Ariel
Hark! now I hear them—Ding-dong, bell.
Ferdinand
The ditty does remember my drown’d father.
This is no mortal business, nor no sound
That the earth owes. I hear it now above me.
Prospero
The fringed curtains of thine eye advance
And say what thou seest yond.
Miranda
What is’t? a spirit?
Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir,
It carries a brave form. But ’tis a spirit.
Prospero
No, wench; it eats and sleeps and hath such senses
As we have, such. This gallant which thou seest
Was in the wreck; and, but he’s something stain’d
With grief that’s beauty’s canker, thou mightst call him
A goodly person: he hath lost his fellows
And strays about to find ’em.
Miranda
I might call him
A thing divine, for nothing natural
I ever saw so noble.
Prospero
As my soul prompts it. Spirit, fine spirit! I’ll free thee
Within two days for this.