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SCENE III.
THE SEA-BEACH.Enter Trinculo, and Stephano with his Bottle.
TRINCULO.
What a tedious time these lubbers are,
making the boat fast!—'would they were come!
my belly cries cupboard most voraciously; and
I dare not stir a foot up the country to look for
food by myself, for fear of tumbling into such
a pit as Caliban talk'd of in his sleep; which that
fury, Sycorax, may have dug for the cross old
duke!
STEPHANO.
By the mass, Trinculo, I would not stand in
his shoes, though they be made of velvet, for
his whole dukedom! I warrant she and her imps
will give him a warm reception! boiling in lead
or oil is the least he can expect!
Enter Master, Boatswain, and Mariners.
MASTER.
Come, my hearts! now the ship's moor'd, and
the boat haul'd ashore, let's take a landcruise
in chace of some provision.
I'faith, master, my belly clings together like
an empty satchel! if we had not found land
here, we should have been pretty sharp set before
we reach'd Naples; and forc'd to draw lots
for a slice of one another.
STEPHANO.
Not whilst we had such sack as this aboard;
he that could not sail all the world over, with
this for his comfort, ought never to taste good
liquor while he breath'd at nostrils.
MASTER.
That may do with you, honest butler; but
we want something more substantial.—Come, let
us go in a body, in case of meeting wild beasts,
or savages; and see what this land produces:—
tend to the Boatswain's whistle!
BOATSWAIN.
[Blows his whistle.]
Come, bear a hand, bear a hand, my hearts!
a heigh!
STEPHANO.
You may bear a hand by yourself, for me!—
I shall neither bear a hand, nor budge a foot,
while this lasts.—I don't care for roaming any
farther up this coast, for fear of meeting that
son!—should he find nothing else eatable ashore,
he'll make no bones of one or two of us!
MASTER.
For that reason, we ought to keep all together;
that we may make the better defence
against him.
BOATSWAIN.
Come, heave a head, you lubber! let us steer
upward; it looks like a plentiful country:—if
inhabited, we may not only get provision, but
a willing wench into the bargain.
STEPHANO.
That thought 'rouses me—a wench, a heigh!
O, that I could but meet my queen, that was to
be, the sour duke's sweet daughter; I am in a
rare cue for courtship!
TRINCULO.
Mass! I am in a better for a meal's
meat! and would exchange the daintiest duke's
daughter in Christendom, ay, and Barbary to
boot, for a good belly-full!
STEPHANO.
As the old conjuror is certainly made away
with, by this time; if we can but 'scape witchcraft
preliminaries, who knows but I may erect a new
monarchy here:—if so, look to be great men,
all of you!
TRINCULO.
O, rare! king Stephano for ever!
STEPHANO
sings,
A jewel, a gem, the state-billows to stem:
Should any thing happen that's sinister,
I snug may cry, hem! while you him all condemn.
His whistle so shrill, he can pipe with good skill:
Queen 'Randa, should any dare frump at her,
The Master, at will, shall imprison or kill.
While I my sack quaff, he may quibble and laugh,
Nor ever fear being in vinculo:
So toss off the draff, and away let us raff.
ALL.
While we our sack quaff, he may quibble and laugh,
Nor ever fear being in vinculo:
So toss off the draff, and away let us raff.
Exeunt.
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