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MIRANDA
'Tis
far off,
And rather like a dream than an assurance
That my remembrance warrants. Had I not
Four or five women once that tended me?
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MIRANDA
My memory is hazy, more like a dream than a recollection.
Didn’t I use to have four or five women taking care of
me?
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PROSPERO
Thou hadst, and more, Miranda. But how is it
That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?
If thou rememberest aught ere thou camest here,
How thou camest here thou mayst.
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PROSPERO
Indeed you did, and more besides, Miranda. But how is it possible
that you still remember this, through all the darkness of the past?
If you remember your life before you came here, you may also
remember how you got here.
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MIRANDA
But
that I do not.
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MIRANDA
No, that I don’t remember.
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PROSPERO
Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since,
Thy father was the Duke of Milan and
A prince of power.
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PROSPERO
Twelve years ago, Miranda, twelve years ago your father was the
Duke of Milan, a powerful prince.
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MIRANDA
Sir, are not you
my father?
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MIRANDA
Aren’t you my father?
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PROSPERO
Thy mother was a piece of virtue and
She said thou wast my daughter. And thy father
Was Duke of Milan, and thou his only heir
And princess no worse issued.
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PROSPERO
Your mother was extremely virtuous, and she said you were my
daughter. And your father was Duke of Milan, and you were his heir,
a princess.
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MIRANDA
Oh,
the heavens!
What foul play had we that we came from thence?
Or blessè was ’t we did?
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MIRANDA
Good lord! What evil things were done to us that we were driven
here? Or was it a blessing that we came here?
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PROSPERO
Both, both, my
girl.
By foul play, as thou sayst, were we heaved thence,
But blessedly holp hither.
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PROSPERO
Both, both, my girl. We were pushed out of power by evil deeds, as
you call them. But we were blessed in being helped toward this
island.
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