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- ACT
ONE
THE
TEMPEST
SCENE
TWO
Ferdinand. 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.
Prospero. The fringed curtains of thine eye advance,
And say what thou seest yond.
Miranda. What is't? a spirit?
Lord, how it looks about ! Believe me, sir,
It carries a brave form. But 'tis a spirit.
Prospero. No, wench ; it eats and sleeps and hath such senses
As we have, such. This gallant which thou seest
Was in the wreck; and, but he's something stain'd
With grief, that 's beauty's canker, thou mightst call him
A goodly person : he hath lost his fellows,
And strays about to find 'em.
Miranda. I might call him
A thing divine ; for nothing natural
I ever saw so noble.
Prospero. [Aside] It goes on, I see,
As my soul prompts it. Spirit, fine spirit ! I 'II freethee
Within two days for this.
Ferdinand. Most sure, the goddess
On whom these airs attend! Vouchsafe my prayer
May know if you remain upon this island ;
And that you will some good instruction give
How I may bear me here : my prime request,
Which I do last pronounce, is, O you wonder!
If you be maid or no?
Miranda. No wonder, sir;
But certainly a maid.
Ferdinand. My lang^uage ! heavens !
I am the best of them that speak this speech,
Were I but where 'tis spoken.
Prospero. How? the best?
What wert thou, if the King of Naples heard thee ?
Ferdinand. 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.
Miranda. Alack, for mercy!
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