans did make wolves howl

it was a torment to lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax could not again undo:

it was mine art, when I arrived and heard thee, that made gape the pine and let thee out.

I thank thee, master.

If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak

and peg thee in his knotty entrails till thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.

Pardon, master; I will be correspondent to command and do my spiriting gently.

Do so,

and after two days I'll discharge thee.

That's my noble master!

What shall I do? say what; what shall I do?

Go make thyself like a nymph o' the sea:

be subject to no sight but thine and mine,

invisible to every eyeball else.

Hark in thine ear.

My lord, it shall be done.

My dearest father, if by your art you have put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.

The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, 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, dashed all to pieces.

Poor souls, they perished.

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.

Be collected, no more amazement:

tell your piteous heart there's no harm done.

O, woe the day! - 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,

not knowing of whence I am,

nor that I am more better than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,

and thy no greater father.

More to know did never meddle with my thoughts.

'Tis time I should inform thee farther.

Lend thy hand, and pluck my magic garment from me.

So: lie there, my art.

Wipe thou thine eyes; have comfort.

The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touched the very virtue of compassion in thee,

have I with such provision of my art so safely ordered

that there is no soul - no, not so much perdition as an hair betid to any creature in the vessel which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink.

Sit down; for thou must now know farther.

You have often begun to tell me what I am, but stopped concluding 'Stay: not yet.'

The hour's now come; the very minute bids thee ope thine ear;

Obey and be attentive.

Canst thou remember a time before we came unto this cell?

I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not out three years old.

'Tis far off and rather like a dream than an assurance that my remembrance warrants.

Had I not four or five women once that tended me?

Thou hadst, and more, Miranda.

But how is it this lives in thy mind?

What seest thou else in the dark backward and abysm of time?

If thou remember'st aught ere thou camest here, how thou camest here thou mayst.

But that I do not.

Twelve year since, Miranda,

twelve year since,

thy father was the Duke of Milan and a prince of power.

But sir, are not you my father?

Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and she said thou wast my daughter;

and thy father was Duke of Milan

and his only heir

a princess

no worse issued.

But what foul play had we, that we came from thence? or blessed was't we did?

Both, both, my girl: by foul play, as thou say'st, were we heaved thence, but blessedly holp hither.

Please you, farther.

My brother and thy uncle, called Antonio,

I pray thee, mark me -

that a brother should be so perfidious!

He whom next thyself in all the world I loved,

to him I put the manage of my state; into such grew stranger.

being rapt in secret studies,

my false brother, being thus loaded, did believe he was indeed the Duke.

Me, poor man, my library was dukedom large enough: of temporal royalties he thinks me now incapable;

confederates with King of Naples to give him annual tribute, do him homage,

and bend the dukedom yet unbowed to most ignoble stooping.

Dost thou hear?

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

This king of Naples,

being to me an enemy inveterate,

hearkens my brother's suit; which was, that presently he should extirpate me and mine out of the dukedom,

whereon one midnight did Antonio open the gates of Milan, and in the dead of darkness,

a treacherous army levied for the purpose hurried thence me and thy crying self.

Wherefore did they not that hour destroy us?

Well demanded, wench, my tale provokes that question.

Dear, they durst not, so dear the love my people bore me.

They hurried us aboard a bark,

bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared a rotten carcass of a boat,

not rigg'd, nor tackle, sail, nor mast; why the ...

the very rats instinctively had quit it.

there they hoist us, to cry to the sea that roared to us,

to sigh to the winds whose pity, sighing back again, did us but loving wrong.

Alack, what trouble was I then to you!

A cherubim thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile.

Infused with a fortitude from heaven, which raised in me an undergoing stomach, to bear up against what should ensue.

How came we ashore?

By Providence divine.

Some food we had

and some fresh water that a noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo,

out of his charity did give us,

with rich garments, linens, stuffs and necessaries, which since have steadied much.

Would I might but ever see that man?

So.

Of his gentleness, knowing I loved my books,

he furnished me from mine own library

with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Here in this island we arrived,

and here have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit than other princesses can

that have more time for vainer hours and

tutors not so careful.

Heavens thank you for't.

And now, I pray you, for still 'tis beating in my mind, your reason for raising this sea-storm?

Know thus far forth.

By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune, now my dear lady, hath mine enemies brought to this shore;

and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon a most auspicious star,

whose influence if now I court not but omit, my fortunes will ever after droop.

Here cease more questions:

We'll visit Caliban, my slave, who never yields us kind answer.

'Tis a villain, sir, I do not love to look on.

But, as 'tis, we cannot miss him:

he does make our fire, bring in our wood and serves in offices that profit us.

What ho!

Slave!

Caliban!

Thou earth, thou! speak.

There's wood enough within.

Come forth, I say! There's other business for thee:

Come, thou tortoise! when?

Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself upon thy wicked dam, come forth!

As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you both!

A south-west blow on you and blister you all o'er!

