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- ACT THREE THE TEMPEST SCENE THREE
Where man doth not inhabit,— you 'mongst men
Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad;
And even with such-like valour men hang and drown
Their proper selves.
[Alonso, Sebastian, etc., draw their swords.
You fools! I and my fellows
Are ministers of Fate : the elements,
Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well
Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs
Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish
One dowle that 's in my plume : my fellow-ministers
Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,
Your swords are now too massy for your strengths,
And will not be uplifted. But remember,—
For that's my business to you, — that you three
From Milan did supplant good Prospero ;
Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it.
Him and his innocent child : for which foul deed
The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have
Incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
Against your peace. Thee of thy son, Alonso,
They have bereft ; and do pronounce by me :
Lingering perdition — worse than any death
Can be at once — shall step by step attend
You and your ways ; whose wraths to guard you from, —
Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls
Upon your heads, — is nothing but heart-sorrow
And a clear life ensuing.
[He vanisties in tiiunder; ttien, to soft music, enter tiie
Siiapes again, and dance, witlt tnoclis and mows,
and carrying out ttie tabie.]
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 visit74
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