FERDINAND A thousand thousand! Exeunt FERDINAND and MIRANDA severally PROSPERO So glad of this as they I cannot be, Who are surpris’d withal; but my rejoicing At nothing can be more. I’ll to my book; For yet ere supper time must I perform Much business appertaining.

Exit SCENE 2

Another part of the island Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO STEPHANO Tell not me-when the butt is out we will drink water, not a drop before; therefore bear up, and board ‘em. Servant-monster, drink to me.

TRINCULO 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 brain’d like us, the state totters.

STEPHANO Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee; thy eyes are almost set in thy head.

TRINCULO Where should they be set else? He were a brave monster indeed, if they were set in his tail.

STEPHANO My man-monster hath drown’d his tongue in sack. For my part, the sea cannot drown me; I swam, ere I could recover the shore, five and thirty leagues, off and on. By this light, thou shalt be my lieutenant, monster, or my standard.

TRINCULO Your lieutenant, if you list; he’s no standard. STEPHANO We’ll not run, Monsieur Monster. TRINCULO Nor go neither; but you’ll lie like dogs, and yet say nothing neither. STEPHANO Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a good moon-calf. CALIBAN How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe.

I’ll not serve him; he is not valiant. TRINCULO Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou debosh’d fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I to-day? Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half fish and half a monster? CALIBAN Lo, how he mocks me! Wilt thou let him, my lord?

TRINCULO ‘Lord’ quoth he! That a monster should be such a natural! CALIBAN Lo, lo again! Bite him to death, I prithee.

STEPHANO Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head; if you prove a mutineer-the next tree! The poor monster’s my subject, and he shall not suffer indignity.

CALIBAN I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleas’d to hearken once again to the suit I made to thee? STEPHANO Marry will I; kneel and repeat it; I will stand, and so shall Trinculo.

Enter ARIEL, invisible