For this, tonight, be sure, thou shalt have cramps,

Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up;

urchins shall, for that vast of night that they may work, all exercise on thee;

thou shalt be pinch'd as thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging than bees that made 'em.

I must eat my dinner.

This island's mine,

by Sycorax my mother, which thou takest from me.

When thou camest first, thou ...

strokedst me

and made much of me,

would give me water with berries in't,

and teach me how to name the bigger light, and how the less, that burn by day and night:

and then I loved thee

and show'd thee all the qualities o' the isle,

the fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile:

Cursed be I that did so!

All the charms of Sycorax, toads, bats, beetles light on you!

For I am all the subjects that you have, which first was mine own king:

and here you sty me in this hard rock,

whiles you do keep from me the rest o' the island.

Thou most lying slave, whom stripes may move, not kindness!

I have used thee, filth as thou art, with human care,

lodged thee in mine own cell,

till thou didst seek to violate the honour of my child.

Would't had been done!

Thou didst prevent me.

I would have peopled else this isle with Calibans.

Abhorred slave, which any print of goodness wilt not take, being capable of all ill!

I pitied thee, took pains to make thee speak,

taught thee each hour one thing or other:

when thou didst not, savage, know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like a thing most brutish,

I endow'd thy purposes with words that made them known.

You taught me language; and my profit on't is,

I know how to curse.

The red plague rid you for learning me your language!

Hag-seed, hence!

Fetch us in more fuel; and be quick, thou'rt best,

Shrug'st thou, malice?

If thou neglect'st or dost unwillingly what I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps,

fill all thy bones with aches,

make thee roar that beasts shall tremble at thy din.

No, pray thee.

So, slave; hence!

His art is of such power,

I must obey.

# Come unto these yellow sands

# and then take hands

# Courtsied when you have and kiss'd

# The wild waves whist,

# Foot it featly here and there

# And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.

# hark hark

# The watch-dogs bark!

# Hark, hark! I hear

# The strain of strutting chanticleer

# Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow.

# Cock-a-diddle cock-a-diddle cock-a-diddle

It sounds no more.

Sitting on a bank, weeping again the king my father's wreck, this music crept by me upon the waters,

allaying both their fury and my passion with its sweet air:

thence I have follow'd it,

Or it hath drawn me rather.

But 'tis gone.

No, it begins again.

This is no mortal business.

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance

and say what thou seest yond.

What is't?

A spirit?

Lord, how it looks about!

Believe me, sir, it carries a brave form. But 'tis a spirit.

No, wench; it eats and sleeps and hath such senses as we have,

such.

This gallant whom thou seest was in the wreck;

he hath lost his fellows and strays about to find 'em

thou mightst call him a goodly person:

Oh, I might call him a thing divine, for nothing natural I ever saw so noble.

It goes on, I see, as my soul prompts it.

Spirit, fine spirit! I'll free thee within two days for this.

Most sure, the goddess on whom these airs attend!

Vouchsafe my prayer may know if you remain upon this island;

and that you will some good instruction give how I may bear me here:

My prime request, which I do last pronounce, is,

O you wonder!

If you be maid or no?

No wonder, sir, but certainly a maid.

My language! Heavens!

I am the best of them that speak this speech, were I but where 'tis spoken.

How? The best?

What wert thou, if the King of Naples heard thee?

A single thing, as I am now, that wonders to hear thee speak of Naples.

myself am Naples, who with mine eyes, beheld the king my father wreck'd.

Alack, for mercy!

Yes, faith,

and all his lords;

At the first sight they have changed eyes.

yet this swift business I must uneasy make, lest too light winning make the prize light.

Good sir, a word.

I fear you have done yourself some wrong: a word.

Why speaks my father so ungently?

This is the third man that e'er I saw, the first that e'er I sigh'd for:

pity move my father to be inclined my way!

O, if a virgin, and your affection not gone forth, I'll make you the queen of Naples.

I charge thee that thou attend me:

thou dost here usurp the name thou owest not;

and hast set thyself upon this island as a spy, to win it from me, the lord on't.

No, as I am a man.

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:

If the ill spirit have so fair a house, good things will strive to dwell with't.

Come on, follow. Speak not you for him; he's a traitor. Come on; I'll manacle thy neck and feet together:

No,

I will resist such entertainment till mine enemy has more power.

O dear father, make not too rash a trial of him, for he's gentle and not fearful.

What? I say, my foot my tutor? Put thy sword up, traitor;

who makest a show but darest not strike, thy conscience is so possess'd with guilt:

I can here disarm thee with this stick

and make thy weapon drop.

I beseech you, father.

Hence! hang not on my garments.

Sir, have pity; I'll be his surety.

Silence! one word more shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee.

What! An advocate for an imposter!

Thou think'st there is no more such shapes as he,

having seen but him and Caliban:

foolish wench!

To the most of men this is a Caliban

and they to him are angels.

My affections are then most humble; I have no ambition to see a goodlier man.

Come on.

