Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
Their clearer reason.—O good Gonzalo! 68
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: 72
Thy brother was a furtherer in the act;—
Thou'rt pinch'd for 't now, Sebastian.—Flesh and blood,
You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,
Expell'd remorse and nature; who, with Sebastian,— 76
Whose 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 80
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:— 84
[Exit Ariel.]
I will discase me, and myself present,
As I was sometime Milan.—Quickly, spirit;
Thou shalt ere long be free.
Ariel sings, and helps to attire him.
'Where the bee sucks, there suck I, 88
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: 92
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.'
70, 71 pay . . . Home: requite
81 reasonable shore: shore of reason
85 discase me: remove my magic robe
