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SCENE IV.
Enter Ferdinand—and Ariel invisible.AIR.
ARIEL.
Come unto the yellow sands,
And then take hands;
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The wild waves whist,
Foot it featly here and there,
And sweet spirits the burthen bear.
FERDINAND.
Where should this music be, i'th' air, or earth?
It sounds no more, and sure it waits upon
Some god of this island. Sitting on a bank,
Weeping against the king my father's wreck,
This music hover'd on the waters,
Allaying both their fury and my passion
With chearing airs: thence I follow'd it,
(Or it has drawn me rather) but 'tis gone;
No, it begins again!
AIR.
ARIEL.
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made:
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change,
Into something rich and strange:
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell;
Hark! now I hear them, ding, dong, bell.
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This is no mortal business, nor no sound
That the earth owns: I hear it now above me.
It must mean good or ill, and here I am.
ARIEL.
Here I am.
FERDINAND.
Hah! art thou so? The spirit's turn'd an echo.
ARIEL.
An echo.
FERDINAND.
This might seem pleasant, could the burthen of
My griefs accord with any thing but sighs.
ARIEL.
Sighs.
FERDINAND.
And my last words, like those of dying men,
Need no reply. Fain I would go to shades,
Where few would wish to follow me.
ARIEL.
Follow me.
FERDINAND.
I will discourse no more with thee,
Nor follow one step further.
ARIEL.
One step further.
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This must have more importance than an echo.
ARIEL.
An echo.
FERDINAND.
I'll try if it will answer when I sing
My sorrows to the murmur of this brook.
ARIEL.
This brook.
DUETT.
FERDINAND.
Go thy way.
ARIEL.
Go thy way.
FERDINAND.
Why should'st thou stay?
ARIEL.
Why should'st thou stay?
FERDINAND.
Where the winds whistle, and where the streams creep,
Under you willow-tree fain would I sleep:
Then let me alone,
For 'tis time to be gone.
ARIEL.
For 'tis time to be gone.
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Some strange felicity;
Follow me, follow me,
And thou shalt see.
[Exeunt.
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