And tell how far thou didst our Lily out fhine, Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordoua dead, And bake a Stage: Or, when thy Socks were on, Of all, that infolent Greece, or haughty Rome As they were not of Nature's family. Of Of Shakespeare's mind and manners brightly fines In each of which he seems to shake a Lance, And make thofe flights upon the Banks of Thames, BEN. JOHNSON. THE Dramatis Perfonæ. ALONSO, King of Naples. Profpero, the rightful Duke of Milan. Anthonio, his Brother, the ufurping Duke of Milan. Ferdinand, Son to the King of Naples. Gonzalo, an honest old Counfeller of Naples. Adrian, } Lords. Francifco, Caliban, a Savage and deformed Slave. Trinculo, a fester. Stephano, a drunken Butler. Master of a Ship, Boatswain, and Mariners. Ariel, an aiery Spirit. Other Spirits, attending on Profpero. SCENE, the Sea with a Ship, afterwards an uninhabited Ifland. Of this Play the first known Edition is that of 1623, when it was published with the other Works of Shakespear by Hem. ings and Condel, in Folio. |