SCENE I.--_A Wild Island.

_Enter_ FERDINAND, ARIEL, _and_ MILCHA _invisible_.

Ariel. _Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands, Curtsied when you have, and kissed; And wild waves whist. Foot it featly here and there, And sweet sprites the burthen bear. Hark! hark! Bow waugh, the watch-dogs bark. Bow waugh. Hark! hark! I hear The strain of strutting Chanticleer, Cry, Cock a doodle do._

_Ferd._ Where should this music be? in the air, or earth? It sounds no more, and sure it waits upon Some God in the island: Sitting on a bank, Weeping against the duke my father's wreck, This music hovered on the waters, Allaying both their fury, and my passion, With charming airs. Thence I have followed it, (Or it has drawn me rather) but 'tis gone: No, it begins again.

MILCHA SINGS.

_Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones is coral made: Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him, that does fade, But does suffer a sea change, Into something rich and strange: Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell; Hark! now I hear them, ding dong bell._

_Ferd._ This mournful ditty mentions my drowned father. This is no mortal business, nor a sound Which the earth owns----I hear it now before me; However, I will on, and follow it. [_Exit_ FERD. _following_ ARIEL.