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 language? 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! FERDINAND Yes, faith, and all his lords, the Duke of Milan And his brave son being twain.

PROSPERO

[Aside]

The Duke of Milan And his more braver daughter could control thee, If now ‘twere fit to do’t. At the first sight They have chang’d eyes. Delicate Ariel, I’ll set thee free for this.

[To FERDINAND] A word, good sir; I fear you have done yourself some wrong; a word.

MIRANDA Why speaks my father so ungently? This Is the third man that e’er I saw; the first That e’er I sigh’d for. Pity move my father To be inclin’d my way!

FERDINAND O, if a virgin, And your affection not gone forth, I’ll make you The Queen of Naples.

PROSPERO Soft, Sir! one word more. [Aside]

They are both in either’s pow’rs; but this swift busines I must uneasy make, lest too light winning Make the prize light.

[To FERDINAND] One word more; I charge thee That thou attend me; thou dost here usurp The name thou ow’st not; and hast put thyself Upon this island as a spy, to win it From me, the lord on’t.

FERDINAND No, as I am a man. MIRANDA There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with’t. PROSPERO Follow me.