iven out._
Go charge my goblins that they grind their joints
With dry convulsions; shorten up their sinews
With aged cramps; and more pinch-spotted make them
Than pard or cat-o'-mountain.[449-60]

_Ari._ Hark, they roar!

_Pros._ Let them be hunted soundly. At this hour
Lie at my mercy all mine enemies:
Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou
Shalt have the air at freedom: for a little
Follow, and do me service. [_Exeunt._

ACT V

SCENE I.--_Before the Cell of PROSPERO._

_Enter PROSPERO in his magic robes, and ARIEL. PROSPERO speaks:_

Now does my project gather to a head:
My charms crack not; my spirits obey; and Time
Goes upright with his carriage.[450-1] How's the day?

_Ari._ On the sixth hour; at which time, my lord,
You said our work should cease.

_Pros._ I did say so,
When first I raised the tempest. Say, my spirit,
How fares the King and's followers?

_Ari._ Confined together
In the same fashion as you gave in charge:
Just as you left them; all are prisoners, sir,
In the line-grove which weather-fends your cell;[450-2]
They cannot budge till your release.[450-3] The King,
His brother, and yours, abide all three distracted;
And the remainder mourning over them,
Brimful of sorrow and dismay; but chiefly
He that you term'd _The good old lord, Gonzalo_:
His tears run down his beard, like winter-drops
From eaves of reeds. Your charm so strongly works 'em,
That, if you now beheld them, your affections
Would become tender.

_Pros._ Dost thou think so, spirit?

_Ari._ Mine would, sir, were I human.

_Pros._ And mine shall.
Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling
Of their afflictions, and shall not myself,
One of their kind, that relish all as sharply
Passion as they,[451-4] be kindlier moved than thou art?
Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick,
Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury
Do I take part: the rarer action is
In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,
The sole drift of my purpose doth extend
Not a frown further. Go release them, Ariel:
My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore,
And they shall be themselves.

_Ari._ I