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ACT II IT
Scene I IT
A Sea-port in Cyprus. An open place near the Quay.
Enter Montano, with two other Gentlemen.
MONTANO
What from the cape can you discern at sea?
FIRST GENTLEMAN
Nothing at all, it is a high-wrought flood,
I cannot ’twixt the heaven and the main
Descry a sail.
MONTANO
Methinks the wind does speak aloud at land, [5]
A fuller blast ne’er shook our battlements:
If it ha’ ruffian’d so upon the sea,
What ribs of oak, when the huge mountains melt,
Can hold the mortise?... What shall we hear of this?
SECOND GENTLEMAN
A segregation of the Turkish fleet: [10]
For do but stand upon the banning shore,
The chiding billow seems to pelt the clouds,
The wind-shak’d surge, with high and monstrous main,
Seems to cast water on the burning bear,
And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole; [15]
I never did like molestation view
On the enchafed flood.
MONTANO