Obey!

Have comfort, sir; my father's of a better nature than he appears by speech: this is unwonted which now came from him.

Come, follow.

Speak not for him.

It works.

Thou hast done well, fine Ariel.

Thou shalt be free as mountain winds.

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, 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 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.

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.

Another storm brewing;

I hear it sing the wind:

yond same cloud, yond huge one,

looks like a foul bombard that would shed its liquor.

If it should thunder as it did before,

I know not 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.

Very ancient and fish-like smell.

A strange fish.

Legged like a man,

and its fins like arms.

Warm o' my troth!

I do now let loose my opinion, hold it no longer:

this is no fish,

but an islander, that hath lately suffered by a thunderbolt.

Alas!

The storm is come again.

My best way is to creep under his gaberdine;

there is no other shelter hereabouts.

Misery doth acquaint a man with strange bedfellows.

# 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;

# 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!

# Then to sea, boys, and let her go ...

This is a scurvy tune,

but here's me comfort.

Do not torment me: Oh!

Have we devils here?

I've not escaped the drowning to be afeard now of your four legs.

This is some monster of the isle

who got, as I take it, an ague.

The spirit torments me; Oh!

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 present for any emperor.

Do not torment me, prithee;

I'll bring my wood home faster.

He's in his fit now and does not talk after the wisest. He shall taste of my bottle:

If he have never drunk afore, it will go near to remove his fit.

Now open your mouth;

here is that which will give language to you, cat:

you cannot tell who's your friend:

open your chaps again.

I should know that voice.

It should be -

but he is drowned; and these are devils: O defend me!

Four legs and two voices: a most delicate monster!

Come, come.

Amen!

I will pour some in thy other mouth.

Stephano!

Doth thy other mouth call me?

This is a devil, and no monster: I will ... - Oh, Stephano!

If thou beest Stephano, touch me and speak to me: for I am Trinculo - be not afeard--thy good friend Trinculo.

If thou beest Trinculo, come forth:

I will pull thee by thy lesser legs:

if any be Trinculo's legs, these are they.

Thou art very Trinculo indeed!

But art thou not drowned, Stephano?

And art thou living, Stephano?

O Stephano, two Neapolitans 'scaped!

Prithee, do not turn me about; my stomach is not constant.

These be fine things, an if they be not sprites.

That's a brave god and bears celestial liquor.

I will kneel to him.

How didst thou 'scape? How camest thou hither?

Swear by this bottle how thou camest hither.

I'll swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject;

for the liquor is not earthly.

I escaped upon a butt of sack which the sailors heaved o'erboard,

Swear then how thou escapest?

I swum ashore, man, like a duck.

I can swim like a duck, I'll be sworn.

the ??? is here

Kiss the book.

Though thou canst swim like a duck, thou art made like a goose.

O Stefano, hast any more of this?

The whole butt, man:

my cellar is in a rock by the sea-side

where my wine is hid.

How now, moon-calf!

How does thine ague you?

Hast thou not dropp'd from heaven?

Out o' the moon, I do assure thee: I was the man i' the moon when time was.

I've seen thee in her and I do adore thee:

Come, swear to that; kiss the book:

I will furnish it anon with new contents. Swear.

By this good light, this is a very shallow monster!

I afeard of him!

A very weak monster! The man i' the moon!

A most poor credulous monster!

Well drawn, monster, in good sooth!

I'll show thee every fertile inch o' th' island;

and I will kiss thy foot.

I'll swear myself thy subject.

Come on then!

Down, and swear.

I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed monster.

I could find in my heart to beat him, - Come, kiss. - But that the poor monster's in drink:

An abominable monster!

A plague upon the tyrant that I serve!

I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee,

thou wondrous man.

I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow;

And I with my long nails will dig thee pignuts; show thee a jay's nest

and instruct thee how to snare the nimble marmoset;

I'll bring thee to clustering filberts and sometimes I'll get thee young scamels from the rock.

Wilt thou go with me?

Trinculo,

the king and all our company else being drowned, we will inherit here.

Here, brave monster. Bear my bottle, lead the way!

Farewell master; farewell,

farewell!

A howling monster: a drunken monster!

# No more dams I'll make for fish

# Nor fetch in firing at requiring;

# Nor scrape trencher, nor wash dish

Lead the way! - # 'Ban, 'Ban, Cacaliban

# has a new master

# get a new man.

# 'Ban, 'Ban, Cacaliban

Beseech you, sir, be merry;

you have cause, so have we all, of joy;

for our escape is much beyond our loss.

Prithee, peace.

Though this island seems to be a desert,

uninhabitable and almost inaccessible ...

Yet...

Yet the air breathes upon us here most sweetly.

Here is everything advantageous to life.

True; save means to live.

How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!

Yet ...

Yet the rarity of it is - which is indeed almost beyond credit,

That our garments, being, as they were, drenched in the sea, are now as fresh as when we first put them on.

Is not my garment as fresh as the first day I wore it? I mean, in a sort.

