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Home both in word and deed. Most cruelly
Didst thou, Alonso, use me and my daughter:
Thy brother was a furtherer in the act.
Thou art pinch’d for ’t now, Sebastian. Flesh and blood,

You, brother mine, that entertain’d ambition, [75]
Expell’d remorse and nature; whom, with Sebastian, −
Whose inward pinches therefor are most strong, −
Would here have kill’d your King; I do forgive thee,

Unnatural though thou art. Their understanding
Begins to swell; and the approaching tide [80]
Will shortly fill the reasonable shore,
That now lies foul and muddy. Not one of them

That yet looks on me, or would know me: Ariel,
Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell:
I will discase me, and myself present [85]
As I was sometime Milan: quickly, spirit;

Thou shalt ere long be free.
Ariel sings and helps to attire him.
Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;

There I couch when owls do cry. [90]
On the bat’s back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now

Under the blossom that bangs on the bough.

PROSPERO
Why, that’s my dainty Ariel! I shall miss thee; [95]
But yet thou shalt have freedom: so, so, so.
To the King’s ship, invisible as thou art:
There shalt thou find the mariners asleep

Under the hatches; the master and the boatswain
Being awake, enforce them to this place, [100]
And presently, I prithee.

ARIEL
I drink the air before me, and return

Or ere your pulse twice beat.