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I will requite you with as good a thing;
At least bring forth a wonder, to content ye 170
As much as me my dukedom.

_Here Prospero discovers FERDINAND and MIRANDA playing at chess._

_Mir._ Sweet lord, you play me false.

_Fer._ No, my dear'st love,
I would not for the world.

_Mir._ Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle,
And I would call it fair play.

_Alon._ If this prove 175
A vision of the island, one dear son
Shall I twice lose.

_Seb._ A most high miracle!

_Fer._ Though the seas threaten, they are merciful;
I have cursed them without cause. [_Kneels._

_Alon._ Now all the blessings
Of a glad father compass thee about! 180
Arise, and say how thou camest here.

_Mir._ O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!

_Pros._ 'Tis new to thee.

_Alon._ What is this maid with whom thou wast at play? 185
Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours:
Is she the goddess that hath sever'd us,
And brought us thus together?

_Fer._ Sir, she is mortal;
But by immortal Providence she's mine:
I chose her when I could not ask my father 190
For his advice, nor thought I had one. She
Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan,
Of whom so often I have heard renown,
But never saw before; of whom I have
Received a second life; and second father 195
This lady makes him to me.

_Alon._ I am hers:
But, O, how oddly will it sound that I
Must ask my child forgiveness!

_Pros._ There, sir, stop:
Let us not burthen our remembrances with
A heaviness that's gone.

_Gon._ I have inly wept, 200
Or should have spoke ere this. Look down, you gods,
And on this couple drop a blessed crown!
For it is you that have chalk'd forth the way
Which brought us hither.

_Alon._ I say, Amen, Gonzalo!

_Gon._ Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue 205
Should become kings of Naples? O, rejoice
Beyond a common joy! and set it down
With gold on lasting pillars: In one voyage
Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis,
And Ferdinan