Besides yourself, to like of: but I prattle Fer. I am, in my condition, A prince, Miranda, I do think, a king: (I would, not so!) and would no more endure This wooden slavery, than I would suffer The flesh-fly blow my mouth,-Hear my soul speak; The very instant that I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides, Mira. Do you love me? Fer. O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound, And crown what I profess with kind event, If I speak true; if hollowly, invert What best is boded me, to mischief! I, Mira. weep To Pro. I am a fool, Of too most rare affections! Heaven's rain grace. On that which breeds between them! Fer. Wherefore weep you? Mira. At mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give; and much less take, What I shall die to want: But this is trifling; And all the more it seeks to hide itself, The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning, I am your wife if you will marry me; Fer. And I thus humble ever. My mistress, dearest, My husband then? Mira. As bondage e'er of freedom: here's my hand. Mira. And mine, with my heart int; And now farewell, Till half an hour hence. Fer. A thousand! thousand! A GUILTY CONSCIENCE. O, it is monstrous! monstrous! Methought, the billows spoke and told me of it; ACT IV. CONTINENCE BEFORE MARRIAGE. If thou dost break her virgin knot before As I hope A LOVER'S PROTESTATION. For quiet days, fair issue and long life, With such love as 'tis now; the murkiest den, The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion Our worser genius can, shall never melt Mine honour into lust; to take away The edge of that day's celebration, When I shall think, or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd, Or night kept chain'd below. PASSION TOO STRONG FOR VOWS. Look, thou be true; do not give dalliance.... Too much the rein; the strongest oaths are straw To the fire i' the blood: be more abstemious. Or else, good night, your vow! VANITY OF HUMAN NATURE. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and * Sprinkling. Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, DRUNKARDS ENCHANTED BY ARIEL. I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; So full of valour, that they smote the air For breathing in their faces; beat the ground For kissing of their feet; yet always bending Towards their project; Then I beat my tabor, At which, like unback'd colts, they prick'd their ears, Advanc'd their eyelids, lifted up their noses, As they smelt music; so I charm'd their ears, Which enter'd their frail shins: at last I left them LIGHTNESS OF FOOT. Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not Hear a foot fall. ACT V. TEARS. His tears run down his beard, like winter's drops From eavest of reeds. COMPASSION AND CLEMENCY SUPERIOR TO Revenge. Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions? and shall not myself, * Vanished. † A body of clouds in motion; but it is most probable that the author wrote track. Thatch. One of their kind, that relish all as sharply. Passion as they, be kindlier mov'd than thou art? Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, Yet, with my nobler reason, 'gainst my fury In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent, Not a frown further. FAIRIES AND M GIC. Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves; And ye, that on the sands with printless foot SENSES RETURNING. The charm dissolves apace, And as the morning steals upon the night, To him thou follow'st; I will pay thy graces [blood. Flesh and. You brother mine, that entertained ambition, That now lie foul and muddy. Not one of them, ARIEL'S SONG. Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back, I do fly, After summer, merrily: Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. TWELFTH NIGHT. АСТ. І MUSIC. IF Music be the food of love, play on, To NATURAL AFFECTION ALLIED TO LOVE. O, she, that hath a heart of that fine frame, pay this debt of love but to a brother, * Pity, or tenderness of heart. |