...senses. On hearing that his treatment of Prospero is the reason for his current state, Alonso confesses, "Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it; /...pronounc'd / The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass" (lll.iii.96-99). In this regard, the play departs again from traditional uses of the banquet of sense....

...benevolent order but rather through terror and bewilderment. ALONSO. O, it is monstrous, monstrous! Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it; The...organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prosper; it did base my trespass. (III. iii. 95-9) It is uncertain whether Alonso is referring to the tempest that...

...penetrated through and through by a sense of his guilt. Alonso says: O, it is monstrous, monstrous! Methought the billows spoke and told me of it; The...and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i'th'ooze is bedded; and...

...girl. Prospero and Ariel leave O, it is monstrous, monstrous! Methought the billows spoKe and told nne of it; The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper, it did bass my trespass; Therefore my son i' th' ooie is bedded; and...

...Alonso invokes the same language used to welcome a monarch's entrance or passage among his subjects: Methought the billows spoke and told me of it, The...and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper. (3.3.96-9) Rather than regal trumpets and horns, however, the natural...