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If by your art, my dearest father, you h...

Miranda

Tempest

William Shakespeare

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Character
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Early Teen, Late Teen, Young Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 1, Scene 2
Time & Place
An island in the Mediterranean Sea, probably off the coast of Italy.
Length
Short
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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If by your art, my dearest father, you have
Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.
The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,
But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek,
Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer: a brave vessel,
Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her,
Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock
Against my very heart. Poor souls, they perish'd.
Had I been any god of power, I would
Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere
It should the good ship so have swallow'd and
The fraughting souls within her.

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