ts upon
Some god o' the island. Sitting on a bank,
Weeping again the King my father's wreck,
This music crept by me upon the waters,
Allaying both their fury and my passion[389-100]
With its sweet air: thence I have follow'd it,
Or it hath drawn me rather. But 'tis gone.
No, it begins again.

_ARIEL sings._

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change[389-101]
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:

_Burden._ Ding-Dong.

Hark! now I hear them,--Ding-Dong, bell.

_Ferd._ The ditty does remember my drown'd father.
This is no mortal business, nor no sound
That the earth owes.[389-102] I hear it now above me.

_Pros._ The fringed curtains of thine eyes advance,[389-103]
And say what thou see'st yond.

_Mira._ What is't? A spirit?
Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir,
It carries a brave[389-104] form. But 'tis a spirit.

_Pros._ No, wench: it eats and sleeps, and hath such senses
As we have, such. This gallant which thou see'st
Was in the wreck; and, but he's something stain'd
With grief, that's beauty's canker,[390-105] thou mightst call him
A goodly person: he hath lost his fellows,
And strays about to find 'em.

_Mira._ I might call him
A thing divine; for nothing natural
I ever saw so noble.[390-106]

_Pros._ [_Aside._] It goes on,[390-107] I see,
As my soul prompts it.--Spirit, fine spirit! I'll free thee
Within two days for this.

_Ferd._ Most sure, the goddess
On whom these airs attend!--Vouchsafe my prayer
May know if you remain upon this island;
And that you will some good instruction give
How I may bear me here: my prime request,
Which I do last pronounce, is,--O you wonder!--
If you be maid or no?[390-108]

_Mira._ No wonder,[390-109] sir;
But certainly a maid.

_Ferd._ My language![390-110] Heavens!--
I am the best of them that speak this speech,
Were I but where 'tis spoken.

_Pros._ How! the best?
What wert thou, if the King of Naples heard thee?

_Ferd._ A single thing,[391-111] as I am now, that wond