Class 4 Scripts – Consolidated

Gonzalo on the Golden Age

Readers: Gonzalo, Antonio, Sebastian

Gonzalo Had I plantation of this isle, my Lord –

Antonio He'd sow't with nettle-seed. Sebastian Or docks or mallows. Gonzalo And were the King on't, what would I do? Sebastian 'Scape being drunk for want of wine. Gonzalo I'th'commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things, for no kind of traffic Would I admit: no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourne, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation -- all men idle all, And women too, but innocent and pure; No sovereignty -- Sebastian Yet he would be King on't! Antonio The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the beginning. Gonzalo All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavor. Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind all foison, all abundance, harvest, crop To feed my innocent people. Sebastian No marrying 'mong his subjects? Antonio None, man, all idle -- whores and knaves. Gonzalo I would, with such perfection, govern, sir, T'excel the Golden Age. Sebastian 'Save his majesty. Antonio Long live Gonzalo!

Montaigne, Of the Cannibals

It is a nation, would I answer Plato that hath no kind of traffic, no knowledge of Letters, no intelligence of numbers, no name of magistrate, nor of politic superiority; no use of service, of riches or of poverty; no contracts, no successions, no dividences; no occupation but idle; no respect of kindred, but common; no apparel but natural; no manuring of lands; no use of wine, corn, or metal. The very words that import lying, falsehood, treason, dissimulation, covetousness, envy, detraction, and pardon, were never heard amongst them. How dissonant would he find his imaginary commonwealth from this perfection?

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They contend not for the gaining of new lands, for to this day they enjoy that natural ubertie [fertility; abundance] and fruitfulness, which without laboring toil, doth in such plenteous abundance furnish them with all necessary things, that they need not enlarge their limits. They are yet in that happy estate, as they desire no more than what their natural necessities direct them. Whatsoever is beyond it is to them superfluous.

Ariel’s song

Readers: , , Spirits

ARIEL'S song. Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have and kiss'd The wild waves whist, silent, still Foot it featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear. Chorus or SPIRITS bass accompaniment Hark, hark! Bow-wow, The watch-dogs bark, bow-wow. ARIEL Hark, hark! I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow. FERDINAND Where should this music be? i' the air or the earth? It sounds no more: and sure, it waits upon Some god o' the . Sitting on a bank, Weeping again the king my father's wreck, This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air: thence I have follow'd it, Or it hath drawn me rather. But 'tis gone. No, it begins again.

Frippery

Readers: Trinculo, ,

TRINCULO O king Stephano! O peer! O worthy Stephano! look what a wardrobe here is for thee! CALIBAN Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash. TRINCULO O, ho, monster! we know what belongs to a frippery. O king Stephano! STEPHANO Put off that gown, Trinculo; by this hand, I'll have that gown. TRINCULO Thy grace shall have it. CALIBAN The dropsy drown this fool! What do you mean To dote thus on such luggage? Let's alone And do the murder first: if he awake, From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches, Make us strange stuff. STEPHANO Be you quiet, monster. Mistress line, is not this my jerkin? … […]

TRINCULO Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and birdlime, adhesive away with the rest. CALIBAN I will have none on't: we shall lose our time, And all be turn'd to barnacles, or to apes geese With foreheads villainous low. STEPHANO Monster, lay-to your fingers: help to bear this away where my hogshead of wine is, or I'll turn you out of my kingdom: go to, carry this. TRINCULO And this. STEPHANO Ay, and this.

A noise of hunters heard. Enter divers Spirits, in shape of dogs and hounds, and hunt them about, and ARIEL setting them on.

Caliban’s dream

Readers: Caliban, Stephano, Trinculo

CALIBAN 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 sometime voices That, if I then had waked 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 waked, I cried to dream again. STEPHANO This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing. CALIBAN When Prospero is destroyed. STEPHANO That shall be by and by: I remember the story. TRINCULO The sound is going away; let's follow it, and after do our work. STEPHANO Lead, monster; we'll follow. I would I could see this tabourer; he lays it on. drummer TRINCULO Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano. Exeunt

Smith, 1620

If any desire to be further satisfied, they may read my Description of Virginia, and New England, and peruse them with their several maps. What defect you find in them, they shall find supplied in me, or in my authors, that thus freely have thrown my self, with my mite into the treasury of my county’s good – not doubting but God will stir up some noble spirits to consider and examine, if worthy Columbus could give the Spaniards any such certainties for his design, when Queen Isabell of Spain set him forth with fifteen sail.

And though I can promise no mines of gold, yet the war-like Hollanders let us imitate (but not hate), whose wealth and strength are good testimonies of their treasure gotten by fishing. Therefore, honorable and worthy countrymen, let not the meanness of the word fish distaste you, for it will afford as good gold as the mines of Guiana, or Tumbatu, with less hazard and charge, and more certainty and facility: and so I humbly rest.

Sources

Gonzalo on the Golden Age , 2.1.148-174

Montaigne, Of the Cannibals Michel Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne, Essais (1580); English translation by John Florio (1603) (spelling and some punctuation modernized).

Ariel’s song The Tempest, 1.2.376-405

Frippery The Tempest, 4.1.220-254

Caliban’s Dream The Tempest, 3.2.135-152

Smith on fishing vs. gold John Smith, New England’s Trials (London: William Jones, 1620): C4v, in Barbour, Collected Works, Vol. I: 405-406 (spelling, capitalization, and some punctuation modernized)