You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.

My son is lost and, I ne'er again shall see him.

O thou mine heir of Naples and of Milan,

what strange fish hath made his meal on thee?

We have lost your son, I fear, forever.

Milan and Naples have more widows in them of this business' making than we bring men to comfort them: The fault's your own.

My lord Sebastian, the truth you speak doth lack some gentleness and time to speak it in:

you rub the sore, when you should bring the plaster.

It is foul weather in us all, good sir, when you are cloudy.

Foul weather?

Very foul.

Had I plantation of this isle, my lord, and were the king on't, what would I do?

In the commonwealth I would by contraries execute all things;

for no kind of traffic would I admit;

no name of magistrate;

Letters should not be known; riches, poverty, and use of service, none;

no use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;

no occupation;

all men idle, all,

and women too, but innocent and pure.

no sovereignty ...

Yet he would be king on't.

All things in common nature would produce without sweat or endeavour:

Treason, felony, sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, would I not have; but

but nature would bring forth, of its own kind, all foison,

all abundance,

to feed my innocent people.

I would with such perfection govern, sir, to excel the golden age.

Long live Gonzalo! - Prithee, no more:

Thou dost talk nothing to me.

What?

So soon asleep!

I wish mine eyes would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts:

I find they are inclined to do so.

We two, my lord, will guard your person while you take your rest, and watch your safety.

Thank you.

Wondrous heavy.

What a strange drowsiness possesses them!

It is the quality of the climate

Why doth it not then our eyelids sink?

I find not myself disposed to sleep.

Nor I; my spirits are nimble.

They fell together as by consent.

They dropp'd, as by a thunder-stroke.

What might, worthy Sebastian?

O, what might?

And yet... - Yes?

My strong imagination sees a crown dropping upon thy head.

What?

Art thou waking?

Do you not hear me speak?

I do; and surely it is a sleepy language and thou speak'st out of thy sleep.

Prithee, say on:

The setting of thine eye and cheek proclaim a matter from thee.

Thus, sir:

It is as impossible the king's son's yet alive, as he that sleeps here swims.

I have no hope that he's undrown'd.

O, out of that 'no hope' what great hope have you!

no hope that way is another way so high a hope that even ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond, but doubt discovery there.

Will you grant with me that Ferdinand is drown'd?

He's gone.

Then, tell me, who's the next heir of Naples?

Say, this were death that now hath seized them;

why, they were no worse than now they are.

There be that can rule Naples as well as he that sleeps;

lords that can prate as amply and unnecessarily as this Gonzalo; I myself could make a chough of as deep chat.

O, that you bore the mind that I do!

What a sleep were this for your advancement!

Do you understand me?

I remember you did supplant your brother Prospero.

True.

And look how well my garments sit upon me.

But, for your conscience?

Ay, sir; where lies that?

I feel not this deity in my bosom.

Here lies your brother,

whom I, with this obedient steel, three inches of it, can lay to bed for ever;

whiles you, doing thus, to this ancient morsel ...

Thy case, dear friend, shall be my precedent;

as thou got'st Milan, I'll come by Naples.

Draw thy sword:

one stroke shall free thee from the tribute which thou payest;

and I the king shall love thee.

My master through his art foresees the danger that you, his friend, are in;

and sends me forth - for else his project dies - to keep thee living.

While you here do snoring lie, open-eyed conspiracy his time doth take.

If of life you have a care, shake off slumber, and beware: Awake, awake!

Now, good angels preserve the king.

Why are you drawn? Wherefore this ghastly looking? What's the matter?

Whiles we stood here securing your repose,

but even now, we heard a hollow burst of bellowing like bulls, or rather lions:

But did't not wake you? It struck mine ear most terribly.

I heard nothing.

O, 'twas a din to fright a monster's ear, to make an earthquake!

Sure, it was the roar of a whole herd of lions.

Heard you this, Gonzalo?

Upon mine honour, sir, there was a humming,

And that a strange one too, which did awake me: I shaked you, sir, and cried:

as mine eyes open'd, I saw their weapons drawn:

there was a noise, That's verily.

'Tis best we stand upon our guard, or that we quit this place.

Lead off this ground;

and let's make further search for my poor son.

Heavens keep him from these beasts!

For he is, sure, i' the island. - Lead away.

Bravely hast thou perform'd, my Ariel;

My high charms work.

And these mine enemies are all knit up in their distractions;

they now are in my power;

act 2

There be some sports are painful, and their labour delight in them sets off:

some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone and most poor matters point to rich ends.

This my mean task would be as heavy to me as odious,

The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead

and makes my labours pleasures.

O, she is ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed,

and he's composed of harshness.

I must remove some thousands of these logs and pile them up.

These sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours.

Alas, now, pray you, work not so hard:

I would the lightning had burnt up those logs that you are enjoin'd to pile! Pray, set it down and rest you:

My father's hard at study, he's safe for these three hours.

