Page 1092 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4
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That you resolv’d t’effect.
SEBASTIAN
[aside to Antonio] The next advantage
Will we take throughly.
ANTONIO
[aside to Sebastian] Let it be to-night;
For, now they are oppress’d with travel, they [15]
Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance
As when they are fresh.
SEBASTIAN
[aside to Antonio] I say, to-night: no more.
Solemn and strange music; and Prospero on the top (invisible). Enter
several strange Shapes, bringing in a banquet; and dance about it with gentle
actions of salutations; and inviting the King, & c., to eat, they depart.
ALONSO
What harmony is this? My good friends, hark!
GONZALO
Marvellous sweet music!
ALONSO
Give us kind keepers, heavens! − What were these? [20]
SEBASTIAN
A living drollery. Now I will believe
That there are unicorns; that in Arabia
There is one tree, the phoenix’ throne; one phoenix
At this hour reigning there.
ANTONIO
I’ll believe both;
And what does else want credit, come to me, [25]
