No Fear Shakespeare: The Tempest: Act 1 Scene 2 Page 2

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PROSPERO 'Tis time I should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand And pluck my magic garment from me.	PROSPERO It’s time for you to know the whole story. Give me a hand and help me off with this magic cloak.
MIRANDA helps PROSPERO remove his mantle	MIRANDA helps PROSPERO remove his cloak.
So, 25Lie there, my art.—Wipe thou thine eyes. Have comfort. The direful spectacle of the wrack, which touched The very virtue of compassion in thee, I have with such provision in mine art So safely ordered that there is no soul— 30No, not so much perdition as an hair Betid to any creature in the vessel— Which thou heard’st cry, which thou sawst sink. Sit down. For thou must now know farther.	(to the cloak) So, lie there, my magic. (to MIRANDA) Wipe your eyes. Take comfort. I arranged the horrible sight of this shipwreck, which moved you to such pity, so carefully that not a single person was hurt—no, not so much as a hair on anyone’s head was destroyed in the ship that you saw sink. Sit down. It’s time for you to know more. (they sit)
MIRANDA You have often Begun to tell me what I am, but stopped 35And left me to a bootless inquisition, Concluding, “Stay. Not yet.”	MIRANDA You’ve often started to tell me who I am, but then suddenly stopped, leaving me asking questions that never get answered, telling me, “Wait. Not yet.”
PROSPERO The hour’s now come. The very minute bids thee ope thine ear. Obey and be attentive. Canst thou remember A time before we came unto this cell? 40I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not Out three years old.	PROSPERO Well, the time has come. This is the moment for you to listen hard and pay close attention. Can you remember the time before you came to live in this shack? I doubt it, since you weren’t even three at the time.
MIRANDA Certainly, sir, I can.	MIRANDA Sure I can, father.
PROSPERO By what? By any other house or person? Of anything the image tell me that Hath kept with thy remembrance.	PROSPERO What do you remember? A house, a person? Tell me anything you remember.