Page 1049 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

How? the best?
What wert thou, if the King of Naples heard thee?

FERDINAND
A single thing, as I am now, that wonders [435]
To hear thee speak of Naples. He does hear me;
And that he does I weep: myself am Naples

Who with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld
The King my father wrack’d.

MIRANDA
Alack, for mercy!

FERDINAND
Yes, faith, and all his lords; the Duke of Milan [440]

And his brave son being twain.

PROSPERO

[aside] The Duke of Milan
And his more braver daughter could control thee,
If now ’twere fit to do ’t. At the first sight
They have chang’d eyes. Delicate Ariel,

I’ll set thee free for this. [To Ferdinand] A word, good sir; [445]
I fear you have done yourself some wrong: a word.

MIRANDA
Why speaks my father so ungently? This
Is the third man that e’er I saw; the first

That e’er I sigh’d for: pity move my father
To be inclin’d my way!

FERDINAND
O, if a virgin, [450]
And your affection not gone forth, I’ll make you
The Queen of Naples.

PROSPERO