Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I’ll drown my book.

[Solem music] Here enters ARIEL before; then ALONSO, with frantic gesture, attended by GONZALO; SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO in like manner, attended by ADRIAN and FRANCISCO. They all enter the circle which PROSPERO had made, and there stand charm’d; which PROSPERO observing, speaks A solemn air, and the best comforter To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains, Now useless, boil’d within thy skull! There stand, For you are spell-stopp’d.

Holy Gonzalo, honourable man, Mine eyes, ev’n sociable to the show of thine, Fall fellowly drops. The charm dissolves apace, And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason. O good Gonzalo, My true preserver, and a loyal sir To him thou follow’st! I will pay thy graces Home both in word and deed. Most cruelly Didst thou, Alonso, use me and my daughter; Thy brother was a furtherer in the act.

Thou art pinch’d for’t now, Sebastian. Flesh and blood, You, brother mine, that entertain’d ambition, Expell’d remorse and nature, who, with SebastianWhose inward pinches therefore are most strong Would here have kill’d your king, I do forgive thee, Unnatural though thou art. Their understanding Begins to swell, and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shore That now lies foul and muddy. Not one of them That yet looks on me, or would know me. Ariel, Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell; Exit ARIEL I will discase me, and myself present As I was sometime Milan. Quickly, spirit Thou shalt ere long be free.

ARIEL, on returning, sings and helps to attire him Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip’s bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry.

On the bat’s back I do fly After summer merrily.

Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. --PROSPERO Why, that’s my dainty Ariel! I shall miss thee; But yet thou shalt have freedom. So, so, so.

To the King’s ship, invisible as thou art; There shalt thou find the mariners asleep Under the hatches; the master and the boatswain Being awake, enforce them to this place; And presently, I prithee.

ARIEL I drink the air before me, and return Or ere your pulse twice beat.

Exit GONZALO All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement, Inhabits here. Some heavenly power guide us Out of this fearful country!