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Tempest
[I, 1] |
Boatswain |
25 |
None that I more love than myself. You are a
counsellor; if you can command these elements to
silence, and work the peace of the present, we will
not hand a rope more; use your authority: if you
cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make
yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of
the hour, if it so hap. Cheerly, good hearts! Out
of our way, I say.
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2 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Prospero |
179 |
Being once perfected how to grant suits,
How to deny them, who to advance and who
To trash for over-topping, new created
The creatures that were mine, I say, or changed 'em,
Or else new form'd 'em; having both the key
Of officer and office, set all hearts i' the state
To what tune pleased his ear; that now he was
The ivy which had hid my princely trunk,
And suck'd my verdure out on't. Thou attend'st not.
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3 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Prospero |
349 |
Of the king's ship
The mariners say how thou hast disposed
And all the rest o' the fleet.
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4 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Prospero |
422 |
Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban
Whom now I keep in service. Thou best know'st
What torment I did find thee in; thy groans
Did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts
Of ever angry bears: it was a torment
To lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax
Could not again undo: it was mine art,
When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape
The pine and let thee out.
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5 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Ariel |
440 |
That's my noble master!
What shall I do? say what; what shall I do?
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6 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Prospero |
461 |
Come forth, I say! there's other business for thee:
Come, thou tortoise! when?
[Re-enter ARIEL like a water-nymph]
Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel,
Hark in thine ear.
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7 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Prospero |
572 |
The fringed curtains of thine eye advance
And say what thou seest yond.
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8 |
Tempest
[I, 2] |
Prospero |
654 |
What? I say,
My foot my tutor? Put thy sword up, traitor;
Who makest a show but darest not strike, thy conscience
Is so possess'd with guilt: come from thy ward,
For I can here disarm thee with this stick
And make thy weapon drop.
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9 |
Tempest
[II, 1] |
Antonio |
768 |
If but one of his pockets could speak, would it not
say he lies?
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10 |
Tempest
[II, 1] |
Sebastian |
931 |
I do; and surely
It is a sleepy language and thou speak'st
Out of thy sleep. What is it thou didst say?
This is a strange repose, to be asleep
With eyes wide open; standing, speaking, moving,
And yet so fast asleep.
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11 |
Tempest
[II, 1] |
Sebastian |
955 |
Prithee, say on:
The setting of thine eye and cheek proclaim
A matter from thee, and a birth indeed
Which throes thee much to yield.
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12 |
Tempest
[II, 1] |
Sebastian |
988 |
What stuff is this! how say you?
'Tis true, my brother's daughter's queen of Tunis;
So is she heir of Naples; 'twixt which regions
There is some space.
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13 |
Tempest
[II, 1] |
Antonio |
992 |
A space whose every cubit
Seems to cry out, 'How shall that Claribel
Measure us back to Naples? Keep in Tunis,
And let Sebastian wake.' Say, this were death
That now hath seized them; why, they were no worse
Than now they are. There be that can rule Naples
As well as he that sleeps; lords that can prate
As amply and unnecessarily
As this Gonzalo; I myself could make
A chough of as deep chat. O, that you bore
The mind that I do! what a sleep were this
For your advancement! Do you understand me?
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14 |
Tempest
[II, 1] |
Antonio |
1014 |
Ay, sir; where lies that? if 'twere a kibe,
'Twould put me to my slipper: but I feel not
This deity in my bosom: twenty consciences,
That stand 'twixt me and Milan, candied be they
And melt ere they molest! Here lies your brother,
No better than the earth he lies upon,
If he were that which now he's like, that's dead;
Whom I, with this obedient steel, three inches of it,
Can lay to bed for ever; whiles you, doing thus,
To the perpetual wink for aye might put
This ancient morsel, this Sir Prudence, who
Should not upbraid our course. For all the rest,
They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk;
They'll tell the clock to any business that
We say befits the hour.
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15 |
Tempest
[III, 1] |
Miranda |
1322 |
Miranda.—O my father,
I have broke your hest to say so!
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16 |
Tempest
[III, 2] |
Trinculo |
1399 |
Servant-monster! the folly of this island! They
say there's but five upon this isle: we are three
of them; if th' other two be brained like us, the
state totters.
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17 |
Tempest
[III, 2] |
Trinculo |
1414 |
Nor go neither; but you'll lie like dogs and yet say
nothing neither.
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18 |
Tempest
[III, 2] |
Caliban |
1445 |
I say, by sorcery he got this isle;
From me he got it. if thy greatness will
Revenge it on him,—for I know thou darest,
But this thing dare not,—
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19 |
Tempest
[III, 2] |
Stephano |
1467 |
Didst thou not say he lied?
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20 |
Tempest
[III, 3] |
Sebastian |
1575 |
[Aside to ANTONIO] I say, to-night: no more.
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