Plays of Shakespeare - 1879 Author:William Shakespeare Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Come away, servant, come! I'm ready now: Approach, my Ariel; come ! Enter Ariel. Ari. All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come To answer thy best p... more »leasure ; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the cuiTd clouds : to thy strong bidding task Ariel and all his quality.26 Pros. Hast thou, spirit, Perform'd to point28 the tempest that I bade thee ? Ari. To every article. I boarded the King's ship ; now on the beak, Now in the waist,27 the deck, in every cabin, I flam'd amazement: sometime I'd divide, And burn in many places ; on the top-mast, The yards, and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly,28 Then meet, and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors O' the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary M And sight-outrunning were not: the fire, and cracks Of sulphurous roaring, the most mighty Neptune Seem'd to besiege, and make his bold waves tremble, Yea, his dread trident shake. Pros. My brave spirit! Who was so firm, so constant, that this coilw Would not infect his reason ? Ari. Not a soul But felt a fever of the mad,81 and play'd Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners Pmng'd in the foaming brine, and quit the vessel, Then all a-fire with me: the King's son, Ferdinand, With hair up-staring,82 — then like reeds, not hair, — Was the first man that leap'd ; cried, Sell is empty, And all the devils are here. 26 " All his quality" is all of his kind, all his fellow-spirits, or who are like him. 26 Perform'd exactly, or in every point; from the French a point. 27 Beak, the prow of the ship; waist, the part between the quarter-deck and forecastle. 28 So in the account of Robert Tomson's voyage, 1555, quoted by Mr. Hunter: " This light continued aboard our ship,about three hours, flying from mast to mast, and from top to...« less