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- ACT ONE THE TEMPEST SCENE TWO
Subject his coronet to his crown, and bend
The dukedom, yet unbow'd,— alas, poor Milan! —
To most ignoble stooping.
Miranda. O the heavens!
Prospero. Mark his condition, and the event; then tell me
If this might be a brother.
Miranda. I should sin
To think but nobly of my grandmother :
Good wombs have borne bad sons.
Prospero. Now the condition.
This King of Naples, being an enemy
To me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit;
Which was, that he, in lieu o' the premises.
Of homage and I know not how much tribute.
Should presently extirpate me and mine
Out of the dukedom, and confer fair Milan,
With all the honours, on my brother: whereon,
A treacherous army levied, one midnight
Fated to the purpose, did Antonio open
The gates of Milan ; and, i' the dead of darkness.
The ministers for the purpose hurried thence
Me and thy crying self.
Miranda. Alack, for pity!
I, not remembering how I cried out then.
Will cry it o'er again: it is a hint
That wrings mine eyes to 't.
Prospero. Hear a little further.
And then I'll bring thee to the present business
Which now's upon's; without the which, this story
Were most impertinent
Miranda. Wherefore did they not
That hour destroy us?
Prospero. Well demanded, wench:
My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not,
So dear the love my people bore me ; nor set
A mark so bloody on the business : but
With colours fairer painted their foul ends.
In few, they hurried us on board a bark,
Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared
A rotten carcass of a butt, not rigg'd,
Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats
II
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