Prospero Flashcards
If by your art
you have put the wild waters in this roar, allay them
Knowing I loved books, he furnished me
from mine own library with volumes that I prized above mine own dukedom
This swift business
I must uneasy make
thou shalt be as free
as mountain winds, but then exactly do all the points of my commands
I’ll to my books, for yet ere suppertime
must I perform much business
possess his books
for without them he is but a sot, as I
And that most deeply to consider
is the beauty of his daughter
I have given you here
one third of mine own life
All thy vexations were but my trials
of thy love, and thou strangely stood the test
I must bestow upon the eyes
of this couple some vanity of mine art
hush and be mute
or else our spell is marred
These our actors, as I foretold you,
were all spirits and are melted into air
The great globe its self
yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
we are such
stuff as dreams are made of, and our little lives are rounded with a sleep
A devil, a born devil,
on who’s nature nurture never sticks; on whom my pains humanly taken