Ant. Then let us both be fudden.

Gon. Now, good angels preferve the King!

[They wake. Alon. Why, how now, ho? awake? why are you

drawn?

Wherefore this ghaftly looking?

Gon. What's the matter?

Seb. While we ftood here fecuring your repofe, Ev'n now we heard a hollow burft of bellowing Like bulls, or rather lions; did 't not wake you? It ftrook mine ear most terribly.

Alon. I heard nothing.

Ant. O, 'twas a din to fright a monster's ear; To make an earthquake: fure, it was the roar Of a whole herd of lions.

Alon. Heard you, this?

Gon. Upon my honour, Sir, I heard a humming, And that a ftrange one too, which did awake me. I fhak'd you, Sir, and cry'd; as mine eyes open'd, I saw their weapons drawn: there was a noife, That's verity. 'Tis best we stand on guard; Or that we quit this place: let's draw our weapons. Alon. Lead off this ground, and let's make further fearch

For my poor fon.

Gon. Heav'ns keep him from these beasts! For he is, fure, i'th' inland.

Alon. Lead away.

Ari. Profpero my lord fhall know what I have done. So, King, go fafely on to feek thy fon.

[Exeunt.

SCENE

Changes to another part of the Island.

Enter Caliban with a burden of wood; a noife of thunder

Cal. "

ALL

beard.

LL the infections, that the fun fucks 66 up,

"From bogs, fens, flats, on Profper fall, and make " him

"By inch-meal a difeafe! his fpirits hear me,

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"And yet I needs must curse. But they'll not pinch, Fright me with urchin fhews, pitch me i' th' mire, "Nor lead me, like a fire-brand, in the dark "Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but "For every trifle are they fet upon me. "Sometimes like apes, that moe and chatter at me, "And after bite me; then like hedge-hogs, which "Lye 'tumbling in my bare-foot way, and mount "Their pricks at my foot-fall; fometime am I "All wound with adders, who with cloven tongues "Do hifs me into madness. Lo! now! lo!

Enter Trinculo.

Here comes a fpi'rit of his, and to torment me
For bringing wood in flowly. I'll fall flat;
Perchance, he will not mind me.

Trin. Here's neither bufh nor fhrub to bear off any weather at all, and another ftorm brewing; I hear it fing i' th' wind: yond fame black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bumbard that would fhed his liquor. If it fhould thunder as it did before, I know not where to hide my head: yond fame cloud

7 Looks like a foul Bambard] A large Veffel for holding Drink, as well as the Piece of Ordnance fo call'd. Mr. Theobald.

cannot

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cannot chufe 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 fmell. A kind of, not of the newest, Poor John: a ftrange fish! "Were I in England now, as once I was, and had "but this fish painted, not an holiday-fool there but "would give a piece of filver. There would this "monster make a man; any ftrange beaft there "makes a man; when they will not give a doit to "relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to fee a "dead Indian." Legg'd 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, but an Illander that hath lately fuffer'd by a thunder-bolt. Alas! the ftorm is come again. My best way is to creep under his gaberdine: there is no other fhelter hereabout; mifery acquaints a man with ftrange "bed-fellows:" I will here fhrowd, 'till the dregs of the storm be past.

Enter Stephano, finging.

Ste. I fhall no more to fea, to fea, bere fhall I die a-fbore. This is a very scurvy tune to fing at a man's funeral; well, here's my comfort. [Drinks. Sings. The mafter, the fwabber, the boatfwain and 1, The gunner, and his mate,

Lov'd Mall, Meg, and Marrian, and Margery,

8 Any Arange beaft there makes a man ;] I cannot but think this Satire very juft upon our Countrymen: who have been always very ready to make Denisons of the whole Tribe of the Pitheci, and compliment them with the Donum Civitatis, as appears by the names in ufe. Thus Monkey, which, the Etymologifts tell us, comes from Monkin, Monikin, homunculus. Baboon, from Babe, the termination denoting addition and increment, a large Babe. Mantygre fpeaks its original. And when they have brought their Sirnames with them from their native Country, as Ape, the common people have as it were Chriften'd them by the addition of Jack an-Ape.

But

But none of us car'd for Kate;
For he had a tongue with a tang,
Would cry to a failor, go hang:

She lov'd not the favour of tar nor of pitch,
Yet a taylor might fcratch her, where-e'er fhe did itch.
Then to fea, boys, and let her go bang.

This is a fcurvy tune too; but here's my comfort.

Cal. Do not torment me, oh!

[Drinks.

Ste. What's the matter?? have we devils here? do you put tricks upon's with falvages, and men of Inde? ha? I have not fcap'd drowning, to be afraid now of your four legs; for it hath been said, As proper a man, as ever went upon four legs, cannot make him give ground; and it fhall be said so again, while Stephano breathes at his noftrils.

Cal. The fpirit torments me: oh!

Ste. This is fome monfter of the ifle with four legs, who has got, as I take it, an ague: where the devil fhould he learn our language? I will give him fome 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 prefent for any Emperor that ever trod on neatsleather.

Cal. Do not torment me, p'rythee; I'll bring my wood home fafter.

Ste. He's in his fit now; and does not talk after the wifeft: he fhall tafte of my bottle. If he never drunk wine afore, it will go near to remove his fit; if

And

9 Have we devils here? Salvages and men of Inde? your four legs;] All this is a pleasant ridicule of Maundevile's relations in his Voyages. Who pretended to have traveled thro an enchaunted Vale clepen the vale of Develes, which Vale. fays he, is alle fulle of Develes, and hathe ben alle weys. Men feyn there, that it is on of the entrees of Helle. The fame Author likewife in his account of the Salvages and Men of Inde has transcribed, as of his own knowledge, all the fables of Pliny concerning men with long Ears, one Eye, one Foot, without Heads, &c.

I can recover him, and keep him tame, I will not take too much for him: he fhall pay for him, that hath him, and that foundly.

Cal. Thou doft me yet but little hurt; thou wilt anon, I know it, by thy trembling: now Profper works upon thee.

Ste. Come on your ways; open your mouth; here is that which will give language to you, Cat; open your mouth: this will shake your shaking, I can tell you, and that foundly: you cannot tell who's your friend; open your chaps again.

Trin. I fhould know that voice: it fhould be

but he is drown'd; and these are devils; O! defend

me

Ste. Four legs and two voices; a moft delicate monfter!" his forward voice now is to speak well of "his friend; his backward voice is to fpatter foul "fpeeches, and to detract." If all the wine in my bottle will recover him, I will help his ague: come : Amen! I will pour fome in thy other mouth.

Trin. Stephano,

Ste. Doth thy other mouth call me? mercy! mercy! this is a devil, and no monfter: I will leave him, I have no long spoon.

Trin. Stephano! if thou beeft Stephano, touch me, and speak to me; for I am Trinculo; be not afraid, thy good friend Trinculo.

Ste. If thou beeft Trinculo, come forth, I'll pull thee by the leffer legs: if any be Trinculo's legs, thefe are they. Thou art very Trinculo, indeed: how cam't thou to be the fiege of this moon-calf? can he vent Trinculo's.

Trin. I took him to be kill'd with a thunder-ftroke: but art thou not drown'd, Stephano? I hope now, thou art not drown'd: is the ftorm over-blown? I hid

1 Moon-calf ?] It was imagined that the Moon had an ill influence on the infant's understanding. Hence Idiots were called Moon calves.

me