REFERENCES DESCRIPTIVE OF THE PLATES. TEMPEST. PROSPERO, MIRANDA, and CALIBAN all grow older until the play commences; after which the very short duration of time renders an alteration unnecessary, and even incorrect. The island is considered as much improved, under the cultivated taste of PROSPERO, from its original state, when only under the dominion of SYCORAX. I. SYCORAX putting ARIEL into the Pine. "Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee, By help of her more potent ministers, And in her most unmitigable rage Into a cloven pine." ACT I. SCENE 2. |