Page 1039 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

Who, with a charm join’d to their suffer’d labour,
I have left asleep; and for the rest o’ th’ fleet,
Which I dispers’d, they all have met again,
And are upon the Mediterranean flote,

Bound sadly home for Naples; [235]
Supposing that they saw the King’s ship wrack’d,
And his great person perish.

PROSPERO
Ariel, thy charge

Exactly is perform’d: but there’s more work.
What is the time o’ th’ day?

ARIEL
Past the mid season.

PROSPERO
At least two glasses. The time ’twixt six and now [240]
Must by us both be spent most preciously.

ARIEL
Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains,

Let me remember thee what thou hast promis’d,
Which is not yet perform’d me.

PROSPERO
How now? moody?
What is’t thou canst demand?

ARIEL
My liberty. [245]

PROSPERO

Before the time be out? no more!

ARIEL

I prithee,