The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]

This text of The Tempest is from Volume I of the nine-volume 1863 Cambridge edition of Shakespeare. The editors’ preface (e-text 23041) and the other plays from this volume are each available as separate e-texts.

THE WORKS - OF - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE - EDITED BY - WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A. - FELLOW AND TUTOR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND PUBLIC ORATOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE; - and JOHN GLOVER, M.A. - LIBRARIAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. - VOLUME I. - Cambridge and London: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1863.

Scene—A ship at sea: an uninhabited island.

Enter Mariners.

Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, Ferdinand, Gonzalo, and others.

Re-enter Boatswain.

Re-enter Sebastian, Antonio, and Gonzalo.

Enter Mariners wet.

: “Mercy on us!”—“We split, we split!”—“Farewell my wife and children!”——“We split, we split, we split!”