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Tempest
[I, 2] |
Miranda |
85 |
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 creature 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 ere
It should the good ship so have swallow'd and
The fraughting souls within her.
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2 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Prospero |
102 |
No harm.
I have done nothing but in care of thee,
Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who
Art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing
Of whence I am, nor that I am more better
Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,
And thy no greater father.
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3 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Prospero |
148 |
Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since,
Thy father was the Duke of Milan and
A prince of power.
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4 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Miranda |
151 |
Sir, are not you my father?
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5 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Prospero |
152 |
Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and
She said thou wast my daughter; and thy father
Was Duke of Milan; and thou his only heir
And princess no worse issued.
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6 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Ferdinand |
550 |
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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7 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Ferdinand |
569 |
The ditty does remember my drown'd father.
This is no mortal business, nor no sound
That the earth owes. I hear it now above me.
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8 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Ferdinand |
603 |
A single thing, as I am now, that wonders
To hear thee speak of Naples. He does hear me;
And that he does I weep: myself am Naples,
Who with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld
The king my father wreck'd.
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9 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Miranda |
619 |
Why speaks my father so ungently? This
Is the third man that e'er I saw, the first
That e'er I sigh'd for: pity move my father
To be inclined my way!
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10 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Miranda |
651 |
O dear father,
Make not too rash a trial of him, for
He's gentle and not fearful.
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11 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Miranda |
660 |
Beseech you, father.
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12 |
Tempest
[III, 1] |
Miranda |
1294 |
Alas, now, pray you,
Work not so hard: I would the lightning had
Burnt up those logs that you are enjoin'd to pile!
Pray, set it down and rest you: when this burns,
'Twill weep for having wearied you. My father
Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself;
He's safe for these three hours.
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13 |
Tempest
[III, 1] |
Miranda |
1322 |
Miranda.—O my father,
I have broke your hest to say so!
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14 |
Tempest
[III, 1] |
Miranda |
1336 |
I do not know
One of my sex; no woman's face remember,
Save, from my glass, mine own; nor have I seen
More that I may call men than you, good friend,
And my dear father: how features are abroad,
I am skilless of; but, by my modesty,
The jewel in my dower, I would not wish
Any companion in the world but you,
Nor can imagination form a shape,
Besides yourself, to like of. But I prattle
Something too wildly and my father's precepts
I therein do forget.
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Tempest
[IV, 1] |
Ferdinand |
1840 |
Let me live here ever;
So rare a wonder'd father and a wife
Makes this place Paradise.
[Juno and Ceres whisper, and send Iris on]
employment]
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16 |
Tempest
[V, 1] |
Alonso |
2230 |
Now all the blessings
Of a glad father compass thee about!
Arise, and say how thou camest here.
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Tempest
[V, 1] |
Ferdinand |
2242 |
Sir, she is mortal;
But by immortal Providence she's mine:
I chose her when I could not ask my father
For his advice, nor thought I had one. She
Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan,
Of whom so often I have heard renown,
But never saw before; of whom I have
Received a second life; and second father
This lady makes him to me.
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