Pro.

Shake it off.

Come on:

We'll visit Caliban, my slave, who never

Yields us kind answer.

Mira.

I do not love to look on.

Pro.

"T is a villain, sir,

But, as 't is,

We cannot miss him: he does make our fire,
Fetch in our wood, and serves in offices

That profit us.What hoa! slave! Caliban!
Thou earth, thou! speak.

Caliban. [Within.] There's wood enough within.
Pro. Come forth, I say: there's other business for

thee

Come, thou tortoise! when?

Enter ARIEL, like a Water-nymph.

Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel,

Hark in thine ear.

Ari.

My lord, it shall be done.

[Exit.

Pro. Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!

Enter CALIBAN.

Cal. 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 ye,
And blister you all o'er!

Pro.

For this, be sure, to-night 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

311 miss, do without. (w)
326 urchins, hobgoblins. (R)

310

320

827 vast, void, desolate period. Cf. Hamlet, I. ii. 198.