Lot Essay
Ferdinand: My mistress, dearest, and I thus humble ever.
Miranda: My husband then?
Ferdinand: Ay, with a heart as willing
As bondage e'er of freedom. Here's my hand.
Miranda: And mine, with my heart in't. And now farewell
till half an hour hence.
Ferdinand: A thousand thousand.
They exit
Prospero: So glad of this as they I cannot be,
Who are surprised withal; but my rejoicing
At nothing can be more. I'll to my book,
For yet ere suppertime must I perform Much business appertaining. He exits
It is believed that The Tempest was purportedly written by Shakespeare to celebrate the marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V on February 14, 1613.
Miranda: My husband then?
Ferdinand: Ay, with a heart as willing
As bondage e'er of freedom. Here's my hand.
Miranda: And mine, with my heart in't. And now farewell
till half an hour hence.
Ferdinand: A thousand thousand.
They exit
Prospero: So glad of this as they I cannot be,
Who are surprised withal; but my rejoicing
At nothing can be more. I'll to my book,
For yet ere suppertime must I perform Much business appertaining. He exits
It is believed that The Tempest was purportedly written by Shakespeare to celebrate the marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V on February 14, 1613.