The Tempest

Antonio: Where is the master, boatswain?Boatswain: Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: keep your cabins; you do assist the storm.Gonzalo: Nay, good, be patient.Boatswain: When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers for the name of king? To cabin! silence! Trouble us not.Gonzalo: Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.Boatswain: None that I more love than myself. You are 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 liv'd so long, and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so hap.

— The Tempest love

I have great comfort from this fellow. Methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows.

— The Tempest think

A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!

— The Tempest you

All lost! to prayers, to prayers! All lost!

— The Tempest prayer

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground — long heath, brown furze, anything. The wills above be done, but I would fain die a dry death.

— The Tempest death

: If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them. The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! A brave vessel, Who had, no doubt, some noble creatures in her, Dash'd all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perish'd! Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er It should the good ship so have swallow'd, and The fraughting souls within her.: Be collected; No more amazement; tell your piteous heart There's no harm done.Miranda: O, woe the day!Prospero: No harm. I have done nothing but in care of thee — Of thee, my dear one! thee, my daughter.

— The Tempest god

Miranda: You have often Begun to tell me what I am; but stopp'd, And left me to a bootless inquisition, Concluding, Stay; not yet.Prospero: The hour's now come; The very minute bids thee ope thine ear.

— The Tempest you

The government I cast upon my brother, And to my state grew stranger, being transported And rapt in secret studies.

— The Tempest men

I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness, and the bettering of my mind

— The Tempest mind

Like one Who having unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.

— The Tempest truth

My library Was dukedom large enough.

— The Tempest library

Knowing I lov’d my books, he furnish’d me, From mine own library, with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

— The Tempest books

Know thus far forth: By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune — Now my dear lady — hath mine enemies Brought to this shore; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.

— The Tempest science

All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curl'd clouds. To thy strong bidding task Ariel, and all his quality.

— The Tempest fire

Ferdinand, With hair up-staring, — then like reeds, not hair, — was the first man that leapt; cried Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.

— The Tempest evil

From the still-vex'd Bermoothes.

— The Tempest

I will be correspondent to command, And do my spriting gently.

— The Tempest man

: 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!Prospero: 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 honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em.

— The Tempest work

This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou tak'st from me. When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me, wouldst give me Water with berries in't, and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night; and then I lov'd thee, And show'd thee all the qualities o' the isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile. Curs'd be I that did so! All the charms Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you! For I am all the subjects that you have, Which first was mine own king.

— The Tempest light

You taught me language, and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you, For learning me your language!

— The Tempest learning

This Is the third man that e'er I saw; the first That e'er I sigh'd for.

— The Tempest man

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.

— The Tempest man

Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands; Curt'sied when you have and kiss'd, The wild waves whist, Foot it featly here and there, And, sweet sprites, the burden bear.

— The Tempest kiss

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell.

— The Tempest change

The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond.

— The Tempest

There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with ’t.

— The Tempest spirit

My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up. My father's loss, the weakness which I feel, The wreck of all my friends, nor this man's threats, To whom I am subdu'd, are but light to me, Might I but through my prison once a day Behold this maid. All corners else o' th' earth Let liberty make use of; space enough Have I in such a prison.

— The Tempest art

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air; And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-cappd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.Prospero, scene i

— The Tempest life

O, it is monstrous, monstrous! Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronouncd The name of Prospero; it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i the ooze is bedded; and, Ill seek him deeper than eer plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.Alonso, scene iii

— The Tempest sin

Alonso: You cram these words into mine ears against The stomach of my sense. Would I had never Married my daughter there! for, coming thence, My son is lost; and, in my rate, she too, Who is so far from Italy removd I neer again shall see her. O thou mine heir Of Naples and of Milan, what strange fish Hath made his meal on thee? Francesco: Sir, he may live: I saw him beat the surges under him, And ride upon their backs; he trod the water, Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted The surge most swoln that met him; his bold head Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oard Himself with his good arms in lusty stroke To the shore, that oer his wave-worn basis bowd, As stooping to relieve him; I not doubt He came alive to land.Scene i

— The Tempest words

How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe. Ill not serve him, he is not valiant.Caliban, scene ii

— The Tempest

Now my charms are all oerthrown, And what strength I haves mine own, Which is most faint: now, tis true, I must be here confind by you, Or sent to Naples. Let me not, Since I have my dukedom got And pardond the deceiver, dwell In this bare island by your spell; But release me from my bands With the help of your good hands. Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please. Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant; And my ending is despair, Unless I be relievd by prayer, Which pierces so that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults. As you from crimes would pardond be, Let your indulgence set me free.Prospero

— The Tempest art

The strongest oaths are straw To th fire i the blood. Be more abstemious, Or else good night your vow!Prospero, scene i

— The Tempest good

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