The Tempest by William Shakespeare
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Of his bones are coral made:
Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: [Burden: Ding-dong.] Hark! now I hear them--ding-dong, bell. FERDINAND. The ditty does remember my drown'd father. This is no mortal business, nor no sound That the earth owes:--I hear it now above me. PROSPERO. The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond. MIRANDA. What is't? a spirit? Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir, It carries a brave form:--but 'tis a spirit. PROSPERO. No, wench; it eats and sleeps, and hath such senses As we have, such; this gallant which thou see'st Was in the wrack; and but he's something stain'd With grief,--that beauty's canker,--thou mightst call him A goodly person: he hath lost his fellows And strays about to find 'em. |
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