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CALIBAN
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! PROSPERO
Hag-seed, hence! Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou'rt best, To answer other business. Shrug'st thou,
malice? 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. CALIBAN
No, pray thee.
Aside
I must obey: his art is of such power, It would control my dam's god, Setebos, and make a vassal of him. PROSPERO
So, slave; hence!
Exit CALIBAN
Re-enter ARIEL, invisible, playing and singing; FERDINAND following
ARIEL'S song.
Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have and kiss'd The
wild waves whist, Foot it featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear. Hark, hark!
Burthen [dispersedly, within] Bow-wow
The watch-dogs bark!
Burthen Bow-wow
Hark, hark! I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow. FERDINAND
Where should this music be? i' the air or the earth? It sounds no more: and sure, it waits upon Some god
o' the island. Sitting on a bank, Weeping again the king my father's wreck, This music crept by me upon
the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air: thence I have follow'd it, Or it hath
drawn me rather. But 'tis gone. No, it begins again.
ARIEL sings
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
Burthen Ding-dong
Hark! now I hear them, Ding-dong, bell.
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