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Before PROSPERO'S cell
[Enter FERDINAND, bearing a log.]
FERDINAND.
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There be | some sports | are pain|ful; and |
their lab||or
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Delight | in them | sets^off:| some kinds of
base||ness
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Are nob|ly und|ergone;| and most poor matters
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Point to | rich ends: This | my mean | task
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Would be as | heavy | to me | as o|dious, but
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The mist|ress which | I serve,| quickens | what's
dead,
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And makes | my lab|ors, pleas|ures: O | she is
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Ten times more | gentle,| than her fath|er's
crabbed,
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And he's | composed | of harsh|ness. I | must
remove
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Some thous|ands of / these logs,| and pile | them up,
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Upon | a sore | injunc|tion; my / sweet
mis||tress
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Weeps | when she sees | me work,| and says,| such
base||ness
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Had nev|er like | exec|utor:| I forget:
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But these | sweet* thoughts,| do ev|en refresh |
my la||bors,
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Most | busy | least, when | I do it.
[Enter MIRANDA: and PROSPERO behind.]
MIRANDA.
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Alas,| now
pray || you
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Work not | so hard:| I would | the light|ning had
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Burnt^up | those logs | that you | are enjoined |
to pile:
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Pray set | it down,| and rest | you: when | this
burns
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'Twill weep | for hav|ing wear|ied you:| My fath|er
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Is hard | at stu|dy; pray | now* rest | yourself,
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He's safe | for these^three | hours.
FERDINAND.
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O |
most^dear | mistress,
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The sun | will set | before | I shall | discharge
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What I | must strive | to do.
MIRANDA.
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If you'll | sit down
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I'll bear | your logs | the while:| pray give me
that,
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I'll car|ry it to the / pile.
FERDINAND.
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No | precious |
creature,
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I had rath|er crack | my sin|ews, break | my back,
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Than you | should such | dishon|or und|ergo,
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While I | sit la|zy by.
MIRANDA.
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It would be/come me
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As well | as it / does you;| and I | should do it
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With much | more^ease:| for my / good will | is
to it,
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And yours | it is against.
PROSPERO.
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[Aside] Poor* worm | thou art in|fected,
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This vis|ita|tion shows it.
MIRANDA.
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You look | wearily.
FERDINAND.
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No, noble mist|ress, 'tis / fresh morn|ing with me
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When you | are by | at night:| I do | beseech ||
you
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Chief|ly, that I / might set | it in | my
prayers,
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What is your | name?
MIRANDA.
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Mi|randa,| O my | father,
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I have broke | your hest | to say | so.
FERDINAND.
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Admired |
Miran||da,
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Indeed | the top | of ad|mira|tion, worth
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What's^dear|est to the world:| Full ma/ny a |
lady
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I have eyed | with best | regard,| and ma|ny a
time
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The har|mony | of their tongues,| hath into | bondage
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Brought my | too* dil|igent ear:| for sev|eral
vir||tues
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Have I liked | several | women,| never | any
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With so | full soul,/ but some | defect | in her
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Did quar|rel with | the nob|lest grace | she
owed,
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And put | it to | the foil. | But you,| O you,
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So per/fect, and so | peerless,| are cre|ated
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Of eve|ry creat|ure's best.
MIRANDA.
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I do | not know
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One of my | sex; no | woman's | face re|member,
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Save from | my glass,| mine^own:| nor have | I seen
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More that | I may | call^men,| than you | good
friend,
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And my dear | father:| how fea/tures are | abroad
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I am skill-|less of;| but by | my mod|esty
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(The jew|el in | my dower)| I would | not wish
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Any | compan|ion in | the world | but you:
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Nor can | ima|gina|tion form | a shape
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Besides | yourself,| to like | of: But | I
prattle
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Something too^|wildly,| and my fath|er's
pre|cepts
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I there|in do | forget.
FERDINAND.
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I am,| in my con|dition
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A prince | (Miran|da) I | do think | a king
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(I would | not so)| and would | no more | endure
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This wood|en sla|very,| than to | suffer
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The flesh-fly blow | my mouth:| Hear my soul
speak.
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The ver|y inst|ant that | I saw | you, did
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My heart | fly to | your serv|ice, there |
resides
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To make | me slave | to it,| and for / your sake
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Am I | this pat|ient log-|man.
MIRANDA.
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Do you | love me?
FERDINAND.
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O heaven;| O earth,| bear wit|ness to | this sound,
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And crown | what I | profess | with kind | event
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If I speak true:| if hol|lowly,| invert
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What best | is bod|ed me,| to mis|chief: I,
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Beyond | all^lim|it of / what else | in the world
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Do love,| prize, hon/or you.
MIRANDA.
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I am | a fool
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To weep at | what I am | glad of.
PROSPERO.
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Fair en|counter
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Of two most rare | affec|tions: heav|ens rain ||
grace
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On | that which | breeds be|tween em.|
FERDINAND.
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Wherefore | weep you? \\
MIRANDA.
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At mine | unworth|iness,| that dare | not offer
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What I | desire | to give;| and much less take
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What I shall | die to | want: but | this is |
trifling,
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And all | the more | it seeks | to hide | itself,
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The big|ger bulk | it shows.| Hence^bash|ful
cun||ning,
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And prompt | me plain | and ho|ly in|nocence.
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I am | your wife,| if you | will mar|ry me;
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If not,| I'll die | your maid:| to be | your
fel||low
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You may | deny | me, but | I'll be | your
ser||vant
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Wheth|er you will | or no.
FERDINAND.
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My mist|ress (dearest)
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And I | thus hum|ble
ev|er.
MIRANDA.
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My hus|band then?
FERDINAND.
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Aye, with a | heart as | willing
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As bond|age ere | of free|dom: here's | my hand.
MIRANDA.
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And mine,| with my / heart in it;| and now |
farewell
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Till half | an hour | hence.
FERDINAND.
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A | thousand,|
thousand.
[Exeunt FERDINAND and MIRANDA severally.]
PROSPERO.
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So glad | of this | as they | I can|not be,
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Who are | surprised | withal;| but my re|joicing
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At noth|ing can | be more:| I'll to | my book,
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For yet | ere sup|per time,| must I | perform
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Much business | apper|taining.|
[Exeunt]