Speeches (Lines) for (stage directions)
in "Tempest"
Total: 61

1

I,1,1

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). of thunder and lightning heard.

2

I,1,2

(stage directions). of thunder and lightning heard.

(stage directions). [Enter a Master and a Boatswain]

3

I,1,7

Master. Good, speak to the mariners: fall to't, yarely,
or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir.

(stage directions). [Exit]

4

I,1,8

(stage directions). [Exit]

(stage directions). [Enter Mariners]

5

I,1,33

Boatswain. None that I more love than myself. You are a
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 lived so long, and make
yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of
the hour, if it so hap. Cheerly, good hearts! Out
of our way, I say.

(stage directions). [Exit]

6

I,1,40

Gonzalo. I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he
hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is
perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, to his
hanging: make the rope of his destiny our cable,
for our own doth little advantage. If he be not
born to be hanged, our case is miserable.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

7

I,1,41

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

(stage directions). [Re-enter Boatswain]

8

I,1,60

Boatswain. Lay her a-hold, a-hold! set her two courses off to
sea again; lay her off.

(stage directions). [Enter Mariners wet]

9

I,1,78

Sebastian. Let's take leave of him.

(stage directions). [Exeunt ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN]

10

I,1,83

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

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

11

I,2,84

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA]

12

I,2,306

Prospero. 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. Here cease more questions:
Thou art inclined to sleep; 'tis a good dulness,
And give it way: I know thou canst not choose.
[MIRANDA sleeps]
Come away, servant, come. I am ready now.
Approach, my Ariel, come.

(stage directions). [Enter ARIEL]

13

I,2,467

Ariel. My lord it shall be done.

(stage directions). [Exit]

14

I,2,470

Prospero. Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself
Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!

(stage directions). [Enter CALIBAN]

15

I,2,650

Ferdinand. No;
I will resist such entertainment till
Mine enemy has more power.

(stage directions). [Draws, and is charmed from moving]

16

I,2,703

Prospero. Come, follow. Speak not for him.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

17

II,1,704

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO,]
ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others]

18

II,1,896

Gonzalo. You are gentlemen of brave metal; you would lift
the moon out of her sphere, if she would continue
in it five weeks without changing.

(stage directions). [Enter ARIEL, invisible, playing solemn music]

19

II,1,903

Antonio. Go sleep, and hear us.

(stage directions). [All sleep except ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, and ANTONIO]

20

II,1,915

Alonso. Thank you. Wondrous heavy.

(stage directions). [ALONSO sleeps. Exit ARIEL]

21

II,1,1038

Sebastian. O, but one word.

(stage directions). [They talk apart]

22

II,1,1039

(stage directions). [They talk apart]

(stage directions). [Re-enter ARIEL, invisible]

23

II,1,1053

Gonzalo. Now, good angels
Preserve the king.

(stage directions). [They wake]

24

II,1,1079

Ariel. Prospero my lord shall know what I have done:
So, king, go safely on to seek thy son.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

25

II,2,1080

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter CALIBAN with a burden of wood. A noise of]
thunder heard]

26

II,2,1130

Trinculo. Here's neither bush nor shrub, to bear off
any weather at all, and another storm brewing;
I hear it sing i' the wind: yond same black
cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul
bombard that would shed his liquor. If it
should thunder as it did before, I know not
where to hide my head: yond same cloud cannot
choose but fall by pailfuls. What have we
here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish:
he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-
like smell; a kind of not of the newest Poor-
John. A strange fish! Were I in England now,
as once I was, and had but this fish painted,
not a holiday fool there but would give a piece
of silver: there would this monster make a
man; any strange beast there makes a man:
when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame
beggar, they will lazy out ten to see a dead
Indian. Legged like a man and his fins like
arms! Warm o' my troth! I do now let loose
my opinion; hold it no longer: this is no fish,
but an islander, that hath lately suffered by a
thunderbolt.
[Thunder]
Alas, the storm is come again! my best way is to
creep under his gaberdine; there is no other
shelter hereabouts: misery acquaints a man with
strange bed-fellows. I will here shroud till the
dregs of the storm be past.

(stage directions). [Enter STEPHANO, singing: a bottle in his hand]

27

II,2,1146

Stephano. I shall no more to sea, to sea,
Here shall I die ashore—
This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's
funeral: well, here's my comfort. [Drinks]
[Sings]
The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I,
The gunner and his mate
Loved Mall, Meg and Marian and Margery,
But none of us cared for Kate;
For she had a tongue with a tang,
Would cry to a sailor, Go hang!
She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch,
Yet a tailor might scratch her where'er she did itch:
Then to sea, boys, and let her go hang!
This is a scurvy tune too: but here's my comfort.

(stage directions). [Drinks]

28

II,2,1276

Stephano. O brave monster! Lead the way.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

29

III,1,1277

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter FERDINAND, bearing a log]

30

III,1,1293

Ferdinand. There be some sports are painful, and their labour
Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone and most poor matters
Point to rich ends. This my mean task
Would be as heavy to me as odious, but
The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead
And makes my labours pleasures: O, she is
Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed,
And he's composed of harshness. I must remove
Some thousands of these logs and pile them up,
Upon a sore injunction: my sweet mistress
Weeps when she sees me work, and says, such baseness
Had never like executor. I forget:
But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours,
Most busy lest, when I do it.

