Page 1093 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

And I’ll be sworn ’tis true: travellers ne’er did lie,
Though fools at home condemn ’em.

GONZALO
If in Naples
I should report this now, would they believe me?
If I should say, I saw such islanders, −

For, certes, these are people of the island, − [30]
Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet, note,
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of

Our human generation you shall find
Many, any, almost any.

PROSPERO
[aside] Honest lord,
Thou hast said well; for some of you there present [35]
Are worse than devils.

ALONSO
I cannot too much muse

Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, expressing −
Although they want the use of tongue − a kind
Of excellent dumb discourse.

PROSPERO
[aside]

Praise in departing.

FRANCISCO
They vanish’d strangely.

SEBASTIAN
No matter, since [40]
They have left their viands behind; for we have stomachs. −
Will ’t please you taste of what is here?

ALONSO