As in the larger work, we have numbered the lines of each scene for convenience of reference. In the stage directions we have preserved as far as we could, consistently with clearness, the language of the oldest texts. The Glossary has been prepared by the Rev. J. M. Jephson. We trust that the title which has been chosen for the present edition will neither be thought presumptuous nor be found inappropriate. It seems indeed safe to predict that any volume which presents, in a convenient form, with clear type and at a moderate cost, the complete works of the foremost man in all literature, the greatest master of the language most widely spoken among men, will make its way to the remotest corners of the habitable globe. TRINITY COLLEGE, Cambridge, WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK. WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT. Enter Mariners. Boats. Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, Where's II Beats. When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers for the name of king? To cabin: slence! trouble us not. Go, Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard. 21 Beats. None that I more love than myself. You are a counsellor; if you can command these dements to silence, and work the peace of the present, we will not hand a rope more; use your thority: if you cannot, give thanks you have ved so long, and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so hap. Cheerly, good hearts! Out of our way, I say. Gon. I have great comfort from this fellow: [Exit. thinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; bis complexion is perfect gallows. Stand fast, Food Fate, to his hanging: make the rope of his destiny out cable, for our own doth little advant Other Spirits attending on Prospero. age. If he be not born to be hanged, our case Re-enter Boatswain. Boats. Down with the topmast! yare! lower, lower! Bring her to try with main-course. [A cry within. A plague upon this howling! they are louder than the weather or our office. 40 Re-enter SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, and GONZALO. Yet again! what do you here? Shall we give o'er and drown? Have you a mind to sink? phemous, incharitable dog! Seb. A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasBoats. Work An. Hang, cur! hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker! We are less afraid to be drowned than thou art. you then. Gon. I'll warrant him for drowning: though the ship were no stronger than a nutsheli and as leaky as an unstanched wench. Boats. Lay her a-hold, a-hold! set her two courses off to sea again; lay her off. Enter Mariners wet. Mariners. All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost! Boats. What, must our mouths be cold? For our case is as theirs. Seb. This wide-chapp'd rascal-would thou mightst Gon. 60 Though every drop of water swear against it Farewell, brother!'-'We split, we split, we Ant. Let's all sink with the king. Seb. Let's take leave of him. [Exeunt Ant. and Seb. Gon. Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, any thing. The wills above be done! but I would fain die a dry death. [Exeunt. SCENE II. The island. Before PROSPERO'S cell. Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA. Mir. Ifby 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, 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 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. Be collected: No more amazement: tell your piteous heart There's no harm done. Pros. 10 No harm. 50 That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else Thy father was the Duke of Milan and Mir. But blessedly holp hither. Mir. O, my heart bleeds To think o' the teen that I have turn'd you to, Which is from my remembrance! Please you, farther. Pr. My brother and thy uncle, call'd Antonio I pray thee, mark me-that a brother should Be so perfidious!-he whom next thyself, Of all the world I loved and to him put The manage of my state; as at that time Through all the signories it was the first And Prospero the prime duke, being so reputed Without a parallel; those being all my study, Mir. Sir, most heedfully. Pros. Being once perfected how to grant suits. How to deny them, who to advance and who To trash for over-topping, new created The creatures that were mine, I say, or changed 'em. Or else new form'd 'em; having both the key And suck'd my verdure out on't. Thou attend'st not. Mir. O, good sir, I do. Pros. I pray thee, mark me. A falsehood in its contrary as great 100 He was indeed the duke; out o' the substitution, |