[432-11] Probably Prospero alludes to an old saying which meant, "Do not praise your banquet too soon; wait till it is over." [432-12] Among the _strange shapes_ that danced about the banquet were deformed men from whose throats the flesh hung down in huge pockets, like goitres, and others whose heads grew from their breasts without neck and shoulders. [432-13] Sometimes in Shakespeare's days they practiced a curious kind of insurance. If a man were going on a long journey, he _put out_ in the hands of agents a sum of money, under the agreement that if he returned he was to have a certain number of times the money he put out. If the journey was perilous, the agreement might call for five times the sum; if a safer journey, perhaps twice the amount. If the traveler did not return, the agents kept the sum put out. Gonzalo uses the phrase "_Each putter-out of one for five_," to mean each man who goes on a perilous journey. He means that every traveler returning vouches for, or gives good warrant for, the wonders he has seen. [433-14] Instead of _That hath to instrument_, we might read _That has control of_. The whole sentence means: "You are three sinful men whom Destiny, that rules this lower world and what is in it, has caused the never-surfeited sea to throw on shore; yes, and on this island which man does not inhabit; you who are among men the most unfit to live." [433-15] Water closes immediately over any cut made in it. [434-16] _Dowle_ means _down_, and the comparison means, _as cut off a single thread of down from my plumes_. [434-17] _Requit_ means here _revenged_. [434-18] _Whose_ refers to the word _powers_ six lines before. The meaning of the remainder of Ariel's speech is as follows: "Nothing but repentance and a clear life hereafter can guard you from the wrath that otherwise will fall upon your heads in this desolate isle." [435-19] The meaning of the preceding clause is: "Thus with the skill of life and keen observance of the ways of men, my humbler servants have done their work, each according to his nature or kind." [435-20] _It_ refers to his sin against Prospero. [435-21] That is: "It sang my misdeed in a terrible bass." [435-22] This clause means: "My son sleeps in the ooze on the bottom of the ocean." [435-23] _Mudded_ means _buried in mud_. Alonso threatens to drown himself. [436-24] There are said to be poisons which will not work until a long time after a person takes them. [436-25] For _ecstasy_, read _fit of madness_. [437-1] _Vanity_ probably means _fine display_. [437-2] _With a twink_ means _in the twinkling of an eye_. [437-3] _Mop_ means _chattering_. [437-4] _Mow_ means _making faces_. _Mop and mow_ were words applied to such chattering and grinning as a monkey makes. [437-5] A _corollary_ here means _more than enough_. [437-6] _Pertly_ means _alertly_.