(stage directions). [Enter MIRANDA; and PROSPERO at a distance, unseen]

31

III,1,1388

Ferdinand. A thousand thousand!

(stage directions). [Exeunt FERDINAND and MIRANDA severally]

32

III,1,1394

Prospero. So glad of this as they I cannot be,
Who are surprised withal; but my rejoicing
At nothing can be more. I'll to my book,
For yet ere supper-time must I perform
Much business appertaining.

(stage directions). [Exit]

33

III,2,1395

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO]

34

III,2,1435

Stephano. Marry, will I. kneel and repeat it; I will stand,
and so shall Trinculo.

(stage directions). [Enter ARIEL, invisible]

35

III,2,1523

Caliban. That's not the tune.

(stage directions). [Ariel plays the tune on a tabour and pipe]

36

III,2,1551

Trinculo. Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

37

III,3,1552

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO,]
ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others]

38

III,3,1576

Sebastian. [Aside to ANTONIO] I say, to-night: no more.

(stage directions). [Solemn and strange music]

39

III,3,1675

Prospero. Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou
Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring:
Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated
In what thou hadst to say: so, with good life
And observation strange, my meaner ministers
Their several kinds have done. My high charms work
And these mine enemies are all knit up
In their distractions; they now are in my power;
And in these fits I leave them, while I visit
Young Ferdinand, whom they suppose is drown'd,
And his and mine loved darling.

(stage directions). [Exit above]

40

III,3,1686

Alonso. 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, pronounced
The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass.
Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded, and
I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded
And with him there lie mudded.

(stage directions). [Exit]

41

III,3,1690

Antonio. I'll be thy second.

(stage directions). [Exeunt SEBASTIAN, and ANTONIO]

42

III,3,1698

Adrian. Follow, I pray you.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

43

IV,1,1699

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter PROSPERO, FERDINAND, and MIRANDA]

44

IV,1,1736

Prospero. Fairly spoke.
Sit then and talk with her; she is thine own.
What, Ariel! my industrious servant, Ariel!

(stage directions). [Enter ARIEL]

45

IV,1,1756

Ariel. Well, I conceive.

(stage directions). [Exit]

46

IV,1,1768

Prospero. Well.
Now come, my Ariel! bring a corollary,
Rather than want a spirit: appear and pertly!
No tongue! all eyes! be silent.

(stage directions). [Soft music]

47

IV,1,1769

(stage directions). [Soft music]

(stage directions). [Enter IRIS]

48

IV,1,1786

Iris. Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas
Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats and pease;
Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,
And flat meads thatch'd with stover, them to keep;
Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims,
Which spongy April at thy hest betrims,
To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broom -groves,
Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,
Being lass-lorn: thy pole-clipt vineyard;
And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,
Where thou thyself dost air;—the queen o' the sky,
Whose watery arch and messenger am I,
Bids thee leave these, and with her sovereign grace,
Here on this grass-plot, in this very place,
To come and sport: her peacocks fly amain:
Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.

(stage directions). [Enter CERES]

49

IV,1,1817

Ceres. High'st queen of state,
Great Juno, comes; I know her by her gait.

(stage directions). [Enter JUNO]

50

IV,1,1821

Juno. How does my bounteous sister? Go with me
To bless this twain, that they may prosperous be
And honour'd in their issue.

(stage directions). [They sing:]

51

IV,1,1896

Ferdinand. [with Miranda] We wish your peace.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

52

IV,1,1898

Prospero. Come with a thought I thank thee, Ariel: come.

(stage directions). [Enter ARIEL]

53

IV,1,1926

Ariel. I go, I go.

(stage directions). [Exit]

54

IV,1,2014

Prospero. Let them be hunted soundly. At this hour
Lie at my mercy all mine enemies:
Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou
Shalt have the air at freedom: for a little
Follow, and do me service.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

55

V,1,2015

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter PROSPERO in his magic robes, and ARIEL]

56

V,1,2053

Ariel. I'll fetch them, sir.

(stage directions). [Exit]

57

V,1,2134

Ariel. I drink the air before me, and return
Or ere your pulse twice beat.

(stage directions). [Exit]

58

V,1,2229

Ferdinand. Though the seas threaten, they are merciful;
I have cursed them without cause.

(stage directions). [Kneels]

59

V,1,2365

Alonso. This is a strange thing as e'er I look'd on.

(stage directions). [Pointing to Caliban]

60

V,1,2377

Sebastian. Or stole it, rather.

(stage directions). [Exeunt CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO]

61

V,1,2403

Prospero. I'll deliver all;
And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales
And sail so expeditious that shall catch
Your royal fleet far off.
[Aside to ARIEL]
My Ariel, chick,
That is thy charge: then to the elements
Be free, and fare thou well! Please you, draw near.
[Exeunt]
EPILOGUE

(stage directions). [Spoken by PROSPERO]