Category: Humour

A motley jest

TRINCULO. Since the day when the old gentleman they call Prospero took it into his bald pate to disappear into air along with a most goodly company beside, there’s not a bottle to be found i’ this isle, as I am a good Christian, and, what is more, a good Christian man’s son.

Chapters

1. SCENE I.

TRINCULO. Since the day when the old gentleman they call Prospero took it into his bald pate to disappear into air along with a most goodly company beside, there’s not a bottle...

2. SCENE II.

FERDINAND. Admir’d Miranda, you are sad, and sad Am I you should be sad. Then will you not Declare what canker eats your tender rose That I may kill ’t, or what untoward care We...

3. SCENE III.

MIRANDA [_awaking_] How say you, husband, I have slept, And all I look on now is chang’d, and yet Not so, for surely here I dwelt of old With Prospero, my father.

4. SCENE IV.

PROSPERO. My charms yet hold, though long disus’d, for I Pitying Miranda’s melancholy plight By magic of mine art have hither brought Duke Ferdinand and her that so the twain Be...

5. SCENE V.

MIRANDA. Indeed, you should not, prince, For whatso’er you do it seemeth right To me, and now I see I did mistake. Good sooth, I will not have it back. I say, I will not have it...

6. SCENE VI.

BOTTOM. Masters, you will marvel to behold me here, but the very truth of the matter is that I did fall asleep, and being asleep I did dream, and as I did lie a-dreaming I was i...

7. SCENE VII.

PROSPERO. Now have I ’complish’d that I did intend,-- Dispers’d Miranda’s sadness utterly, And, for a brief space, made the airy dreams Of Master Shakescene take on form again A...

8. SCENE VIII.

MIRANDA. O Ferdinand, my love, last night I slept And sleeping dream’d, and in my dream I saw The isle where first you knew me, where we told Each to the other our fond loves. M...

9. SCENE I.

THIRD CITIZEN. Eh, Jew, an upright judge! thou hast my lord The duke to thank for thy poor life. Had I But been thy judge a halter had been thine, And thou had’st swung in’t, ye...

10. SCENE II.

SHYLOCK. O Tubal, Tubal, there dwells no more pity in the Christian breast than there abides justice therein. I stood for justice and mine own, before them all; before that smil...

11. SCENE III.

_Organ music heard. Enter a company of noble Venetians with the_ DUKE _and his train, accompanied by_ BASSANIO, PORTIA, ANTONIO, GRATIANO, NERISSA _and others. Following these,...