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THE TEMPEST
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Obey and be attentive. Canst thou remember
A time before we came unto this cell?
I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not
Out three years old.
A time before we came unto this cell?
I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not
Out three years old.
Miranda.
Out three years old. Certainly, sir, I can.
Prospero.
By what? by any other house or person?
Of any thing the image tell me that
Hath kept with thy remembrance.
Of any thing the image tell me that
Hath kept with thy remembrance.
Miranda.
Hath kept with thy remembrance. ’Tis far off
And rather like a dream than an assurance
That my remembrance warrants. Had I not
Four or five women once that tended me?
And rather like a dream than an assurance
That my remembrance warrants. Had I not
Four or five women once that tended me?
Prospero.
Thou hadst, and more, Miranda. But how is it
That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?
If thou remember’st aught ere thou camest here,
How thou camest here thou mayst.
That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?
If thou remember’st aught ere thou camest here,
How thou camest here thou mayst.
Miranda.
How thou camest here thou mayst. But that I do not.
Prospero.
Twelve years since, Miranda, twelve years since,
Thy father was the Duke of Milan and
A prince of power.
Thy father was the Duke of Milan and
A prince of power.
