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PERSONS REPRESENTED.

ALONSO, king of Naples.

SEBASTIAN, his brother.

PROSPERO, the rightful duke of Milan.

ANTONIO, his brother, the usurping duke of Milan.

FERDINAND, Son to the king of Naples.

GONZALO, an honest old counsellor of Naples.

TRINCULO, a jester.

STEPHANO, a drunken butler.

MASTER of a ship, BOATSWAIN, and MARINERS,

SCENE, the sea, with a ship; afterwards an uninhabited

island.

TEMPEST

ACT I.

SCENE I.

On a ship at sea. A storm with thunder and

lightning.

Enter a SHIPMASTER and a BOATSWAIN.

Mast. Boatswain,-

Boat. Here, master: what cheer?

Mast. Good: Speak to the mariners: fall to 't yarely, or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir.

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Enter MARINERS.

[Exit.

Boat. Heigh, my hearts; cheerly, cheerly, my hearts; yare, yare: Take in the top-sail; Tend to the master's whistle.-Blow till thou burst thy wind, if room enough!

Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND, GONZALO, and others.

Alon. Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master? Play the men.?

Readily, nimbly, quickly.

2 Act with spirit, behave like men.

So 2 Sam. x. 12. 'Be

of good courage, and let us play the men for our people.'

Boat. I pray now, keep below.

Ant. Where is the master, boatswain?

Boat. Do you not hear him? You mar our labor keep your cabins: you do assist the storm. Gon. Nay, good, be patient.

:

Boat. When the sea is. Hence!

What care these roarers for the name of king? To cabin: silence trouble us not.

Gon. Good; yet remember whom thou hast aboard.

Boat. None that I more love than myself. You are a counsellor; if you can command these elements to silence, and work the peace of the present, we will not hand a rope more; use your authority. If you cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so hap. -Cheerly, good hearts.-Out of our way, I say.

[Exit.

Gon. I have great comfort from this fellow : methinks, he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows. Stand fast, good fate, to his hanging! make the rope of his destiny our cable, for our own doth little advantage! If he be not born to be hanged, our case is miserable. [Exeunt

Re-enter BOATSWAIN.

Boat. Down with the top-mast; yare; lower.

1 Of the present instant. So in 1 Cor. xv. 6. Of whom the greater part remain unto this present.'