No Fear Shakespeare
The Tempest
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 2, Scene 1, Page 5
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SEBASTIAN
What if he had said “widower
Æneas” too? Good Lord, how you take it!
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SEBASTIAN
Next thing you know, he’ll be saying
“widower Aeneas.”
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ADRIAN
“Widow Dido” said you? You make me study of
that. She was of Carthage, not of Tunis.
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ADRIAN
“Widow Dido,” did you say? I’m
not sure about that. Dido was from Carthage, not Tunis.
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GONZALO
This Tunis, sir, was Carthage.
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GONZALO
Tunis
was Carthage, sir.
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ADRIAN
Carthage?
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ADRIAN
Carthage?
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GONZALO
I assure you, Carthage.
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GONZALO
I’m telling you, it was Carthage.
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SEBASTIAN
His word is more than the miraculous harp. He hath raised the wall
and houses too.
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SEBASTIAN
Gonzalo is a miracle-worker. If he says Carthage was here, then
Carthage must be here.
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ANTONIO
What impossible matter will he make easy next?
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ANTONIO
What miracle will he work next?
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SEBASTIAN
I think he will carry this island home in his pocket and give it
his son for an apple.
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SEBASTIAN
I think he’ll carry this island home in his pocket and
give it to his son like an apple.
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ANTONIO
And sowing the kernels of it in the sea, bring forth more
islands.
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ANTONIO
And then throw the seeds in the sea, to make more islands
grow.
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GONZALO
Ay.
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GONZALO
Yes indeed.
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ANTONIO
Why, in good time.
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ANTONIO
Absolutely, yes indeed.
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GONZALO
(to
ALONSO) Sir, we were talking that our
garments seem now as fresh as when we were at Tunis at the marriage
of your daughter, who is now queen.
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GONZALO
(to
ALONSO) Sir, we were saying that our
clothes seem just as fresh as they did when we attended the wedding
of your daughter, who’s now queen of Tunis.
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