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THE TEMPEST
Alonso.
What is this maid with whom thou wast at play?
Your eld’st acquaintance cannot be three hours:
Is she the goddess that hath sever’d us,
And brought us thus together?
Your eld’st acquaintance cannot be three hours:
Is she the goddess that hath sever’d us,
And brought us thus together?
Ferdinand.
And brought us thus together? Sir, she is mortal;
But by immortal Providence she’s mine:
I chose her when I could not ask my father
For his advice, nor thought I had one. She
Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan,
Of whom so often I have heard renown,
But never saw before; of whom I have
Received a second life; and second father
This lady makes him to me.
But by immortal Providence she’s mine:
I chose her when I could not ask my father
For his advice, nor thought I had one. She
Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan,
Of whom so often I have heard renown,
But never saw before; of whom I have
Received a second life; and second father
This lady makes him to me.
Alonso.
This lady makes him to me. I am hers:
But, O, how oddly will it sound that I
Must ask my child forgiveness!
But, O, how oddly will it sound that I
Must ask my child forgiveness!
Prospero.
Must ask my child forgiveness! There, sir, stop:
Let us not burthen our remembrance with
A heaviness that ’s gone.
Let us not burthen our remembrance with
A heaviness that ’s gone.
Gonzalo.
A heaviness that ’s gone. I have inly wept,
Or should have spoke ere this. Look down, you gods,
And on this couple drop a blessed crown!
For it is you that have chalk’d forth the way
Which brought us hither.
Or should have spoke ere this. Look down, you gods,
And on this couple drop a blessed crown!
For it is you that have chalk’d forth the way
Which brought us hither.