O most dear mistress, the sun will set before I shall discharge what I must strive to do.

If you'll sit down, I'll bear your logs the while:

pray, give me that; I'll carry it to the pile.

No, precious creature;

I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, than you should such dishonour undergo, while I sit lazy by.

It would become me as well as it does you: and I should do it with much more ease;

You look wearily.

No, precious creature,

'tis fresh morning with me when you are by at night.

I do beseech you -

chiefly that I may set it in my prayers,

What is your name?

Miranda.

Admired Miranda! Indeed the top of admiration! Worth what's dearest to the world!

Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard and many a time the harmony of their tongues hath into bondage brought my too diligent ear:

for several virtues have I liked several women; but never any with so ...

fun soul, but some defect in her did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed and put it to the foil:

But you,

O you, so perfect and so peerless, are created of every creature's best!

I do not know one of my sex;

no woman's face remember, save, from my glass, mine own;

nor have I seen more that I may call men than you, good friend, and my dear father:

how features are abroad, I am skilless of;

but, by my modesty, the jewel in my dower, I would not wish any companion in the world but you,

Nor can imagination form a shape, besides yourself, to like of.

But I prattle something too wildly and my father's precepts I therein do forget.

I am in my condition a prince, Miranda; I do think, a king;

Hear my soul speak:

The very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly to your service; there resides, to make me slave to it;

and for your sake am I this patient log-man.

Do you love me?

O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound and crown what I profess with kind event if I speak true!

I beyond all limit of what else i' the world do love, prize, honour you.

I am a fool to weep at what I am glad of.

Wherefore weep you?

At mine unworthiness that dare not offer what I desire to give,

and much less take what I shall die to want.

But this is trifling; and all the more it seeks to hide itself, the bigger bulk it shows.

I am your wife if you will marry me;

if not, I'll die your maid:

to be your fellow you may deny me; but I'll be your servant, whether you will or no.

My mistress, dearest; and I thus humble ever.

My husband, then?

Ay, with a heart as willing as bondage e'er of freedom:

Here's my hand.

And mine.

With my heart in't;

And now farewell.

Till half an hour hence.

A thousand thousand!

So glad of this as they I cannot be, who are surprised withal;

yet my rejoicing at nothing can be more.

Heavens rain grace on that which breeds between 'em!

# ???

They say there's but five upon this isle:

we are three of them;

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

Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee: when the butt is out, we will drink water; not a drop before:

thy eyes are almost set in thy head.

Where should they be set else?

He were a brave monster indeed, if they were set in his tail.

The poor monster is my subject,

he shall not suffer indignity.

I thank my noble lord.

Wilt thou be pleased to hearken once again onto the suit I made to thee?

Marry, will I kneel and repeat it;

I will stand, and so shall Trinculo.

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

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

Thou liest.

Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou: I would my valiant master would destroy thee! I do not lie.

Trinculo, interrupt my monster's tale, by this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.

Why, I said nothing. - Mum, then, and no more.

Proceed.

I say, by sorcery he got this island; from me he got it.

If thy greatness will revenge it upon him, thou shalt be lord of it and I will serve thee.

How now can this be compassed? Canst thou bring me to the party?

Yea, yea, my lord: I'll yield him thee asleep, where thou mayst knock a nail into his bead.

Thou liest; thou canst not.

What a pied ninny's this!

Thou scurvy patch!

I do beseech thy greatness, give him blows and take his bottle from him:

Trinculo, interrupt the monster one word further, and, by this hand, I'll make a stock-fish of thee.

What did I? I did nothing.

Didst thou not say he lied? - Thou liest.

Do I so? take thou that. As you like this, give me the lie another time.

Beat him enough: after a little time I'll beat him too.

Prithee, stand farther off.

Now, forward with your tale.

As I said, 'tis a custom with him, in the afternoon to sleep:

there thou mayst brain him, having first seized his books,

or with a log batter his skull,

or paunch him with a stake,

or cut his wezand with thy knife.

Remember first to possess his books;

for without them he's but a sot, as I am,

nor hath not one spirit to command:

they all do hate him rs rootedly as I.

Burn but his books.

And that most deeply to consider is the beauty of his daughter;

he himself calls her a nonpareil:

I never saw a woman, but only Sycorax my dam and she;

But she as far surpasseth Sycorax as great'st does least.

Is it so brave a lass? - Ay, ay.

she will become thy bed, I warrant thee. And bring thee forth brave brood.

Monster,

I will kill this man.

His daughter and I will be king and queen - save our graces!

and Trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys.

Dost thou like the plot, Trinculo?

Excellent.

I am sorry I beat thee;

give me thy hand:

but, while thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head.

Thou makest me merry; I am full of pleasure: Let us be jocund:

will you troll the catch you taught me but while-ere?

Come on, Trinculo, let us sing. Flout 'em and scout 'em,

And scout 'em and flout 'em

And thought is free.

Thought is free.

What is this same?

