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The Tempest

William Shakespeare

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Act 2, Scene 1, Page 3

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SEBASTIAN
So you’re paid.
 SEBASTIAN
Fine, you win.

35		 ADRIAN
Uninhabitable and almost inaccessible—
 ADRIAN
Uninhabitable and almost inaccessible, as it were—

SEBASTIAN
Yet—
 SEBASTIAN
Now he’s going to say “but”—

ADRIAN
Yet—
 ADRIAN
But—

ANTONIO
He could not miss ’t.
 ANTONIO
He had to say it, it was unavoidable.

ADRIAN
It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate temperance.
 ADRIAN
The island must be mild, and have a temperate climate.

40		 ANTONIO
Temperance was a delicate wench.
 ANTONIO
I knew Temperance—she was a fine girl.

SEBASTIAN
Ay, and a subtle, as he most learnedly delivered.
 SEBASTIAN
Yes, and she was mild too.

ADRIAN
The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.
 ADRIAN
There’s always a breath of fresh air here.

SEBASTIAN
As if it had lungs, and rotten ones.
 SEBASTIAN
A breath from rotten lungs, maybe.

ANTONIO
Or as ’twere perfumed by a fen.
 ANTONIO
Stinking like a swamp.

45		 GONZALO
Here is everything advantageous to life.
 GONZALO
This island contains everything beneficial to life.

ANTONIO
True. Save means to live.
 ANTONIO
True. Everything except something to live on.

SEBASTIAN
Of that there’s none, or little.
 SEBASTIAN
There’s little or nothing of that.

GONZALO
How lush and lusty the grass looks! How green!
 GONZALO
Look how lush and healthy the grass is! How green!

ANTONIO
The ground indeed is tawny.
 ANTONIO
The ground is brown.

50		 SEBASTIAN
With an eye of green in ’t.
 SEBASTIAN
With a touch of green in it.

ANTONIO
He misses not much.
 ANTONIO
He doesn’t miss a thing.
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