_Re-enter ARIEL: after him, ALONSO, with a frantic gesture, attended by GONZALO; SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO in like manner, attended by ADRIAN and FRANCISCO: they all enter the circle which PROSPERO has made, and there stand charmed; which PROSPERO observing, speaks._ A solemn air, as the best comforter To an unsettled fancy, cure the brains, Now useless, boil'd[453-12] within the skull!--There stand, For you are spell-stopp'd.-- Holy Gonzalo, honourable man, Mine eyes, even sociable to[453-13] the show of thine, Fall fellowly drops.[453-14]--The charm dissolves apace; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses[453-15] Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle[453-16] Their clearer reason.--O thou good Gonzalo, My true preserver, and a loyal sir To him thou follow'st! I will pay thy graces Home[453-17] both in word and deed.--Most cruelly Didst thou, Alonso, use me and my daughter: Thy brother was a furtherer in the act:-- Thou'rt pinch'd for't now, Sebastian.--Flesh and blood, You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition Expell'd remorse[453-18] and nature;[453-19] who, with Sebastian,-- Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong,-- Would here have kill'd your King; I do forgive thee, Unnatural though thou art,--Their understanding Begins to swell; and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shore,[454-20] That now lies foul and muddy. Not one of them That yet looks on me, or would know me.--Ariel, Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell:-- [_Exit ARIEL._ I will discase me,[454-21] and myself present As I was sometime Milan:[454-22]--quickly, spirit; Thou shalt ere long be free. _ARIEL re-enters, singing, and helps to attire PROSPERO._ _Ari._ Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip's bell I lie,-- There I couch: when owls do cry, On the bat's back I do fly After Summer, merrily.[454-23] Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. _Pros._ Why, that's my dainty Ariel! I shall miss thee; But yet thou shalt have freedom:--so, so, so. To the King's ship, invisible as thou art: There shalt thou find the mariners asleep Under the hatches; the master and the boatswain Being awaked, enforce them to this place, And presently, I pr'ythee. [Illustration: WHERE THE BEE SUCKS, THERE SUCK I] _Ari._ I drink the air before me,[456-24] and return Or e'er your pulse twice beat. [_Exit ARIEL._ _Gonza._ All torment, trouble, wonder, and amazement Inhabit here: some heavenly power guide us Out of this fearful country!