Another part of the island
[Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and OTHERS]
GONZALO.By'r lakin, I can go no further, sir; My old bones ache.Here's a maze trod, indeed, Through forth-rights and meanders! By your patience, I needs must rest me.ALONSO.Old lord, I cannot blame thee, Who am myself attach'd with weariness To th' dulling of my spirits; sit down and rest.Even here I will put off my hope, and keep it No longer for my flatterer; he is drown'd Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks Our frustrate search on land.Well, let him go.ANTONIO.[Aside to SEBASTIAN] I am right glad that he's so out of hope.Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose That you resolv'd t' effect.SEBASTIAN.[Aside to ANTONIO] The next advantage Will we take throughly.ANTONIO.[Aside to SEBASTIAN] Let it be to-night; For, now they are oppress'd with travel, they Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance As when they are fresh.SEBASTIAN.[Aside to ANTONIO] I say, to-night; no more.
[Solemn and strange music; and PROSPERO on the top, invisible.Enter several strange SHAPES, bringing in a banquet; and dance about it with gentle actions of salutations; and inviting the KING, etc., to eat, they depart]
ALONSO.What harmony is this? My good friends, hark! GONZALO.Marvellous sweet music! ALONSO.Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these? SEBASTIAN.A living drollery.Now I will believe That there are unicorns; that in Arabia There is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one phoenix At this hour reigning-there.ANTONIO.I'll believe both; And what does else want credit, come to me, And I'll be sworn 'tis true; travellers ne'er did lie, Though fools at home condemn 'em.GONZALO.If in Naples I should report this now, would they believe me? If I should say, I saw such islanders, For certes these are people of the island, Who though they are of monstrous shape yet, note, Their manners are more gentle-kind than of Our human generation you shall find Many, nay, almost any.PROSPERO.[Aside] Honest lord, Thou hast said well;for some of you there present Are worse than devils.ALONSO.I cannot too much muse Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, expressing, Although they want the use of tongue, a kind Of excellent dumb discourse.PROSPERO.[Aside] Praise in departing.FRANCISCO.They vanish'd strangely.SEBASTIAN.No matter, since They have left their viands behind; for we have stomachs.Will't please you taste of what is here? ALONSO.Not I.GONZALO.Faith, sir, you need not fear.When we were boys, Who would believe that there were mountaineers, Dewlapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at 'em Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find Each putter-out of five for one will bring us Good warrant of.ALONSO.I will stand to, and feed, Although my last; no matter, since I feel The best is past.Brother, my lord the Duke, Stand to, and do as we.
[Thunder and lightning.Enter ARIEL, like a harpy; claps his wings upon the table; and, with a quaint device, the banquet vanishes]