This is the tune of our catch, sung by the picture of Nobody.

O, forgive me my sins! - Mercy upon us!

Art thou afeard?

No, monster, not I.

Do not be afeared.

The isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.

Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments will hum about mine ears,

and sometimes voices

that, if I then had waked after long sleep, would make me sleep again:

and then, in dreaming, the clouds methought would open

and show riches ready to drop upon me that,

and when I waked,

I cried

to dream again.

This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing.

When Prospero is destroyed.

Within this half hour will he be asleep:

Wilt thou destroy him then?

Upon mine honour!

Wilt come? - I'll follow, Stephano.

Forward!

This will I tell my master.

By'r lakin, I can go no further, sir; my old bones ache:

Old lord, I cannot blame thee. Sit down and rest.

Even here I will put off my hope and keep it no longer for my flatterer:

he is drown'd whom thus we stray to find,

and the sea mocks our frustrate search on land.

Well ...

let him go.

I am right glad that he's so out of hope.

Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.

The next advantage will we take throughly. - Let it be to-night. - No more. - I say, to-night.

Their great guilt, like poison given to work a great time after, now 'gins to bite the spirits.

Let them be hunted soundly!

What harmony is this? My good friends, hark!

Marvellous sweet music!

Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these?

What a living drollery.

If in Naples I should report this now, would they believe me?

If I should say, I saw such islanders -

for, certes, these are people of the island -

who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet, note, their manners are more gentle-kind

than of our human generation you shall find many, nay, almost any.

But they vanish'd strangely.

You are three men of sin,

whom Destiny, that hath to instrument this lower world and what is in't,

the never-surfeited sea hath caused to belch up;

and on this island where man doth not inhabit;

you 'mongst men being most unfit to live.

I have made you mad.

You fools!

I and my fellows are ministers of Fate:

the elements, from whom your swords are temper'd, may as well wound the loud winds, as diminish one dowle that's in my plume:

My fellow-ministers are like invulnerable.

If you could hurt, your swords are now too massy for your strengths

and will not be uplifted.

But remember -

for that's my business to you - that you three from Milan did supplant good Prospero;

Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it, him and his innocent child:

for which foul deed the powers, delaying, not forgetting, have incensed the seas and shores,

yea, all the creatures, against your peace.

Thee of thy son, Alonso, have they bereft;

and do pronounce by me:

lingering perdition,

worse than any death can be at once,

shall step by step attend you and your ways;

whose wraths to guard you from -

which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls upon your heads

is nothing

but

heart-sorrow

and a clear life ensuing.

The long day's task is done.

I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

If I have too austerely punish'd you, your compensation makes amends,

for I have given you here a third of mine own life,

or that for which I live;

all thy vexations were but my trials of thy love

and thou hast strangely stood the test.

Thou, afore Heaven, as my gift and thine own acquisition worthily purchased,

take my daughter.

As I hope for quiet days, fair issue and long life, with such love as 'tis now,

the murkiest den, the most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion. Our worser genius can,

shall never melt mine honour into lust.

Fairly spoke.

Sit then and talk with her,

she is thine own.

What, Ariel!

My industrious servant, Ariel!

What would my potent master?

Here I am.

Thou and thy meaner fellows this last service did worthily perform;

and I must use thee in such another trick.

Go and fetch the rabble, o'er whom I give thee charge, here to this place:

incite them to quick motion;

for I must bestow upon the eyes of this young couple some vanity of mine art:

it is my promise, and they expect it from me.

Presently?

Ay,

with a twink.

Before you can say 'come' and 'go,'

and breathe twice and cry 'so, so,'

each one, tripping on his toe,

will be here with mop and mow.

Do you love me master?

No?

Dearly, my delicate Ariel.

Do not approach till thou dost hear me call.

Do not give dalliance too much the rein:

the strongest oaths are straw to the fire i' the blood:

be more abstemious, or else, good night your vow!

I warrant you sir; the white cold virgin snow upon my heart

abates the ardour of my liver.

Well.

Come, my Ariel! Appear and pertly!

No tongue! All eyes!

Be silent.

# Honour, riches, marriage-blessing, long continuance, and increasing,

# Hourly joys be still upon you!

# Juno sings her blessings upon you.

# Earth's increase, foison plenty, barns and garners never empty,

# Vines and clustering bunches growing,

# Plants with goodly burthen bowing;

# Spring come to you at the farthest

# In the very end of harvest!

# Scarcity and want shall shun you;

# Ceres' blessing so is on you.

I had forgot that foul conspiracy of the beast Caliban and his confederates against my life:

the minute of their plot is almost come.

Well done! avoid;

no more!

This is strange: your father's in some passion that works him strongly.

Never till this day saw I him touch'd with anger so distemper'd.

Sir, I am vex'd;

you bear with my weakness; my own brain is troubled:

be not disturbed with my infirmity:

If you be pleased, you retire into my cell.

And there repose.

We wish your peace.

Come with a thought!

I thank thee.

Ariel, come!

