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The Tempest, IV. i

Methought the billows spoke and told me of it;

The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder,

That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd

The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass.

Therefore my son i' th' ooze is bedded; and

I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded,

And with him there lie mudded.

Seb. But one fiend at a time,

I'll fight their legions o'er.

Ant. I'll be thy second.

Exeunt [Seb. and Ant.]

Gon. All three of them are desperate; their great guilt,

Like poison given to work a great time after,

Now 'gins to bite the spirits.—I do beseech you

That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly

And hinder them from what this ecstasy

May now provoke them to.

Adr. Follow, I pray you.

 

Pro. If I have too austerely punish'd you,

Your compensation makes amends; for I

Have given you here a third of mine own life,

Or that for which I live; who once again

I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations

Were but my trials of thy love, and thou

 99 bass my trespass: proclaimed my sin in bass notes

108 ecstasy: madness  3 third; cf. n.

