TPTT The Tempest: ACT III
Introduction
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
SCENE I. Before PROSPERO'S Cell.
SCENE II. Another part of the island.
SCENE III. Another part of the island.
ACT IV
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SCENE II. Another part of the island.
Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO
STEPHANO
      Tell not me; when the butt is out, we will drink
      water; not a drop before: therefore bear up, and
      board 'em. Servant-monster, drink to me.
TRINCULO
      Servant-monster! the folly of this island! They
5     say there's but five upon this isle: we are three
      of them; if th' other two be brained like us, the
      state totters.
STEPHANO
      Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee: thy eyes
      are almost set in thy head.
TRINCULO
10    Where should they be set else? he were a brave
      monster indeed, if they were set in his tail.
STEPHANO
      My man-monster hath drown'd his tongue in sack:
      for my part, the sea cannot drown me; I swam, ere I
      could recover the shore, five and thirty leagues off
15    and on. By this light, thou shalt be my lieutenant,
      monster, or my standard.
TRINCULO
      Your lieutenant, if you list; he's no standard.
STEPHANO
      We'll not run, Monsieur Monster.
TRINCULO
      Nor go neither; but you'll lie like dogs and yet say
20    nothing neither.
STEPHANO
      Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a
      good moon-calf.
CALIBAN
      How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe.
      I'll not serve him; he's not valiant.
TRINCULO
25    Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in case to
      justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish thou,
      was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much
      sack as I to-day? Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie,
      being but half a fish and half a monster?
CALIBAN
30    Lo, how he mocks me! wilt thou let him, my lord?
TRINCULO
      'Lord' quoth he! That a monster should be such a natural!
CALIBAN
      Lo, lo, again! bite him to death, I prithee.
STEPHANO
      Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head: if you
      prove a mutineer,--the next tree! The poor monster's
35    my subject and he shall not suffer indignity.
CALIBAN
      I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleased to
      hearken once again to the suit I made to thee?
STEPHANO
      Marry, will I kneel and repeat it; I will stand,
      and so shall Trinculo.
Enter ARIEL, invisible
CALIBAN
40    As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a
      sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island.
ARIEL
      Thou liest.
CALIBAN
      Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou: I would my
      valiant master would destroy thee! I do not lie.
STEPHANO
45    Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in's tale, by
      this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.
TRINCULO
      Why, I said nothing.
STEPHANO
      Mum, then, and no more. Proceed.
CALIBAN
      I say, by sorcery he got this isle;
50    From me he got it. if thy greatness will
      Revenge it on him,--for I know thou darest,
      But this thing dare not,--
STEPHANO
      That's most certain.
CALIBAN
      Thou shalt be lord of it and I'll serve thee.
STEPHANO
55    How now shall this be compassed?
      Canst thou bring me to the party?
CALIBAN
      Yea, yea, my lord: I'll yield him thee asleep,
      Where thou mayst knock a nail into his bead.
ARIEL
      Thou liest; thou canst not.
CALIBAN
60    What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch!
      I do beseech thy greatness, give him blows
      And take his bottle from him: when that's gone
      He shall drink nought but brine; for I'll not show him
      Where the quick freshes are.
STEPHANO
65    Trinculo, run into no further danger:
      interrupt the monster one word further, and,
      by this hand, I'll turn my mercy out o' doors
      and make a stock-fish of thee.
TRINCULO
      Why, what did I? I did nothing. I'll go farther
70    off.
STEPHANO
      Didst thou not say he lied?
ARIEL
      Thou liest.
STEPHANO
      Do I so? take thou that.

Beats TRINCULO

      As you like this, give me the lie another time.
TRINCULO
75    I did not give the lie. Out o' your
      wits and bearing too? A pox o' your bottle!
      this can sack and drinking do. A murrain on
      your monster, and the devil take your fingers!
CALIBAN
      Ha, ha, ha!
STEPHANO
80    Now, forward with your tale. Prithee, stand farther
      off.
CALIBAN
      Beat him enough: after a little time
      I'll beat him too.
STEPHANO
      Stand farther. Come, proceed.
CALIBAN
85    Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him,
      I' th' afternoon to sleep: there thou mayst brain him,
      Having first seized his books, or with a log
      Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,
      Or cut his wezand with thy knife. Remember
90    First to possess his books; for without them
      He's but a sot, as I am, nor hath not
      One spirit to command: they all do hate him
      As rootedly as I. Burn but his books.
      He has brave utensils,--for so he calls them--
95    Which when he has a house, he'll deck withal
      And that most deeply to consider is
      The beauty of his daughter; he himself
      Calls her a nonpareil: I never saw a woman,
      But only Sycorax my dam and she;
100   But she as far surpasseth Sycorax
      As great'st does least.
STEPHANO
      Is it so brave a lass?
CALIBAN
      Ay, lord; she will become thy bed, I warrant.
      And bring thee forth brave brood.
STEPHANO
105   Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and I
      will be king and queen--save our graces!--and
      Trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys. Dost thou
      like the plot, Trinculo?
TRINCULO
      Excellent.
STEPHANO
110   Give me thy hand: I am sorry I beat thee; but,
      while thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head.
CALIBAN
      Within this half hour will he be asleep:
      Wilt thou destroy him then?
STEPHANO
      Ay, on mine honour.
ARIEL
115   This will I tell my master.
CALIBAN
      Thou makest me merry; I am full of pleasure:
      Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch
      You taught me but while-ere?
STEPHANO
      At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any
120   reason. Come on, Trinculo, let us sing.

Sings

      Flout 'em and scout 'em
      And scout 'em and flout 'em
      Thought is free.
CALIBAN
      That's not the tune.
Ariel plays the tune on a tabour and pipe
STEPHANO
125   What is this same?
TRINCULO
      This is the tune of our catch, played by the picture
      of Nobody.
STEPHANO
      If thou beest a man, show thyself in thy likeness:
      if thou beest a devil, take't as thou list.
TRINCULO
130   O, forgive me my sins!
STEPHANO
      He that dies pays all debts: I defy thee. Mercy upon us!
CALIBAN
      Art thou afeard?
STEPHANO
      No, monster, not I.
CALIBAN
      Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
135   Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
      That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
      Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
140   The clouds methought would open and show riches
      Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked,
      I cried to dream again.
STEPHANO
      This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall
      have my music for nothing.
CALIBAN
145   When Prospero is destroyed.
STEPHANO
      That shall be by and by: I remember the story.
TRINCULO
      The sound is going away; let's follow it, and
      after do our work.
STEPHANO
      Lead, monster; we'll follow. I would I could see
150   this tabourer; he lays it on.
TRINCULO
      Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano.
Exeunt
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