No Fear Shakespeare
The Tempest
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 2, Scene 1, Page 3
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SEBASTIAN
So you’re paid.
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SEBASTIAN
Fine, you win.
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ADRIAN
Uninhabitable and almost inaccessible—
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ADRIAN
Uninhabitable and almost inaccessible, as it
were—
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SEBASTIAN
Yet—
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SEBASTIAN
Now he’s going to say
“but”—
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ADRIAN
Yet—
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ADRIAN
But—
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ANTONIO
He could not miss ’t.
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ANTONIO
He had to say it, it was unavoidable.
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ADRIAN
It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate
temperance.
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ADRIAN
The island must be mild, and have a temperate climate.
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ANTONIO
Temperance was a delicate wench.
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ANTONIO
I knew Temperance—she was a fine girl.
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SEBASTIAN
Ay, and a subtle, as he most learnedly delivered.
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SEBASTIAN
Yes, and she was mild too.
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ADRIAN
The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.
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ADRIAN
There’s always a breath of fresh air here.
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SEBASTIAN
As if it had lungs, and rotten ones.
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SEBASTIAN
A breath from rotten lungs, maybe.
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ANTONIO
Or as ’twere perfumed by a fen.
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ANTONIO
Stinking like a swamp.
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GONZALO
Here is everything advantageous to life.
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GONZALO
This island contains everything beneficial to life.
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ANTONIO
True. Save means to live.
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ANTONIO
True. Everything except something to live on.
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SEBASTIAN
Of that there’s none, or little.
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SEBASTIAN
There’s little or nothing of that.
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GONZALO
How lush and lusty the grass looks! How green!
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GONZALO
Look how lush and healthy the grass is! How green!
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ANTONIO
The ground indeed is tawny.
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ANTONIO
The ground is brown.
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SEBASTIAN
With an eye of green in ’t.
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SEBASTIAN
With a touch of green in it.
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ANTONIO
He misses not much.
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ANTONIO
He doesn’t miss a thing.
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