Page 1083 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

You may deny me; but I’ll be your servant, [85]
Whether you will or no.

FERDINAND
My mistress, dearest;
And I thus humble ever.

MIRANDA
My husband, then?

FERDINAND
Ay, with a heart as willing

As bondage e’er of freedom: here’s my hand.

MIRANDA
And mine, with my heart in ’t: and now farewell [90]
Till half an hour hence.

FERDINAND
A thousand thousand!

Exeunt [Ferdinand and Miranda severally].

PROSPERO

So glad of this as they I cannot be,
Who are surpris’d with all; but my rejoicing
At nothing can be more. I’ll to my book;
For yet, ere supper-time, must I perform [95]

Much business appertaining.
Exit.

Scene II IT

[Another part of the Island.]

Enter Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo.

STEPHANO