Thy thoughts I cleave to. What's thy pleasure?

Spirit, we must prepare to meet with Caliban.

Ay, my commander.

I have thought to have told thee of it, but I fear'd lest I might anger thee.

The trumpery in my house, go fetch it hither, for stale to catch these thieves.

I go, I go.

A devil, a born devil, on whose nature nurture will never stick;

on whom my pains, humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost;

And as with age his body uglier grows, so his mind cankers.

Come, hang them on this line.

Say again, where didst thou leave these varlets?

I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking;

so fun of valour that they smote the air for breathing in their faces;

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 in the filthy-mantled pool beyond your cell,

there dancing up to the chins,

that the foul lake o'erstunk their feet.

This was well done, my bird.

Thy shape invisible retain thou still:

I will plague them all, even to roaring.

Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not hear a foot fall:

we now are near his cell.

Your fairy monster, which you say is a harmless fairy, has done little better than played the Jack with us.

Ay, to lose our bottles in the pool ...

There is not only disgrace and dishonour in that monster, but an infinite loss.

That's more to me than my wetting:

yet this is your harmless fairy, monster.

Do you hear?

If I should take a displeasure against you, look you!

Thou wert but a lost monster.

Prithee, my king, be quiet.

This is the mouth o' the cell:

no noise, and enter.

Do that good mischief which may make this island thine own for ever,

and I, thy Caliban, for aye thy foot-licker.

Give me thy hand.

I do begin to have bloody thoughts.

Oh, worthy Stephano!

Look here! Look what a wardrobe here is for thee!

Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash.

O, ho, monster! we know what belongs to a frippery.

O king Stephano!

Trinculo, put off that gown, by this hand, I'll have that gown.

Thy grace shall have it.

The dropsy drown this fool! What do you mean to dote thus on such luggage?

Let's alone and do the murder first:

if he awake, from toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches, make us strange stuff.

Here's a garment for't: which shall not go unrewarded while I am king of this country.

I will have none on't: - There's another for't.

Hark, they roar!

Let them be hunted soundly.

At this hour lie at my mercy all mine enemies:

Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou shalt have the air at freedom:

for a little follow, and do me service.

act 3

Now does my project gather to a head:

My charms crack not; my spirits obey; and time goes upright with his carriage.

How's the day?

On the sixth hour;

at which time, my lord, you said our work should cease.

I did say so, when first I raised the tempest.

Say, spirit, how fares the king and's followers?

Confined together in the same fashion as you gave in charge,

just as you left them; all prisoners, sir.

They cannot budge till your release.

The king, his brother and yours, abide all three distracted,

brimful of sorrow and dismay;

but...

chiefly...

him that you term'd, sir, 'The good old lord Gonzalo;'

his tears run down his beard, like winter's drops from eaves of reeds.

So strongly your charm works 'em that if you now beheld them, your affections would become tender.

Dost thou think so, spirit?

Mine would, sir,

were I human.

And mine shall.

Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling of their afflictions,

and shall not myself, one of their kind, that relish all as sharply, passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art?

Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick,

Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury do I take part:

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

they being penitent, the sole drift of my purpose doth extend not a frown further.

Go, bring them here.

My charms I'll break.

Their senses I'll restore.

And they shall be themselves.

I'll fetch them, sir.

Ye elves of hills,

brooks, standing lakes and groves,

and ye that on the sands with printless foot do chase the ebbing Neptune

and do fly him when he comes back.

you demi-puppets that by moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, whereof the ewe not bites,

and you whose pastime is to make midnight mushrooms,

that rejoice to hear the solemn curfew;

by whose aid, weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd the noontide sun,

call'd forth the mutinous winds,

and 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault set roaring war:

to the dread rattling thunder have I given fire

and rifted Jove's stout oak with his own bolt;

a strong-based promontory have I made shake

and by the spurs pluck'd up the pine and cedar:

graves at my command have oped,

waked their sleepers

and let them forth

by my so potent art.

But...

this rough magic I here abjure,

and when I have required some heavenly music,

which even now I do,

I'll break my staff,

bury it certain fathoms in the earth,

and deeper than did ever plummet sound

I'll drown my book.

There stand,

for you are spell-stopp'd.

O good Gonzalo, my true preserver,

and a worthy sir to him you follow'st!

I will pay thy graces home both in word and deed.

Most cruelly didst thou, Alonso, use me and my daughter:

Thy brother was a furtherer in the act.

Thou art pinch'd fort now, Sebastian.

Flesh and blood, you, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition, expell'd remorse and nature;

who, with Sebastian, would here have kill'd your king;

I do forgive thee, unnatural though thou art.

The charm dissolves apace,

and as the morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness,

so their rising senses begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle their clearer reason.

Release them, Ariel.

I will discases me

and myself present as I was sometime

Milan.

