THE TEMPEST
175
Alonso.
I say, Amen, Gonzalo!
Gonzalo.
Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue
Should become kings of Naples? O, rejoice
Beyond a common joy, and set it down
With gold on lasting pillars: In one voyage
Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis
And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife
Where he himself was lost, Prospero his dukedom
In a poor isle and all of us ourselves
When no man was his own.
Should become kings of Naples? O, rejoice
Beyond a common joy, and set it down
With gold on lasting pillars: In one voyage
Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis
And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife
Where he himself was lost, Prospero his dukedom
In a poor isle and all of us ourselves
When no man was his own.
Alonso.
[To Ferdinand and Miranda.] Give me your hands:
Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart,
That doth not wish you joy!
Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart,
That doth not wish you joy!
Gonzalo.
Be it so! Amen!
Re-enter Ariel, with the Master and Boatswain amazedly following.
O, look, sir, look, sir! here is more of us:
I prophesied, if a gallows were on. land,
This fellow could not drown. Now, blasphemy,
‘That swear’st grace o’erboard, not an oath on shore?
Hast thou no mouth by land? What is the news?
I prophesied, if a gallows were on. land,
This fellow could not drown. Now, blasphemy,
‘That swear’st grace o’erboard, not an oath on shore?
Hast thou no mouth by land? What is the news?
Boatswain.
The best news is, that we have safely found
Our king and company; the next, our ship—
Our king and company; the next, our ship—
