And Cytherea all in sedges hid; Which seem to move and wanton with her breath, Even as the waving sedges play with wind. ACT I. WOMAN'S TONgue. Think you, a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard the sea, puff'd up with winds, Rage like an angry boar, chafed with sweat? Have I not heard great ordnance in the field? And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies? Have I not in a pitched battle heard [clang? Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' And do you tell me of a woman's tongue; That gives not half so great a blow to the ear, As will a chesnut in a farmer's fire? АСТ III. A MAD WEDDING. When the priest Should ask if Katherine should be his wife, The mad-brain'd bridegroom took him such a cuff, Tra. What said the wench, when he arose again? Gre. Trembled and shook; for why, he stamp'd, and swore, As if the vicar meant to cozen him. He calls for wine:-A health, quoth he; as if But that his beard grew thin and hungerly, ACT IV. THE MIND ALONE VALUABLE. For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; Because his painted skin contents the eye? poor ACT V. THE WIFE'S DUTY TO HER HUSBAND. Fie, fie! unknit that threat'ning unkind brow; And dart not scornful glances from those eyes, To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor: It blots thy beauty, as frosts bite the meads; Confounds thy fame, as whirlwinds shake fair buds; * It was the custom for the company present to drink wine immediately after the marriage ceremony. + Appeareth. And in no sense is meet or amiable. A woman mov'd, is like a fountain troubled, What is she, but a foul contending rebel, When they are bound to serve, love, and obey. But that our soft conditions* and our hearts, * Gentle tempers. TEMPEST. ACT I. AN USURPING SUBSTITUTE COMPARED TO IVY. THAT now he was The ivy, which had hid my princely trunk, ARIEL'S DESCRIPTION OF MANAGING THE STORM. I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak, Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin, I flam'd amazement: Sometimes, I'd divide, And burn in many places; on the topmast, The yards, and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly, Then meet, and join: Jove's lightnings, the precursors O' the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary And sight-outrunning were not: the fire and cracks Of sulphurous roaring, the most mighty Neptune Seem'd to besiege, and make his bold waves tremble, Yea, his dread trident shake. -Not a soul, But felt a fever of the mad, and play'd Some tricks of desperation: All, but mariners, Plung'd in the foaming brine, and quit the vessel, Then all a-fire with me: the king's son, Ferdinand, With hair up-staring (then like reeds, not hair), Was the first man that leap'd; cried, Hell is empty, And all the devils are here. PROSPERO REPROVING ARIEL. Thou dost; and think'st It much, to tread the ooze of the salt deep; To do me business in the veins o' the earth, CALIBAN'S CUrses. Cal. As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd With raven's feather from unwholesome fen, Drop on you both! a south-west blow on ye, And blister you all o'er! Pro. For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins* Shall, for that vast of night that they may work, All exercise on thee: thou shalt be pinch'd As thick as honeycombs, each pinch more stinging Than bees that make them. Cal. I must eat my dinner. This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, Water with berries in't; and teach me how CALIBAN'S EXUltation after prospero teLLS HIM HE SOUGHT TO VIOLATE THE HONOUR OF HIS CHILD. O ho, O ho! would it had been done! * Fairies. |