The Tempest: ACT V
Introduction ACT I ACT II ACT III ACT IV ACT V SCENE I. Before PROSPERO'S cell. EPILOGUE About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: EPILOGUE SPOKEN BY PROSPERO [PROSPERO]       Now my charms are all o'erthrown,       And what strength I have's mine own,       Which is most faint: now, 'tis true,       I must be here confined by you, 5     Or sent to Naples. Let me not,       Since I have my dukedom got       And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell       In this bare island by your spell;       But release me from my bands 10    With the help of your good hands:       Gentle breath of yours my sails       Must fill, or else my project fails,       Which was to please. Now I want       Spirits to enforce, art to enchant, 15    And my ending is despair,       Unless I be relieved by prayer,       Which pierces so that it assaults       Mercy itself and frees all faults.       As you from crimes would pardon'd be, 20    Let your indulgence set me free. Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene