William Shakespeare

The Tempest William Shakespeare

Mast. Boatswain!Boats. Here, master: what cheer?Mast. Good, speak to the mariners: fall to't, yarely, or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir. Exit. Enter Mariners.5 Boats. Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts! yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to themaster's whistle. Blow, till thou burst thy wind, if room enough!Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND, GONZALO, and others. Alon. Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master? Play the men.10 Boats. I pray now, keep below. Ant. Where is the master, boatswain?Boats. Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: keep your cabins: you do assist the storm. Gon. Nay, good, be patient.15 Boats. When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers for the name of king? To cabin: silence!trouble us not. Gon. Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard. Boats. None that I more love than myself. You are a 20 Counsellor; if you can command theseelements to silence, and work the peace of the present, we will not hand a rope more; use yourauthority: if you cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make yourself ready in your cabinfor the mischance of the hour, if it so hap. Cheerly, good I. 1. 25 hearts! Out of our way, I say. Exit. Gon. I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he hath no drowning mark upon him; hiscomplexion is perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, to his hanging: make the rope of his destinyour cable, for our own doth 30 little advantage. If he be not born to be hanged, our case is miserable. Exeunt.