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SCENE V.
Enter Ariel, followed by Alonzo, Anthonio and Gonzalo.ALONZO.
All torment, trouble, wonder, and amazement,
Inhabits here: some heav'nly powers guide us
Out of this fearful country—
PROSPERO.
Behold, sir, king,
The wrong'd duke of Milan, Prospero:
For more assurance that a living prince
Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body,
And bid thee welcome!
ALONZO.
Be'st thou he, or no,
Or some inchanted trifle to abuse,
As late I have been, I know not. Thy pulse
Beats as of flesh and blood; and, since I saw thee,
Th' afflictions of my mind amends: this must crave
(And, if this be all, a most strange story)
Thy dukedom I resign, and do intreat
Thou pardon me my wrongs. But how should he
Be living, and be here?
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You all yet taste
Some subtilties o' th' isle, that will not let you
Believe things certain: welcome, my friends all.
For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother,
Would ev'n infect my mouth, I do forgive
Thy rankest faults. Know for certain, my friends,
That I am Prosp'ro, and that very duke
Who was thrust forth of Milan:
No more of this;
For 'tis a chronicle of day by day,
Not fitting our first meeting. Alonzo,
I'll shew thee a wonder to content thee
As much as me my dukedom: follow me.
Exeunt.
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