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Tempest
[I, 1] |
Boatswain |
22 |
When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers
for the name of king? To cabin: silence! trouble us not.
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2 |
Tempest
[I, 1] |
Gonzalo |
69 |
He'll be hang'd yet,
Though every drop of water swear against it
And gape at widest to glut him.
[A confused noise within: 'Mercy on us!'—]
'We split, we split!'—'Farewell, my wife and
children!'—
'Farewell, brother!'—'We split, we split, we split!']
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3 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Miranda |
246 |
Wherefore did they not
That hour destroy us?
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4 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Prospero |
248 |
Well demanded, wench:
My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not,
So dear the love my people bore me, nor set
A mark so bloody on the business, but
With colours fairer painted their foul ends.
In few, they hurried us aboard a bark,
Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared
A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigg'd,
Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats
Instinctively had quit it: there they hoist us,
To cry to the sea that roar'd to us, to sigh
To the winds whose pity, sighing back again,
Did us but loving wrong.
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5 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Prospero |
271 |
By Providence divine.
Some food we had and some fresh water that
A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo,
Out of his charity, being then appointed
Master of this design, did give us, with
Rich garments, linens, stuffs and necessaries,
Which since have steaded much; so, of his gentleness,
Knowing I loved my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.
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6 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Prospero |
368 |
At least two glasses. The time 'twixt six and now
Must by us both be spent most preciously.
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7 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Prospero |
450 |
Shake it off. Come on;
We'll visit Caliban my slave, who never
Yields us kind answer.
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8 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Prospero |
455 |
But, as 'tis,
We cannot miss him: he does make our fire,
Fetch in our wood and serves in offices
That profit us. What, ho! slave! Caliban!
Thou earth, thou! speak.
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9 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Prospero |
520 |
Hag-seed, hence!
Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou'rt best,
To answer other business. Shrug'st thou, malice?
If thou neglect'st or dost unwillingly
What I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps,
Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar
That beasts shall tremble at thy din.
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10 |
Tempest
[II, 1] |
Gonzalo |
706 |
Beseech you, sir, be merry; you have cause,
So have we all, of joy; for our escape
Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of woe
Is common; every day some sailor's wife,
The masters of some merchant and the merchant
Have just our theme of woe; but for the miracle,
I mean our preservation, few in millions
Can speak like us: then wisely, good sir, weigh
Our sorrow with our comfort.
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11 |
Tempest
[II, 1] |
Adrian |
750 |
The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.
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12 |
Tempest
[II, 1] |
Sebastian |
831 |
You were kneel'd to and importuned otherwise
By all of us, and the fair soul herself
Weigh'd between loathness and obedience, at
Which end o' the beam should bow. We have lost your
son,
I fear, for ever: Milan and Naples have
More widows in them of this business' making
Than we bring men to comfort them:
The fault's your own.
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13 |
Tempest
[II, 1] |
Gonzalo |
847 |
It is foul weather in us all, good sir,
When you are cloudy.
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14 |
Tempest
[II, 1] |
Antonio |
902 |
Go sleep, and hear us.
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15 |
Tempest
[II, 1] |
Antonio |
992 |
A space whose every cubit
Seems to cry out, 'How shall that Claribel
Measure us back to Naples? Keep in Tunis,
And let Sebastian wake.' Say, this were death
That now hath seized them; why, they were no worse
Than now they are. There be that can rule Naples
As well as he that sleeps; lords that can prate
As amply and unnecessarily
As this Gonzalo; I myself could make
A chough of as deep chat. O, that you bore
The mind that I do! what a sleep were this
For your advancement! Do you understand me?
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16 |
Tempest
[II, 1] |
Antonio |
1050 |
Then let us both be sudden.
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17 |
Tempest
[II, 2] |
Stephano |
1131 |
I shall no more to sea, to sea,
Here shall I die ashore—
This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's
funeral: well, here's my comfort. [Drinks]
[Sings]
The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I,
The gunner and his mate
Loved Mall, Meg and Marian and Margery,
But none of us cared for Kate;
For she had a tongue with a tang,
Would cry to a sailor, Go hang!
She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch,
Yet a tailor might scratch her where'er she did itch:
Then to sea, boys, and let her go hang!
This is a scurvy tune too: but here's my comfort.
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Tempest
[III, 2] |
Trinculo |
1399 |
Servant-monster! the folly of this island! They
say there's but five upon this isle: we are three
of them; if th' other two be brained like us, the
state totters.
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19 |
Tempest
[III, 2] |
Caliban |
1513 |
Thou makest me merry; I am full of pleasure:
Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch
You taught me but while-ere?
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20 |
Tempest
[III, 2] |
Stephano |
1516 |
At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any
reason. Come on, Trinculo, let us sing.
[Sings]
Flout 'em and scout 'em
And scout 'em and flout 'em
Thought is free.
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