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THE TEMPEST
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barren ground, long heath, brown furze, any thing, above be done! but I would fain die a dry death.[Exeunt.


SCENE II.

The island: before Prospero’s cell.
Enter Prospero and Miranda.

Miranda.

If by your art, my dearest father, you have
Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.
The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,
But that the sea, mounting to the welkin’s cheek,
Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer: a brave vessel,
Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her,
Dash’d all to pieces. O, the cry did knock
Against my very heart. Poor souls, they perish’d.
Had I been any god of power, I would
Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere
It should the good ship so have swallow’d and
The fraughting souls within her.

Prospero.

The fraughting souls within her. Be collected:

No more amazement: tell your piteous heart
There ’s no harm done.

Miranda.

There ’s no harm done. O, woe the day!

Prospero.

There ’s no harm done. There ’s no harm done. No harm.

I have done nothing but in care of thee,