. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. ACT III. SCENE l.~Before Prosperos Cell. Enter Feedinand, hearing a log. Fee. There be some sports are painful; and ^ their labourDelight in them sets off: some kinds of basenessAre nobly undergone ; and most poor mattersPoint to rich ends. This my mean taskWould be as heavy to me as odious ; but ^The mistress -which I serve quickens what s dead,And makes my labours pleasures : 0, she is ^ And. So the original; the common reading is ftwi. b This is the metrical arrangement of the original. Steevens changes it by the insertio
. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. ACT III. SCENE l.~Before Prosperos Cell. Enter Feedinand, hearing a log. Fee. There be some sports are painful; and ^ their labourDelight in them sets off: some kinds of basenessAre nobly undergone ; and most poor mattersPoint to rich ends. This my mean taskWould be as heavy to me as odious ; but ^The mistress -which I serve quickens what s dead,And makes my labours pleasures : 0, she is ^ And. So the original; the common reading is ftwi. b This is the metrical arrangement of the original. Steevens changes it by the insertion of 7 is. SCENE I.] THE TEMPEST. 565 Ten times more gentle than her father s crabbed ; And he s composd of harshness. I must remove Some thousands of these logs, and pile them up, Upon a sore injunction: My sweet mistress Weeps when she sees me work; and says such baseness Had never like executor. I forget: But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours ; Most busy-less ^ when I do it. Enter Mieanda, and Peospero at a distance. MiEA. Alas, now ! pray you, Wor
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