# Where the bee sucks, there suck I

# In a cowslip's bell I lie;

# There I couch when owls do cry.

# On the bat's back I do fly

# After summer merrily.

# Merrily, merrily shall I live now

# Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

# Merrily, merrily shall I live now

# Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

Why, that's my dainty Ariel!

I shall miss thee.

But yet thou shalt have freedom:

Set Caliban and his companions free, untie the spell and

presently, I prithee.

I drink the air before me,

and return or ere your pulse twice beat.

All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement inhabits here:

some heavenly power guide us out of this fearful country!

Behold, sir king, the wronged Duke of Milan,

Prospero.

Whether thou best he or no,

or some enchanted trifle to abuse me, as late I have been, I not know:

thy pulse beats as of flesh and blood;

But how should Prospero be living and be here?

First, noble friend, let me embrace thine age, whose honour cannot be measured or confined.

Whether this be or be not, I'll not swear.

You do yet taste some subtilties o' the isle, that will not let you believe things certain.

You are welcome, my friends all!

But you, my brace of lords, were I so minded, I here could pluck his highness' frown upon you and justify you traitors:

at this time I will tell no tales.

The devil speaks in him.

For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother would even infect my mouth,

I do forgive thy rankest fault;

all of them; and require my dukedom of thee, which perforce, I know, thou must restore.

If thou be'st Prospero, give us particulars of thy preservation;

How thou hast met us here, who three hours since were wreck'd upon this shore;

where I have lost -

how sharp the point of this remembrance is -

my dear son Ferdinand.

Irreparable is the loss, and patience says it is past her cure.

I rather think you have not sought her help,

of whose soft grace I for the like loss have her sovereign aid and rest myself content.

You the like loss!

As great to me as late; for I have

lost my daughter.

A daughter?

O heavens, that they were living both in Naples,

the king and queen there!

that they were, I wish myself were mudded in that oozy bed where my son lies.

When did you lose your daughter?

In this last tempest.

But, howsoe'er you have been justled from your senses, know for certain that I am Prospero,

and that very duke that was thrust forth of Milan.

Thy dukedom I resign and do entreat thou pardon me my wrongs.

You are welcome, sir; this cell's my court:

here have I attendants few and subjects none abroad:

My dukedom since you have given me again, I will requite you with as good a thing; at least

bring forth a wonder, to content ye as much as me my dukedom. Pray, you ...

Look in.

Sweet lord, you play me false.

No, my dear'st love, I would not for the world.

Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle, and I would call it, fair play.

If this prove a vision of the Island, one dear son shall I twice lose.

Though the seas threaten, they are merciful; I have cursed them without cause.

Now all the blessings of a glad father compass thee about!

O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is!

O brave new world, that has such people in't!

'Tis new to thee.

What is this maid with whom thou wast at play? Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours:

Is she the goddess that hath sever'd us, and brought us thus together?

Sir, she is mortal; but by immortal Providence she's mine:

She is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan, of whom I have received a second life;

and second father this lady makes him to me.

I am hers: give me your hand.

Was Milan thrust from Milan,

that his issues should become kings of Naples?

O, rejoice beyond a common joy,

and set it down with gold on lasting pillars:

In one voyage did Ferdinand find a wife

where he himself was lost,

Prospero his dukedom in a poor isle,

and all of us ourselves where no man was his own.

This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod...

Sir, my liege, do not infest your mind with beating on the strangeness of this business; at pick'd leisure I'll resolve you.

There are yet missing of your company some few odd lads that you remember not.

If these be true spies which I wear in my head, here's a goodly sight.

O Setebos, these be brave spirits indeed!

How fine my master looks.

I'm afraid he will chastise me.

I shall be pinched to death.

Is not this Stephano, my drunken butler?

He is drunk now: where had he wine?

And Trinculo is reeling ripe:

where should they find this grand liquor that hath gilded 'em? How camest thou in this pickle?

Oh, I have been in such a pickle since I saw you last that, I fear me, will never out of my bones:

Why, how now, Stephano!

O, touch me not; I am not Stephano, but a cramp.

This is a stranger thing as e'er I look'd on.

He is as disproportion'd in his manners as in his shape.

Go, sirrah, to my cell; take with you your companions;

and as you look to have my pardon, trim it handsomely.

Ay,

that I will.

And I'll be wise hereafter and seek for grace.

What a thrice-double ass I was, to take this drunkard for a god

and worship this dull fool!

Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it.

Or stole it, rather.

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

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 it is my hope to see the nuptial of these our dear-beloved solemnized;

And thence retire me to my Milan, where every third thought shall be my grave.

Please you, draw near.

My Ariel, chick,

that is thy charge:

then to the elements be free, and ...

fare thou well!

Our revels now are ended.

These our actors, as I foretold you, were all spirits and are melted into air,

into thin air.

And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,

the solemn temples, the great globe itself,

ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve

and, like this insubstantial pageant faded,

leave not a rack behind.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on,

And our little life is rounded ...

with a sleep.

The Tempest

Engl. subtitles: William Shakespeare timings: serdar202@KG 2024