No Fear Shakespeare: The Tempest: Act 3, scene iii

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Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others

ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others enter.

	GONZALO
	(to ALONSO) By 'r lakin, I can go no further, sir.
	My old bones ache. Here's a maze trod indeed
	Through forthrights and meanders. By your patience,
	I needs must rest me.

GONZALO

I swear, I can't go any further, sir. My old bones are tired. We're wandering in a maze. If you don't mind, I need to rest a bit.

	ALONSO
	Old lord, I cannot blame thee,
5	Who am myself attached with weariness
	To th' dulling of my spirits. Sit down and rest.
	Even here I will put off my hope and keep it
	No longer for my flatterer. He is drowned
	Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks
10	Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go.

ALONSO

I can't blame you, old lord. I'm so tired myself that it's bringing me down. Sit down and rest. I'm losing hope. The one we're looking for is dead. We're searching on land, but he's lost in the sea. We have to give up and let him go.

	ANTONIO
	(aside to SEBASTIAN) I am right glad that he's so out of hope.
	Do not for one repulse forego the purpose
	That you resolved t' effect.

ANTONIO

(speaking so that only SEBASTIAN can hear) I'm glad he's so depressed. Don't back out of our plan just because it didn't work the first time.

	SEBASTIAN
	(aside to ANTONIO) The next advantage
15	Will we take throughly.

SEBASTIAN

(speaking so that only ANTONIO can hear) The next chance we get, we'll do the deed.

	ANTONIO
	(aside to SEBASTIAN) Let it be tonight,
	For now they are oppressed with travel. They
	Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance
	As when they are fresh.

ANTONIO

(speaking so that only SEBASTIAN can hear) Let's do it tonight. The men are so tired from traveling that they can't be as careful as they are when they're fresh.

Solemn and strange music

Solemn and strange music is heard.

Enter PROSPERO on the top, invisible

PROSPERO enters above, invisible.


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