Monday, July 30, 2012

Be not afeard, the Isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not : Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears ; and sometimes voices, That if I then had wak’d after long sleep, Will make me sleep again, and then in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I wak’dI cried to dream again.

William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act Three, Scene Two

Be not afeard, the Isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not :
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears ; and sometimes voices,
That if I then had wak’d after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again, and then in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open, and show riches
Ready to drop upon me, that when I wak’d
I cried to dream again.

William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act Three, Scene Two