em.[423-1] Servant-monster,
drink to me.
_Trin._ Servant-monster! the folly of this island! They say there's but
five upon this isle: we are three of them; if th' other two be brain'd
like us, the State totters.
_Steph._ Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee: thy eyes are almost
set[424-2] in thy head.
[_CALIBAN drinks._
_Trin._ Where should they be set else? he were a brave monster indeed,
if they were set in his tail.
_Steph._ My man-monster hath drown'd his tongue in sack: for my part,
the sea cannot drown me; I swam, ere I could recover the shore,
five-and-thirty leagues, off and on, by this light.--Thou shalt be my
lieutenant, monster, or my standard.[424-3]
_Trin._ Your lieutenant, if you list: he's no standard.[424-4]
_Steph._ We'll not run, Monsieur Monster.
_Trin._ Nor go neither: but you'll lie like dogs, and yet say nothing
neither.
_Steph._ Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou be'st a good
moon-calf.
_Cal._ How does thy Honour? Let me lick thy shoe. I'll not serve him, he
is not valiant.
_Trin._ Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in case to justle a
constable.[424-5] Why, thou debosh'd[424-6] fish, thou, was there ever
man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I to-day? Wilt thou tell a
monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
_Cal._ Boo, how he mocks me! wilt thou let him, my lord?
_Trin._ Lord, quoth he. That a monster should be such a natural![425-7]
_Cal._ Lo, lo, again! bite him to death, I pr'ythee.
_Steph._ Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head: if you prove a
mutineer,--the next tree.[425-8] The poor monster's my subject, and he
shall not suffer indignity.
_Cal._ I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleased
To hearken once again the suit I made thee?
_Steph._ Marry, will I: kneel, and repeat it; I will stand, and so shall
Trinculo.
_Enter ARIEL, invisible._
_Cal._ As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant; a sorcerer, that
by his cunning hath cheated me of the island.
_Ari._ Thou liest.[425-9]
_Cal._ Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou:
I would my valiant master would destroy thee!
I do not lie.
_Steph._ Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in's tale, by this hand,
I will supplant some of your teeth.
_Trin._ Why, I said nothing.
_Steph._ Mum, then, and no more.--
[_To CAL._] Proceed.
_Cal._ I say,
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