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PROSPERO:
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Dost thou forget
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From what a torment I did free thee?
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ARIEL:
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No.
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PROSPERO:
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Thou dost, and think'st it much to tread the ooze
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Of the salt deep,
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To run upon the sharp wind of the north,
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To do me business in the veins o' the earth
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When it is baked with frost.
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ARIEL:
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I do not, sir.
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PROSPERO:
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Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot
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The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy
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Was grown into a hoop? hast thou forgot her?
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ARIEL:
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No, sir.
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PROSPERO:
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Thou hast. Where was she born? speak; tell me.
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ARIEL:
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Sir, in Argier.
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PROSPERO:
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O, was she so? I must
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Once in a month recount what thou hast been,
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Which thou forget'st. This damn'd witch Sycorax,
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For mischiefs manifold and sorceries terrible
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To enter human hearing, from Argier,
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Thou know'st, was banish'd: for one thing she did
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They would not take her life. Is not this true?
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ARIEL:
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Ay, sir.
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PROSPERO:
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This blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child
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And here was left by the sailors. Thou, my slave,
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As thou report'st thyself, wast then her servant;
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And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate
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To act her earthy and abhorr'd commands,
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Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,
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By help of her more potent ministers
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And in her most unmitigable rage,
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Into a cloven pine; within which rift
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Imprison'd thou didst painfully remain
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A dozen years; within which space she died
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And left thee there; where thou didst vent thy groans
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As fast as mill-wheels strike. Then was this island--
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Save for the son that she did litter here,
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A freckled whelp hag-born--not honour'd with
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A human shape.
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ARIEL:
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Yes, Caliban her son.
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PROSPERO:
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Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban
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Whom now I keep in service. Thou best know'st
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What torment I did find thee in; thy groans
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Did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts
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Of ever angry bears: it was a torment
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To lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax
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Could not again undo: it was mine art,
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When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape
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The pine and let thee out.
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ARIEL:
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I thank thee, master.
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PROSPERO:
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If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak
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And peg thee in his knotty entrails till
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Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.
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ARIEL:
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Pardon, master;
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I will be correspondent to command
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And do my spiriting gently.
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PROSPERO:
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Do so, and after two days
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I will discharge thee.
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ARIEL:
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That's my noble master!
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What shall I do? say what; what shall I do?
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PROSPERO:
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Go make thyself like a nymph o' the sea: be subject
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To no sight but thine and mine, invisible
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