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Is tight and yare and bravely rigg’d, as when
We first put out to sea.

ARIEL
[aside to Prospero] Sir, all this service [225]
Have I done since I went.

PROSPERO
[aside to Ariel] My tricksy spirit!

ALONSO
These are not natural events; they strengthen

From strange to stranger. Say, how came jou hither?

BOATSWAIN
If I did think, sir, I were well awake,
I ’ld strive to tell you. We were dead of sleep, [230]
And − how we know not − all clapp’d under hatches;

Where, but even now, with strange and several noises
Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling chains,
And mo diversity of sounds, all horrible,
We were awak’d; straightway, at liberty; [235]

Where we, in all our trim, freshly beheld
Our royal, good, and gallant ship; our master
Cap’ring to eye her: − on a trice, so please you,
Even in a dream, were we divided from them,

And were brought moping hither.

ARIEL
[aside to Prospero] Was ’t well done? [240]

PROSPERO
[aside to Ariel] Bravely, my diligence.
Thou shalt be free.

ALONSO
This is as strange a maze as e’er men trod;