Ariel
Quotes spoken by the character Ariel
Come away, servant, come. I am ready now
Read the QuoteProspero Prospero puts on his cloak.
Come away, servant, come. I am ready now.
Approach, my Ariel. Come.
Enter Ariel.
Ariel
All hail, great master! Grave sir, hail! I come
To answer thy best pleasure. Be ’t to fly,
To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride
On the curled clouds,
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What is the time o’ th’ day?
Read the QuoteProspero
What is the time o’ th’ day?
Ariel
Past the mid season.
Prospero
At least two glasses. The time ’twixt six and now
Must by us both be spent most preciously.
Ariel
Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains,
Let me remember thee what thou hast promised,
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Come unto these yellow sands
Read the QuoteAriel
Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands.
Curtsied when you have, and kissed
The wild waves whist.
Foot it featly here and there,
And sweet sprites bear
The burden. Hark, hark!
Burden dispersedly, within: Bow-wow.
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Come unto these yellow sands
Read the QuoteAriel, invisible, playing and singing.
Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands.
Curtsied when you have, and kissed
The wild waves whist.
Foot it featly here and there,
And sweet sprites bear
The burden. Hark,
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Why speaks my father so ungently?
Read the QuoteMiranda
Why speaks my father so ungently? This
Is the third man that e’er I saw, the first
That e’er I sighed for. Pity move my father
To be inclined my way.
Ferdinand
O, if a virgin,
And your affection not gone forth, I’ll make you
The Queen of Naples.
There’s nothing ill can dwell in such a temple.
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Will you grant with me That Ferdinand is drowned?
Read the QuoteAntonio
Will you grant with me
That Ferdinand is drowned?
Sebastian
He’s gone.
Antonio
Then tell me,
Who’s the next heir of Naples?
Sebastian
Claribel.
We all were sea-swallowed, though some cast again,
And by that destiny to perform an act
Whereof what’s past is prologue
Antonio
She that is Queen of Tunis;
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I thank my noble lord
Read the QuoteCaliban
I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleased
to harken once again to the suit I made to thee?
Stephano
Marry, will I. Kneel and repeat it. I will
stand, and so shall Trinculo.
Enter Ariel, invisible.
Caliban, kneeling
As I told thee before,
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What harmony is this? My good friends, hark.
Read the QuoteSolemn and strange music, and
enter Prospero on the top invisible.
Alonso
What harmony is this? My good friends, hark.
Gonzalo
Marvelous sweet music!
Enter several strange shapes, bringing in a banquet, and
dance about it with gentle actions of salutations.
Alonso
Give us kind keepers,
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Come with a thought. I thank thee
Read the QuoteProspero
Come with a thought. I thank thee, Ariel. Come.
Ariel
Thy thoughts I cleave to. What’s thy pleasure?
Prospero
Spirit,
We must prepare to meet with Caliban.
A devil, a born devil, on whose nature
Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains,
Humanely taken, all, all lost,
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Now does my project gather to a head
Read the QuoteEnter Prospero in his magic robes, and Ariel.
Prospero
Now does my project gather to a head.
My charms crack not, my spirits obey, and time
Goes upright with his carriage.—How’s the day?
Ariel
On the sixth hour, at which time, my lord,
You said our work should cease.
Yet with my nobler reason ’gainst my fury
Do I take part.
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