Methought the billows spoke and told me of it;
The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder,
That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd
The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass.
Therefore my son i' th' ooze is bedded; and 100
I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded,
And with him there lie mudded. Exit.
Seb. But one fiend at a time,
I'll fight their legions o'er.
Ant. I'll be thy second.
Gon. All three of them are desperate; their great guilt, 104
Like poison given to work a great time after,
Now 'gins to bite the spirits.—I do beseech you
That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly
And hinder them from what this ecstasy 108
May now provoke them to.
Adr. Follow, I pray you. Exeunt omnes.
ACT FOURTH
Scene One
[Before Prospero's Cell]
Enter Prospero, Ferdinand, and Miranda.
Pro. If I have too austerely punish'd you,
Your compensation makes amends; for I
Have given you here a third of mine own life,
Or that for which I live; who once again 4
I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations
Were but my trials of thy love, and thou
99 bass my trespass: proclaimed my sin in bass notes
108 ecstasy: madness
3 third; cf. n.
